Tabba Tabba Lithium-Tantalum Project
Pilbara WA
Project overview
Tabba Tabba Lithium-Tantalum Project is an advanced lithium and tantalum exploration project located on granted Mining Leases just 80km by road from Port Hedland, Western Australia. It is nearby some of the world’s largest hard-rock lithium mines (47km by road from Pilbara Minerals’ 414Mt Pilgangoora Project and 87km by road from Mineral Resources’ 259Mt Wodgina Project).
The Tabba Tabba project was one of four significant LCT pegmatite projects in WA, previously owned by Sons of Gwalia. The others were Greenbushes, Pilgangoora and Wodgina which are now Tier-1 hard-rock lithium mines. Tabba Tabba is the last of these assets to be explored for lithium mineralisation.
Wildcat completed its acquisition of Tabba Tabba in October 2023. Nearly 40 outcropping pegmatite bodies had been mapped on the mining leases but only the body hosting the Tabba Tabba tantalum deposit had been drilled and most samples not assayed for lithium, representing exploration upside in an emerging lithium region.
Wildcat commenced aggressive exploration and drilling, and defined a 3.2km long LCT (lithium-caesium-tantalum) pegmatite field hosting at least seven significant pegmatite bodies (Leia, Luke, Boba, Chewy, Tabba Tabba, Han and Hutt).
Leia has returned intercepts including:
- 180m @ 1.1% Li₂O from 206m (TARC148) (est. true width)
- 119.2m @ 1% Li₂O from 334.3m (TADD010) (est. true width)
- 99.0m @ 1.2% Li₂O from 207.0m (TARC234D) (est. true width)
- 85m at 1.5% Li₂O from 133m (TARC128) (est. true width)
- 85m at 1.3% Li₂O from 167m (TARC144) (est. true width).
Luke, a blind discovery sitting underneath Leia, has returned:
- 54.4m @ 1.2% Li₂O from 267.9m (TADD030) (est. true width)
– and 20.5m @ 1.5% Li₂O from 297.5m
– and 25.0m @ 1.2% Li₂O from 363.9m - 43.0m @ 1.4% Li₂O from 316m (TARC348D) (est. true width)
– including 23.0m @ 1.7% Li₂O from 317.0m
– and 6m @ 2.2% Li₂O from 415.0m.
Wildcat’s discovery of Luke confirms this world-class system has more to offer. Our industry leading geological team continues to develop target ideas and concepts which gives rise to a higher probability of future discoveries. Drilling at Leia, Luke and other pegmatites (Hutt, Han and Chewy) continues.
