Zenith Minerals Limited (ASX: ZNC) has commenced drilling at the Yilmia Lithium Project located south of Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Managing director, Michael Clifford, said, “I am pleased to report that a maiden drill test is underway of the Yilmia Lithium Project. The project was added to the company’s lithium portfolio in May this year. Our initial drill holes confirm the presence of pegmatites, up to 20m thick, within the greenstone rock package. We infer from geophysical and geochemical data an 8km long greenstone rock sequence, wrapping around the southern margin of the Woolgangie Monzogranite, that we consider prospective for lithium pegmatites. The recent Kangaroo Hills lithium pegmatite discovery by Future Battery Metals is in a similar setting on the western margin of the Woolgangie Monzogranite, some 13km to the northwest of our target zone.”
The Yilmia Lithium Project is inferred to contain an 8km long greenstone package that is considered highly prospective for lithium pegmatites on the southern margin of the Woolgangie Monzogranite. A strong aeromagnetic anomaly is coincident with ultramafic and mafic rock units that are shown on government geological maps, further east of the Yilmia project area. That same aeromagnetic anomaly extends through the northern portion of the project area, indicating that the greenstone belt likely extends further west through the Yilmia project tenure.
Furthermore, an initial programme of approximately 3000 to 6000m of aircore drilling on 800m spaced lines is underway to test the 8km long lithium target zone.
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