This past week, the US-based company released preliminary findings from two soil geochemical samplings carried out at two locations across the Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions, which showed lithium levels as high as 2.79 percent lithium oxide.
The results were “encouraging enough,” to warrant additional investigation, Titan Lithium Chairman Harp Sangha said. He was quoted as saying, “we are still in the early stages but now committed to start pursuing official drilling approval from the authorities. All of this can take time, so we can’t put a specific timeline on starting the right drilling.
The new discovery surpasses previous lithium discoveries in Tanzania only in Mohanga, an area in central Tanzania near Dodoma, where at least two Australian multinationals have stakes.
In Mohanga, a lithium deposit with a value of more than 1.5% lithium oxide was discovered by Liontown Resources in 2017. Cassius Mining Ltd.
About 200 square kilometers are occupied by the Titan 1 and Titan 2 project areas in the Mount Kilimanjaro area. Surface sampling has revealed high-value lithium over a wide area, according to Sangha, and they are still used to determine the limits of discovery throughout the entire area.
In addition, he claims that the area is developing into a “Repository for a vast volcanic ash collection area,” which will create a lithium-rich environment.
The larger Titan 1 prospect is compared to Titan Lithium’s main West End project in Nevada, USA, which the company claims is “one of the largest lithium resources in the world, both morphologically and depositionally.