Galan Lithium kicks off Greenbushes South drilling this week

Explorer and developer Galan Lithium (ASX: GLN) has announced it will start drilling at its Greenbushes South lithium project in Western Australia this week.

About 2,500 metres of drilling is planned for the initial campaign to test the first of several key targets identified within the highly prospective tenement area. These targets lie about 4.5km south of the Greenbushes open pit mine.

Construction of the requisite drill pads is complete and drilling is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, Galan confirmed.

Ground geophysics also begins

Ground geophysics also commenced earlier this month on previously identified targets within Greenbushes South. These targets were defined by high concentrations of lithium and other trace elements in soil samples. Results are expected later this quarter.

More than 550 soil samples have also been collected around multiple new pegmatite outcrops and submitted for analysis. These samples are expected to help in targeting and delineating mineralisation beneath the subsurface.

Galan managing director JP Vargas de la Vega said the company is looking forward to testing its hypothesis that significant lithium mineralisation exists south of the Greenbushes mine.

“We are extremely encouraged by all data collected to date that demonstrates the strong potential for this to be the case. This includes having multiple observations of minerals associated with pegmatites only one metre below the sub-surface in the area we are about to drill,” he said.

Four target areas in focus at Kirup project

In today’s market update, Galan also reported that the Kirup project, situated to the north of Greenbushes South, has undergone extensive target generation based on the processing of the company’s aerial geophysics.

According to the company, four large target areas have demonstrated strong prospectivity for blind lithium pegmatites.

Field mapping and soil sampling is planned within these target areas.