Zenith Minerals (ASX:ZNC) has confirmed and extended lithium mineralisation in the central western portion of its Rio Pegmatite – Split Rocks project in Western Australia.
Final assays from Zenith’s 100-hole 2022 drill campaign identified a lithium mineralised zone over greater than 2,900 metres and up to 1,100 metres wide, remaining open to the north and south and with a higher-grade lithium zone now greater than 750 metres and up to 500 metres wide.
The new results include 15 metres at 0.8 per cent lithium including 4 metres at 1.8 per cent; and 9 metres at 0.5 per cent lithium, including 3 metres at 1.1 per cent.
Significant ‘blue-sky’ potential exists within the wider Split Rocks project, in the very large and untested lithium geochemical soil anomaly ‘Cielo’, which is 26 kilometres south of the Rio Pegmatite and 18 kilometres northwest of the Mt Holland lithium deposit (under development by SQM/Wesfarmers).
Zenith Managing Director Michael Clifford said the program had returned additional thick intervals of lithium mineralisation.
Clifford added: “Looking ahead, our joint venture partner EV Metals Group are to establish plans for recommencing lithium drilling programs at our Split Rocks and Waratah Well projects.”
