Doug Bright

GreenTech Metals has confirmed its discovery of a new southern high-grade lithium pegmatite trend, with solid hits of up to 3.6 per cent lithium oxide in the latest assays reported from its Osborne joint venture. The find could extend the overall scale of pegmatite-hosted lithium mineralisation eastwards from the company’s adjoining Ruth Well project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

Inaugural drilling in three locations at Brightstar Resources’ new Menzies gold project has returned multiple high-grade hits of up to 39g/t gold in initial assays from the first 10 holes of a recently completed 37-hole program, for a total of 4486m. Management says its work confirms high grades typical of the historic underground mines of the Menzies goldfields.

Aurumin has acquired two new exploration licence applications next to the company’s 881,000-ounce Sandstone gold project. The new ground encloses similar prospective geology and mineralisation controls to those within Aurumin’s main project area. With only limited exploration to date at the company’s new ground, it offers considerable additional potential to discover previously unknown areas of gold mineralisation.

Everest Metals’ early exploration mapping, rock-chip sampling and a small, but remarkably successful first phase of RC drilling has identified potentially world-class lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) mineralisation in pegmatite swarms at its Mt Edon project near Paynes Find in Western Australia’s Mid West region. All but one drillhole intersected pegmatites, which are known in the area to be highly-prospective for critical metals.