Sayona commences exploration at Mt Edon lithium project

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Image credit: www.sayonamining.com.au

Sayona Mining announced that its lithium exploration program at the Mt Edon project indentified three prospective radiogenic pegmatite systems.

Image credit: www.sayonamining.com.au
Image credit: www.sayonamining.com.au

The company, which acquired the Mt Edon project area in mid-March, said recent mapping has identified a large number of pegmatite intrusions, ranging from five metres to over 100 metres in surface width, arranged in swarms of up to 1 kilometre in strike extent.

“The pegmatites have variable outcrop and are in part obscured by colluvium and remain to be fully defined,” the company said in a statement to the ASX.

“Radiometric data identifies one of the largest pegmatites as being the most prospective, with a 900 metre strike extent comprising multiple pegmatites which are up to 10 metres width on surface (true width is not known).”

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The company said it is exploring the project for its potential to host the albite – spodumene class of rare metal pegmatite.

“The use of high-quality airborne radiometrics data, which detects radiogenic minerals associated with lithium mineralisation, is being used as an attractive low-cost exploration methodology to cover the large project area,” reads the statement.

According to Sayona, a total of 58 rock and 18 soil geochemical orientation samples from the project area have been submitted for assay to help rank the most prospective areas for further work.