Promising Results From Drilling Campaign At North Big Smoky Carvers Project

ELKO, NV - Lithium Corporation reported that the sonic drilling campaign at the North Big Smoky Carvers Nevada lithium project returned promising assay results of up to 230ppm in the claystone and sediments. Now planning a deeper drilling program, James Brown, Managing Director, Morella Corp. reports being "… excited to test the deeper brine target given the results of the drilling, and previous surface sampling and Magnetotelluric work".

Conditions at North Big Smoky are akin to those found in more northerly playas which were inundated during the Lahontan era (110,000 - 10,000 years before present) by several hundred feet of fresh water. During this wet climatic epoch, sedimentation was accelerated with hundreds of feet of fresh water entrained clayey sediments accumulating in these basins, masking the nature of the lithium enriched clays and brines from the long, very much drier pre-Lahontan period. This interpretation coincides well with the results of the earlier Magnetotelluric geophysical survey, which appears to indicate brine mineralization occurs at depths greater than those drilled to date. CARSD 23-01, the deepest hole drilled during this program, encountered anomalous lithium mineralization in sediments in the bottom 17' (5.18 meters) that may be indicative of a transition from the Lahontan era sedimentation to that of the stable, better mineralized pre-Lahontan paleosurface.

Morella is currently planning a reflection seismic geophysical survey to gain a better understanding of faulting and structure within the basin prior to selecting drill hole locations for an upcoming deeper drilling program.