Charger Metals Defines New Bynoe Lithium Targets

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Charger Metals (ASX: CHR) will be busy soon having defined 11 new lithium targets for follow-up exploration work at the company’s Bynoe lithium project in the Northern territory.

Charger Metals defined the targets via modelling of combined geochemical and geophysical data.

The company’s 2023 entailed a large infill soil sampling program carried out over the eastern portion of its Bynoe tenure to define areas of anomalous lithium and/or associated elements at surface.

This coincided with Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) and ground gravity surveys over a large area in the northeast of the tenement in an attempt by the company to ‘look below’ the surface and potentially define pegmatite targets that may not outcrop.

The results achieved by Charger confirmed at least two sets of pegmatites at Bynoe:

• High caesium: lithium pegmatites – the most fractionated of the two pegmatite types with a classic suite of LCT elements (i.e. lithium-caesium-tantalum); e.g. the 7-Up Prospect. The high Cs:Li ratio is potentially indicative of lithium micas; and

• High lithium: rubidium pegmatites – a fractionated pegmatite system typically low in “LCT” elements; e.g. the Enterprise Prospect. The high Li:Rb ratio is more suggestive of albite – spodumene pegmatites.

“It’s great to see the results of our systematic approach to exploration during the field season at Bynoe last year,” Charger Metals managing director Aidan Platel said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Each data set contributes a significant piece of information that has culminated in eleven new target areas to investigate for lithium mineralisation.

“It is important to now ground truth these new anomalies to remove any false positives and to take further samples where possible.

“We can then use the growing database of information to prioritise targets for future drill testing.”

 

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