A district-scale hard rock lithium project built around the past-producing Norrabees pegmatite mine
1,675 km²
District-scale land package
50+km
Pegmatite field
40
Known spodumene-bearing pegmatites
30,000 t
Existing stockpile for monetization
The Springbok Project is a district-scale hard rock lithium project in the Northern Cape of South Africa — roughly 80 km north of the town of Springbok and directly south of the Orange River, near the Namibian border. It is anchored by the past-producing Norrabees lithium pegmatite mine, an associated stockpile, and a 1,675 km² land package that opens up significant regional exploration potential.
Springbok is the anchor of Lithium Africa’s capital-light model. It pairs near-term, non-dilutive funding optionality — a permitted starter resource and an existing 30,000-tonne stockpile now in a sale process — with district-scale discovery upside across a 50+ km pegmatite field. An ongoing 3,500 m DD and RC program aims to define a new mineral resource at Norrabees and highlight other key pegmatites for regional scalability.
Northern Cape, South Africa — about 80 km north of Springbok town and south of the Orange River near the Namibian border. The single, continuous land package has established road access, water, and power, and connects to South Africa’s west-coast logistics corridor and the Saldanha Bay deep-water port.
Springbok Project (1,675 km²), Northern Cape — road-connected to the west-coast corridor and Saldanha Bay deep-water port. - Past-producing Norrabees spodumene mine on a permitted mining right.
- 1,675 km² district-scale land package with more than 40 known spodumene-bearing pegmatites over a distance of 50 km — with more exploration upside.
- Existing 30,000-tonne stockpile at 1.61 wt% Li₂O is in a sale process; firm offer targeted Q3 2026 — a path to non-dilutive funding.
- Historical 2024 inferred estimate of 71,679 t at 1.27% Li₂O across stockpile and in-situ material.1
- 3,500 m ongoing DD and RC program to support a new resource model at Norrabees; initial MRE targeted Q4 2026.
- Regional mapping and structural work underway to generate new drill targets.
Springbok sits within the Orange River / Namaqualand pegmatite belt — a swarm of lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites extending more than 50 km across the project. Forty spodumene-bearing pegmatites are already known (~30 of which were discovered recently by Lithium Africa), yet only two have ever been drill-tested, leaving the great majority of the district untested. Spodumene is hosted in coarse-grained pegmatites with mapped widths typically in the ~5–15 m range; the past-producing Norrabees pegmatite and its stockpile confirm economic-grade spodumene on the property.
In scale and single-owner consolidation, Lithium Africa likens the district to Brazil’s “Lithium Valley,” where more than 250 Mt of resources and over US$2 billion of market value are spread across five separate companies — at Springbok, the equivalent district is held under one license.
District-scale comparison: Brazil’s “Lithium Valley” (multiple owners) vs. the Springbok district held under one license.
1 Historical 2024 inferred estimate per a NI 43-101 technical report for Moonbound Mining Ltd. (now Cape Lithium Corp.) by Dr. Johan Hattingh of Creo Design (Pty) Ltd., dated 17 January 2024. The estimate is historical and inferred; a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify it as current. Stockpile tonnage is indicative from the previous operator and subject to an assay program in progress.
