Bradda Head gets drilling permits, exploration plan acceptance
By Josh White
Date: Tuesday 08 Apr 2025
(Sharecast News) - Bradda Head Lithium announced on Tuesday that it has received drilling permit approvals for its San Domingo pegmatite targets, and had its amended exploration plan accepted at the Basin West lithium-in-clay project, both located on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Arizona.
The AIM-traded firm said the BLM has approved bonding for the notice of intent (NOI) at the Dragon target, allowing Bradda to construct 37 drill pads across its North and South zones.
A separate NOI has also been approved for the San Domingo North area, covering 35 pads across the Ruby Soho, Midnight Owl, and Lone Giant targets.
In addition to the federal permits, Bradda said it had acquired a new 160-acre mineral lease on Arizona state lands at San Domingo, further expanding its footprint in the area.
At Basin West, the BLM has accepted the company's amended exploration plan of operation (EPO), enabling Bradda to proceed with drill pad construction and new access routes.
The approvals represented a significant step forward for Bradda's development plans in Arizona, as the company continued to advance its strategy to supply lithium for the domestic US market.
"Bradda Head is now in a position to move quickly as our permits at San Domingo have been fully approved for drilling, with a cost-effective strategy to progress the shallow, undrilled targets that could lead us to resource development," said executive chair Ian Stalker.
"We have already identified multiple highly prospective targets, including Dragon where we observe a dominance of very large spodumene crystals and up to 600 metres of outcropping pegmatites with visible mineralisation.
"At Ruby Soho, we have seen over 250 meters of strike length and continuous lithium mineralization."
Stalker said that, having looked in detail at Midnight Owl, the company believed a sub-horizontal lithium-rich pegmatite went largely untested by prior drilling.
"We now have the ability to quickly drill-test the concept with reverse circulation drill holes for quicker and cheaper results.
"This, and follow-up to the 8.40m of 1.17% lithium oxide in channel samples, indicate there are clear targets we can easily access and drill-test in the next phase of drilling.
"At Basin West, we are entering a new phase of exploration with the pursuit of the environmental assessment (EA) and examining further exploration potential at the Basin Project."
Obtaining the EAs would allow the firm the opportunity to build on the expansion of the resource to 2.81MT of LCE identified last year, Ian Stalker said, on which the firm and the BLM remained "highly encouraged".
"This is a fantastic development that edges us towards our objective of a potential production decision. We look forward to providing updates on progress in due course."
At 1143 BST, shares in Bradda Head Lithium were up 2.93% at 1.06p.
Reporting by Josh White for Sharecast.com.
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