ION Energy Limited CEO Ali Haji tells Proactive the group will begin a maiden exploration program at its 100%-owned Urgakh Naran lithium salar project in Dorngovi Province, Mongolia, as it celebrates the one-year anniversary of its trading start on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Haji says drilling will consist of 73 shallow auger drilling holes at a wide spacing of one kilometre (km) by one-km. Drill holes will be completed to a depth of approximately six metres (m). Potential lithium-bearing clays and evaporites will be sampled in each hole as will any lithium brines intersected by this shallow drilling.