Woomera Mining Ltd (ASX:WML) has been granted two new tenements prospective for hard-rock lithium in Western Australia.
Both are adjacent to the newly-listed company’s existing tenements as well as being in proximity to operating mines.
Binneringie is along the northern shore of Lake Cowan in the Southeast Yilgarn and about 15 kilometres from Tawana Resources NL’s (ASX:TAW) Bald Hill lithium and tantalum mine.
Mt Cattlin tenement is along the boundary of the Ravensthorpe Terrane and 10 kilometres from the Mt Cattlin spodumene project of Galaxy Resources Limited (ASX:GXY).
Identified during field program
The prospectivity of the ground for hard-rock lithium deposits was identified during a recent
reconnaissance field program conducted on Woomera’s Cowan and Ravensthorpe tenements.
That reconnaissance, coupled with the knowledge that the ground was available for mining, led to applications being made for the two new tenements.
These tenements add to Woomera’s existing 10 tenements in Western Australia considered prospective for hard-rock lithium and lithium brines.
Binneringie under-explored
The 50 square kilometre Binneringie project area is under-explored and there is no record of systematic lithium focused exploration in the project area.
There is pegmatite-hosted mineralisation at Bald Hill which has a maiden indicated and inferred resource estimate of 12.8 million tonnes at 1.18% lithium and 158 ppm tantalum.
Near Mt Cattlin mine
Mt Cattlin is considered prospective for hard rock lepidolite and spodumene mineralisation based primarily on geological and structural analogues drawn from Galaxy’s deposit.
The 37 square kilometre project area is under-explored, and there is no record of previous lithium-focused exploration.
The application area lies on the boundary of the favourable Ravensthorpe greenstone belt and mapping indicates that structurally controlled lithium-hosted pegmatites are widespread.
Woomera listed on the ASX on March 5, 2018, via a reverse takeover of Ausroc Metals Ltd.
It also has an extensive tenement portfolio in South Australia prospective for copper, lithium, gold, uranium, iron ore, nickel and cobalt.