Kairos Minerals Ltd. reported the first 572 results of a 6,000 sample deep soil sampling at its 100%-owned Roe Hills Project. Roe Hills is 100km east of Kalgoorlie, WA and is nestled within a new spodumene-bearing pegmatite province hosting the Manna Li-Ta project. The programme has already uncovered two 400m long lithium anomalies which collectively have been labelled the Crystal Palace Prospect. This prospect sits in the northeast corner of the Roe Hills tenements 5km along-strike to the SW of Global Lithium's 32.7 Mt @ 1.0% Li2O Manna lithium-tantalum deposit. The Crystal Palace prospect is coincident with mapped, multiple pegmatites that strike northeast or
northwest. The mapped pegmatites are 2m to 10m+ wide, are extremely coarse-grained and contain green feldspars (amazonite-microcline), quartz, white mica, biotite and white feldspars. At this stage it is unknown if lithium minerals occur within these pegmatites but rock samples have been submitted for chemical analysis. Further exploration, especially drilling, will determine the source of the surface lithium. Deep soil samples are collected using a Kanga post-hole configuration with samples collected from a nominal 1m depth. The sampling procedure is very low-impact and ensures no contamination from surface effects and increases the possibility of collecting a quality geochemical sample that is more likely to avoid highly-transported surface alluvium. Samples are sieved to -80 mesh and sent
to Intertek for 4-acid digest and low-level multi-element and gold analysis by ICP-MS (4A-MS48). Previous soil sample results over parts of the northern Roe Hills tenement package announced to the ASX on 9 November 2022 were surface soil samples that could have potentially included highly transported alluvium. These anomalies that will be followed-up by current deeper soil sampling that will determine whether the anomalies reflected buried in-situ mineralisation or highly transported anomalies. Many additional granitic bodies occur within the planned deep soil programme area targeting lithium occurrences that are so often found on the margins of granites, but also targeting gold and base metals that are known to be scattered throughout the large tenement area. Crystal Palace has also yielded a gold anomaly across two lines of sampling that are 300m apart (actual anomaly is 360m long). The anomaly in the northeast corner of the licence, defined by 73 and 143 ppb Au, will be infilled and reviewed as a significant drill target once the deep soil programme has been completed in first quarter of 2023. Drill-ready gold and nickel-cobalt mineralisation targets exist all along the Roe Hills tenements and a review of the current database is underway to target the highest priority targets.