Page 44 This bat shows the fungus that gives white nose syndr ome its name By Gregory Reynolds V ancouver based International Lith ium Corp ILC is living up to its name as it has projects in Ireland and Ar gentina as well as Canada The MavisFairservice LithiumRare Metals Property consists of 19 con tiguous claims totalling 2632 ha It is located approximately 19 km north east of Dryden within Brownridge T ownship Northwestern Ontario The property extends south and east of Mavis Lake and is bordered to the east by the Lola Lake Provincial Na ture Reserve This land package covers the peg matite belt adjacent to Mavis Lake Although dif ferent types of mineral claims are inclu ded they share a com mon exploration plan In Ar gentina the Mariana project is a lithiumpotash salar salt lake It consists of several contiguous min ing clai ms covering an expansive 160 square km project area strategically encompasses the entire salar and a signifcant portion of the surrounding area to provide prospective land for a potential future processing plant facil ity Salars host some of the lar gest known lithium resources in the worldThe Mariana basin is one of the more prominent salars in the renowned lithium belt of South America that produces more than 70 of global production The company completed a reversecir culation Phase One resource delineation drill program on the project in 2012 Four widely spaced drill holes totaling 444 metres were positioned approxi mately fve km apart to characterize the subsurface strata and brine across sev eral previously identifed geological and geochemical domains within the 10 x 15 km salar basin In addition the objective was to add to the geological model of the salar and determine the aquifer potential of the stratigraphy encountered On June 25 ILC announced results from a ninehole diamond drilling program totalling 594 metres on two prospects at the Blackstairs Lithium Project Ireland The drill program confrmed historical drill results at the Aclare prospect 85 km southwest of Dublin It successfully intersected lithium bear ing spodumene pegmatites in a previ ously untested area below a spodumene bearing boulder feld at the Moylisha prospect The company has conducted prelimi nary testing on only two of the six main prospects locat ed along the 35 km lithi um pegmatite belt All of the 19 known spodumene occurrences that make up the belt are within the compa ny s pros pecting licenses Gary Schellenber g CEO of the com pany said the confrmation of lithium mineralization at Aclare gives us confdence in our analysis that there may be an untested extension of the known occurrence trending away from the area of historical drilling This interpretation is reinforced by the results witnessed at Moyli sha where our drilling intersected numerous multiphase pegmatites with highly anomalous lithium val ues almost 500 metres away from the historical drilling All the tar gets are under cover and it will take time and drilling to piece together the geologic picture sur rounding the mineralized bodies As such at Moylisha the mineral ization intersec ted in drill core does not match the grade witnessed in pegmatite boulders found at surface indicating that there may be another pegmatite body in close proximity Our orientation surveys have shown some promise in tar geting the unex posed pegmatit es and given that we have an intense fertile system there is signifcant discovery potential not just at Aclare and Moylisha but along the entire highly unexplored Leinster Pegmatite Belt he stated At Aclare drill hole ACL1304 re turned 233 metres grading 223 Li2O in an area where historical drilling in the 1970s and 1980s had previously identifed high lithium grades Historically the Aclare prospect has received the most exploration work and presents the best area to validate geochemical and geophysi cal exploration methods and is the principal tar get for resource delin eation drilling The 2013 exploration program is the frst phase of exploration planned and conducted by the company since strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium Co Ltd GFL optioned the property in late 2012 International Lithium has pr ojects in Canada Ir eland and Argentina MavisFairservice LithiumRare Metals Property Coarse grained pegmatite fr om drill hole MF1 112 interval fr om 14931662m