Askari Metals Ltd (ASX:AS2) has received promising results from a recently completed Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Survey at the Yarrie Lithium Project, located in the highly prospective eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The survey generated target maps for minerals related to LCT pegmatites and compared them to known Lithium-Tin-Tantalum (Li-Sn-Ta) occurrences in the region as an indicator for potential lithium mineralisation
The Yarrie Lithium Project is considered highly prospective for hard-rock Lithium-Tin-Tantalum (Li + Sn + Ta) mineralisation, where Lithium bearing pegmatites have been found mainly within mafic sequences in contact with granitic intrusive at Pilgangoora, Wodgina and Mt Francisco in the eastern Pilbara.
VP Exploration and Geology, Johan Lambrechts, said the Yarrie Lithium Project covers an area of approximately 1,711 sq km and is considered highly prospective, given the geological setting within the project area, which is analogues to other known hard-rock Li-Sn-Ta deposits in the eastern Pilbara.
“The hyperspectral survey has identified several high priority exploration targets across the Yarrie Lithium Project, and we aim to mobilise a team to test these targets as soon as possible,” Mr Lambrechts said.
“The prospectivity of the Yarrie Lithium Project is further underpinned by the sheer size of some of the targets, with one of the targets measuring a staggering 88 sq. km.
“We are excited to drive our Lithium exploration forward at both the Yarrie and Barrow Creek Lithium Projects, especially after discovering fertile pegmatites at Barrow Creek. Our focus remains squarely on lithium, but we are also currently completing the second phase of RC drilling on our Burracoppin gold project, which we are confident will deliver shallow high-grade gold results similar to that intersected during Phase I.
Mr Lambrechts said the Yarrie Lithium Project hosts several favourable geological lithologies, including granites, granodiorites and monzogranites in the north of the project and monzogranite, syenogranites, metadiorites and metasyenogranites to the south. To the west and south, the Yarrie Project is flanked by the Pilbara Supergroup that hosts the Pilgangoora and Marble Bar Lithium projects, while on the eastern side, the Yarrie Project, is flanked by the De Grey Supergroup, which surrounds the Wodgina Lithium project.
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