Woomera Mining Limited provided an update on exploration activities underway at its Lake Dundas Lithium Project in the Southern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. The Lake Dundas Lithium Project drilling program, part of the Company's phased, methodical and cost effective approach to assessing its WA lithium project, has been completed. An initial 27 aircore holes for 673 metres were completed.

As Woomera has stated previously, Lake Dundas is believed to be enriched in lithium minerals based on historical shallow auger soil sampling results of up to 54ppm Li and comparative enrichments in lithium-bearing salt lakes around the world. Adding to the project's prospectivity is its the proximity to the Bald Hill lithium deposit and the Mt Dean lithium occurrences south of the Norseman township. The Company considers there is potential for Lake Dundas to act as a trap site and concentrate lithium minerals within the flat-lying lacustrine lake sediments.

Woomera originally designed a drilling program comprising of 94 aircore holes for approximately 5,000 metres to assess the brine and evaluate potential bedrock lithium sources and/or anomalism. As the program advanced, the exploration team found that obtaining representative water samples was relatively straightforward and the volume of water encountered was adequate to initially assess without having to complete the entire program. Furthermore, the drilling was originally designed with 50-metre spacing between holes.

As the program advanced, only every second planned hole was drilled so the spacing between each hole was 100 metres. The rationale for scaling back the program was firstly, it was apparent the Company was able to collect adequate water samples to assess the brine potential with wider spaced drilling. Mapping of bedrock lithologies across the drilling area has also been completed, with lithologies encountered being intermediate volcanics and possible meta-mafics within larger, regional felsic intrusives.

Ultimately, the decision was taken to amend the program to ensure that unnecessary activity wasn't undertaken and to allow for results to dictate the path forward.