The project continues as expected with the usual growing pains for an expanding miner. Our joint venture and operating partner for the project, MarMar Holdings, has made consistent and steady progress at the mine site. To date, MarMar has constructed two holding ponds, a heap leach pad, performed an initial blast of a quartz vein, started a cyanide drip system on the heap leach pad, and started the Merrill Crowe recovery system. In addition, they also performed a test smelt and produced a small amount of dore using precipitate from the Merrill Crowe plant. These accomplishments are significant and show a determination to bring this project into full production.

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Jim Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Arian commented, “I am pleased to report on these positive initial results, which confirm the presence of lithium. We now look ahead to advancing further exploration of these assets with deeper sampling techniques, geophysical methods and detailed mineralogical test work to assess the full extent of mineralisation.

Lithium Australia Managing Director, Adrian Griffin, said: “The ability of Sileach to cope with high levels of contamination in the spodumene concentrate, and still produce a high-purity Lithium Carbonate, is a great achievement. The ability to produce by-products that are not available with conventional processing of spodumene shows great potential.”

N. Eric Fier, CPG, P.Eng, President & CEO remarked, “The discovery of a sub-parallel unmined high grade vein adjacent to the Las Chispas historic underground workings is exciting, as we systematically drill several veins on the Property for mineralization expansion and future resource estimation. The Giovanni Vein appears to be continuous over a strike length of 400 to 500 metres, 150 to 200 metres in height, and has an average drilled true thickness of 2.0 metres. The new vein is easily accessible via the historic Las Chispas main haulage level (600 level). Closely spaced underground drilling is currently being set up to further test the Main and Giovanni veins. As we drill our known targets, we expect to continue to intercept other “Unnamed” high grade veins.”