Latin Resources Limited announced the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) and drill permit for the Catamarca lithium project has been approved with the Catamarca Environmental and Mines department. The final stage of the permitting was to hold a community meeting with the local residents which was completed on the January 18, 2017 with the community approving the exploration works to be carried out on the Catamarca project. Latin Resources has appointed Major Drilling Company as the contractor to carry out the drilling program at Catamarca with mobilization to start immediately. The initial exploration drilling program will incorporate a 24 hole Reverse Circulation (RC) program with approximately 3,000 meters to be drilled on 4 prospects. This program will take around 15 to 20 days with assay results commencing to be released in February. Latin Resources reported that their recent field samples taken have continued to produce positive results at their Catamarca exploration tenements in Argentina. The results returned have confirmed that economic grades of lithium are contained within the target prospects with 19 of the 29 samples being 1% Li 2 O or higher, best grades showing from 2.02 Li 2 O to 4.46 Li 2 O, with an average grade of all samples being 1.42% Li 2 O. The samples were taken during a detailed mapping program at the end of 2016 which targeted areas previously mined for the lithium mineral spodumene in both Villisman and Ancasti districts. The aim of the sampling and mapping was to confirm the presence of lithium and to estimate the size and orientation of the pegmatite dykes containing the spodumene mineralization.