Lithium explorer Winsome Resources (ASX:WR1) has extended the Main Zone at its Adina Project in Canada following its latest bout of resource delineation and exploration drilling in the area.
The $171 million market capitalisation company reports that the exploration work has defined the continuity of mineralisation between the Adina Main and Adina East areas, with results including 12.6m @ 1.92% Li2O from 50.4m (MZ) and 10.2m @ 1.67% Li2O from 242m (FWZ, AD-23-110).
This has effectively increased the strike length of the Main Zone from 1.34km to 2.11km.
Further, a drillhole to the southwest of the Main Zone has struck a 62.4m thick spodumene-bearing pegmatite, which Winsome says could represent a new pegmatite zone at Adina.
Winsome Managing Director Chris Evans says the new drill results continue to remind the company that the Adina project is ‘relatively unexplored’ outside of the Main and Ridge areas.
“Our conceptual model for lithium mineralisation at Adina points to the potential for further pegmatite bodies to be formed in a similar geological and structural setting, and we aim to systematically explore the wider Adina Project during 2024 using the datasets we have built up through our exploration to date.
The confirmation of the continuity of mineralisation between Adina Main and Adina East in both the Main and Footwall Zones effectively increases the strike length of the Adina Main Zone to 2.1km, a significant positive step change in planning our future resource development activities.”
Evans adds that when this strike increase is viewed alongside the ‘continued excellent results’ from the company’s infill drilling work, the advantage Adina has over many other lithium deposits in the region is ‘clear’.
Adina lies within the prolific Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Qeuebc
As Winsome continues its exploration work, the company is working to update the inferred Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Adina project before the end of June 2024.
The Adina MRE currently stands at 59 million tonnes @ 1.12% Li2O.
Winsome has been testing gravity anomalies as part of its ongoing exploration campaign in the Adina area, and the company says it has delineated new ‘high-priority’ gravity pegmatites to the west of the Main Zone.
Alongside its flagship Adina asset, Winsome also owns the nearby Cancet, Sirmac-Clappier, and Tilly lithium projects in Quebec, as well as the Case Lake project in Eastern Ontario.
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