Voltaic Strategic Resources have intercepted pegmatites up to 60 metres thick at its exciting Andrada prospect, part of the Ti Tree project in Western Australia’s emerging Gascoyne regions.
The early success provides real scale potential with the prospect residing within the 212km2 Ti Tree Project and hosts more than 300 mapped pegmatites from the surface with only a fraction of the tenure explored to date.
Encouragingly the first pass drilling hit multiple large pegmatite bodies remaining open down-dip with widths of up to 58m of continuous pegmatite from the surface.
Voltaic CEO Michael Walshe said the promising early results indicate ideal geology for a lithium, caesium, tantalum (LCT) discovery due to their closeness to granitic contacts.
These ‘first pass’ preliminary targets were selected due to favourable access and will now provide essential geological information for subsequent ‘priority 1’ targets in the Leake Springs Metamorphics schists along the extensive 80 km long Volta Corridor, which contains Delta Lithium’s Yinnietharra Lithium Project where a 90,000m drill program is currently underway,” Mr Walshe said.
“The first batch of drill samples are already at the laboratory for analysis with assays expected within 6 weeks. Planning is also underway for a follow-up second phase of drilling, and we will soon undertake several surveys including: airborne magnetics / radiometrics, photogrammetry, and gravity.
“These programs should significantly increase the number of ‘priority 1’ drill targets at Ti Tree and ensure several months of highly active and material news flow over the remainder of 2023.”
Next Steps
Logistics and planning are being fast-tracked for a follow-up ‘Phase 2’ campaign to test the down-dip and extensional potential of the significant pegmatites intercepted.