Alpha Lithium Adds Second Rig and Accelerates Drilling Program at Tolillar Lithium Project in Argentina
January 26 2021 - 9:00AM
Alpha Lithium Corporation (TSX.V: ALLI) (OTC: ALLIF)
(Frankfurt: 2P62) (“
Alpha” or the
“
Company”), sole owner of one of the last large,
undeveloped salars in Argentina’s Lithium Triangle, is pleased to
announce that it has added a second drilling rig, which will
immediately move to start Phase Two of its three-phase drilling
program on Alpha’s 100% owned, 27,500-hectare Tolillar Salar.
Adding a second drilling rig will accelerate the
Company’s planned campaign by starting Phase Two before Phase One
is complete. This, on one of the largest wholly-owned salars in
Argentina. Previous drilling and sampling on the salar has
established the presence of lithium across the tremendous aerial
extent of the Tolillar Salar and the current drill program is an
additional step towards the completion of a 43-101 Resource
Estimate.
The second rig is scheduled to arrive directly
from a recent drilling campaign on neighboring Hombre Muerto salar,
where it successfully drilled numerous wellbores to similar depths
under similar conditions. The Company was very pleased to take
advantage of the low mobilization costs, as the Hombre Muerto salar
is only 10 km away from the Tolillar Salar. Additionally, the
experienced crew and rig do not need to struggle through a common
“warm up” period to regain drilling efficiencies.
Phase Two drilling at Alpha’s Tolillar Salar is
planned to explore depths up to 450 meters and have been identified
on numerous Vertical Electrical Sounding “VES” surveys (see press
release October 6, 2020).
Brad Nichol, Chief Executive of Alpha,
commented, “Last week we reported receipt of the drilling licenses
for Phase Two and now we are thrilled to be adding a second rig and
accelerating our development of the asset. Previous campaigns and
tests have provided us with substantial comfort on the presence of
lithium and the confidence to drill production-ready wells so that
our internal lithium chemistry experts can begin the sampling and
testing of different Direct Lithium Extraction (“DLE”) technologies
on our exact brine. This should allow us to move very quickly into
the production phase at the Tolillar Salar. To that end, we have
made progress with several DLE technology companies and hope to
have news of that progress in the future.”
Alpha recently added a renowned group of lithium
chemistry experts to its team (see press release November 18, 2020)
for the purpose of examining and evaluating different DLE
techniques that have been shown to economically extract lithium at
concentrations as low as 100 mg/L.
Qualified Person
Michael Rosko, MS, PG, of E. L. Montgomery and
Associates (M&A) of Santiago, Chile, is a registered geologist
(CPG) in Arizona, California and Texas, a registered member of the
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME No. 4064687),
and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Mr. Rosko has extensive experience in salar environments and has
been a qualified person on many lithium brine projects. Mr. Rosko
and M&A are completely independent of Alpha Lithium. Mr. Rosko
has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical content of
this news release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF ALPHA LITHIUM
CORPORATION
“Brad Nichol”
Brad NicholPresident, CEO and Director
For more information:Alpha Lithium
Investor Relations Tel: +1 844 592 6337info@alphalithium.com
About Alpha Lithium (TSX.V: ALLI) (OTC: ALLIF)
(Frankfurt: 2P62)
Alpha Lithium is a growing team of industry
professionals and experienced stakeholders focused on the
development of the Tolillar Salar. Together, we have assembled 100%
ownership of what may be one of Argentina’s last undeveloped
lithium salars, encompassing 27,500 hectares (67,954 acres),
neighboring multi-billion-dollar lithium players in the heart of
the renowned “Lithium Triangle”. Other companies in the area
exploring for lithium brines or currently in production include
Galaxy Lithium, Livent, and POSCO in Salar del Hombre Muerto;
Orocobre in Salar Olaroz; Eramine SudAmerica S.A. in Salar de
Centenario; and Gangfeng and Lithium Americas in Salar de
Cauchari.
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