First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce initial assay results from the first 3,394 m of its 25,000 m drill program at its Bégin-Lamarche Project in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. In total 10,000 m of drilling have been completed to date. Assay results are awaited on 6,606 m and will be released over the coming weeks as they become available. Highlights: Phosphate Mountain Zone: 9 drill holes have been completed to [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Groupe Goyette of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec for the accommodation of the Company's logistical footprint at the Hébertville-Station intermodal facility in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. "This agreement is important to our future customers because it would create a rapid truck-to-rail on and off ramp between [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to have recently received a mining research and innovation grant from the Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry . The grant provides financial support to the Company in the way of $315,236 to continue mineralogical study on its apatite, ilmenite and magnetite concentrates. The project also includes the processing of the Company's mine tailings for re-use in the cement [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Craler Inc. , a division of TFI International Inc. for the development of the Company's global freight logistical competencies to and from the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. "This agreement is important because Craler, together with is parent TFI, have the ability to determine the best practices for the [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it has received a letter of support for its mining project and planned purified phosphoric acid plant from the Hon. Mario Simard, Member of Parliament for the Riding of Jonquière, Québec. Mr. Simard, first elected to Canadian parliament in 2019, is the vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and is the critic for natural resources for the Bloc Québécois [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to update the market on its plans for a purified phosphoric acid plant at the Port of Saguenay and the development of the North American lithium iron phosphate battery valley in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region of Quebec. On November 21, 2022, First Phosphate CEO, John Passalacqua, addressed the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region of Quebec and [...]
First Phosphate Corp. announces that First Phosphate and Jérôme Cliche have mutually agreed to amend Mr. Cliche's role with the Company. Effective, today, Mr. Cliche will cease to act as Vice President, Business Development and will, through his personal corporation, LMC Communications Inc., continue as a consultant to First Phosphate until October 5, 2024. "First Phosphate wishes to thank Mr. Cliche for his dedication [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Integrals Power Limited of Milton Keynes, United Kingdom to produce battery grade iron III phosphate precursor to supply the lithium iron phosphate battery industry outside of China. Business Case Iron phosphate is a manufactured substance used as a base precursor in the traditional production of LFP cathode active material [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce success in its pilot project to transform its high purity phosphate concentrate into battery-grade purified phosphoric acid for the lithium iron phosphate battery industry. On September 6, 2023, the Company announced that Prayon Technologies SA had been successful in transforming First Phosphate's phosphate concentrate into high quality merchant grade phosphoric acid [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it will address the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region of Quebec on February 8, 2024. CEO John Passalacqua, Chief Geologist Gilles Laverdière and Vice President, Business Development Jérôme Cliche, will co-present. The session will be in French language, broadcast internationally and moderated by Sandra Rossignol, Executive Director of [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it will undertake a 25,000 m drill program at its Bégin-Lamarche Project. The drilling program follows the Company's recent financing raising gross proceeds of $8.2 million and is intended to lead to a maiden NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate followed by a PEA. "The upcoming drill program at Bégin-Lamarche is all encompassing and should confirm the full extension of [...]
First Phosphate Corp. is pleased to announce that it has confirmed a new high-grade discovery 500 m from the existing northern zone of its Bégin-Lamarche project located in the region of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec, Canada. The original discovery of these areas was made in the fall of 2022 during a prospection campaign and was confirmed last fall with 26 grab samples returning high-grade P2O5 . The Larouche area also [...]