SensOre Ltd (ASX:S3N) and Stelar Metals Ltd (ASX:SLB) have advanced their research partnership, developing and deploying a new News South Wales-focused data cube based on the two company’s data sharing agreement and revealing new areas of high lithium-tantalum-caesium (LCT) pegmatite prospectivity at SLB’s Trident Project.
The data cube identified prospectivity where previous exploration targeting tin and tantalum had overlooked LCT potential, specifically in the central and northern project areas at Trident as well as new opportunities around the source granite/granite-gneiss complex in the south.
“Stunning” initial results
"We are pleased to have such stunning initial results from our first targeting runs deployed for Stelar Metals,” SensOre CEO Richard Taylor said.
“The new innovative tools, validated through field work, open up many new possibilities for SLB.
“The Stelar project represents the first targeting exercise deploying the recently completed NSW data cube, combining geoscience data across geophysics, geochemistry, drilling and geological data layers with spectacular preliminary results.”
The collaboration is focused on deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications on surface geochemistry and high-resolution geophysical techniques in support of lithium exploration.
S3N says their partnership with SLB has results in innovative AI and ML predictive methodologies, established over large areas of NSW, for identifying pegmatites as sources of economic lithium, tin, tantalum, and caesium.
Emphasising the potential impact of S3N’s predictive targeting technology, the company also received NSW government funding to the tune of $318,000 to assist with the data cube build, which is now available for SensOre clients.