THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) reported further high-grade gold intersections from the company’s 100 per cent-owned Salmon Gums project, in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

Aruma Resources’ latest phase of drilling comprised a targeted seven-hole diamond core drilling program, designed to follow-up and extend previous gold intersections encountered at the project’s Thistle prospect.

The company declared the latest assays from drilling at Salmon Gums to have confirmed a high-grade gold-bearing structure, results included:

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5.9 metres at 10.5 grams per tonne gold from 38.4m, including 2.6m at 9.85g/t gold from 38.4m and 0.85m at 40.9g/t gold from 43.4m; and

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3.65m at 1.25g/t gold from 42m, including 0.95m at 3.66g/t gold from 42.7m.

The company indicated it would use these results to define the next phase of field work and drilling at the Thistle prospect.

“The latest results from our ongoing exploration at the Salmon Gums project continue to deliver exceptional results and validate our exploration approach,” Aruma Resources managing director Glenn Grayson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Norseman-style mineralisation is structurally controlled and can be incredibly high-grade, and this is exactly what we are seeing at Salmon Gums, with our drilling programs continuing to deliver very high-grade gold results, which extend the high-grade mineralised zone at the project.

“Controls on this style of mineralisation are tight, making the combination of structure within the right lithology the key to exploration success.

“We will now commence planning for our next phase of drilling, to further unlock the project’s value.”

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) released first assay results from a recently completed drilling program at the company’s Mt Deans lithium-rubidium project near Norseman in Western Australia.

Aruma Resources carried out broad spaced drilling and surface sampling that identified a thick vertical sequence of lithium and high-grade rubidium bearing pegmatites over a strike length of about 1.5 kilometres.

The company declared assays have confirmed high lithium and rubidium grades from the first two holes received of:

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7 metres at 2.03 per cent lithium and rubidium (Li2O+Rb2O) from 26m; and

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9m at 1.23 per cent Li2O+Rb2O from 32m and 5m at 1.05 per cent Li2O+Rb2O from 45m.

“The program extended the lithium and high-grade rubidium intersected in the thick vertical pegmatite in Aruma’s first phase of drilling in the central part of the project area, and a subsequent rock chip sampling program,” the company said in its ASX announcement.

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) emerged from a self-imposed exile after receiving a speeding ticket from the ASX to report a lithium encounter on the company’s Mt Deans lithium project in south-eastern Western Australia.

Aruma Resources announced results from its first phase of drilling at Mt Deans that involved a total of 1,156 metres of reverse circulation (RC) drilling in eight holes, which delivered highly positive results including high-grade rubidium.

Rubidium is a high-value technology metal typically found in hard rock pegmatites.

The current price of Rubidium Carbonate, the most widely used form of rubidium, is $1,059.65 per kilogram.

It has multiple uses and applications, including in solar panels, fibre optic cables, GPS systems and night vision equipment, as well as sodium-ion batteries.

Aruma said the drilling intersected high-grade lithium of up to 1.14 per cent Li2O (lithium oxide) within a wide zone of lithium, all within a near-surface 25 metre thick, vertical body of solid pegmatite, from a depth of just 17 metres.

Results include:

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1 metre at 1.14 per cent Li2O at 36m in hole within a wider zone of 10m at 0.62 per cent Li2O and 0.57 per cent rubidium oxide (Rb2O) from 22m;
7m at 0.76 per cent Li2O and 0.69 per cent Rb2O from 31m; and
3m at 0.96 per cent Li2O and 0.83 per cent Rb2O from 34m.

“The first phase of drilling at Mt Deans has delivered highly encouraging and positive results, returning strong lithium and rubidium grades in numerous intersections, some with significant widths,” Aruma Resources managing director Peter Schwann said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“This represents just the start of exploration at Mt Deans, and based on these results, we will move quickly to undertake the remaining approximately 1,800 metres of the maiden drilling campaign.

“The Mt Dean pegmatite is showing zonation with lithium grades up to 1.14 per cent Li2O, and rubidium assays up to 1.05 per cent which is high-grade, and our future work will target Mt Deans as a multi metal asset.”

Based on the results from the first round of drilling at Mt Deans, Aruma signalled it is very keen to complete the remaining 1,800 metres across 12 holes of this maiden drilling program.

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ) is preparing to commence drilling at the company’s Mt Deans lithium tantalite project in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.

Aruma Resources informed the market this morning that a Program of Works (PoW) for drilling has been approved, and the company will now mobilise to site with drilling expected to commence upon completion of a Heritage Survey.

Aruma considers the Mt Deans project as being highly prospective for lithium minerals, as wells as tantalum and rare earth element (REE) minerals.

Previous exploration at the project identified swarm pegmatites over a strike length of one kilometre.

The project sits within the lithium corridor in south-east WA, which hosts multiple hard-rock lithium projects and is interpreted to sit within the same host rocks and structures as the nearby Mt Marion, Bald Hill and Buldania lithium projects.

Aruma signalled it plans to conduct an initial 12 reverse circulation (RC) hole drilling program at Mt Deans with drilling planned to a maximum hole depth of 200 metres, with holes spaced approximately 50m apart.

“The Mt Deans project is an exciting lithium and tantalum exploration opportunity, which is 100 per cent-owned by Aruma and hosts 1.4 kilometres of strike, including pegmatite intersections up to 20 metres thick in historic drilling, and spodumene,” Aruma Resources managing director Peter Schwann said in the compay’s ASX announcement.

“With the PoW for drilling now approved, we eagerly anticipate the commencement of the first phase of drilling.”

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