Wedoany.com Report-Nov. 28, Temas Resources has successfully completed its autumn/winter HQ diamond drilling programme at the La Blache mineral project in Quebec, Canada.

Phase II of the drilling programme is scheduled to commence in early-to-mid-CY26.

The campaign comprised 2,302 metres of drilling. All core samples will be submitted to ALS Geochemistry's laboratory in Lachine, Quebec, for analysis, with initial assay results expected from January 2026.

Concurrently, Temas will re-assay selected intervals from 181 historic drill holes totalling 36,614 metres, targeting gallium, scandium, and other rare earth elements to enhance resource definition.

The programme is designed to expand and upgrade the existing Farrell-Taylor massive oxide inferred resource, currently estimated at 108.8 million tonnes grading 17.83 percent titanium dioxide, 0.32 percent vanadium pentoxide, and 59.4 percent iron oxide.

Temas Resources CEO Tim Fernback said: “Now that our fall/winter exploration programme at La Blache has been successfully completed, we are getting ready to submit the drill core to ALS Geochemical for follow-on assays.

"Our review of the prior drilling at La Blache has identified significant signatures for both scandium and gallium, in addition to the titanium, vanadium and iron. These critical metals are required for the development of high-performance aerospace equipment alloys and semiconductors, respectively, and will result in additional value to our planned MRE mineral resource estimate."

Preliminary observations from the recent drilling confirm the presence of gallium and scandium alongside titanium and vanadium mineralisation.

Phase II drilling is planned to start in early to mid-2026.

Samples from the current programme will also support ongoing development of Temas' proprietary regenerative chloride leach (RCL) processing technology, which targets up to 65 percent lower operating costs and higher recovery rates for titanium, vanadium, rare earths, and associated critical metals. Initial RCL results are anticipated in early 2026.

Fernback added: “La Blache is a large, complex and highly prospective deposit, and this programme positions us to integrate our proprietary RCL processing technology into future development work. The patented RCL process has demonstrated encouraging results in pilot studies; however, further independent verification and feasibility-level studies are required to confirm performance, which is ideally suited for treating increasingly complex polymetallic mineral deposits like La Blache.

"Temas plans to both license and joint venture the use of this technology internationally now that it has been shown to assist on developing metallurgically complex gold, silver, nickel, critical mineral and rare earth element REE deposits.

"The company notes that the RCL cost reduction estimates are based on internal pilot-scale studies and have not yet been independently verified in a JORC Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant feasibility study."

Temas also reported active discussions to co-develop the RCL technology for processing third-party ores, including gold, silver, nickel, and rare earth elements, with further announcements expected in early 2026.