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Sonic Drilling Underway at the Basin Project
Sonic Drilling Underway at the Basin Project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16 March 2023\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bradda Head Lithium Ltd.\n \n \n \n (\"Bradda Head\", \"Bradda\", \"BHL\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonic Drilling Underway at the 17km2 Lithium Basin Project in Arizona to Delineate Further Compliant Resources\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bradda Head Lithium Ltd (AIM:BHL, TSX-V:BHLI, OTCQB:BHLIF), the North America-focused lithium development group, is pleased to announce that the Company has mobilised a sonic drilling rig to commence its 2023 drilling programme at the Basin Project, in Arizona, with the intention of further adding to its existing NI 43-101 Compliant Mineral Resource of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE) tonnes.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights\n \n :\n \n \n · \n Following on from the success of the 2022 drilling at Basin East (\"BE\"), BHL has mobilised a sonic drill rig to the Company's Basin Project to start the 2023 drilling programme at Basin, which has now commenced.\n \n \n ·\n BHL expects to drill up to 25 holes in the coming months at Basin East Extension (\"BEE\"), BE and Basin North (\"BN\") - BEE is adjacent to BE, and BN joins with BEE's northern border (see map in Figure 1).\n \n \n ·\n The intent at Basin in 2023 is to increase coverage over as much of the Project's 17km2 area as possible. To date, c.1.4km2 of the area has been drilled, leading to a Mineral Resource of 371kt of LCE.\n \n \n ·\n Importantly for future resource growth, the Mineral Resource remains open to the west, northwest, and north of the drilled area where BHL has the adjacent BEE claim block and beyond into BN, BHL's Basin West (\"BW\") and Basin West Extension (\"BWE\") claim blocks where geological mapping and geophysical surveys predict similar clay strata may be present.\n \n \n ·\n Results from the Company's previous drilling programme have indicated that the shallower High-Grade and Upper Clay zones thicken to the northwest extent of the drilled area towards Bradda's BEE permits (see map in Figure 1) which could potentially be mined first as part of a phased mining operation. The planned drilling at BEE is expected to further investigate the extent of this higher-grade zone, and could potentially lead to expanding the current Res...