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Premier African Minerals hits more lithium in expansion drilling at Zulu

Published: 07:38 02 Feb 2018 GMT

Lithium batteries
More drilling will define the resource size at Zulu

Premier African Minerals Limited (LON:PREM) has found more high-grade intersections through it latest step-out drilling at the Zulu lithium deposit in Zimbabwe.

Two holes 250m east of the Main Zone intersected multiple pegmatites with average grades of 1.17% and 1.04% lithium oxide.

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George Roach, chief executive, said the results reaffirmed the size potential of the Zulu deposit with high ratios of spodumene to petalite and a core of high-grade mineralisation.

"The next drilling programme will seek to expand the wide intersections and further define the high-grade core," he added. 

Premier had been 'extremely busy' at a corporate level to find a partner for the project, Roach added.

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