QX Resources (ASX: QXR) re-launches hard rock lithium exploration in Pilbara WA

Highlights

• Exploration to be re-launched across the company’s four areas -- Split Rock, Western Shaw, Yule River, and further areas of Turner River
• Detailed airborne geophysics is planned over Turner River, with QXR later extending this to other project areas
• Extensive trenching and sampling, and follow-up drilling are also planned at new areas by QX Resources in the later stages

ASX-listed battery minerals explorer QX Resources (ASX: QXR) -- having hardcore lithium (Li) and gold assets in WA and Queensland, respectively -- has announced the re-launching of exploration for new Li hard rock mineralisation in Pilbara region. The company will begin the month-long surface rock chip sampling and detailed mapping later this month across its four project areas in the rich Pilbara Lithium province.

QXR will undertake detailed airborne geophysics over Turner River, later extending this to other areas. Extensive trenching and sampling and follow-up drilling in new areas are also planned for later stages.

QXR Hard rock Lithium Projects – Pilbara region, Western Australia; Source: Company update

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Notably, publicly listed QX Resources Limited owns four projects in the prolific Pilbara lithium province. These include Split Rock, Western Shaw, Turner River, and Yule River leases. The company has announced the re-launch of exploration activity -- targeting hard rock lithium mineralisation -- across all these holdings.

Firstly, QXR will undertake month-long surface rockchip sampling and geological mapping. This would begin in late July and is set to include interpreted outcropping pegmatites at Western Shaw and Split Rock Projects. It is pertinent to note that these pegmatites include the key target of the contact zone between greenstones and granitoids, which is identified as permissive for Li mineralisation.

The sampling program will be followed by extensive trenching and sampling in areas of interest, QXR mentions. This will be aimed to extend the sampled mineralised envelope before follow-up drilling. The sampling is also intended to be stretched to the Turner River area. Depending upon trenching, follow-up drilling will be undertaken in new areas.

Statement by Managing Director

Mr. Steve Promnitz has remarked that Pilbara is a primary focus area for the company, which is "fortunate" to have key greenstone/ granitoid contact areas that are permissive for considerable hard rock Li mineralisation.

Source: Company update