Askari Metals has encountered seen lithium mineralisation from the primary section of drilling at its Uis lithium challenge in Namibia along with intersecting tantalum and tin within the website’s pegmatites.

The corporate has simply wrapped up its first drill marketing campaign on the African operation the place it accomplished 59 RC holes for 3017m as a part of an total 10,000m program set to recommence in February subsequent 12 months.

A latest floor sampling program at Uis returned constructive outcomes together with grades of as much as 3.1 per cent lithium oxide, 1.3 per cent tin, 658 components per million tantalum and 4214ppm rubidium. The samples have been collected over numerous uncovered pegmatites together with a number of previous mine workings the place historic mining for tin and semi-precious stones occurred.

The Uis Mine View prospect was the primary goal of the drilling marketing campaign and took nearly all of the metres drilled. The exploration program additionally examined two different targets together with one close to the centre of the tenement that produced rock pattern outcomes of as much as 1.1 per cent lithium oxide and 658 components per million tantalum. The third goal was an space the place reconnaissance sampling recognized outcomes together with 0.92 per cent lithium oxide and 0.76 per cent tin.

The challenge is situated straight alongside strike from an working tin, tantalum and lithium mine owned by AfriTin Mining that hosts a mineral useful resource of 71.54 million tonnes at 0.63 per cent lithium oxide, 0.134 per cent tin and 85ppm tantalum.

The corporate believes it has locked onto confirmed strike extensions of the identical mineralised lithologies because the mine subsequent door. A number of areas inside the challenge exhibiting the identical geology stay untested, leaving the door ajar for additional exploration upside. To this point there have been greater than 80 mapped pegmatites throughout the challenge.

The pegmatites on the Uis lithium challenge had by no means been drill examined traditionally so that is naturally an thrilling time for the corporate and we eagerly await receipt of the outcomes from this section I drilling marketing campaign.

The explorer not too long ago signed a binding heads of settlement with Earth Dimensions Consulting to accumulate an 80 per cent curiosity in a lithium potential tenement adjoining to Uis. The acquisition expands the strategic footprint of Askari’s newly acquired challenge to greater than 308 sq. kilometres in a distinguished mineral subject that has already been established to host lithium, tantalum, tin and rubidium.

Askari says along with its deliberate second section of drilling within the new 12 months, the corporate will proceed its floor mineralisation mapping and sampling marketing campaign throughout unexplored areas.

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