Askari Metals has completed the Phase I trenching program at the Uis Lithium Project EPL 7345 and is focusing on a multiple exploration campaign to generate additional targets across its licences.
The Uis Lithium Project, under EPLs 7345 and 8535, covers 308.12 km2 and is within the Erongo Region.
The Phase 1 trenching program at EPL 7345 targeted four high priority pegmatites, being the OP, K9, DP and PS pegmatite targets.
The trenching, mapping and channel sampling campaign generated 2,098 individual 1m channel samples, which have been dispatched to Act Labs for analysis.
Results are expected to be received systematically over the next few weeks.
Mapping and rock chip sampling on EPL 8535 have also revealed a significant LCT-type pegmatite body named the Kestrel pegmatite target, where mapping has determined the pegmatite is larger than initially thought with a 24m average width over a mapped strike extent of 1.4km.
The Kestrel pegmatite has identified typical LCT mineralisation, including spodumene, petalite and lepidolite, across its entire strike length.
Askari Metals plans high-impact, low-cost exploration campaigns to generate robust, high-confidence drill targets at EPL 7345 as Phase 2 and EPL 8535 as Phase 1 during 2024.
Uis Lithium Project chief exploration and project manager Cliff Fitzhenry said the successful completion of mapping and channel sampling at EPL 7345 has delivered better than expected results.
Fitzhenry said the discovery of a larger than anticipated pegmatite zone at the OP target, in particular, stretches over two kilometres and contains several smaller pegmatite bodies interpreted to be bifurcating offshoots from the main body.
According to Fitzhenry, they discovered promising trench exposures for the DP, PS and K9 targets and further success was reported following mapping and sampling at the Kestrel target on EPL 8535, which has revealed a significant pegmatite body averaging 24 kilometres wide over a strike length of 1.4 kilometres.
“Planning is at an advanced stage for further multi-stream exploration programs at Uis, which will feed into a Phase 1 trenching program on EPL 8535 and a follow-up Phase 2 trenching program on EPL 7345.
“The next few months promise a steady flow of news from Uis, with results from samples taken during the Phase 1 trenching campaign at EPL 7345 expected imminently. The planned work programs and subsequent results are expected to underpin our resource definition drill programs on these key pegmatite targets later this year,” Fitzhenry said.
