Forrestania Resources Limited (ASX:FRS) has obtained promising results from its now completed maiden drilling programme at the Calypso target, located at the company’s flagship Forrestania project, in Western Australia’s southern Yilgarn region.
Drilling intersected where multiple thick (up to ~63m) pegmatites. The company drilled 14 RC holes at the prospect for 1,968m to define the extents of and investigate whether pegmatites identified from mapping and historic drilling host lithium mineralization.
“It’s fantastic to confirm that there are further pegmatites of significant thickness within Forrestania tenure. Calypso is only ~4.5km from a known mineralized pegmatite (South Ironcap), so any occurrence of pegmatite within this area is significant to Forrestania,” Managing Direcyor, Michael Anderson, said.
“Geological and geochemical information gathered from this drilling programme will assist with vectoring towards further prospective zones within and surrounding the extensive Calypso pegmatite bodies.”
The maiden drilling programme at Calypso was designed to define and expand the extents of pegmatites identified from mapping and historic drilling and to investigate their potential to host lithium mineralization. In total, 1,968m were drilled across 14 holes. The drilling area encompassed areas of mapped pegmatite, geochemical anomalism and historic pegmatite drill intercepts.
Pegmatite was intercepted in 13 of 14 holes, with multiple zones of significant widths (up to 63m) Forrestania has interpreted that the orientation of the pegmatites is flat lying and sub-parallel. This, however, has not been fully ascertained due to the broad drill spacing. Thicknesses mentioned do not necessarily reflect true width.
Drill hole samples will be dispatched to Perth this week and a full suite of assays is expected in ~six weeks.
Drilling is ongoing at South Iron Cap East and the Giant pegmatite.
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