AMN - TANZANIA: Strong lithium results at Mohanga

Liontown Resources has identified high-grade, spodumene-related lithium mineralisation at its Mohanga Lithium-Tantalum Project in Tanzania. Rock chip sampling at the Tresor prospect has returned multiple values in excess of 1.5% Li₂O.

Better results include 3.3% Li₂O from one sample, 2.6% from another and 2.3% from a third.

The results are from a pegmatite zone interpreted to be up to 90 metres wide and at least 500 metres long, with the trend open along strike beneath transported cover.

The high-grade lithium zone is up to 30 metres thick and at least 150 metres long, however its full extent is unknown due to limited outcrop.

The spodumene mineralisation was not initially identified in the field due to weathering, poor exposure and relatively fine grain size, however it has now been confirmed by XRD, microscopic and pathfinder geochemical analyses. No lepidolite or other lithium minerals have been observed in the prospective pegmatite trend.

Numerous pegmatites have been mapped in the Mohanga project area and the latest results have given Liontown the confidence to progress exploration activities including additional trenching and soil sampling. The company will design a maiden drilling program based on the results of this work.

In addition to targeting spodumene-related lithium mineralisation, further work will also be undertaken to assess the potential of the Mohanga project to hoist Archaean greenstone-hosted gold mineralisation similar to that seen in the Lake Victoria Goldfield in norther Tanzania.

Previous soil sampling has recorded up to 120ppb gold at the Halo prospect. The source of which has not yet been defined.

Liontown acquired Mohanga in late 2015. It is in central Tanzania, about 40km NNE of the capital Dodoma and 400km WNW of Dar es Salaam.

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