Overview
Premier1 Lithium (ASX:PLC) is an Australian firm centered on lithium exploration in Western Australia. The corporate was shaped following the restructuring of SensOre. SensOre demerged its non-core software program and AI know-how enterprise and the remaining firm was rebranded as Premier1 Lithium to concentrate on the lithium enterprise.
Premier1 employs synthetic intelligence and machine studying know-how to decide on its lithium prospects. By way of a data-driven method, the corporate can strategically allocate assets to prioritize essentially the most promising targets.
The corporate’s portfolio includes one wholly-owned undertaking and three different initiatives with three way partnership (JV) companions. The wholly owned Abbotts North undertaking is its flagship asset, with the Buttamiah Prospect as the first space of focus. The Buttamiah Prospect is characterised by lithium-bearing pegmatite occurrences and has returned assays as much as 1.25 % lithium oxide on the floor.
The opposite three JV initiatives are: 1) Yalgoo and Yalgoo West Challenge, with JV companions Enterprise Minerals and Firetail; 2) Montague Challenge, with JV companion Gateway Mining; and three) Gecko North Challenge, with JV companion LithGold.
Western Australia represents among the finest jurisdictions for lithium exploration. The state presents a steady funding setting supported by a clear regulatory system, entry to export markets, and minimal limitations to worldwide commerce. Archean cratons within the area are essentially the most potential and signify a number of the world’s largest lithium-bearing pegmatite deposits. The corporate’s Abbotts North Challenge is within the Archean cratons making it a sought-after lithium asset.
In line with the Workplace of the Chief Economist inside the Division of Trade, Science and Assets, Western Australia is projected to own round 10 % of the worldwide lithium hydroxide refining capability by 2024. That projection is predicted to additional enhance to over 20 % of the worldwide lithium refining capability by 2028.
Lithium as a mineral is in nice focus, given its software in batteries for electrical autos. It represents essentially the most in-demand metallic required for the power transition. The worldwide shift away from fossil fuels is ongoing, which ought to gas demand for lithium within the subsequent decade. In line with a report by the Worldwide Power Company, international battery and minerals provide chains should broaden by 10 instances to satisfy the demand in 2030. This could profit lithium which stays a key battery ingredient.
Projections by mining large Albemarle recommend that lithium demand will attain 3.7 million tons by 2030 pushed by favorable authorities insurance policies in lots of international locations aimed toward phasing out new inside combustion engine automobile gross sales. As the worldwide demand for lithium continues to broaden, Premier1’s exploration and growth initiatives are well-timed, offering buyers with a chance to take part within the swiftly rising lithium market.
Firm Highlights
- Premier1 Lithium is concentrated on lithium exploration in Western Australia, among the finest jurisdictions on this planet for onerous rock lithium.
- The corporate was shaped following the restructuring of SensOre Restricted. SensOre demerged its non-core software program and AI know-how enterprise, and the remaining firm was rebranded as Premier1 Lithium to concentrate on the lithium enterprise.
- The corporate holds a pipeline of promising lithium initiatives led by its wholly owned flagship undertaking, Abbotts North, and three three way partnership initiatives – Yalgoo and Yalgoo West, Montague and Gecko North.
- The corporate’s lithium prospects are chosen utilizing AI and machine studying. This data-driven method permits Premier1 to prioritize useful resource allocation towards essentially the most potential targets.
- Premier1 is on observe to begin a 2,000-meter RC drilling program at Abbotts North in February 2024. All of the environmental and heritage approvals required for the drilling program have been obtained.
- The main target of the drilling program is on the Buttamiah Prospect inside the Abbotts North Challenge, which is characterised by lithium-bearing pegmatite occurrences and has returned assays as much as 1.25 % lithium oxide on the floor.
- Along with Abbotts North, Premier1 has deliberate intensive exploration work at its JV initiatives. This consists of pegmatite mapping and sampling, in addition to soil and auger geochemistry to delineate drill targets at Montague and Yalgoo starting the second half of 2024.
- Premier1 Lithium presents buyers a horny strategy to profit from the rising demand for lithium.
Key Initiatives
Abbotts North Challenge
Abbotts North is the corporate’s One hundred pc-owned flagship lithium undertaking. This undertaking is located within the Abbotts Greenstone Belt area, which has not been beforehand explored for lithium. The Buttamiah prospect, the important thing goal space inside the Abbotts North, has proven confirmed pegmatite occurrences that yield as much as 1.25 % lithium oxide on the floor.
A number of parallel lithium-bearing pegmatites have been mapped and sampled on the Buttamiah Prospect. The person pegmatites exhibit a mean width starting from 2 meters to three meters and will be adopted alongside a strike size of as much as 350 meters. The primary Buttamiah Prospect extends over a complete space of 1.5 kilometers.
Premier1 is on observe to begin a 2,000-metre RC drilling program in February 2024, designed to check the depth and extent of the mineralized pegmatite discipline on the Buttamiah Prospect. All of the environmental and heritage approvals required for the drilling program have been obtained.
A number of extra precedence targets have been recognized on the Abbotts North Challenge following the completion of the preliminary part of discipline mapping, rock chip sampling and soil geochemistry in December 2023. The soil survey outcomes unveiled areas of curiosity with a geochemical construction much like these noticed over the first Buttamiah Prospect. Subsequent fieldwork will likely be undertaken to guage these newly recognized precedence targets and plan for extra heritage clearance surveys.
Yalgoo and Yalgoo West Challenge
Yalgoo and Yalgoo West are key initiatives within the firm’s lithium portfolio. AI and machine studying had been used to establish these initiatives as having important potential for lithium. These property are a part of the Greenstone Belt area, which is underexplored. The greenstone belt is characterised by a number of phases of granitic intrusions, together with recognized LCT pegmatites.
Premier1 can earn as much as 70 % of the lithium rights for the Yalgoo undertaking from Enterprise Minerals and 80 % of mineral rights (besides uncommon earth components) from Firetail Assets for the Yalgoo West undertaking.
The land entry approvals are in place and the corporate is planning intensive fieldwork, together with pegmatite sampling, soil and auger geochemistry, to establish targets for preliminary drilling starting H2 2024.
Montague Challenge
Montague undertaking, positioned inside the Greenstone Belt, is a three way partnership between Premier1 and Gateway Mining. Premier1 can earn as much as 80 % curiosity within the JV by assembly sure expenditure standards. Premier1 has chosen tenements inside the Montague undertaking for lithium, utilizing AI and machine studying.
The undertaking includes historic mining leases and is located in proximity to geological formations that point out the presence of lithium-bearing pegmatites.
Land entry approvals are in place for the undertaking and the following steps embody pegmatite mapping and sampling, and soil geochemistry, which will likely be adopted by drilling in H2 2024.
Gecko North Challenge
Gecko North undertaking is a three way partnership between Premier1 and LithGold Minerals. The corporate used AI and machine studying to generate lithium targets at Gecko North. Premier1 can earn as much as 80 % curiosity on this JV undertaking. This consists of incomes 51 % curiosity by spending $2.5 million over 4 years, and a further 29 % curiosity by finishing a bankable feasibility examine.
Land entry approvals for this undertaking are in place and the following steps embody extending soil geochemistry and shallow drilling to check soil anomaly in H1 of 2024.
Administration Workforce
Richard Taylor – Govt Director and CEO
Richard Taylor is a professional lawyer and holds an MBA from Cambridge College and a grasp’s diploma in regulation from ANU. He has greater than 15 years of expertise and has held a number of senior management roles within the useful resource sector. Beforehand, he has labored with Terramin Australia, Mineral Deposits, PanAust, MMG, and Oxiana. His expertise spans varied domains together with technique, enterprise growth and governance.
Jason Froud – Managing Director
Jason Froud is a geologist with over 25 years of expertise within the assets sector working for main mining firms together with Newcrest and WMC in addition to international consultancies with expertise throughout the mining cycle and quite a few commodities. He was lately accountable for enterprise growth at Liontown Assets together with the technology of recent lithium and battery metals initiatives of Tier 1 potential together with the execution of varied farms-ins and joint ventures throughout Australia. Together with his big selection of expertise together with business and stakeholder engagement, Jason is ideally suited to drive PLC’s progress and success into the longer term.
Anja Ehser – Non-Govt Director
Anja Ehser is a geologist with over 15 years of expertise within the mineral exploration sector in Europe, and Canada, specializing in base, treasured and battery metals. She has held a number of senior management roles inside the Deutsche Rohstoff Group and its subsidiaries.
Nicholas Limb – Non-Govt Chairman
Nicholas Limb is knowledgeable geoscientist. He has held senior-level positions in varied ASX-listed firms within the gold, mineral sands, and oil and gasoline sectors. He has wealthy expertise in a number of domains together with finance, danger and governance.
This text was written in collaboration with Couloir Capital.
