Terrain Minerals Limited (ASX: TMX) has identified up to 20 pegmatites with recent field mapping at the now 100% owned Smokebush gold exploration project.
Pegmatites are the preferred host lithology of lithium mineralisation across Western Australia. Terrains geological team are taking rock chip samples from these pegmatites which will be tested for lithium mineralisation.
Assay results from this sampling programme are anticipated to be received by Terrain in February 2023.
Terrain is encouraged that the Smokebush pegmatites are located within the so-called “goldilocks zone” being the distance between two and six kilometres from a granite intrusive (in this case, the Mt Mulgine granite intrusive immediately west of the Smokebush tenements), which is interpreted as being the most prospective zone within a pegmatite for lithium mineralisation
Location and Access
The Smokebush Project area is located approximately ~350km from Perth Western Australia and 85 kilometres east northeast of the Perenjori township and 65 kilometres west of Paynes Find within the Yalgoo Mineral Field. The tenements can be accessed via the unsealed Perenjori – Warriedar Road, and thence via extensive historical exploration grid lines, station tracks and fences lines.
The now 100% owned project consist of Prospecting Licenses (P59/2125, 2126, 2127, 2128 and 2774) and Exploration Licence E59/2234, 2435, 2482 and 2700.
The geology of the area consists predominantly of a complexly folded, regionally metamorphosed Archaean greenstone sequence at the southern end of the Yalgoo Singleton Greenstone Belt that has been subjected to multi-phase granitoid intrusion. Located adjacent to a large tungsten resource at Mt Mulgine (Tungsten Mining NL) and a number of recently developed gold open pit mines (Minjar Gold Pty Ltd).