Azure Minerals’ lithium exploration is full speed ahead with helicopter program targeting abundant outcropping pegmatites

To follow-up the highly successful first-pass exploration program, which identified widespread lithium-bearing pegmatites across the Andover Project, Azure has implemented a multi-pronged strategy to fast-track lithium-focused exploration

As well as pegmatite sampling by helicopter, ground-based exploration with detail mapping and sampling is continuing alongside the planning of a diamond drilling program on newly identified zones as soon as approvals have been received.

The option of drilling pegmatites located close to nickel sulphide targets where drilling approvals have already been received is also being investigated.

Lithium-bearing mineral spodumene observed

During the helicopter-supported sampling program, Azure Minerals (ASX:AZS) says lithium-bearing mineral spodumene was observed in-situ in many pegmatite outcrops, especially proximal to and along strike from similar samples collected in Azure’s earlier reconnaissance programs.

These earlier reconnaissance programs returned high-grade of lithium, including 3.32% Li2O, 2.65% Li20, 1.62% Li2O and 1.31% Li2O.

The Andover pegmatite swarm contains several hundred outcropping pegmatites occurring in a zone approximately 8km long and up to 4km wide in the central and eastern parts of the project area.

Around 230 pegmatite samples have been collected across the project area so far.

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