The results reported Wednesday are from seven holes drilled on the spodumene-pegmatite dyke, located on the Nama Creek claim block, the company said.

The aim of the second phase of the program was to add new resources to the NI 43-101 compliant estimate announced in October last year, of 2.36 million indicated tonnes of 1.17% lithium oxide (Li2O) and 4.36 million inferred tonnes of 1.08% Li2O.

The resource estimate was based on the spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes located on the Nama Creek and Conway claim blocks.

Highlights of the latest drill results include 1.20% Li2O over 8.84 metres, 1.11% Li2O over 3.10 metres, and 0.82% Li2O over 1.0 metres in drill hole NC-11-23.

Drill hole NC-11-24 intersected 1.44% Li2O over 4.57 metres, 0.81% Li2O over 2.70 metres, 1.33% Li2O over 2.0 metres and 0.79% Li2O over 2.0 metres.

Other notable results included 1.44% Li2O over 5.83 metres, 1.11% Li2O over 3.14 metres, 0.70% Li2O over 1.58 metres, 1.70% Li2O over 1.0 metres, and 1.53% Li2O over 0.84 metres in drill hole NC-11-25.

In addition, hole NC-11-27 encountered 1.22% Li2O over 5.77 metres and 1.25% Li2O over 1.0 metres, while hole NC-11-28 hit 1.30% Li2O over 2.0 metres, 1.45% Li2O over 1.58 metres and 1.50% Li2O over 1.07 metres.

Finally, hole NC-11-29 returned 1.09% Li2O over 6.0 metres, 1.17% Li2O over 4.0 metres and 1.18% Li2O over 2.51 metres.

"With the complete set of assay results from Phase 2 of our exploration program received from the lab, we now look forward to an updated NI 43-101 compliant resource estimation from Caracle Creek International Consulting," said president and CEO, Eunho Lee.

"These results, in conjunction with the positive metallurgy, excellent infrastructure and a strong, mutually beneficial working relationship with the local First Nations, reaffirm our confidence in the potential of our Georgia Lake lithium project."

The company said that the second phase drilling also found anomalous values of rare metals, including rubidium, beryllium, cesium, niobium and tantalum.

The program consisted of 4,608 metres of diamond drilling over eighteen drill holes in addition to sixteen channel samples, testing pegmatite dykes located on the Nama Creek, Conway and Newkirk claim blocks.

Rock Tech has already reported very high purity levels from the property earlier this year. In late September last year, the company achieved a purity level of 99.988% lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) from a bulk sample. Battery manufacturers require a purity level of at least 99.5% Li2CO3.

Besides the battery industry, lithium has many uses, including heat-resistant glass and ceramics, casting for HVAC products, additives for greases and oil products, aluminum production, and as a pharmaceutical mood stabilizer.

The Georgia Lake lithium property, located some 145 kilometers northeast of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, consists of four claim blocks covering 11,481 hectares.

Currently, the property hosts indicated resources of 2.36 million tonnes grading 1.17% lithium oxide (Li2O) and 4.36 million inferred tonnes grading 1.08% Li2O. The resource estimate, based on the spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes located on the Nama Creek and Conway claim blocks, was released in late October.

Highlights of the latest drill results include 1.40% Li2O over 5.02 metres, 0.95% Li2O over 3.91 metres and 0.94% Li2O over 7 metres in drill hole NC-11-15;  and 1.47% Li2O over 2.32 metres, 1.05% Li2O over 4.83 metres and three other mineralized intersections in drill hole NC-11-16.

In addition, hole NC-11-18 intersected 1.25% Li2O over 8.66 metres, while hole NC-11-19 returned 1.15% Li2O over 6.69 metres.

Meanwhile, two intersections of 5.00 metres each, with grades of 1.61% Li2O and 1.27% Li2O, respectively, were found in hole NC-11-22, along with two other mineralized intersections.

The company said that additional anomalous values of lithium oxide and rare metals, including rubidium, beryllium, cesium, niobium and tantalum, were also found.

“We are very pleased with the first set of assay results as they confirm the validity of the historical drill holes and show the continuity of lithium mineralization at depth," said president and CEO, Eunho Lee.

"The development of our Georgia Lake lithium project is progressing as planned as we recently completed over 4,000 metres of drilling. We will be releasing additional assay results as they are received.”

Aside from diamond drilling on the Nama Creek claim block, phase two of the company's exploration program at Georgia Lake includes channel sampling along three other pegmatite dykes that contain historic lithium resources, known as the Newkirk, Line 60 and Conway blocks.

These lithium-bearing pegmatites are exposed at surface and, as a result, channel sampling is expected to help increase resources by tying up surface zones with the zones intersected in the shallowest drill hole on each dyke, Rock Tech said.

The next phase of the company’s exploration program, planned for the first or second quarter of 2012, will be designed to confirm the balance of the historic resource.

Rock Tech has already reported very high purity levels from the property earlier this year. In late September, the company achieved a purity level of 99.988% lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) from a bulk sample. Battery manufacturers require a purity level of at least 99.5% Li2CO3. Besides the battery industry, lithium has many uses, including heat-resistant glass and ceramics, casting for HVAC products, additives for greases and oil products, aluminum production, and as a pharmaceutical mood stabilizer.

The Georgia Lake lithium property, located some 145 kilometers northeast of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, consists of four claim blocks covering 11,481 hectares.

Rock Tech has a 100-percent interest in lithium properties in the Kapiwak Pegmatite Region in the James Bay area of northwestern Quebec, and the Georgia Lake area of the Thunder Bay Mining District of northwest Ontario.

In addition to its lithium properties, Rock Tech has a 100-percent interest in a titanium-iron-vanadium property in the Saint-Urbain area near the St. Lawrence Seaway in eastern Quebec and a nickel-copper-platinum group elements-uranium property in the Sibley Basin area to the west of Nipigon, Ontario.

In November, Rock Tech published a technical report that included a resource estimate for the Georgia Lake property in Ontario, stating an indicated resource of 2.36 million tonnes at 1.17 percent lithium oxide and an inferred resource of 4.36 million tonnes at 1.08 percent lithium oxide.

In a research note, Fundamental Research analyst Siddharth Rajeev said: "We are pleased to see that management is executing well on advancing the Georgia Lake property."

Fundamental Research said that the 2011/2012 drill program has commenced and will include a total of 10,000 metres of diamond drilling aimed to expand the current resource. An updated resource estimate is expected in the first quarter of 2012.

Test results from Georgia Lake earlier this year gave lithium purity levels of 99.963 percent. Following further processing, and refining with bi-carbonate polishing, the calcium content was reduced below the 100 parts per million threshold and the purity increased to 99.988 percent.

This is "very encouraging" as the sample exceeds the industry minimum specification for purity of 99.5 percent, Fundamental Research said.

Fundamental Research's Rajeev noted: "We believe establishing a good lithium carbonate grade is a positive step and will assist [the company] in establishing future off-take agreements, which is very critical for lithium companies in the exploration and development stage.

"The results confirm that the Nama Creek Main Zone deposit [within Georgia Lake] hosts an attractive resource.

The high grades and encouraging recovery rates will positively impact any future economic assessment of the project."

The Vancouver-based lithium exploration company currently has $3 million in cash.

As announced in late June, preliminary results of the metallurgical sample testing produced a purity level of 99.963% Li2CO3. The sample was then processed through a bicarbonate polishing step, which produced the 99.988% purity.

Battery manufacturers require a purity level of at least 99.5% Li2CO3.

President and CEO, Eunho Lee, commented: "The study clearly demonstrates that a high-quality, battery-grade lithium carbonate product can be produced from the lithium-bearing pegmatites found at Rock Tech's Georgia Lake project."

In other news, Rock Tech also announced the drill results of the remaining 22 holes from its 2010/2011 winter exploration program, which completed nearly 8,000 metres of diamond drilling at the company's Nama Creek and Conway claim blocks.

At the Nama Creek North block, located on the northern end of the Georgia Lake property, assays returned 10.55 metres grading 1.22% lithium oxide (Li2O), as well as 458 parts per million (ppm) beryllium oxide (BeO) and 854 ppm rubidium oxide (Rb2O), in hole NC11-14.

On this same block, assays also returned 6.7 metres grading 1.39% Li2O, 423 ppm BeO, and 988 ppm Rb2O, in hole NC11-07.

On the Nama Creek South claim block, drilling intersected 12.75 metres grading 0.9% Li2O, 450 ppm BeO, and 790 ppm Rb2O, in hole NS11-01, and 4.12 metres at 1.37% Li2O, 459 ppm BeO, and 993 ppm Rb2O, in hole NS11-02.

Hole PL11-01, drilled on the Parole Lake claim block, found 6.29 metres at 2.0% Li2O, 400 ppm BeO, 563 ppm Rb2O, and 111 ppm niobium oxide (Nb2O5).

Meanwhile, on the Conway Main claim block, located to the east of Nama Creek, hole CW11-09 returned 10.25 metres of 0.9% Li2O, 315 ppm BeO, and 1,029 ppm Rb2O.

The Vancouver, B.C.-based company said it plans to release its initial NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Nama Creek and Conway claim blocks in the coming weeks, with phase two drilling on the Georgia Lake property also expected to begin at that time.

The Georgia Lake lithium project is located in the Thunder Bay mining district of north western Ontario. Rock Tech has full ownership over the project's 11,481 hectares, all of which fall within the First Nations' traditional territories. A two kilometre-long stretch of road that accesses the Nama Creek claim block, however, runs through the BNA First Nations' reserve land.

The MOU will provide the framework for future negotiations regarding an Impacts and Benefits Agreement, and will define the benefits to both the First Nations groups and to Rock Tech, helping to mitigate any adverse impacts during the project's development.

"We have already established strong business relationships with the BNA, BZA and AZA leaders and communities and are very pleased to have reached an initial agreement on how we can further build and strengthen these relationships," said Rock Tech president and CEO, Eunho Lee.

"Fostering these relations is a core element to our business principal of developing sustainable projects that will provide long-term economic viability to the local and regional stakeholders."

Since Rock Tech initially began exploration on the Georgia Lake project in December 2009, the Vancouver, B.C.-based company has employed several First Nations members and has procured equipment and materials from First Nations organizations whenever feasible, it said.

The project has an historical resource of 9.8 million tons grading 1.18% lithium oxide, based on 33,000 metres of diamond drilling carried out in the late 1950s.

In late June, Rock Tech said that it produced lithium at the Georgia Lake project with purity levels of nearly 100%, without any optimization.

The bulk sample used for the test was approximately 800 kilograms, sent to the lab at the end of February. The sample was a mixture of blasted surface and drill core spodumene material from the Nama Creek Main Zone at Georgia Lake.

The company's 100% owned Georgia Lake lithium project is comprised of 64 mining claims and is located about 145 kilometres northeast of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The project has an historical resource of 9.8 million tons grading 1.18% lithium oxide, based on 33,000 metres of diamond drilling carried out in the late 1950s.

Since the acquisition of the property in late 2009, Rock Tech has completed over 8,000 metres of drilling and conducted other ground exploration work, with a plan to bring the historical resource to current NI 43‐101- compliant standards, advancing the project to the feasibility stage.

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Rock Tech Lithium (TSX-V:RCK) is a Canadian based exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of high-quality lithium properties. The Company's strategy is to acquire and develop lithium properties that are at various stages of development -- from early-stage to advanced-stage lithium exploration properties that have been the subject of prior work programs and/or contain historic resources. 

Noront Resources (TSX-V:NOT) is focused on its McFauld's Lake Project, which includes significant, multiple high-grade nickel-copper-platinum-palladium, chromite and Vanadium discoveries in an area known as the "Ring of Fire", an emerging multi-metals district located in the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, Canada

Portex Minerals (CNSX:PAX) is a Toronto-based mineral development company, focused on acquisition and development of base and precious metal properties in Canada and low-risk foreign locations. Portex currently has 100% ownership of one base metal concession at Lagoa Salgada in Portugal, located in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, a renowned mining district spanning Spain and Portugal.

Standard Gold (OTC:SDGR) owns substantially all of the assets of Shea Mining & Milling, including land, buildings and equipment of a custom mill facility with permits in Amargosa, Nevada. In addition, Standard Gold remains, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, the owner of the past producing gold mine in Colorado known as the Bates-Hunter Mine.

IFOS bought another 6.0 million units of Rock Tech in a private placement that closed last week, at a price of $0.25 each, for total consideration of C$1.5 million.

The additional shares represent an approximate 7.25% interest, bringing IFOS' stake to 14 million shares, or a 15.6% holding, assuming the exercise of all warrants.

Each unit consists of one common share of Rock Tech and one half of one share purchase warrant, with each whole warrant entitling the holder to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.60 each for a period of two years, ending May 19, 2013.

Rock Tech said that IFOS has acquired the shares for investment purposes, and has no present intention to acquire further shares of the company.

Highlights of the assay results include 1.17% lithium oxide (Li2O) over 16.0 metres in drill hole NC11-04; 1.32% Li2O over 9.0 metres in hole NC11-01; 1.43% Li2O over 7.0 metres in hole NC11-05 and 1.19% Li2O over 8.2 metres in hole HW11-02.

Rock Tech said it has now completed the first phase of the exploration program, which consisted of 7,682 metres of diamond core drilling over 47 holes, and metallurgical testing.

"The remainder of the drill results will be reported as they are available, and will contribute to the data set Caracle Creek International Consulting will utilize to provide the Company an independent NI43-101 resource estimate for the Nama Creek and Conway claim blocks," said president and CEO Eunho Lee.

The company is aiming to complete an NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource of the Nama Creek and Conway leases by the end of June, with results from metallurigical testing expected by the end of May.

Rock Tech said it will begin the phase 2 of the exploration program this summer, which will entail drilling the remainder of the claim blocks on the property to bring the historic resource associated with these assets to NI 43-101 standards.

"By the end of Phase 2 of the exploration program, we expect to have an expanded resource and to have all of our resources fall into these three categories [measured, indicated and inferred].

"The execution of these planned activities is to position the Company to begin its pre-feasibility study by December 2011,” added Lee.

The nine holes, part of the 2010-2011 exploration program, were completed at three claim blocks, known as the Conway, Aumacho and Nama Creek blocks. The Vancouver-based company's goal for the current drill program is to bring the property's historic resource of 9.77 million tons to NI 43-101 compliant standards.

Highlights of the new results include 1.21% lithium oxide (Li2O) over 10.9 metres in hole CW 11-03 at Conway; 1.33% Li2O and 1.08% Li2O over 5.90 metres and 6.40 metres in drill hole L6-11-01 at Nama Creek; and 1.06% Li2O over 4.33 metres in drill hole AM10-02 at Aumacho.

The company said the drill holes on the Aumacho claim block also returned anomalous values of rare earth metals cesium and rubidium, including 899 g/t cesium and 6,199 g/t rubidium over 6.02 metres in drill hole AM10-01.

"The Company is quickly moving towards confirming the historical exploration data comprised of over 33,000 metres of diamond drilling over 200 drill holes," said president and CEO Eunho Lee.

"We are on target for having an NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate by the end of June 2011 and look forward to advancing the Georgia Lake project through the next stages of development."

To date, the company has completed 4,023 metres of its 7,000 metre drilling campaign.

Rock Tech has also sent a one-ton bulk sample for testing to assess the potential of producing battery-quality lithium carbonate. The metallurgical results, the company said, are expected by the end of May.

Drilling was restarted after Christmas break on January 9. To date, a total of 11 holes have been drilled for 1,268 metres, of which three were completed before the break.

The company said that a second drill rig has been mobilized to the site to expedite drilling, which will be followed by a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate in June. Rock Tech also said it is on target to complete 4,000 metres of diamond core drilling by the end of the month.

The company plans that bulk sample will be collected in the second week of February to test for the production of battery-quality lithium carbonate by the end of May this year.

In addition, the results of the environmental baseline study will be available by mid-February, Rock Tech said, and further environmental field work will be conducted in the spring.

"Most of the drill holes at Nama Creek and Conway [deposits at the project] were placed within close proximity of  bearing pegmatite zones that were intersected in historical drill holes," said president and CEO Eunho Lee.

"We are very encouraged by the drill log data provided by CCIC as they confirm the historical drill core data from these areas. Pegmatite zone ranges in thickness from 2.85 metres to 21.08 metres, with spodumene content of <3% to 15%."

Spodumene is the world's most commonly mined lithium ore mineral. Canada-based Rock Tech explores and develop lithium mineral deposits and develops processes to purify lithium carbonate.

Aside from Georgia Lake, the company has lithium properties in the Kapiwak Pegmatite Region in the James Bay area of north western Quebec. It also has a 100% interest in a titanium-iron-vanadium property in Saint-Urbain in eastern Quebec, and a nickel-copper-platinum group elements,uranium property in the Sibley Basin area.

In consideration for the deal, Rock Tech gave Brandon shareholders 4.0 million common shares of its company.

“This acquisition positions Rock Tech as one of the largest, if not the largest, lithium exploration claim holder in North America," said president and CEO of Rock Tech, Eunho Lee.

Brandon holds two lithium properties in Quebec, the first of which is the Lacorne property, which is comprised of 630 mineral claims covering 31,049 hectares in the Val d'Or region. The eastern claims of the property surround the Quebec Lithium project being developed by Canada Lithium Corp (TSX-V:CLQ).

According to Rock Tech, at least three historical pegmatite occurrences are located on the Lacorne property and are reported to contain beryl, columbite-tantalite crystals.

Brandon's second property consists of 376 mineral claims covering 19,826 hectares in the James Bay area of Quebec, adding to Rock Tech's Kapiwak Property located to the south of Lithium One's (TSX-V: LI) Cyr Lithium project. The newly acquired lands consist of two claim blocks, now known as the Kapiwak 2 and Kapiwak 3 properties.

The Kapiwak 2 lithium property consists of 120 claims located adjacent to the west of the Kapiwak 1 property originally acquired by the company in 2009.

The Kapiwak 3 lithium property consists of 256 claims, underlain by Eastmain greenstone belt which consists predominantly of amphibolite grade mafic to felsic metavolcanics, metasediments and minor gabbroic intrusions, the company said.

For the Kapiwak lithium properties, Rock Tech is planning to implement a phased exploration program of field geological mapping, ground geophysical surveys, trenching and diamond drilling.

In addition, the company said it has hired Trow Engineering and Environmental Consulting to conduct the environmental baseline studies at the site.

The first round of field investigations has already been conducted, from which the data will be used for future development work at Georgia Lake to expand the lithium resouce on the property.

"The launch of our drill program and completion of the first round of the environmental baseline study is a significant step towards the development of the Georgia Lake lithium and rare metals project," said president and CEO Eunho Lee.

Rock Tech owns lithium properties in the Kapiwak Pegmatite Region in the James Bay area of north western Quebec and the Georgia Lake area of the Thunder Bay Mining District of northwest Ontario.

The company also has a 100% interest in a titanium-iron-vanadium property in the Saint-Urbain in eastern Quebec and a nickel-copper-platinum group elements,uranium property in the Sibley Basin area.