Wildcat Sources (ASX:WC8) unveiled a high-confidence up to date mineral useful resource estimate for its Tabba Tabba lithium mission in Western Australia.
The corporate reported a mineral useful resource of 74.1 million tonnes grading 1 p.c lithium oxide at a reduce off of 0.45 p.c, for a complete useful resource of 740,200 tonnes of lithium.
The MRE, up to date on November 28, highlights that 94 p.c of the useful resource is classed as indicated.
“Now we have now confirmed Wildcat has the most important and the very best confidence undeveloped publicly reported lithium useful resource in Australia which was delivered in document time,” Managing Director AJ Saverimutto stated within the press launch.
The replace additionally raised the mission’s tantalum useful resource by 278 p.c, bringing it to 1.28 million kilos of contained tantalum pentoxide from 1.2 million tonnes grading 428 components per million at a 200 ppm cutoff.
The MRE is derived from practically 115,000 meters of drilling, with 45 p.c being diamond drilling, along with quite a lot of different evaluation strategies. Drilling on the mission started in July 2023, shortly after Wildcat introduced its acquisition.
Positioned simply 80 kilometers from Port Hedland, the world’s largest bulk export port, Tabba Tabba advantages from strategic proximity to key infrastructure and established lithium operations. Tabba Tabba contains granted mining leases that had been beforehand used for tantalum manufacturing, most just lately in 2015.
It’s also close to main hard-rock lithium mines, together with Pilbara Minerals’ (ASX:PLS,OTC Pink:PILBF) Pilgangoora mine and Mineral Sources’ (ASX:MIN,OTC Pink:MALRF) Wodgina mine.
Wildcat stated that the following steps for the mission embrace finishing the pre-feasibility examine and ore reserve and progress mission approvals, in addition to a sequence of different take a look at work and research.
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