Azure Minerals Hits 209m High-Grade Lithium Intersection at Andover
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Try getting anywhere near Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) managing director Tony Rovira at Diggers & Dealers next week after the company’s announcement this morning of recent drilling activities at its Andover lithium project (Azure 60% / Creasy Group 40%) in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Azure Minerals reported an encounter with the thickest zones of lithium mineralisation to date – reflecting some of what it claims to be “the best lithium drill intersections globally”.
Azure hit very broad zones of lithium mineralisation from two holes drilled in the project’s AP0011 pegmatite:
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209.4 metres at 1.42 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O) from 219.0m (~134.6m True Width), including 126.2m at 1.72 per cent Li2O from 219.0m (~81.1m True Width) which includes 56.1m at 2 per cent Li2O from 257m (~36.1m True Width) and 19.7m at 1.54 per cent Li2O from 401.6m (~12.7m True Width); and
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183.1m at 1.25 per cent Li2O from 170.5m (~123.3m True Width), including 58.9m at 1.46 per cent Li2O from 170.5m (~39.7m True Width) and 30m at 1.55 per cent Li2O from 284m (~20.2m True Width) and 11.2m at 1.85 per cent Li2O from 332.9m (~7.5m True Width).
“These broad, high-grade intercepts firmly entrench Andover amongst the best lithium exploration projects globally,” Azure Minerals managing director Tony Rovira said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“Encouragingly, the results suggest the mineralisation remains open along strike and to depth, providing Azure with the potential to produce similar, if not better, lithium intersections of such scale and tenor in future drilling.
“The Andover project is an exceptional discovery given the abundance of outcropping mineralised pegmatites and substantial widths of high-grade mineralisation intersected in the drilling.
“With multiple drill rigs on site testing the numerous pegmatite zones, we are only beginning to realise the full scale of the project’s potential.”
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