{"id":176600,"date":"2026-08-21T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/176600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:44:09","slug":"first-canadian-graphite-expands-zone-13-exploration-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/176600\/","title":{"rendered":"First Canadian Graphite expands Zone 13 exploration program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fcgraphite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Canadian Graphite<\/a> (TSX-V:FCI) plans expanded airborne surveys and fall drilling to test the scale of its Zone 13 graphite discovery at the Lac Gu\u00e9ret South Project in Qu\u00e9bec, <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/how-to-invest-in-canadian-mining-stocks-from-australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company has confirmed \u2018high-grade\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/breaking-the-graphite-bottleneck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">graphite<\/a> mineralisation along approximately 3.3km of strike and across widths exceeding 150m at Zone 13. Importantly, 46 samples returned assays up to 43.4% graphitic carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Zone 13 has emerged as the company\u2019s highest\u2011priority target following the discovery of \u2018high-grade\u2019 graphite mineralisation associated with an extensive electromagnetic anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>First Canadian Graphite has engaged <a href=\"https:\/\/prospectair.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prospectair<\/a> to undertake supplementary magnetic\u2011electromagnetic coverage across the Boudrias\u2011Esbec option and surrounding Zone 13. The expanded survey will establish whether the conductive system continues beyond the currently mapped area.<\/p>\n<p>Several conductors that the original 2026 airborne survey identified extend to or are cut off by survey boundaries, prompting the expanded program. Prospectair confirms the survey will begin in late August or early September.<\/p>\n<p>The company has delivered four 20kg samples to Corem in Qu\u00e9bec City for preliminary metallurgical testing. The samples include material from Zone 13, the historical Esbec Graphite Showing, and Zone 6.<\/p>\n<p>CEO John LaGourgue says the significance of Zone 13 is increasingly about the combination of grade and potential scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have confirmed high-grade graphite at surface along approximately 3.3 kilometres of strike, while portions of the conductive system extend beyond the limits of our original airborne survey,\u201d LaGourgue notes.<\/p>\n<p>Lac Gu\u00e9ret South already hosts a historical NI 43\u2011101 mineral resource at Zone 1 of 1.76 million tonnes (Mt) indicated grading 17% graphitic carbon and 1.53Mt inferred grading 16.40% graphitic carbon.<\/p>\n<p>FCI is advancing Zone 13 through expanded airborne surveys, ground prospecting, metallurgical testing, trenching, and diamond drilling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/company\/first-canadian-graphite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">First Canadian Graphite<\/a> is a Canadian explorer advancing a portfolio of <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/commodities\/graphite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">graphite<\/a> projects in Qu\u00e9bec, including the Berkwood Graphite Project and the Jupiter Project, alongside its flagship Lac Gu\u00e9ret South asset.<\/p>\n<p>Write to <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/first-canadian-graphite-expands-zone-13-exploration-program\/mailto:jc.villarba@mining.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">JC Villarba<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mining.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images: First Canadian Graphite<\/p>\n<p>Add to Watch List:First Canadian GraphiteGraphite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Canadian Graphite (TSX-V:FCI) plans expanded airborne surveys and fall drilling to test the scale of its Zone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55895,17,11263,34981,15618,11191,34978,241],"class_list":["post-176600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-assays","tag-canada","tag-carbon","tag-diamond-drilling","tag-discovery","tag-drilling","tag-mineralisation","tag-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}