Lithium pegmatites confirmed at Oriole’s CLP Project

Oriole Resources, the AIM-quoted exploration company focused on West Africa, has provided an exploration update on its 90% owned Central Licence Package (CLP) project in Cameroon.

The district-scale CLP project comprises nine contiguous licences covering 4,091 square kilometres of previously unexplored PaleoProterozoic to pan-African age rocks that are highly prospective for a range of commodities, including orogenicstyle gold mineralisation and lithium.

Since Q4 2022, the team has been undertaking early-stage exploration at two of these licences, Ndom and Gamboukou, to assess their potential to host lithium-bearing pegmatites. A number of pegmatite units have now been identified which help underpin the source of the approx. 9 km lithium-in-soil anomalies reported in Q4 2022. Mapping and sampling programmes are continuing at Gamboukou.

Oriole Resources CEO, Tim Livesey, said, “With the multi-element work flagging potential lithium anomalies during 2022, we are pleased to be progressing reconnaissance work on our licences as part of our CLP programme in 2023.

“Whilst lithium was not an original target for Oriole, the anomalies highlighted by the earlier programmes seem to be associated with the correct granitic host units and this has created a great opportunity for additional value add in this extensive package of ground.

“The addition of the Gamboukou licence in late 2022 further expanded our target area and is testimony to our teams continued focus on delivery of value in Cameroon through good, consistent, boots on the ground exploration.

“We look forward to updating the market as our teams complete their assessment of the area.”