Tambourah Metals confirms pegmatite swarms at Russian Jack lithium project
Tambourah Metals will undertake rock chip sampling and mapping at Russian Jack to follow up on the pegmatite swarms identified in the WAROX database.
Junior explorer Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) has confirmed the presence of extensive pegmatite swarms at the Russian Jack lithium project in Western Australia.
The company said data compiled from the state’s WAROX (Western Australian Rocks) minerals database has significantly increased the project’s prospectivity.
WAROX contains geoscientific data related to observations and samples collected in the field.
The data covers themes such as outcrop and regolith geology, field photographs, geological samples, rock physical properties, petrography, paleontology and geochronology.
Tambourah plans to evaluate the pegmatite swarms at Russian Jack with field work activities in the coming weeks.
New exploration licences
Earlier this month, Tambourah was granted two new exploration licences at Russian Jack, growing the project area to around 250 square kilometres.
New tenements E46/1420 and E46/1423 adjoin granted tenements E46/1409 and E46/1410, all located around 247km southwest of Port Hedland and 25km south of Nullagine.
The new licences are expected to provide the impetus for accelerated lithium exploration within the tenement package.
Project acquisition
The Russian Jack project was acquired last September and is located in an area considered prospective for tin, tantalum and lithium although no previous drilling has been undertaken.
Following the transaction, Tambourah embarked on a desktop study and regional review to evaluate potential lithium-tantalum mineralisation in the east Pilbara region.
Russian Jack adds to the company’s 80% stake in the Julimar North battery metals project, 100km northeast of Perth, where it plans to explore for nickel and platinum group elements (PGE) at the Bolgart East and Tolarno prospects.
Tambourah also owns the Tambourah and Cheela advanced gold projects, located adjacent to modern gold mines.
High-grade gold rock chips
Meanwhile, new assays have been reported from rock chips collected during sampling and mapping from the Tambourah goldfield during the June quarter.
Four out of 20 samples returned elevated gold with a maximum grade of 16.9 grams per tonne reported from an area with no previous elevated grade history.
At Tambourah, the company completed 23 reverse circulation holes for 2,527 metres with targets along strike of historic workings at Tambourah King, Western Chief, Western Chief South, Federal and Kushmattie.