Junior miner First Phosphate Corp., Saguenay, Quebec, recently announced the appointment of Bernard Lapointe to the company’s Advisory Board. He founded Arianne Phosphate Inc. in 1997 and served as its president until 2013.He holds a PhD in mineral resources from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). Before Arianne, he was Director of the Fonds Minier du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of several public companies in the resource and fertilizer sectors.
First Phosphate holds over 1,500 square kilometers of total land claims in the Saguenay Region of Quebec (GM Oct. 14, p. 28). It said the properties consist of a rare anorthosite igneous rock formation that generally yields high purity titanium oxide and phosphate concentrate devoid of high concentrations of deleterious heavy metals. It has been awarded drilling permits for its Lac à l’Orignal and Bégin-Lamarche properties as it develops its development plan to serve the North American lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery industry.