Kingsland Minerals (ASX:KNG) steps up lithium hunt at Lake Johnston
March 4, 2026Kingsland Minerals has launched a broad soil sampling campaign at its Lake Johnston Lithium Project in Western Australia, seeking to extend previously defined high grade lithium anomalies within a well recognised belt that hosts hard rock lithium and nickel mineralisation.
Highlights
- Major soil sampling program underway across most of the 890km² Lake Johnston project area
- Grid spacing of 200m east west by 1,000m north south
- About 3,000 samples to be collected and analysed for a suite of 65 elements
- Previous soil sampling delineated significant lithium anomalies
- Historic 2008 drilling intersected pegmatite dykes, with lithium not assayed at the time
- Results to inform future drilling programs targeting hard rock lithium sources
The program will cover most of the 890km² project footprint, applying a systematic 200m east west by 1,000m north south grid.
Approximately 3,000 samples will be collected from the sieved -80 mesh 0.18mm fraction between 5cm and 30cm below surface, with assays to be conducted by Labwest of Perth using the Ultrafine method and analysing a suite of 65 elements.
The work builds on earlier soil sampling that delineated significant lithium anomalies, which the company states suggest the potential for a hard rock source of lithium within the project area.
Historic drilling conducted in 2008, originally targeting nickel mineralisation, intersected pegmatite dykes, although lithium and associated elements were not assayed at that time.
That historical context provides geological support for the current campaign, particularly given the project’s interpreted position within the nearby Lake Johnston Greenstone Belt, a proven source of hard rock lithium and nickel mineralisation.
Managing Director Richard Maddocks said the company had formally commenced the expanded field effort, stating,
“Kingsland Minerals Ltd is pleased to announce the start of a major soil sampling program to extend the high-grade lithium anomalies at its Lake Johnston lithium project.”
Regional magnetics from the GSWA Geoview dataset indicate structural complexity across the tenure, with the company noting that magnetic highs within E63/2068 are related to mafic and ultramafic greenstone lithologies as identified from historic drilling.
In greenstone terrains, such lithologies can be significant in understanding structural architecture and the potential emplacement of pegmatites, which are commonly associated with hard rock lithium systems.
The immediate objective is not resource definition but vectoring, with Kingsland stating that the results of the soil program will be used to plan future drilling programs aimed at discovering hard rock sources of the lithium anomalism.
In practical terms, the program represents a relatively low cost method of refining targets across a large landholding before committing to drilling.
While Kingsland’s primary corporate focus remains the Leliyn Graphite Project in the Northern Territory, which hosts an Inferred Mineral Resource of 194.6mt @ 7.3% Total Graphitic Carbon containing 14.2mt of graphite, the Lake Johnston project adds lithium exposure within Western Australia’s established greenstone belts.
The company also holds the Cleo Uranium Deposit in the Northern Territory, with an Inferred Mineral Resource containing 5.2 million pounds of U₃O₈.
For now, Lake Johnston enters a data generation phase, with the scale of the sampling grid and the breadth of elemental analysis expected to provide a more comprehensive geochemical picture across the 890km² tenure.
The next material development will be the interpretation of assay results and, subject to those outcomes, the design of follow up drilling programs to test the hard rock lithium potential.
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