Lightning Minerals reported results from its ongoing soil sampling program at its 100% owned Dundas project in Western Australia. Soil geochemistry has identified a lithium-rubidium anomaly above 60ppm on tenement E63/2001 demonstrating a justification for further exploration activity. Soil sampling is continuing across the Dundas project.

Lightning Minerals is currently undertaking a regional soil sampling campaign across its Dundas tenements to explore for lithium anomalies and indicators of potential LCT mineralisation. Assay Results have now been returned for 153 soil samples collected during December 2022 from tenement E63/2001. As part of the initial reconnaissance exploration campaign samples were collected on a nominal 400m x 400m grid across the tenement, analysis was completed using the Ultrafine + (UFF+) technique with chemical analysis for a suite of 62 elements including lithium and associated pathfinders for LCT mineralisation.

The objective of this first pass exploration phase is to assess the project for mineralisation hosted within fractionated pegmatitic intrusive bodies prospective for LCT, and to aid drill planning with increased confidence of potential sites of mineralisation. Analytical results from the UFF+ method employed by Lab West have revealed a 2km x 2km lithium soil anomaly at >60ppm, which shows a broadly northwest-southeast orientation. The lithium anomalism occurs within interpreted felsic volcanic lithologies.

Within this, a coherent zone of north south trending anomalism of >100ppm lithium is present, with three contiguous samples and a peak value of 112ppm lithium. Shallow to moderate cover is present over the majority of E63/2001 and for this reason the UFF+ analytical technique is applicable in an attempt to `see through' the transported regolith profile.