Widgie Nickel has announced successful results from the follow up infill reverse circulation (RC) drilling program undertaken at the Trainline lithium deposit.
The Trainline prospect was discovered in July after Widgie carried out exploration drilling north of the Faraday lithium deposit.
The Faraday and Trainline deposits are central to Widgie’s Mt Edwards project, which is located 75 kilometres south of the major regional centre of Kalgoorlie and 40 kilometres south west of Kambalda in Western Australia.
The new campaign was designed to reduce the drill spacing from 80 metres (m) by 80m drilling to 40m by 40m focused on the higher-grade core. It has confirmed near surface, high-grade mineralisation and the continuity of the lithium bearing pegmatite returning high grade results above one per cent (lithium oxide) Li2O.
Widgie said the results returned significantly higher lithium grades than the 80m x 80m drilling assays previously reported, and the re-assaying of the results through the fusion method is expected in the next upoming weeks.
“Widgie’s lithium endowment now shows it has real growth potential with holes now delineating mineralisation at Trainline on a tighter 40 metres (m) by 40m spacing,” Widgie Nickel managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Steve Norregaard said.
“These results show excellent promise in defining consistent broad zones of high-grade mineralisation dipping shallowly to the west, not dissimilar to Faraday. The Faraday-Trainline lithium project has all the hallmarks of a very low-cost development able to be commercialised in the near term.”
Widgie Nickel provided updates on resource infill drilling programs conducted at the 132N deposit and the Widgie 3 deposit during September – both of which confirmed significant nickel intercepts.