Lightning Minerals Ltd (ASX:L1M) is planning geochemical sampling at the Dundas South project in Western Australia, targeting a large lithium-in-soil anomaly picked up during reconnaissance soil sampling.
Lithium anomaly
The soil sampling campaigns returned elevated lithium anomalism on two licences – E63/2000 and E63/1993 – and the planned infill program will collect up to 2,200 samples at these locations.
The company has picked out a first order follow-up target on licence E63/2000, where a broad, greater than 80 parts per million (ppm) tenor lithium-in-soil geochemical anomaly has been discovered over an area spanning 8 square kilometres.
A smaller anomaly of the same tenor is also present within E63/19931.
The infill sampling will be designed to progress targeting at suitable scale for potential future exploration drilling activities, with the aim of progressing to drill ready exploration targets.
Diligent and focused work
Lightning Minerals chief executive officer Alex Biggs said: “It is great to see such fast progress yielding positive results at Dundas.
“The planned works on tenement E63/2000 and E63/1993 provide the potential for a second drill target beyond our planned drilling on E63/2001.
“This is a demonstration of completing diligent and focused work programs on areas that we have always believed to be highly prospective with a view to being able to start drilling.
“Thanks to our team for completing works in a safe, speedy and highly effective manner.”
About the Dundas Project
The Dundas Project area is near Norseman in Western Australia and comprises eight tenements totaling approximately 454 square kilometres.
Norseman has a strong history of mining dating back to 1892 and is some 190 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie.
Historically, Norseman and the Dundas area have been mined for gold and nickel, but more recently the region has become an emerging lithium and critical minerals province with multiple discoveries and significant exploration activity.
There are two project areas at Dundas:
- south/western tenements surrounding Liontown Resources (ASX:LTR)’ Buldania/Anna lithium project; and
- north/eastern tenements around 30 kilometres to the east of Alliance Mineral Assets’ Bald Hill lithium-tantalum mine.