Si6 Metals has identified a 3km-long pegmatite corridor at its Padre Paraiso project in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Credit: File Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) says it has discovered a 3km-by-800m pegmatite corridor at its Padre Paraiso project in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil, with assays returning anomalous lithium from auger drilling and rock chip samples. The project sits 20km from Sigma Lithium’s renowned Grota do Cirilo operation that produces 270,000 tonnes per a

Si6 Metals has increased its tenement area in the Limpopo Mobile Belt in Botswana by 45 per cent to a total of 2868 square kilometres after

Si6 Metals has expanded its rare earths exploration footprint in Brazil. Credit: File. Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) has expanded its Brazilian footprint, snatching 300 square kilometres of new ground prospective for rare earths in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. The newly-acquired turf, dubbed the Pimenta project, sits in the north-east of the State and has thrown up some head-turning radiometric anomalies over 26km of untested strike. It adds further ground to the Brazilian jo

Si6 Metals is on the hunt for rare earths in Brazil to supply to the world’s expanding clean energy markets. Credit: File Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) has nailed high-grade hits of up to 5475 parts per million total rare earth oxides (TREO) from surface, including magnet rare earth oxides (MREO) up to 36 per cent, at its Caldera joint venture (JV) project in the notable mining region of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The company has today reported that its seven-hole auger drilling program

Si6 Metals will take on 70 per cent of future Brazilian acquisitions in its JV with Foxfire Metals. Credit: File. Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) will assume a more commanding role in its Brazilian critical minerals joint venture (JV) with Foxfire Metals after lifting its stake in the partnership to a 70 per cent interest in any future licences – up from its 50 per cent share in the existing 10 licences. The amendment signifies Si6’s commitment to its already massive Brazilian ground-h

Si6 Metals will drill for lithium and rare earths – both critical to the clean energy transition. Credit: File Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) has detailed plans to kick off its third drilling program in Brazil’s renowned “Lithium Valley”, with 20 auger holes to be plunged as the company homes in on lithium and rare earths soil anomalies thrown up by previous programs. The drilling effort has been designed to follow up on a 103 parts per million lithium hit in the north-east of the Pa

Si6 Metals saprolite clay-rich samples from its Caldera project in Brazil. Credit: File Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) has secured a second license at its joint-venture (JV) Caldera rare-earths project in the mining region of Minas Gerais in Brazil and will charge a drill-rig into the area to kick-off its latest program. The company has secured a further 54 sq km plot of highly prospective land to push ahead with its search for high-grade rare-earths at its JV project located within t

Si6 Metals has unearthed a clay hosted rare earths find in Brazil Credit: File Si6 Metals (ASX: SI6) has unveiled clay-hosted rare earths hits from surface sampling at its joint-venture (JV) Caldera project in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil, in addition to discovering further nickel-copper-cobalt at the company’s Maibele North deposit, part of its base and precious metals play in Botswana. The company will now kick-off an auger drill campaign at its 50 per cent owned JV

The Si6 Metals-Foxfire Metals joint venture is hunting rare earths in Brazil. Credit: File. Si6 Metals says it has mapped and sampled clay-rich saprolite outcrops prospective for ionic-adsorption clay rare earths up to 12m thick at its Caldera joint venture (JV) project it shares with Foxfire Metals in Brazil. The company this morning confirmed that assays are now pending after the JV sent 16 soil, channel and auger samples to the SGS Geosol laboratory in the Brazilian State

The Si6 Metals-Foxfire Resources joint venture has about to begin its search for rare earths and lithium in Brazil. Credit: File. Si6 Metals and Foxfire Metals are poised to launch their joint venture (JV) search for rare earths and lithium at their Caldera project in Brazil that sits near Meteoric Resources’ colossus Caldeira play boasting 409 million tonnes at 2626 parts per million total rare earth oxides (TREO). The JV, which is managed on the ground in Brazil by Firefox,

Si6 Metals is escalating its exploration hunt in Brazil. Credit: File. Si6 Metals has confirmed it is now the co-owner of 10 prime Brazilian exploration licenses covering a massive 17,000 hectares prospective for lithium, rare earths, gold, base metals and platinum group elements. The company today revealed it had completed a deal with Foxfire Metals to pick up a 50 per cent share in that company’s portfolio of exploration licences in Brazil. As part of the agreement, Foxfire

Si6 Metals has added 17,000 hectares of tenements in Brazil to its portfolio. Credit: File Si6 Metals has received the green light from shareholders to acquire a 50 per cent share in four Brazilian projects covering 10 exploration licenses and form a joint venture (JV) with seller Foxfire Metals. The company has agreed to the final terms for the purchase, which sees it pick up the half share in tenements covering 17,000 hectares across three Brazilian States prospective for l

Si6 Metals has struck more impressive results at Maibele North in Botswana. Credit: File Si6 Metals has added further impetus to its highly-prospective Botswana precious and base metals play, with its latest drill program striking high-grade silver and copper and exciting visual nickel sulphides. The company’s three projects in the southern African country provide a compelling mix of in-demand metals that are all expected to play a big role in the future clean-energy transiti

Nickel and copper sulphides in core from Si6 Metals’ Maibele North prospect in Botswana. Credit: File. Si6 Metals’ wait for new assays from drilling at its Maibele North prospect in Botswana has stepped up a notch in intensity after core and rock chips revealed strong visual copper and nickel sulphide mineralisation. The company says it saw significant pentlandite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite sulphide concentrations – which are indicators of nickel-copper-platinum group eleme

Core from Si6 Metals’ Dibete prospect in Botswana. Credit: File. Si6 Metals’ latest batch of drill assays from its Dibete project in Botswana show a hole with a bumper copper grade of 13 per cent, paired with 168 grams per tonne silver in a 1m section from 29m. The eye-catching, high-grade chunk was within a 6.15m-thick section grading 7.2 per cent copper and 182g/t silver from 24.85m, which also included a 0.5m lens at 10.8 per cent copper and 281g/t silver. The high-grade d

Copper colour at Si6 Metals’ Dibete play in Botswana. Credit: File Si6 Metals has jagged shallow, high-grade supergene and primary copper-silver drill intersections at its Dibete project in east Botswana, including 2m at a whopping 4.2 per cent copper and 268 grams per tonne silver. The hit is part of a wider 9m interval from 45m downhole grading 1.54 per cent copper and 82g/t silver from the first two reverse-circulation (RC) drillholes of an initial – and now completed – ni

Si6 Metals has kicked off a combined reverse-circulation (RC) and diamond drill campaign at its Airstrip copper-silver project – one of...

Malachite from trench sample at SI6 Metals’ Dibete project in Botswana. Credit: File Si6 Metals is banging ahead with the drill at its Dibete copper-silver project in Botswana, having revealed that five out of 15 reverse-circulation (RC) holes are glittering with the visual copper-sulfidic minerals chalcopyrite and chalcocite in rock-chip samples. A diamond drilling rig has now arrived onsite to drill the tails of RC holes to test geophysical anomalies at depth and the compan

Drilling has begun at SI6 Metals’ Dibete project in Botswana. Credit: File ASX-listed Si6 Metals has launched a new drill program at its flagship Dibete copper-silver project in Botswana, with a 15-hole campaign set to explore untested anomalies within the site’s known oxidised zones. The company says Dibete is the first of three projects to be tested in the next four months, with its Airstrip and Malbele North sites set to be next on its exploration calendar. Previous drilli

Mineralisation at Si6 Metals’ Dibete prospect. Credit: File Si6 Metals has unveiled plans to kick off a 10,000m drilling program next month at three prospects within its flagship Maibele nickel sulphide deposit in Botswana, with a mineral resource upgrade looming. Management says geophysical surveys suggest mineralisation at its Maibele North prospect may extend along strike and at depth, allowing its 2015 inferred resource estimate of 2.38 million tonnes at 0.72 per cent nic