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Sabre Resources Ltd (ASX: SBR) (“Sabre” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that further broad-spaced soil sampling results have defined a large lithium anomaly within the extensive 700 sq.km Cave Hill Project tenements, south of Coolgardie in Western Australia’s world-class Eastern Goldfields gold, nickel and lithium province (see Figure 1, below).
- Highly-anomalous lithium and gold targets identified from soil sampling across the Company’s extensive 700 square kilometres (sq.km) Cave Hill Project tenements in WA’s world-class Eastern Goldfields gold, nickel and lithium province (see Figure 1).
- The largest new lithium anomaly, located in the southern part of E15/1844 (Figure 1), is over 5km x 5km and is associated with a northeast-trending fault corridor intersecting an extensive buried greenstone corridor identified from magnetic imagery (Figure 2). This is a similar setting to other high-grade lithium deposits in the region, including the Kangaroo Hills discovery which has produced lithium-spodumene intersections of up to 29m @ 1.36% Li2O1, and the Mt Marion Project which has a large Mineral Resource of 71.3Mt @ 1.37% Li2O2 (see Figure 1).
- Several highly-anomalous gold results also produced from this broad 400m x 400m sampling program, including values of up to 32ppb Au - more than 10 times background in this soil covered area (see Figure 3).
- This extensive and highly prospective >100km strike-length greenstone corridor remains virtually untested and is a continuation of the belt which hosts the Kangaroo Hills lithium discovery1, the 2.8Moz2 Coolgardie Goldfield and the Nepean Nickel Mine (1.1Mt at 3.0% Ni produced3) (Figure 1).
- Extensive infill and extension soil sampling is set to commence to better define targeting for an initial aircore drilling program, to be followed by RC and/or diamond drilling to test for lithium-bearing pegmatites in bedrock and/or greenstone-hosted gold deposits.
SABRE RESOURCES CEO JON DUGDALE COMMENTED:
“The large lithium and gold soil anomalies we have identified across our extensive Cave Hill tenements indicate that the large, untested, greenstone corridor discovered within the project is highly-prospective for lithium-bearing pegmatites, as well as gold deposits.
“The Company will immediately commence infill sampling, and new sampling programs on other recently granted tenements, to define aircore drilling targets for lithium and gold deposits in the underlying greenstone lithologies.
“The Company has over 100km of strike of granted tenements over this newly identified greenstone corridor. The corridor is along strike and parallel to other greenstone belts which host major lithium, gold and nickel deposits in the region, such as the Mt Marion lithium deposit, the 2.8Moz Coolgardie Goldfield and the Nepean nickel mine. The only difference appears to be that the Cave Hill greenstone corridor is under shallow cover, which is why it has remained largely un-explored.
“We look forward to further defining these highly-anomalous lithium and gold zones and testing the bedrock potential for new lithium, gold and nickel sulphide discoveries”.
Figure 1: Cave Hill Project tenements on aeromagnetics with new lithium anomalies and other lithium deposits
The results have been received from a further 876 auger soil samples collected on a 400m x 400m grid, mostly from the largest and most prospective tenement, E15/1844 (see Figure 1). An extensive greenstone belt has been identified from magnetics within this tenement and a series of northeast-trending faults are interpreted to intersect the soil-covered greenstone lithologies, which could host lithium-bearing pegmatites (see Figure 2 below).
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