Metalicity joins Pilgangoora district lithium hunt

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Metalicity (ASX: MCT) has kicked off an exploration program across at the company’s Pilgangoora South lithium project in Western Australia.

The Pilgangoora South project covers an area of 450 square kilometres of lithium prospective tenements, 100 per cent-owned by the company.

The project includes the Stannum project (E45/4677), which includes the L1 and L2 lithium targets that Metalicity has recently identified within the Wodgina Greenstone Belt.

Desktop work carried out by the company has identified several targets for initial field based programs, where outcropping pegmatites have been identified over a significant strike length of 5km and where a Lithium rock chip sample of 1.62 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O) was reported.

“Lithium minerals spodumene and lepidolite have also been reported within the target area,” Metalicity said in its ASX announcement.

“Field based programs are being organised and will focus on geological mapping, sampling all pegmatites identified from the desktop studies, and additionally new pegmatites that are expected to be identified in the field, to determine their lithium content and type.

“This work will be undertaken under a Miners Right until the tenement is granted.”

Metalicity said it was currently evaluating additional projects it considers to be prospective for lithium minerals from the company’s geological database of lithium prospects, both within the Pilgangoora district in the Pilbara Region, as well as throughout various geological districts in Australia.