Piedmont Expands Land Position
December 05 2018 - 7:36PM
Piedmont Lithium Limited (“Piedmont” or
“Company”) is pleased to advise that the Company has
increased its exploration land position to 1,383 acres. The land
acquisitions include properties within the Carolina Tin Spodumene
Belt (122 acres), and preferred locations for our concentrator and
mine infrastructure (49 acres). Importantly, these acquisitions
include 93 acres which are contiguous to the Core Property land
package increasing it to a total of 622 acres. The Company also
controls a 60-acre parcel in Kings Mountain, North Carolina for the
site of the Company’s planned Chemical Plant.
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These important additions were achieved via a combination of
option agreements and deferred purchase contracts, making effective
use of Company funds to maximize exploration opportunities. Keith
D. Phillips, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We
continue to pursue our strategy of adding to our dominant land
position in the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt. We have found
high-grade mineralization in over 90% of the holes we’ve drilled on
the TSB, and our expectation is that the larger our land position
the larger our ultimate resource and mine life will be. We are
particularly excited to add 18% to the size of our Core Property
and are hopeful that we will be able to expand our mineral resource
and mine life proportionately. Notably, these land additions – like
the vast majority of our existing properties – are controlled via
lease/option or deferred purchase contracts to minimize the use of
cash on a pre-development basis.” Piedmont has increased its land
position by 184 acres to 1,383 acres. The most significant tracts,
with regards to the current resource, are in the south-east and
western portions of the Core Property. In the south east, a newly
acquired 55-acre tract adds over 600 meters of highly prospective
strike length along the F Corridor and a newly acquired 20 acres in
the west adds over 400 meters of highly prospective strike length
along the B Corridor. These two properties have significant
potential to add to the current resource of 16.2 Mt @
1.12% Li2O (reported June 2018) defined on the Core
Property. Late phase 3 drilling, along the F Corridor, traced
mineralization to the southwest suggesting that strike and downdip
extensions of known spodumene bearing pegmatites could extend onto
the newly acquired 55-acre tract. Within the 55-acre tract, one
area of subcrop of spodumene bearing pegmatite has been identified,
a grab sample from this subcrop assayed 1.21%
Li2O. To the west, indicated and inferred classified
resource blocks exist immediately adjacent to the northeast and
southwest boundaries of the newly acquired 20-acre property. It is
expected that mineralization extends onto the newly acquired tract.
Piedmont is planning additional drilling to upgrade portions of the
Inferred resource to Indicated classification, convert Exploration
Target areas to Indicated where possible, explore the newly
acquired properties and follow-up drilling on the Central property.
Land acquisitions also feature the Company’s preferred concentrator
and waste rock disposal locations as identified in the Company’s
Updated Scoping Study announcement dated September 2018. The
Company is designing condemnation drilling programs for 2019
completion in these areas. Finally, several off-trend properties
have been acquired by the Company for consideration as potential
future waste rock disposal, possible exchange properties for
on-trend parcels, buffer zones, or as conservation targets for
mitigation purposes. Piedmont Lithium Inc. has entered into
exclusive option agreements and land acquisition agreements with
local landowners, which upon exercise, allow the Company to
purchase (or in some cases long-term lease) 1,383 acres of surface
property and the associated mineral rights from the local
landowners. The new properties being the subject of this
announcement total 184 acres, of which 142 acres have been acquired
under land acquisition agreements and 42 acres have been optioned
under land option agreements, on substantially the same terms as
the Company’s existing land option agreements. The Company also
controls a 60-acre parcel in Kings Mountain, North Carolina for the
site of the Company’s planned Chemical Plant. The Company’s
strategy remains to consolidate the region between newly secured
and historic landholdings with emphasis towards on-trend properties
and sufficient off-trend for potential infrastructure development,
mitigation, and future land exchanges. Click here to view the ASX
announcement
For further information, contact:
Keith D. Phillips
Anastasios (Taso) Arima President
& CEO
Executive Director T: +1 973 809 0505
T: +1 347 899 1522 E:
kphillips@piedmontlithium.com E:
tarima@piedmontlithium.com
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