Battery focused mineral explorer Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) reports it has secured all the required approvals to begin a maiden drilling program at the wholly owned Tambourah Lithium Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The company reports a heritage survey was completed recently over key pegmatite targets, with approval also received from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS), which paves the way for drilling to start.
This drilling will test the Central and Eastern prospects where surface grades of up to 3.07% lithium oxide were returned in spodumene-bearing pegmatites in late 2022.
Commenting on the approvals, Trek Metals Chief Executive Officer, Derek Marshall says: “We are delighted to have secured POW (Programme of Work) approval for our upcoming drill program, and the last box has now been ticked with completion of the recent heritage survey.
This means we can now move ahead with preparations to start drill site earthworks, paving the way for the start of our maiden drill program to test the fertile pegmatite swarm identified last year, with significant high-grade spodumene confirmed in outcrop.
“The drilling planned for this quarter will provide a preliminary test of the grade, width, and extent of the lithium mineralisation at both the Eastern and Central prospects”
The drilling planned for this quarter will provide a preliminary test of the grade, width, and extent of the lithium mineralisation at both the Eastern and Central prospects.”
The Tambourah Lithium Project is located about 70km southeast of the ‘world-class’ lithium mines at Pilgangoora and Wodgina in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The company’s ‘extensive’ landholding at Tambourah comprises 2 exploration licences which are wholly owned by Trek’s wholly owned subsidiary ACME Pilbara.
The project covers large areas of the Western Shaw Greenstone Belt, predominantly within the nose and eastern limb of an anticline folded around the Tambourah Dome. Trek says the greenstone rocks comprise Archaean-aged metavolcanics, metasedimentary, and various granitoids with associated pegmatitic phases.
Trek Metals is a battery metals focused mineral explorer with a portfolio of projects across Western Australia and the Northern Territory. These include the Tambourah, Hendeka, Pincunah and Valley of the Gossans, Kingia, Jimblebar, Centurion, and Lawn Hill projects.
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