Bradda Head Lithium Limited (AIM:BHL, OTCQB:BHLIF, TSX-V:BHLI) expects a significant resource expansion after clay thicknesses were better than expected in drilling at its Basin East Extension (BEE) prospect in Arizona.
Lithium-bearing clays continue and thicken to the west, northwest and north into the company's BEE lease, it said, with probable extensions into other adjoining Bradda Head claims at Basin North (BN) and Basin West (BW).
These results demonstrate the potential for a significant increase in the resource on its claims, it added.
Widths in the latest programme included 81.60 metres (m) at 944 parts per million (ppm) lithium (Li), 82.30m at 906ppm Li and 81.98m at 867ppm Li, with substantially higher grades over shorter intervals in these holes.
Charles FitzRoy, Bradda Head’s chief executive, added the grades highlighted the “exceptional potential” of the project.
He said: "The company will soon be kicking off its Phase 3 drill programme at its 23 sq km San Domingo pegmatite district in Arizona, with the main aim to delineate a resource and also to build on the promising results of the maiden drill programme which finished earlier this year."