Larvotto Resources Limited (ASX: LRV) is preparing to commence an auger soil geochemical sampling programme at Eyre as soon as Native Title clearance is received.
The programme will target two initial areas, prospective for lithium and base metals, where historical exploration has identified broad anomalous zones that have never been followed up and refined.
Larvotto is actively exploring its portfolio of projects including the large Mt Isa copper, gold, and cobalt project adjacent to Mt Isa townsite in Queensland, an exciting gold exploration project at Ohakuri in New Zealand’s North Island and the Eyre multi-metals project located some 30km east of Norseman in Western Australia.
Larvotto’s Managing Director, Ron Heeks, said the company is looking forward to getting on the ground and commencing exploration activities early in the New Year at Eyre.
“We have 600 sq. km at Eyre that has numerous prospects requiring detailed exploration,” said Mr Heeks.
“Geology and geophysics tell us the host rocks for the Liontown lithium resource extend into our ground and we have a robust lithium soil anomaly generated by Anglo Gold (Anglo) and confirmed by us, that is coincident with the extension of the Liontown host rocks into our project area,” he said.
“Around Mt Norcott and within the Jimberlana Dyke we have a copper soil anomaly generated by WMC with a single drill hole in the 1960’s and confirmed by Newmont in the 70’s that has never been followed up.
“The geochemistry program will lead to future geophysics and drilling to refine both of these anomalies.
Eyre Multi-Metal Project, Norseman
Eyre is a large (600 sq. km) multi-commodity project located just east of Norseman in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. The project is prospective for a wide range of metals including gold, copper, nickel, PGE’s and lithium.
Merivale Lithium
Geochemical soil sampling is planned to infill and extend the broad soil geochemical anomalies defined for base metals and lithium by previous explorers. Geophysics and geological mapping of the units that host the Liontown Buldania lithium deposit of 14.9MT @ 0.97% Li2O and 44ppm Ta2O5) clearly indicates that the rock units extend into LRV ground south of the Buldania deposit.
Wide spaced, historical sampling by Anglo Gold (Anglo) and recent test infill sampling by LRV has identified that these units are associated with a lithium anomaly within LRV ground.
Detailed auger geochemical sampling is planned for January to refine the lithium target prior to geophysical surveys and drilling.
Mt Norcott / Jimberlana Dyke Base Metals, PGE’s
The Jimberlana Dyke is a large, late stage, intrusive unit that cuts east-west through the regional geology and is known to be associated with base metal mineralisation at Mt Norcott and other areas.
The most recent example of which was by Galileo Mining. WMC drilled a single hole at Mt Norcott in the 1960’s that intercepted anomalous base metal mineralisation of 0.68% Cu over two feet that has never been followed up. Newmont then undertook a wide spaced geochemistry survey in the 1970’s around the drill hole that identified several broad spaced base metal (particularly copper) anomalies.
These were also never followed up. Larvotto will undertake a detailed infill soil geochemistry program over the Jimberlana Dyke intrusive around Mt Norcott to refine the base metal targets prior to a geophysical survey being undertaken to test for the presence of sulphide mineralisation. Auger soil geochemistry at Mt Norcott is planned to commence in January.
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