West Bryah Review Shows Potential For Uranium And Rare Earth Elements

Bryah Resources Limited (ASX: BYH, “Bryah” or “the Company”) is pleased to advise that it has completed a desktop review on the West Bryah tenements and has deployed a team to the field to inspect and sample previous reported areas of interest.

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• Desktop review shows rare earth element and uranium potential
• Follow up of reported pegmatites with rock chips collected for rare earth element (REE) assaying
• Yarlarweelor complex and the Despair Granite is Archean I type granite with mapped pegmatites historically reported
• Uranium intersection of 35m at 503ppm U3O8 less than 200m from the tenement boundary
• Anomalous Lanthanum values to be followed up and investigated in the field
• Geologists currently on the ground mapping and collecting rock chips samples

Commenting on the inhouse work, Bryah CEO Ashley Jones said:

“The Yarlarweelor Gneiss complex and the Despair Granite is reported to be intruded by pegmatites from old exploration reports. The Western Australian Mineral Exploration Reports (WAMEX) and Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) database quote pegmatites, significant uranium results and anomalous rare earth element (REE) results. These tenements were acquired by Bryah in late 2021 and were initially thought only interesting from a gold perspective, with the tenement boundary straddling the historically mined Wilthorpe pit. As part of a systematic geological review of the West Bryah Tenements we have identified exciting commodities to investigate in this area.”

Late in 2021 Bryah acquired three tenements in the western side of the Bryah Basin, complementing existing tenure. Exploration licences (E52/3848, E52/3898 and E52/3963) cover approximately 50 km². The largest tenement (E52/3898) covers exploration ground adjacent to the historic Wilthorpe gold mine. The Wilthorpe gold mine is a shallow open cut mine, which straddles the boundary of E52/3898 and adjacent E52/2059, previously held by Westgold Resources Limited (ASX:WGX). The main lithological units in the review area are the Despair Granite, The Yarlarweelor Gneiss complex and the Labouchere Formation.

REEs have diverse applications in electrical and electronic components, lasers, glass, magnetic materials, and industrial processes. Sample assays recorded in the GSWA geochemistry database from the Despair Granite are anomalous in Lanthanum (La) which could be an indicator of other REEs. The La values from two samples in the dataset have values of 47ppm and 67ppm respectively. The Despair Granite is located on the eastern side of the Yarlarweelor Gniess complex, which is currently being explored by ASX companies at Mt Clere REE prospect and the Red Peak Lithium project. Multiple references to pegmatites are recorded in the geological logs from the Ann prospect drilling¹ and will be followed up.

The Ann uranium prospects (see Figure 2 for location) recorded on tenement E52/3898 have the best uranium results which were drilled in 1978 returned 6m at 505ppm U3O8¹ (Table 2). Additionally only 180m off the licence to the west of the tenement, the prospect Kangaroo Ridge, was drilled in 2010. The best result was in hole KRD10-02 of 35m at 503ppm U3O8 including 5m at 1069ppm U3O82 (Table 1). The geological description of the mineralised intervals is a sheared biotite shist within the granite, with petrographic work on samples confirming the uranium mineral ‘uraninite’.

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