AVZ Minerals Limited has issued an update on its Roche Dure North-East Extension drilling program, reporting strong results from its mineral resource drilling efforts at the Manono Lithium and Tin Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
According to AVZ, the results from the fourth consignment of five drill holes out of 54 resource drill holes confirm widespread, high-grade spodumene lithium mineralisation.
AVZ added that 105 samples returned values greater than 2 per cent, including seven individual samples grading greater than 3 per cent lithium oxide.
Middindi Consulting, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, conducted the geotechnical logging of the selected holes.
It also sent core samples to specialists so they could assist in the design of future open pit wall angles.
“This next tranche of drilling results, complements nicely, the previous results, with a mix of wide consistent mineralisation, such as that in hole MO22DD015, along with areas of depressed zones, subject to late-stage alteration with lower lithium values as well as pods of higher-grade sections, such as in hole MO22DD021,” AVZ Managing Director Nigel Ferguson said.
The company holds a 75 per cent interest in the Manono Project, located north of Lubumbashi in DRC.
AVZ added that the site is considered one of the largest undeveloped hard rock lithium deposits in the world and is expected to become of the lowest carbon-emitting hard rock drilling programs in the world.
