South Star Battery Metals Corp. owns 100% of the BamaStar Graphite Project.
The Company initially acquired a 75% interest in the Project by completing a phased acquisition agreement, including drilling, resource assessment and analysis for the preparation of a preliminary economic analysis (PEA), and funding minimum annual costs of C$250,000 over three years. South Star subsequently acquired the remaining 25% of the Project from the partners (CML owners) for C$250,000 in the form of common shares of the Company, issuing 445,454 shares.
As of January 21, 2025, South Star Battery Metals Corp. is the sole owner of the BamaStar Graphite Project.
Summary:
BamaStar Graphite Project is located within the Higgins Ferry Group. Stratigraphically, the Higgins Ferry Group is categorized as an interbedded sequence of three major lithologic units. The first unit is described as an assemblage of is coarse to fine grained biotite-feldspar-quartz gneiss, sericite-feldspar-muscovite schist, ±biotite±garnet-muscovite schist, and biotite-garnet-feldspar gneiss. The second unit is described as ±roscoelite-graphite-quartz schist and graphitic quartzite, representing the primary mineralized unit on the property. The third unit is described as garnet quartzite and garnetiferous altered mafic rocks. Amphibolite (actinolite-chlorite-hornblende) and pyroxenite bodies, grouped as the Mitchell Dam Amphibolite, may be present locally along with scattered pegmatites. Aluminous units commonly have kyanite, sillimanite, and sericite porphyroblasts.
Field mapping has defined the Project area as metamorphosed rocks that include pelitic sediments (without graphite), quartz-bearing sediment with variable graphite content, sillimanite-graphite-rich sediments, and amphibolite gneiss (without quartz or graphite).
Property Mineralization
Graphite lode mineralization (bedrock hosted) has been identified across the Property and is present in several different units. The dominant lithologies that contain graphite are, in decreasing grade, friable quartzite, quartzite, quartz-sillimanite gneiss, sillimanite gneiss. This is an inverse correlation with total silica content. The current BamaStar Graphite Deposit extends for approximately 2.8 km (1.7 miles) along strike, averages 25 m (82 ft) in width, and extends down to at least 325 m (1,066 ft). The deposit is open along strike and at depth.
The target mineralization style at the Project is graphitic lode deposits where flake-graphite mineralization is hosted by high-grade metamorphic rocks (gneiss). Landis (1971) tentatively concluded that graphite formation is primarily dependent on metamorphic temperature and forms above 400°C, with pressure and variation in starting material constituting secondary controls.
Flake-graphite deposits in the AGB occur as disseminated graphite hosted in metamorphosed siliceous sedimentary rocks including quartz-mica schists, micaceous quartzites, or micaceous feldspathic quartzites. These rocks occur in folded metamorphosed sequences of detrital sedimentary rocks. Associations with anomalous vanadium, including the vanadium-mica roscoelite, and nickel, as well as other anomalous elements has been documented (Wilson and Redwood, 2015).
The deposits themselves are individual beds or lenses that are richer in graphite than associated beds. The size, form, and persistence of the deposits are functions, in part, of the thickness and extent of the original sedimentary beds, and in part, of deformation. Their attitudes are functions of local and regional deformation.