Boadicea Resources Ltd (ASX:BOA) is ramping up exploration efforts in the quest for the key battery metal of lithium in highly prospective Western Australian lithium areas.
In two key exploration developments, drilling at Two Tanks Lithium Project in the Mt Ida district is ready to kick off and an extensive geochemical survey is underway at Cat Camp Lithium Project in the Lake Johnston lithium province.
Two Tanks drilling
At Two Tanks the company has completed the final steps for an initial 15-hole reverse circulation (RC) drill program which will begin this week and will test the lithium prospectivity of the east-west orientated pegmatites.
The company has boosted the prospectivity of the project area following a recent reconnaissance and visit by Boadicea geologists.
Additional E-W striking pegmatite swarms were mapped further north than previously identified and these will be tested by the upcoming RC drill program.
Two Tanks is 570 kilometres northeast of Perth and is in the Mt Ida region, which is emerging as a new lithium province.
Boadicea’s lithium projects in southern Western Australia.
Regional developments
The area has seen a number of developments along a prospective zone with a strike length of about 35 kilometres led by Delta Lithium’s Mt Ida lithium project with a mineral resource of 12.7 million tonnes at 1.2% Li2O.
Also confirming the region’s prospectivity is St George Mining whose recent high-grade results from surface rock chips have also determined that the same lithium-bearing pegmatites may extend within E29/994.
Lithium prospectivity in the region is interpreted to be associated with the large Copperfield Granite which may be a source of the Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (LCT) pegmatites.
A prospective LCT corridor is interpreted between the contact with the Copperfield Granite in the east and the Ida Fault in the west.
Cat Camp survey
Boadicea began an extensive geochemical survey on May 19, 2023, at the Cat Camp Lithium Project targeting an area where pegmatites have been previously identified within greenstone lithologies.
This work will be a first step to the identification of potential drill targets with assay results expected to be available late this quarter or early in quarter three.
Cat Camp, which is also prospective for nickel, is 425 kilometres east of Perth, Western Australia, in the lithium regions of Lake Johnston and Lake Percy.
Nickel as well
Previous exploration has identified nickel and also found anomalous lithium-bearing pegmatites although neither commodity has been completely tested.
Reverse circulation (RC) and aircore drilling carried out in 2001 and 2006 intersected several pegmatite units which have also been mapped at the surface by previous explorers.
Pegmatite thicknesses up to 17 metres (downhole) were intersected by the RC drilling.
Limited lithium assaying was completed on the drilling samples although the assays available identified anomalous lithium and pathfinder elements for LCT pegmatites.
Lithium portfolio
As well as Two Tanks and Cat Camp, Boadicea’s full lithium portfolio developed over 12 months includes:
Western Australia -
Bald Hill East Project, adjacent to the Bald Hill lithium mine and processing facility; and
Ant Hill Lithium-Nickel Project northwest of Cat Camp in the Lake Johnston lithium region, which is in the application stage.
Queensland –
Hanns Gully Lithium-Tin-Tantalum Project, which has untested lithium potential in the Croydon district and is subject to a farm-out agreement with Daly Resources.