Lanthanein Resources Ltd (ASX: FNT) has completed heritage avoidance surveys ahead of the maiden drill programme at the Lyons Rare Earths Project in Western Australia.
“It was great to have Traditional Owners on country with our geology team recently at our exciting rare earth Lyons project. The heritage survey was completed safely and following no heritage issues being identified at the outcropping ironstones, site works are planned to commence shortly, with drilling anticipated to start in early September,” Lanthanein Technical Director, Brian Thomas, said.
The proposed drill programme will target high-grade rare earth mineralisation discovered at outcropping ironstones and additional interpretated carbonatite intrusives and ironstones undercover.
The drill programme will investigate high priority targets located within the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex, host to Hastings Technology Metals’world- class Yangibana Mineral Resource1 of 27.42Mt @ 0.97% TREO with 0.33% Nd2O3+Pr6O11, and Dreadnought Resources multiple discoveries.
Additional Program of Works (PoW) has been lodged with the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) to allow for extensions to the initial drilling campaign. Drilling will be critical to understanding the resource potential of the mineralised ironstones, to determine width, grade, and continuity at depth and along strike of interpreted ironstone trends.
Further rock chip sampling, ground based geophysics and drilling programmes are planned to investigate additional targets not yet followed up, including thorium and magnetic anomalies throughout the Lyons Project and the high priority structural target along the major Bald Hill lineament which transects both the Edmund and Lyons Project Areas.
The Bald Hill lineament is the major control on rare earth mineralisation at Hastings Technology Metals Yangibana mine and represents a very high priority target for Lanthanein. Potential remains for further discoveries of ironstones and carbonatites within the company’s tenure where no historical REE exploration has occurred.
For further information please visit: http://www.lanthanein.com/
