Aruma Resources Drills High-Grade Lithium-Rubidium Results at Mt Deans
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) reported high-grade lithium and rubidium results from the company’s 100 per cent-owned Mt Deans lithium project in the south-east of Western Australia.
Aruma Resources received high-grade lithium of up to 1.96 per cent Li2O (lithium oxide) and very high-grade rubidium of up to 1.42 per cent Rb2O (rubidium oxide), plus caesium values up to 1,550ppm, from a recently completed surface rock chip sampling program.
A total of 11 rock chip samples along a 500 metres strike were taken after the company had completed the first phase of drilling at Mt Deans that had delivered positive results including high-grade rubidium.
The subsequent rock chip sampling program was designed to test for strike extensions to the interpreted pegmatite zone at Mt Deans which has a strike length of at least 1,500m, and help refine targets for the second phase of the drilling.
“The first phase of drilling delivered highly encouraging lithium and rubidium grades in numerous intersections, some with significant widths,” Aruma Resources managing director Peter Schwann said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“The follow-up rock chip sampling program has returned excellent results and will help refine our drill targeting for the remaining holes to be completed in our maiden drilling program at Mt Deans.
“Our initial drilling represented just the start of exploration at the project, and based on the results, we moved quickly to undertake the surface sampling to investigate strike variations in grades.
“The high-grade lithium and rubidium rock chip results from the Mt Deans pegmatite is highly encouraging, and our upcoming drilling will seek to deliver further validation of Mt Deans’ potential as a valuable multi-metal asset.”
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