Quantum Critical Metals Company (TSXV: step; OTCCP: ATOXF; FSE: 86A1) reported test results from a site visit conducted by the Quantum Exploration Team at the wholly-owned Prophecy Zinc site, northern British Columbia.
The Prophetic Claims consist of seven mineral holdings totaling 4,349 hectares. All claims are located approximately 240 km northwest of Fort St. John, northern British Columbia. The Prophecy property area had been explored since the early 1970s and was selected by Cominco 1972-73 who completed geological mapping, soil geochemistry, geophysics and drilling. Historical drill logs are available that show several intersections of lead and zinc mineralization; However, assays are not available.
Mineralization of the Prophecy claim area is associated with Mississippi Valley-type vein (MVT) systems. In late 2025, Quantum made an airborne site visit and collected 16 samples from rock outcrops and floating sites. Eight samples returned abnormal zinc results from tests indicating samples associated with abnormal zinc results, ranging from 1,820 ppm to 22,000 ppm zinc. The abnormal lead ranged from 63 ppm to 5930 ppm lead in the same high zinc samples. Barium (Ba) scans returned 27 to 26,900 ppm and strontium (Sr) scans returned elevated levels of 58 to 5,910 ppm.
Elevated barium and strontium values associated with anomalous zinc and lead assays are consistent with Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) mineralization. The strong association between Ba-Sr likely reflects barite-bearing hydrothermal fluids and interaction with host carbonate rocks, supporting the interpretation of the mineralization system from a brine source. The correlation of barium and strontium values as well as zinc and lead strongly supports an MVT style mineralization environment rather than isolated zinc enrichment. This is important, as the geochemical signature shares characteristics with the Pine Point system and the NWT MVT pattern, particularly the association of lead-zinc mineralization with high barium and strontium values indicating indicators of salty hydrothermal fluid activity.
Quantum CEO Marcy Kiesman said, “For an initial on-site visit at the Prophecy project, we are very pleased with the results of our capture samples. The claims were initially placed to explore the potential of germanium within zinc minerals – to align with Canada’s list of strategic minerals. To have assays that return up to 2.2% zinc from the surface on first look at Prophecy is incredible.”
Quantum Critical Metals is a Canadian next-generation mineral exploration company focused on rubidium, gallium, cesium and silver. The company’s key assets include the NMX East and Discovery Rubidium-Gallium-Cesium projects in Quebec’s James Bay region and the Babine South Silver project near Burns Lake, British Columbia.
