Additional 220 BLM Claims Staked In The Black Hills

VANCOUVER - United Lithium Corp. (ULTH) has increased the land position of the Liberty Lithium Project in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota near the town of Pringle and south east of Custer by additional staking. The new claims are contiguous to those previously staked. The Company has staked more than 200 additional unpatented lode claims covering more than 6.5 square miles (nearly 17 square kilometers) in the south part of the Black Hills. This extends the “Liberty Lithium Project”, and the new claims cover numerous pegmatite bodies, most of which have not seen much exploration or production aside from historical and current quarrying of potassium feldspar and mica. A reconnaissance rock chip sampling program was carried out by the Company in conjunction with each of the staking programs to identify new areas for detailed field work. Samples have been submitted to the laboratory and assays are awaited.

It is noteworthy that several pegmatite zones are currently being quarried for potassium feldspar and micas in the area around Custer, SD. Potassium feldspar may be a valuable by-potential product from prospective lithium pegmatite quarrying. Potassium feldspar is the choice of potters, industrial glass and whiteware manufacturers due to its high alkali content and low iron oxides that promote better viscosity during firing and superior whiteness. Mica is also currently recovered from some pegmatites as an economic product as an important additive in specialty drilling muds. The balance of the recovered pegmatite materials, mainly quartz and albite, may also be recovered for use as aggregates and road construction materials due to their hardness, crushed sizing, and inert environmental qualities.

The new area staked as well as the previously BLM adjudicated claims cover the public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). There are private property holdings within the USFS lands and United Lithium’s claims are positioned and located to recognize pre-existing titled ownership rights as best as possible.

Michael Dehn, CEO, said, “We are excited with the initial sample results from our BLM adjudicated claims and are awaiting sample results from the recently staked claims south of our initial block southward towards Pringle, South Dakota. Access and infrastructure here are excellent, and we expect the regional scale rock sampling and assay program will assist us in vectoring towards Li-Be-Sn-Ta enrichment zones in the LCT pegmatites."