Winsome Resource (ASX:WR1) has confirmed the discovery of a new lithium-bearing pegmatite dyke swarm at its Adina Project in Quebec, Canada. This discovery opens up the potential for multiple parallel zones below the main bodies.
Assay results from the Adina Main Zone and the newly identified Footwall Zone demonstrate high-grade mineralization, reinforcing Winsome’s mineralization model as the company prepares to deliver its Maiden Mineral Resource Estimate later in 2023.
Notable assay results include 1.72% Li2O over 17.3m (AD-23-022) in the Footwall Zone and 2.04% Li2O over 26.4m (AD-23-027) in the Main Zone.
“It is a pleasure to update shareholders with another drilling update containing further strong intersections of lithium mineralization from the Main Zone at Adina as well as the recently discovered Footwall Zone,” Managing Director, Chris Evans, said.
“These results define high grades and good thicknesses of mineralization within both zones which we are feeding into the mineralization model for Adina as part of the early work for our maiden Mineral Resource Estimate later in 2023.
“It also opens the potential that there could be multiple parallel zones below the main bodies. The fires in Quebec have meant a temporary suspension in drilling however this offers the opportunity to plan the MRE infill drilling in detail for the remainder of the year. We continue to prioritise the safety of our team as we monitor the situation on the ground in Quebec.”
The discovery of the Adina Footwall Zone was announced in May along with assay results from six drillholes which intersected the zone. In this announcement results from an additional six drillholes are presented which further confirm the presence of spodumene hosted lithium mineralization in the Footwall Zone pegmatite. Assays have now been received from a significant portion of the 760m of strike of the Footwall Zone.
A key feature of the Footwall Zone emerging with further results is the apparent presence of multiple dyke swarms, with four of the six drillholes returning two mineralized intersections and hole AD-23-047 intersecting three discrete zones. The lithium mineralization in the Footwall Zone occurs as spodumene crystals hosted in pegmatite with no obvious visual differences to the Main Zone mineralization observed during logging.
The 12 intersections allow the Winsome team to start generating conceptual models of the pegmatite dykes which make up the Footwall Zone to aid targeting of this zone in future drilling. This modelling has enabled the design and drilling of a number of holes to test the up-dip extension of the Footwall Zone, closer to surface).
An outcrop of the Footwall Zone has not been identified to date however once field operations re-commence at Adina ground checking will be undertaken to confirm if the Footwall Zone does come to surface.
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