Eastern Metals Limited announced that its initial Lithium exploration program has been completed at Barrow Creek. This scouting program was
designed to identify areas with granite or pegmatite outcrop by undertaking traverses at 500m line spacing, undertaken over selected test areas within EMS's 100% owned 183km2 Barrow Creek area. Although no pegmatite outcrops were observed in this program, several areas were identified as exhibiting the characteristic geology associated with the BCPF, and these will be subjected to follow-up traverses and soil sampling programs. The Barrow Creek area lies within the Barrow Creek pegmatite field. The pegmatites in this area intrude metamorphosed mudstones, sandstones, schists and amphibolite of the Palaeoproterozoic Bullion Schist, which itself is the host rock of the Company's Home of Bullion copper deposit. The source of the pegmatites is the Barrow Creek granite complex, which occurs widely throughout the Barrow Creek area, including at Prospect D where it reportedly outcrops. Interpretation of geophysical data suggests the granite occurs at shallow depth in the Home of Bullion area also. Regional reconnaissance of known pegmatite occurrences indicated that pegmatites were generally surrounded by an extensive apron or scatter of milky quartz. A milky quartz outcrop was also in evidence along with a sparse float of granite and mica schist. In addition specimens of quartz/muscovite were observed ­ sometime in outcrop. Using the above parameters as guidelines a series of traverses across selected areas of EL32027 and EL23186, at 500m spacing, were undertaken to determine the abundance and type of outcrop and float. Quartz scatters and outcrops were occasionally observed up to 50m off-traverse and investigated accordingly, but vegetation thickness precluded observing such features further off-traverse. Wide spread quartz scatter was present at Prospect D with limited areas of quartz scatter noted in the northeast corner of EL32027 where mapped granite outcrops were identified. Unrecorded outcrop of Ali Curung Granite was seen in the Donkey Creek area. The quartz-muscovite samples observed adjacent to Home of Bullion core yard are of "pegmatitic origin" and texture and occur as dilational zones, located essentially concordant to host strata. The presence of these quartz/muscovite samples is an important indicator of structural dilation and the passage of fluid "of pegmatitic origin" and is the best evidence that pegmatites may exist on EMS tenements but that they have yet to be located. Only a selected area of the 183km2 Barrow Creek area has been included in this wide spaced traverse program and the area remains highly prospective for LCT-pegmatites. Known pegmatites in the Barrow Creek pegmatite field intrude metamorphosed mudstones, sandstones, schists and amphibolite of the Palaeoproterozoic Bullion Schist, which itself is the host rock of the Company's Home of Bullion copper deposit.