Railroad Valley Geophysics Results In Staking Of Additional Claims

VANCOUVER - Ameriwest Lithium Inc. reported that based on positive preliminary results from a recent geophysical survey, it has elected to stake 150 additional placer claims on its Railroad Valley property in Nye County, Nevada. Recently, Ameriwest announced the initiation of a deep target geophysical study designed to determine the presence and depth of conductive and potentially lithium brine-bearing strata. The survey program was undertaken in Q3 2021 by Zonge International Inc. (http://zonge.com) and consisted of a Magnetotelluric (MT) survey. Data was collected along two lines oriented at N90°E for a total of 12.0-line kilometers. Electric field measurements were made continuously along the lines. Magnetic field measurements were recorded approximately every 1600 meters along each profile. From these measurements a total of 60 magnetotelluric soundings were obtained.

The Company originally staked 312 unpatented placer claims, totaling 6,240 acres at the Railroad Lithium Property located 100 miles northeast of Tonopah. Upon receipt and analysis of the geophysics data whereby sharp resistivity boundaries in the subsurface are represented as resistivity gradient zones, Ameriwest noted increased resistivity open to the eastern portion of the study. Therefore, the Company elected to acquire an additional 150 placer claims on the eastern portion of the existing claim block. The additional claims now increase the Railroad Property from 312 to 462 placer claims and increase the property size from 6,240 to 9,097 acres in total.

David Watkinson, President & CEO, said, “The results from our geophysics study were extremely compelling. So much so, that we felt that procuring additional leases was of paramount importance. As noted previously, this is one of Nevada’s largest trapped drainage basins and has geologic potential to host large lithium brine deposits. Given its comparative attributes to Clayton Valley and its potentially much greater size, the initial results from our study are a very optimistic first step for Ameriwest’s lithium exploration in the southern portion of the Railroad Valley basin.”