Voltaic Strategic Resources Ltd (ASX:VSR) has encountered several additional significant width pegmatites at the Andrada prospect, Ti Tree project in Western Australia.
Many are configured in a stacked emplacement system and remain open along strike and at depth.
• ANDRC031: 69m pegmatite (peg) intercepted from 21m to end of hole (EOH) at 89m (21‒89m; >35m true width).
• ANDRC015: 58m peg. intercepted from surface to EOH at 58m (0‒58m; >29m true width).
• ANDRC020: 50m peg. intercepted from 74m in stacked configuration (51-68m; 74-123m; 135-140m).
• ANDRC023: 36m peg. intercepted from surface (0‒36m; >17m true width).
• ANDRC012: 33m peg. intercepted from 18m in stacked configuration (0-15m; 18-50m). Peg. (pegmatite)
“The prospectivity continues to grow at Ti Tree as our understanding of the geology increases. Having thick pegmatites which repeat in a stacked sequence at depth are key prerequisites for building tonnage,” CEO, Michael Walshe, said.
“The learnings from current drilling, which is limited to 70m (ave.) below surface, provide valuable insight into the significance of structural controls within the Project and will assist our follow-up deeper programmes.
“As other recent drilling in the region has shown, prime mineralised parts of the system are likely to be emplaced at depths of at least +200m vertically below surface.
“We have only just begun to tap into the vast potential of our tenure at Ti Tree where the number of mapped pegmatites already exceeds 400 with only a fraction of the tenure explored. We have 18 priority target areas identified across the entire project and this will only increase as airborne geophysics and photogrammetry surveys are completed over the coming weeks.
“Planning is underway for systematic and extensive drill programs across our north and south tenements, and shareholders can look forward to several quarters of highly active exploration- focused news flow.”
Voltaic’s Ti Tree targets are located within the “Volta Corridor” – a major belt of prospective LCT pegmatites hosting Delta Lithium’s Yinnietharra Lithium Project where a 90,000m drill programme is underway. To date, 10 priority targets have been identified within Ti Tree (South) (which hosts Andrada where the current drilling was focused) and eight additional target areas at Ti Tree (North)
The next steps at Ti Tree Lithium Project
• six additional holes for ~ 750m remain for the phase 2 drill campaign at Morpheus within Ti Tree South (pending Program of Works (POW) approval).
• Planning is underway for systematic and extensive follow-up drill programmes across northern and southern tenements over 18 priority target areas
• Target generation continues to deliver LCT targets along the most prospective lithological schists associated with the ‘Volta Corridor’, with rockchip sampling, geological mapping, and soil sampling programmes all underway across Ti Tree (South), and several geophysical surveys are planned to commence next week.
• Assays for phase 1 and 2 drill campaigns (with phase 2 being partially complete) are expected over the next one to six weeks
• Comprehensive LIBS4 and selective XRD5 analyses are also underway with results expected in ~two weeks. Some encouraging lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) indicators have been observed from preliminary logging of drill chips including:
o Tourmalinite alteration;
o Albite-bearing feldspars
o Highly fractioned and zoned pegmatoids interpreted in stacked configurations
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