Lord Resources Limited announced the commencement of drilling at the Horse Rocks Lithium Project (E15/1770), located 20km south of Coolgardie, in Western Australia. The Project is within 8km's of Mineral Resources Limited Mt Marion Lithium Mine. The ground surrounding the Horse Rocks Lithium Project is held by Mineral Resources (E15/1599, EEL53, EEL59) and Essential Metals Limited (E15/1710).

DRILLING PROGRAM: A first pass RC drilling program has been designed to test the potential of lithium mineralisation within the Horse Rocks Lithium Project. Over 5,000m of drilling planned at five areas of high priority geochemical anomalism, where multiple pegmatite swarms have been mapped. The drilling will be the first lithium targeted sub-surface exploration within the Project.

The drilling will determine the orientation of the mapped pegmatites, along with the geometry of potential mineralisation. The planned program has been designed to test the five highest priority geochemical anomalies, where recent surface auger sampling revealed coincident Li, K/Rb, ±Cs, ±Ta, ±Sn anomalism, which is indicative of lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite systems. Geological mapping has identified multiple pegmatite swarms in all areas of anomalism. Peak values from surface auger sampling of 1,456ppm (0.15%) Li2O, 91ppm Ta2O5 and 349ppm Cs2O were returned from various samples.

The low K/Rb (potassium/rubidium <40) ratios at all the geochemical anomalies are an indication of fractionated (LCT) pegmatites.