Venus Metals Corporation Limited announce the start of a RC drilling program that will test recently identified lithium (Li) soil and rock chip anomalies for pegmatite-hosted lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) mineralization in the bedrock. Three east-northeast trending lithium (Li) anomalies in the northern part of E57/983 were delineated by a geochemical soil survey at a historical beryl occurrence reported in MINEDEX (S0017351). Rock chip samples from sub-cropping pegmatite nearby have up to 2.11% Li2O.
The Manindi North Li prospect is located within the granite greenstone contact zone at the Youanmi greenstone belt that is considered prospective for LCT pegmatite mineralisation. Drilling will also test the interpreted down-dip extension of Li-bearing pegmatite at the Central Prospect.