WhiteRock Lithium Corp. has more than doubled the known strike length of its Spodumene Mountain prospect following visual confirmation of spodumene pegmatite in the first seven diamond drill holes of its 2026 campaign.
The drill program at the company’s Banana lithium project in northern Québec, Canada, extended the prospective strike length by 115 per cent, expanding the footprint from 650 metres to 1,400 metres.
Drilling added 350 metres of confirmed mineralisation to the southwest and 400 metres to the northeast beyond the boundaries set by the 2024 campaign.
All seven drill holes intersected lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites, returning intersections of up to 77.4 metres of pegmatite containing coarse-grained, centimetre-to-decimetre-sized spodumene crystals. The LCT system remains open both down dip and along strike.
WhiteRock Lithium Chairman and CEO Simon Hay said the early campaign results highlight the scale of the broader system.
“More than doubling the strike length at Spodumene Mountain to 1.4 km, with spodumene pegmatite confirmed in every new drill hole, demonstrates the scale and continuity of the system,” Hay said.
“The fact that the LCT pegmatite remains open along strike and down dip suggests that the full potential of the Banana lithium project has yet to be revealed.”
Three diamond drill rigs are currently active at the site, operating on a planned 100-metre by 100-metre grid to test the prospect. WhiteRock aims to complete the drilling campaign by October, ahead of compiling a maiden mineral resource estimate in the first half of 2027.
Assay results for the initial seven drill holes are expected to be received and reported later this month.
WhiteRock cautioned that visual estimates of mineral abundance are preliminary and should not be considered a substitute for laboratory analyses.
