Litchfield Minerals Set for Extensive RC Drilling Campaign at Oonagalabi Project

Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) is moving quickly to follow-up a number of new targets it has identified in an August survey of its Oonagalabi project, 120 kilometres northeast of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

The company is preparing to mobilise a reverse circulation (RC) rig to site in late September in a program that will begin at the Bomb Diggity and northern extension targets.

Litchfield recently uncovered 14 priority one targets at Oonagalabi, along with five conductor clusters, including one comprising three holes next to the Bomb Diggity zone that Litchfield regards as among the most prospective of all.

Comprehensive Program

The upcoming campaign will feature as many as 14 RC drill holes for a maximum of 3,750m to test for gravity, magnetic, and versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) conductor anomalies, as well as areas of proven mineralisation.

It will test approximately 4km of strike, with the potential to extend the Oonagalabi system to more than 10km.

Litchfield has built six new pads in the past week, with four holes to use existing pads from the previous campaign.

The company expects earthworks to be fully complete ahead of drill rig mobilisation in late September.

‘Key Hallmarks Lining Up’

Managing director Matthew Pustahya said that each campaign at Oonagalabi reinforces the company’s view that it is a system of genuine, scale.

“The key hallmarks are lining up—robust structural architecture, pervasive alteration and mineralisation, credible energy and fluid drivers, strong metal tenor and continuity, and compelling geophysical signatures,” he said.

“The drill bit remains the arbiter, should this campaign deliver as anticipated, we believe Oonagalabi has the potential to evolve into a world-class base-metals discovery.”

“We are prepared, resourced, and ready to get the rig turning later this month.”