Canada-based Granada Gold Mine reports what it calls the significant discovery of scandium, rubidium and cesium on the Big Claim of the company's gold mine property in Quebec, Kallanish reports.

Scandium is a rare earth element, while rubidium and cesium are rare alkali metals.

The results are preliminary and full core lengths have not been assayed in two holes drilled at the north end of The Big Claim, it says. The company says it encountered unusual facies of altered rock which has been sampled in portions of the drill core. Assays from one drill hole are pending.

Drill Hole GR-20-20 included 13.5 parts-per-million cesium, 101.8 ppm rubidium and 21.0 ppm scandium over 12 metres from 351.0 m to 363.0 m, plus 3.5 ppm cesium, 69.1 ppm rubidium and 13.8 scandium over 98 m from 451 m to 549 m and 11 ppm cesium, 42.1 ppm rubidium and 12.2 ppm scandium over 15 m from 573.0 m to 588 m.

Granada says it intends to proceed with sampling of the entire hole to enable disclosure of mineralised lengths associated with grades as well as investigation on the mineralogy as the grades of interest are not confined to one geological unit.

The property is located near Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, where about 120,000 m have been drilled.