Burley Minerals Recommences Diamond Drilling at Chubb Lithium Project
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Burley Minerals (ASX: BUR) is back on the ground having recommenced diamond drilling at the company’s Chubb lithium project in Québec, Canada.
The recommencement of drilling activities follows completion of an Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) geophysics survey the company had commenced at the beginning of August.
Data from the ANT survey is now being assessed with information to be used to target extensions of known pegmatite dykes and to identify parallel dykes to the east of the mineralised zone.
Burley had commenced its maiden diamond drilling program in April 2023 and had things well underway until wildfires resulted in machinery operation bans.
Drilling recommenced in early July once machinery bans were lifted allowing just under 5,200 metres of diamond drilling to encounter thick lithium-bearing spodumene-pegmatites in holes drilled into the Main Dyke, with widths between 4 to 13m down hole intersected and confirming strong continuity both along strike and at depth.
The assay results from the drilling program completed during July are expected during September.
“Our geologists, drilling contractor and core shed operators responded rapidly and efficiently to complete the drilling and implement the ANT geophysics survey,” Burley Minerals managing director and CEO Stewart McCallion said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“They worked diligently to complete two ANT surveys covering the known Chubb mineralised zone, strike extensions and over the eastern parallel target zone.
“The geophysics survey equipment was pulled from the field last week, and the drill rig was mobilised and has set up on the first hole of the latest 3,000 to 4,000m program.
“It is exciting the team continues to grow and define the spodumene mineralisation in these highly prospective mineral claims, having only completed the acquisition of the Chubb lithium project in February this year in the in the Tier 1 lithium province of Québec, Canada.”
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