Trident Lithium Project

The Trident Lithium Project (EL 8736), covering an area of 260km², is located approximately 50km north of Broken Hill in New South Wales.

The Project extends across the historic Euriowie Pegmatite Tin Field, where tin was mined from the 1880s to the 1930s. Lithium was first recognised at Lady Don in 1919 and was subsequently mined as amblygonite at Trident from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Extending over 20 kilometres of strike, numerous pegmatite outcrops are mapped that are intruded into Paragon Group schists that comprise the upper sequence of the Broken Hill metamorphic stratigraphy. Individual pegmatites can be mapped for several kilometres with substantial widths over several hundred metres, displaying classic LCT-type zonation and mineralogy.

Over 250 mineral occurrences are known to exist in the Euriowie Pegmatite Field. Although historical work has been limited, records confirm that the pegmatites are highly anomalous in Li-Cs-Ta-Sn-Rb. The only known historic drilling was undertaken in 2010 by Carpentaria at Mount Euriowie, which undertook a tin scoping study.