QX Resources Limited (ASX:QXR) has returned high-grade rock chip results of up to 4.9 per cent lithium oxide from its Turner River lithium project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
The samples were taken from a priority area, identified through the company’s detailed analysis of remote satellite imagery and geophysical datasets.
Concentrated sampling and mapping is now planned in and around the sample site.
QX executive chairman Maurice Feilich said the high-grade result at Turner River confirmed the company’s belief that its Pilbrara projects were highly prospective for lithium.
He said: “Given the project is only 15 kilometres south of Wodgina, we believe we are in the right location to identify further high-grade lithium mineralisation.
“The sampling program was the first phase of exploration across our tenements in the Pilbara lithium province, with the company undertaking a further two site visits to Turner River and Western Shaw over recent months.”
Wodgina, 15 kilometres north of the project, is Australia’s second-largest lithium mine and one of the largest hard-rock lithium deposits in the world.
The review of remote sensing data from Turner River suggested four preferred areas for follow-up investigation and sampling programs.
The field program aimed to investigate the spatial extent of this previously identified pegmatite dyke swarm, both laterally and along strike, and to undertake systematic sampling to test the mineralogical variability of the pegmatites and their potential to host lithium-bearing minerals.
Principal responses were along the central north to northeast trending structural zone, with the central two zones running parallel to the strike of the Wodgina lithium mine.
The observation of strong grades from the rock chip sampling survey conducted at those sites, including the sample of 4.9 per cent, offers a promising indication of further lithium mineralisation at Turner River.
Further assay results from recent sampling programs at the Turner River, Western Shaw, and Split Rock prospects are expected in the coming weeks.
