After defining a large niobium anomaly, Charger Metals (ASX:CHR) is conducting targeted flora and fauna surveys in order to secure drilling programs for the niobium target and other lithium targets within the Lake Johnston Project.
The anomaly is 1.8km by 1.7km and sits in the south of the Mt Gordon prospect at Lake Johnston in Western Australia.
These surveys are required to obtain drilling approvals to test the anomaly below the surface. Access to the area has been hampered by road closures and inclement weather, but the surveys are expected to resume shortly.
Managing Director Aidan Platel says the company has made progress investigating the niobium soil anomaly at Mt Gordon, while continuing to focus on drilling programs at the lithium targets.
“The gravity anomalies are encouraging as they potentially represent intrusive bodies, which is supported by the coincident magnetic anomalies,” Platel says.
“The presence of titanite in seven of the eight HMC samples is also very encouraging, and we’ll progress with more micro XRF scanning with PSS to investigate further whilst we work on the permitting to be able to drill the target area.
“In parallel to this, the first phase of reverse circulation drilling at the lithium targets has concluded, and we look forward to receiving more assay results in the near future.”
As part of further investigations into the potential of the niobium anomaly, publicly available geophysical datasets were reprocessed by Southern Geoscience Consultants.
Refined processing of ground gravity data delineated five discrete anomalies within the area of the niobium target.
Charger Metals says the gravity highs are considered “encouraging” as they potentially represent dense intrusive bodies such as carbonatites, below the weathered surface.
Charger Metals is a lithium explorer focused on its Lake Johnston and Bynoe lithium projects.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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