Askari Metals Limited (ASX: AS2) has announced the assay results from a total of 32 rock chip samples collected at the Kestrel Pegmatite Target located on EPL 8535 as part of an extensive multi-faceted 2024 field exploration campaign at the Uis Lithium Project in Namibia, Africa.
Cliff Fitzhenry, exploration and project manager, stated, “These results are highly encouraging and confirm that, with widths up to 30m and a strike length of more than 1.4km, Kestrel is a pegmatite of scale. It also displays high-grade lithium mineralization with a total of 10 samples displaying assays of >1% Li2O with the best results being 3.06%, 2.97%, 2.91%, 2.88%, and 2.28% Li2O.”
“These high-grade rock chip assays combined with visually observed zonation textures as well elemental ratio plots confirm that Kestrel is a highly fractionated, fertile, LCT type pegmatite. Kestrel will be a priority target for us to test during the EPL 8535 Phase 1 trenching campaign during which we will also be testing further targets previously identified on the licence.” Added Fitzhenry.
Detailed mapping and rock chip sampling at the Kestrel pegmatite has revealed a significant pegmatite body with a strike length in excess of 1.4km, open in both directions, and up to 30m in width.
Assay results have demonstrated that the Kestrel pegmatite hosts high-grade mineralization with lithium assay results up to 3.06% Li2O with visible dominant spodumene identified during field mapping. Mineral zonation together with chemical element ratio plots and mapped textures confirm that the Kestrel pegmatite is a highly fractionated, fertile LCT type pegmatite which is well mineralized across its entire strike and width.
The company is now planning an in-house hyperspectral remote sensing study, project wide stream sediment and soil geochemical sample programmes across the “corridor of interest” with an aim to delineate further anomalous areas, and a detailed mapping and rock chip sampling of promising new targets.
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