Infinity closing on maiden Pilbara lithium probe

Infinity Mining is set to hit the go button on a maiden drilling program at its Tambourah South lithium project in the east Pilbara region of WA after ASX-listed Riversgold completed a heritage survey over a contiguous tenement.

The company required Riversgold to complete the work to mobilise earth moving equipment to its tenement and is now set to follow up on a suite of solid rock chip results which graded up to 2.6 per cent lithium oxide.

Infinity has already received drilling approval from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, however, with the final hurdle of land access now being cleared, the explorer is now set to kick off drill site preparation.

Infinity Mining CEO, Joe Groot said:“We will shortly be in a position to mobilise our earthmoving equipment to commence drill site preparation at Tambourah South. I would personally like to thank the CEO of Riversgold, Julian Ford, for his diligence in completing this access clearance to facilitate this.”

The looming drill campaign follows a flurry of on-ground exploration that confirmed the project hosts several stacked lithium-bearing pegmatite units.

According to the company, the pegmatites sit inside a pair of fertile zones in the project’s south-west and north-west tenements and it says additional targets could also be speckled between the two areas.

Recent rock sampling at Tambourah South returned several compelling lithium results with an assortment of additional anomalous materials including rubidium and caesium.

Infinity bagged up over 200 samples across the tenure back in August and subsequent sampling returned a raft of compelling results. 25 of the specimens delivered grades over 1.5 per cent lithium oxide, while a handful ran north of 2 per cent lithium oxide 

The company followed up the tally with a September program that was headlined by a 1.77 per cent result and a trio of rock chip samples grading over 1 per cent.

In addition, work at Tambourah South has to-date underlined the tenure’s multi-commodity potential by discovering a handful of solid rubidium hits, including 5301.7, 4775.5 and 4654.3 parts per million.

Management believes the site’s rubidium, beryllium, caesium and tantalum mineralisation indicates it could have a lucrative suite of pegmatites at South Tambourah.

Plans are also in place to re-assay selective rock chip samples for rare earth elements.

Infinity Mining listed on the ASX in December last year with a portfolio of lithium, silver, copper, nickel and gold-bearing assets.

The company was once a wholly owned subsidiary of MacArthur Minerals before it opted to spin out its non-iron ore-based assets into Infinity.

Since then, Infinity has seemingly transformed its lithium focussed South Tambourah project into a multi-commodity asset, a solid feat given it has only been on the ASX for about 10 months.

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