BRADDA HEAD LITHIUM LIMITED Bradda Head Lithium Ltd. announced that it has been granted drilling permission to conduct geochemical testing of the brine at its Wilson Flat Project in Nye County, Nevada. The Wilson Flat Project consists of 13.6 km2 of federal mining claims. Bradda Head has been granted permission by the US Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") to drill two holes, of 305 metres in depth each and approximately two kilometres apart, to conduct geochemical testing of the lithium brine at its Wilson Flat Project located in Nye County in Nevada, USA. Wilson is c.130 km east of Albemarle's Silver Peak lithium brine operation in Clayton Valley, Nevada and c.115km east of American Lithium's TLC project in Nevada.
The Wilson Flat Project consists of 13.6 km2 of federal mining claims.Exploration to date has involved surface sampling, a 2016 gravity survey and a 2017 MT survey. MT surveys are especially useful in the determination of saline (brine) lakebed fills. Results of the gravity and MT surveys indicated the potential presence of a brine-enriched basin fill up to 5km long.
The interpreted structures and architecture are consistent with the lithium-bearing brine deposit models identified in the adjacent Clayton Valley area (Albemarle, Silver Peak). A deep basin containing a thick sequence of saturated sedimentary formations is apparently present beneath the Wilson Flat property. In addition, surface sediment samples taken in 2016 are enriched in lithium (up to 192ppm) whilst water bores located 1km east containing elevated levels of lithium (1.2ppm) support the hypothesis of enriched lithium waters at depth in the identified basin.
The anomalous surface results (up to 192ppm Li) and the presence of lithium mineralisation at surface adds to the potential for sedimentary lithium deposits as well as the identified brine target at depth. For comparison of the sedimentary resource potential at Wilson, American Lithium's sedimentary TLC project is c.115km from Wilson and covers 30.5km2, and has a Maiden resource of 7.1Mt of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE). Bradda's Wilson claims cover an area of 13.6km2.
