Zulu Lithium Project - Drilling Update

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Premier African Minerals Limited

20 September 2016

 

Premier African Minerals Limited / Ticker: PREM / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining

Premier African Minerals Limited

("Premier" or the "Company")

Zulu Lithium Project - Drilling Update

Premier African Minerals Limited (AIM: PREM), the London listed mining and exploration company, is pleased to provide a positive early update on its 2,500-meter drilling programme at the Company's Zulu Lithium Project near Fort Rixon in Zimbabwe ("Zulu").

Premier is drilling a series of 20 diamond drill holes designed to test for strike and depth extensions at the Zulu Lithium Project, which currently has a strike length of 3.5km. In addition, the drilling programme is designed to establish a maiden resource.

Highlights

·   The first diamond core hole (ZDD-14) drilled at Zulu has already intersected 9,5 metres of visual spodumene petalite lithium mineralisation, from a down hole depth of 10.5 metres.

·     The hole is located 200 metres from the surface bulk sample area that previously reported grades of 1.55% Li₂0.

George Roach, Premier's CEO, commented: 

"Intersection of visible hard rock lithium mineralisation from this first borehole at the predicted downhole location described in our exploration model is most encouraging. Core will be transported to our in-house sample preparation facilities for logging, splitting and sample preparation and then sent to SGS South Africa for multi-element analysis. This borehole is located within the southern section of the ore body and forms part of the code compliant resource that Premier intends to establish at Zulu. Drilling is performed at an angle of 45 degrees and is intended to validate the presence of several multi-meter wide mineralised pegmatites down to a vertical depth of 75 meters. This is a positive early validation of our geological modelling and I look forward to reporting the lithium assays as soon as they become available."

Qualified Person

Wolfgang Hampel, Exploration Manager of Premier African Minerals Limited has reviewed and approved this release to the extent that reference is made to the Zulu tenements. Mr Hampel has 25 years' experience in the African, American, European and Asian exploration and mining industry and holds a Diploma in Economic Geology (Dipl.-Geol.) from the Technical University of Munich. He is a registered European Geologist (EurGeol), n° 1261, with the European Federation of Geologists.

Forward Looking Statements

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This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

Enquiries

Fuad Sillem	Premier African Minerals Limited	Tel: [phone]
Michael Cornish / Roland Cornish	Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nominated Adviser)	Tel: [phone]
Jerry Keen/Edward Mansfield	Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited	Tel: [phone]
Charles Goodwin/Aidan Stanley /Dominic Barretto	Yellow Jersey PR Limited	Tel: [phone]

Notes

Premier African Minerals Limited (AIM: PREM) is a multi-commodity mining and natural resource development company focused in Southern and Western Africa with production started at its flagship RHA project in Zimbabwe.

The Company has a diverse portfolio of projects, which includes tungsten, rare earth elements, gold, lithium and tantalum in Zimbabwe and Benin, encompassing brownfield projects with near-term production potential to grass-roots exploration. The Company also holds 2 million shares in Circum Minerals Limited ("Circum"), the owners of the Danakil Potash Project in Ethiopia, which has the potential to be a world class asset. At present those shares are valued at US$4 million based on the latest price at which Circum has accepted subscriptions.

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Technical Glossary

 "Li₂O" means Lithium oxide

 "pegmatite" is an exceptionally coarse-grained igneous rock, with interlocking crystals, usually found as irregular dikes, lenses, or veins, esp. at the margins of granitic intrusions.

"petalite" is the mineral name for lithium aluminium silicate LiAl(Si₄O₁₀), an important ore of lithium.

 "spodumene" is the mineral name for lithium aluminium silicate LiAlSi₂O_6, an important ore of lithium.
 

 

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