Kairos Minerals Ltd (ASX: KAI) has identified at least seven new lithium targets at its large, 100%-owned Roe Hills Project. Roe Hills is 100km east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and is nestled within a new spodumene-bearing pegmatite province hosting the Manna Li-Ta project.
More than 3,500 samples were collected from 20cm depths, sieved to -80 mesh and sent to Intertek for aqua regia digest and low-level multi-element and gold analysis by ICP-MS (AR25-MS53).
The lithium anomalies are generally coincident with beryllium, caesium, gallium, rubidium, and tin which are elements associated with fractionated granites and pegmatites, especially highly- fractionated lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites.
“These quality and exciting soil targets highlight the lithium prospectivity at Lake Roe, where we are targeting buried spodumene-bearing pegmatites,” Managing Director, Dr Peter Turner, said.
“We know that this area is fertile hunting ground in the shadow of the Manna Lithium deposit, and our 2.6km-long Black Cat soil anomaly, which comprises coincident lithium, caesium, beryllium and tin, shows huge promise to be a Manna lookalike.
“We now also have an additional half-a-dozen high-quality, new lithium-beryllium- caesium-gallium-rubidium-thallium soil anomalies associated with mapped and interpreted granites & pegmatites in the area which add to the project pipeline”.
Kairos’s Black Cat Li-Cs-Rb-Be anomaly has been cleared for drilling and the southern half of the anomaly will be subject to an initial 1,000m of reconnaissance-level RC drilling, subject to drill rig availability.
An additional soil sampling programme covering the rest of the northern half of the Roe Hills tenements will be undertaken as several high-priority geological targets exist especially around buried granitic rocks close to Manna.
Next Steps
• Field investigation and mapping of granites/pegmatites at the new Li targets at Roe Hills
• Drill preparation for the Black Cat anomaly
• Further soil sampling north and south of the current programme
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