International Lithium and Ganfeng Lithium Commence Drilling at the Avalonia Lithium Project, Ireland

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[{"type":"text","content":"International Lithium and Ganfeng Lithium Commence Drilling at the Avalonia Lithium Project, IrelandVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 11, 2016 / International Lithium Corp. (TSXV: ILC.V) (the \"Company\" or \"ILC\") is pleased to announce that on April 4, 2016 the Company initiated a 1750 metre diamond drill hole program at the Avalonia Lithium Project located in Counties Carlow and Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.\nThe current drill program will consist of approximately 25 shallow drill holes and will focus on expanding the strike length of the Aclare lithium bearing pegmatite using the results of recent geophysics to follow the trend of the granite-schist contact. Historical drilling, confirmed by ILC drilling in 2013, indicates that the lithium bearing pegmatite is at or near this contact. Extensions to the pegmatites will be tested to the north and south of historical work using the geophysical trace of this contact. In addition, the drill program will test up to three additional blind targets with no previous drilling.\nNumerous surface occurrences of spodumene bearing pegmatite have been confirmed over a 30 kilometre strike length of a prospective contact zone within the Leinster Pegmatite Belt. Exploration efforts are hindered by a lack of outcrop and abundant soil cover. Initial drilling campaigns designed to test soil geochemical survey targets successfully intersected spodumene bearing pegmatites confirming the source of anomalous soil geochemical signatures (news release dated 11 August, 2015). In an effort to more efficiently target these horizons, the Company conducted magnetic susceptibility studies on drill core recovered from the prospects (news release dated 8 December, 2015) and discovered that the schistose host rocks have magnetic susceptibilities an order of magnitude higher than the granites or pegmatites. In January 2016 the Company completed a series of ground magnetometer surveys, designed to highlight the contact zone between the metamorphosed country rocks and the lesser magnetic pegmatites, over 6 key target areas. As a result of the recently interpreted magnetic data sets in conjunction with soil geochemical survey results the Company will also test regional, previously untested targets during this stage of the program that includes the \"blind\" Ballymurphy, Aclare D and Aclare C targets which are bas...

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