Kairos Minerals Ltd (ASX: KAI) has defined lithium and pathfinder anomalies along strike of the Black Cat lithium prospect at its wholly-owned Roe Hills Project in Western Australia.
The company has now received assay results from a further 1,201 samples from a second phase of deep soil sampling to the south and west of the Crystal Place and Black Cat lithium prospects.
Managing Director, Dr Peter Turner, said Roe Hills is 100km east of Kalgoorlie and is located within a newly developing spodumene- bearing pegmatite province hosting the Manna Li-Ta project (Mt @ 1.0% Li2O) and a number of lithium pegmatite prospects.
“We are rapidly generating a host of highly promising lithium targets at Roe Hills in the shadow of the Manna lithium deposit. As these latest results show, the area has immense potential but has barely been explored for lithium and critical minerals,” he said.
“Whitehorse is an intriguing multi-element anomaly of compelling size and composition. It is a high-priority drill target along with our Black Cat and Crystal Palace lithium prospects.
“Whitehorse is interpreted to be along-strike of the exciting Black Cat Li-Be-Cs anomaly on the northern apex of a large granite body in a similar geological setting to many of the other lithium pegmatites in the Eastern Goldfields and therefore needs to be infill sampled and studied as a priority.”
Dr Turner said results from the program have defined geochemical anomalies at the newly defined targets at Whitehorse, Healey Dam and Greyhound.
These new targets display coincident and coherent lithium, caesium, rubidium and beryllium anomalism, a similar assemblage of lithium pathfinder elements as seen at the Black Cat and Crystal Palace prospects.
The programme has also identified a number of gold anomalous zones at Whitehorse and Greyhound coincident with known structural corridors prospective for gold mineralization.
Follow-up Exploration
A total of 3,301 infill deep soil samples have now been collected from the Roe Hills North area. Kairos believes this sampling technique has delivered high quality results with no ground disturbance. An additional 1,550 samples have been planned to continue the programme to the south of the existing sampled area towards the edge of Lake Randell, and to infill in key areas, with the programme expected to commence in the July to September quarter.
RC drilling at Black Cat (lithium and gold), Crystal Palace (lithium) and Blue Jay (rare earths) has been planned, with the programmes awaiting final heritage surveys prior to commencement of drill pad preparation and drill rig mobilization.
An initial 5000m is planned as a first phase of drilling, with additional metres budgeted on success.
Field investigations are currently underway at the newly identified prospects of Whitehorse, Healey and Greyhound with the aim of identifying potential lithium pegmatites and indications of gold mineralization.
Aeromagnetic interpretation that was completed over Roe Hills North has assisted in identifying target areas of interest prior to planning of soil sampling and geological field work.
Further work is currently ongoing to complete aeromagnetic interpretation to the southern part of the Roe Hills exploration tenure with the aim to identify areas with lithium and gold exploration potential and guide future exploration efforts.
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