Mitaba Hills Project

The Mitaba Project occupies a total strike length of 11 kilometres, within which occur two main complexes of successive ultramafic units 3.3 kilometres apart.

At Mitaba Hill, the easternmost Prospect, detailed mapping and trenching of the area has demonstrated the presence of ultramafic units over 2,000m in strike length and up to 300m in width.

The Mitaba West Prospect has not been mapped or trenched at comparable detail but two ultramafic units are exposed in an area of 2,400 metres length and maximum 360 metres width.

Sampling results from 25 trenches at Mitaba Hill and 11 at Mitaba West, reveal numerous wide intervals in only mildly weathered ultramafic lithology including: 88.4 metres assaying 1.23% Ni (nickel) and 53.3 metres assaying 1.77% Ni at Mitaba Hill; and 52.4 metres assaying 0.71% Ni, and 50.3 metres assaying 0.76% Ni at Mitaba West.

A 50kg bulk saprolite sample having a calculated head assay of 0.95% nickel and 266ppm Cobalt was collected from trenching within the central portion of the Mitaba Hills project and submitted to AMMTEC laboratories of Perth, Western Australia for bottle roll leach test work and size assay analysis.

Test results showed 90% recovery of nickel and 63% recovery of cobalt after just four days resident leach time, indicating the potential for rapid recovery of metals. Peak recoveries of 96% nickel and 84% cobalt appear to occur after 35 day’s resident leach time.

Lithic intends to follow up this result with additional and more detailed test work on samples derived from a wider area, in conjunction with field activities designed to define a nickel resource.