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Mityana

The Mityana Project is located in Uganda, East Africa
Project area covers 242 km² of largely unexplored area that surrounds a historical tantalite mine.
Prospective for critical metals including beryllium, rubidium, lithium, tin and tantalite.

The Mityana Project covers a large, mostly unexplored area that surrounds a historical tantalite mine. Exposure from the historical opencast operations show a 5-10m thick pegmatite that has intruded a sequence of schists and sandstones. The pegmatite undulates along strike, splits in places and appears to thicken with depth.

The pegmatite is deeply weathered but boulders from the waste pile have shown relatively fresh samples of spodumene, amblygonite and lepidolite (lithium-bearing minerals). Local workers who were involved in the mining operation describe the tantalite as 1-3 mm diameter grains disseminated throughout the pegmatite.

No systematic exploration has been undertaken on the project and earlier rock chip samples were only analysed for lithium which was the focus of exploration activities at the time. Lithium oxide values of up to 8.13% Li₂O were assayed by Gecko Uganda from amblygonite boulders in waste dumps from historical tantalite mining activities.

Map showing the pegmatites exposed from the opencast operation in the excised license as well as
their predicted trends entering the Gecko license. Insert shows the mine in relation to the larger license area.