Core Exploration Ltd. provided an update on its active exploration and drilling programs at the Company's 100% owned Finniss Lithium Project near Darwin in the NT (‘Finniss’). The company re-commenced drilling at Finniss with diamond drilling currently underway at the high grade Grants Prospect. The diamond drilling is following up the high grade spodumene mineralisation discovered by Core's earlier RC drilling programs in 2016, and the Company is currently testing depth extensions of the high grade Grants pegmatite, where Core has been encouraged by continuity and grade of mineralisation visually identified in the drilling to date. In late 2016, the company completed its expanded Phase 2 RC drilling at Finniss, which consisted of approximately 6,900m of RC drilling, with drilling continuing up until Christmas. The company is currently waiting on the assay results from this drilling which are expected during late January and into February 2017. The company will continue to keep the market informed as assays become available. Core's drilling at Finniss has intersected high lithium grades and spodumene mineralization within a number of pegmatites at Finniss. The Bynoe Field is a 15-20 kilometre wide belt of more than 90 tin and tantalum prospects and mines and lithium rich pegmatites which stretches over a distance of 75 kilometres south from Port Darwin and is one of the most prospective areas for lithium in the NT. Core's Finniss Lithium Project has substantial infrastructure advantages being close to grid power, gas, and rail and services infrastructure and within easy trucking distance by sealed road to the multi-user port facility at Darwin Port - Australia's nearest port to Asia.