Prospect Resources has made a significant discovery from the Phase 3 diamond drilling programme at its Step Aside Lithium Project in Zimbabwe.
It said scout drilling in the area south of the pegmatite B and C deposits returned a 25.73-metre intersection of pegmatite in angled diamond drill hole CDD055.
Prospect said visual logging of core from CDD055 showed strong lithium mineralisation with
abundant coarse spodumene crystals evident.
“We are very excited by the potential of this new, buried pegmatite discovery at Step Aside,” said Prospect chief executive Sam Hosack.
It said just over 3,000 m of the Phase 3 diamond drilling programme at Step Aside has been
completed to date.
Prospect has elected to adopt an expanded design of the Phase 3 drilling programme (totaling 5,000m), with two rigs now at the site to accelerate exploration activity.
Follow-up drilling of the CDD055-056 WinBin discovery within this expanded programme is set to include testing of the potential strike and volumetric extent of this encouraging new pegmatite discovery.
Mathew Nyaungwa, Editor in Chief of the African Bureau, Rough&Polished
