Voltaic Strategic Resources have its program of work approved to launch a maiden campaign over the Andrada Target, one of a trio of regional prospects which has emerged at its Ti Tree Project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne Province.
It is the first lithium-targeted sub-surface RC drilling over 1250 metres of high-priority geochemical anomalism, with over 30 drill targets ready to go after initial rockchip assays revealed favourable geochemistry for lithium, caesium, and tantalum.
Voltaic chief executive Mr Michael Walshe said it was a dedicated effort from the exploration team to have successfully generated so many drill targets over three different prospects in a brief timeframe.
The team have identified extensive occurrences of pegmatite outcrop, collected several hundred rockchips, and demonstrated the fertility of these rockchips which has yielded over 30 drill targets;
and all whilst exploring only a small portion of the entire tenure” he said.
“The pegmatites at all prospects display evidence of being highly fractionated and zoned with
abundant tourmaline alteration – similar to those at Yinnietharra, and with significant LCT and associated pathfinder element anomalism.
“We will maintain our activities over the coming months to continue to vector towards the most
promising areas. Additionally, we will be one of the first in the region to trial a surface gravity survey as a means for differentiating pegmatites from country rock. This method has shown to be highly effective for LCT exploration in other regions with similar geology”.
All the Ti Tree targets sit within the Volta Corridor, a major belt of lithium-bearing pegmatites which also plays host to Red Dirt Metals and its Yinnietharra Lithium Project showing similarly hot potential for high-value LCT mineralisation.
The campaign is set to begin imminently. Voltaic plans the geophysical and remote sensing surveys to commence shortly after to generate additional targets while providing detailed structural data on the pegmatites.
