An emerging lithium district in Côte d’Ivoire
485 km²
Adzopé and Agboville licenses
2,000 m
RC drill program underway
8.0 m @ 1.10% Li₂O
Trench 1 intercept (Saby Trend)
Up to 1.98% Li₂O
Kanien Trend rock samples1
The Adzopé Project is a district-scale hard rock lithium exploration project covering approximately an 485 km² license in southern Côte d’Ivoire, roughly 100 km from the Port of Abidjan and accessible by paved road. Adzopé is held within the 50/50 Ganfeng JV and brings together the Adzopé and Agboville licenses as a single, integrated opportunity, home to two primary spodumene pegmatite trends. The Company has also applied for the adjacent Sikensi license (approximately 368 km²), which, if granted, would further extend Adzopé.2
The Saby Trend, on the Adzopé license, is a multi-kilometer corridor of spodumene-bearing LCT pegmatites identified in-house by Lithium Africa’s Côte d’Ivoire team through auger drilling, trenching, surface mapping, and pegmatite fractionation studies, where trenching returned 8.0 m at 1.10% Li₂O and a 2,000 m RC drill program is ongoing. The Kanien Trend, on the Agboville license, is a spodumene-bearing pegmatite trend approximately 2.8 km long, where 19 rock samples returned up to 1.98% Li₂O, with 14 of 19 above 1.0% Li₂O. Regional mapping, geochronology and granite geochemistry studies are ongoing across the District to identify fertile intrusions and prioritize the next targets for trenching and drilling.
114 of 19 spodumene-bearing pegmatite rock samples from the Kanien Trend, on the Agboville license, graded above 1.0% Li₂O. Rock samples are selective by nature and are not necessarily representative of the mineralization hosted on the property.
2Currently, the District comprises the granted Adzopé (85.32 km2) and Agboville (399.27 km2) research permits. There is no assurance that the Sikensi permit (367.79 km2) will be granted.
Adzopé (85.32 km²), Agboville (399.27 km²) and Sikensi (367.79 km², application in progress), near Abidjan. - 485 km² granted licenses (Adzopé and Agboville) held within the 50/50 Ganfeng JV and explored as a single, integrated district; adjacent Sikensi license (approximately 368km2) under application.1
- Two primary spodumene pegmatite trends now defined: the Saby Trend at Adzopé and the Kanien Trend at Agboville.
- 80-meter Trench 1 contains multiple spodumene-bearing pegmatite bodies, and includes 8.0 m at 1.10% Li₂O, with a peak value of 1.74% Li₂O in weathered saprolite.
- Saby Trend defined in-house via auger drilling, trenching, mapping and pegmatite fractionation studies.
- 2,000 m reverse-circulation drill program is ongoing; results targeted Q4 2026.
- Current drill program tests one segment of the Saby trend — wider discovery potential remains along the corridor and across the district.
- Kanien Trend: 19 spodumene-bearing pegmatite rock samples over approximately 2.8 km returned up to 1.98% Li₂O, with 14 of 19 above 1.0% Li₂O.²
- District-scale targeting underway: regional mapping, geochronology and granite geochemistry to identify fertile intrusions and prioritize the next trenching and drill targets.
The Adzopé District lies within the basement of the West African Craton. The Company considers Adzopé and Agboville a single emerging lithium district on the basis of the shared muscovite-bearing granites interpreted as parental to the pegmatites and the two primary spodumene pegmatite trends now defined, the Saby Trend at Adzopé and the Kanien Trend at Agboville.
The Saby Trend is a multi-kilometer corridor of lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites, with spodumene occurring in multiple observed pegmatite bodies in weathered saprolite. Auger geochemistry maps a coherent lithium-in-soil halo along the trend, and pegmatite fractionation indicators support spodumene-grade potential along strike and at depth. Surface trenching has returned encouraging spodumene grades, with spodumene-bearing pegmatite bodies observed in the 80-meter Trench 1, including 8.0 m at 1.10% Li₂O with a peak of 1.74% Li₂O. A 2,000 m reverse-circulation drill program is testing the highest-ranked segment of the trend, with assay results targeted for Q4 2026; the wider trend remains open.
Trench 1 (80 m) lithological section — pegmatite veins within saprolite and granite; includes 8.0 m at 1.10% Li₂O. Exploration result, not a Mineral Resource Estimate. At Agboville, regional mapping has identified a lithium-bearing pegmatite structure that defines the Kanien Trend, a corridor approximately 2.8km long. Nineteen rock samples collected along the trend returned up to 1.98% Li₂O with 14 of 19 above 1.0% Li₂O. The Kanien Trend also sits along strike from spodumene pegmatite samples of up to 1.36% Li₂O reported by neighbouring Atlantic Lithium on its Rubino license, roughly 3 km to the northeast. Together, the two ocurences point to a corridor of spodumene pegmatite mineralization spanning approximately 7km across the license boundary.
