Pan Asia Metals (ASX:PAM) is ticking boxes and will be conducting soil sampling in areas where soil anomalism remains open around the Main Zone at the KT East Lithium prospect, part of the RK Lithium Project in southern Thailand.
The battery and critical metals explorer and developer reports that field work at the prospect continues to increase the lithium anomaly, with the pegmatite field now 2.1km in length and up to 1.5km in width.
Pan Asia will also undertake rock-chip sampling in those areas with more detailed mapping and rock-chip sampling is also planned in the Main Zone area.
The company is considering a trenching program, which may also act as site access preparation for drilling planned for later this year.
Additional reconnaissance sampling is planned within the license area, especially at KT East NW where large scale historic surface mining for tin has been undertaken and where anomalous rubidium (Rb) and Li2O mod have been located in rock-chip and tailings samples.
Pan Asia Metals Managing Director Paul Lock says the results from this follow up soil program reinforce KT East’s potential to add substantial LCE tonnes to the RK Lithium Project.
The pegmatite field has a strike length of about 2.1km and width of up to 1.5km, and within this is the ‘Main Zone’ of some 2km in length and up to 500m in width, which in turn contains numerous mapped lepidolite pegmatites zones. The overall geometry suggests the project will be amenable to open pit mining with potentially very low strip ratios, he adds.
“This, in combination with the Project’s low cost environment, should see a low cost hard rock mining project,” Lock says.
“Further sampling and mapping in areas where anomalism remains open is planned and may be followed by a trenching program. We will also test the areas where large scale historic surface mining for tin has been undertaken.
Although there is more soil and rock chip sampling to do, KT East is essentially drill ready.”
Write to Adam Orlando at Mining.com.au
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