THE DRILL SERGEANT: Wildcat Resources (ASX: WC8) reported lithium results it claims to have highlighted the growing potential of the company’s Tabba Tabba lithium project near Port Hedland in Western Australia.

Wildcat Resources’ recent exploration efforts have defined a 3.2 kilometres long LCT pegmatite field hosting at least six pegmatite bodies (Leia, Luke, Chewy, Tabba Tabba, Han and The Hutt).

The company conducted drilling at Tabba Tabba focused on extending the Luke Pegmatite to the south, delineating extensions to high-grade zones in Leia and identifying additional near-surface mineralisation in adjacent pegmatites (The Hutt and Chewy).

Drilling at Luke focussed on an untested area to the south of existing drilling identifying further mineralised extensions to the pegmatite, with the most southern drillhole intercepting:

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18 metres at 1.3 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O) from 157m (16.2m est. true width), including a high-grade zone of 5m at 3.4 per cent Li2O from 157.0m (4.5m est. true width).

Targeted drilling at Leia of 50m spaced step-outs along strike and down dip from known zones of interest increased confidence and continuity of high-grade zones.

Hole TADD042 targeted the interpreted position of Leia adjacent to a Proterozoic dyke, intercepting:

50.3m at 1.2 per cent Li2O from 237 (est. true width), including 28m at 1.6 per cent Li2O from 259m.

Hole TADD051 intercepted a zone of continuous pegmatite over an interval of 154.1m, which included a broad zone of mineralisation of 153.5m at 1 per cent Li2O from 171m (est. true width).

“Results from drilling continue to demonstrate thick, high grades at the Leia Pegmatite and have extended the Luke Pegmatite in the south,” Wildcat Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“Drilling on the surrounding pegmatites continues to identify shallow zones of mineralisation in the Chewy and The Hutt pegmatites (which overlie Leia).”

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Wildcat Resources (ASX: WC8) claimed another lithium discovery at the company’s Tabba Tabba lithium project, near Port Hedland, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Wildcat Resources reported discovery of the Luke pegmatite as well as further results achieved at the Leia pegmatite from ongoing drilling at Tabba Tabba.

The company made the Luke pegmatite discovery, described as “a thick lithium mineralised repetition” while conducting exploration drilling beneath the Leia deposit.

Intercepts include:

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41 metres at 1 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O) from 267m (downhole width), including 24m at 1.3 per cent Li2O from 276m within 80.3m at 0.8 per cent Li2O from 232.7m.

Diamond drilling at Leia continued to return impressive results including:

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68m at 1.4 per cent Li2O from 337m (est. true width), including 50m at 1.5 per cent Li2O from 338m; and

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58.7m at 1.3 per cent Li2O from 333.1m (est. true width), including 11.8m at 2.3 per cent Li2O from 362.2m.

Wildcat said the discovery of Luke had delivered much encouragement for the company to continue its aggressive exploration campaign across the Tabba Tabba tenements.

“The blind discovery of another thick mineralised pegmatite at Luke confirms the ongoing exploration potential at Tabba Tabba,” Wildcat Resources geology manager Torrin Rowe said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“It is pleasing to see our exploration team’s efforts in developing and testing geological theories being rewarded.

“We look forward to delineating the scale of the exciting Luke pegmatite and continuing to test the developing exploration model with the aim of making further discoveries.”

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Wildcat Resources (ASX: WC8) announced the third batch of assay results the opening drilling program at the company’s Tabba Tabba lithium project in the Pilbara of Western Australia.

Wildcat Resources declared the assay results from a further 58 RC holes (22 from Leia) indicate Tabba Tabba has potential to host a Tier-1 lithium deposit at Leia.

The company said that diamond core and initial mineralogical work via Fourier-transform infra-red (FTIR) has confirmed (coarse) spodumene as the dominant lithium mineral.

Results from the Leia Pegmatite in the Central Cluster include:

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85 metres at 1.5 per cent lithium dioxide (Li2O) from 133m (est. true width), including 9m at 3.0 per cent Li2O from 199m and 13m at 2.3 per cent Li2O from 136m;

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38m at 1.1 per cent Li2O from 132m (est. true width);

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35m at 1.0 per cent Li2O from 127m (est. true width);

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21m at 1.0 per cent Li2O from 45m (est. true width); and

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85m at 1.3 per cent Li2O from 167m (est. true width), including 10m at 2.5 per cent Li2O from 175m.

“We continue to be encouraged by the Leia Pegmatite’s scale, grade and tabular consistency having still not found the edges of it with drilling,” Wildcat Resources managing director Samuel Ekins said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“It really feels as though we are in the midst of a Tier 1 lithium discovery at Tabba Tabba.”

Tabba Tabba is on granted Mining Leases near some of the world’s largest hard-rock lithium mines.

Wildcat believes Tabba Tabba is emerging as a potential world-class, Tier 1 lithium project, being one of six pegmatite prospects within a 3.2km long pegmatite field.

All pegmatite prospects at Tabba Tabba are open and Wildcat is continuing its aggressive exploration campaign with two RC drill rigs and a diamond drill rig.

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