Southern Hemisphere Mining Limited ('Southern Hemisphere' or 'the Company') (ASX: SUH, FWB: NK4), reports that an expert Chilean geological consultant has been engaged to manage the Lago Lithium Brine Exploration Project.

Early stages in brine exploration are low cost and quick to advance. Work has already commenced on this interesting project to ascertain the scale of this new addition to the Company's Chilean mineral asset portfolio.

The work will target brines from these nine new concessions that are potentially amenable to both Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) and/or conventional solar evaporation. DLE has the advantage of reducing the requirement for large solar evaporation ponds used in the concentration of lithium brines as well as reducing the use of fresh water, a potentially faster lithium extraction time, reduced environmental impact, scalability and high purity lithium production output.

Exploration results will be reported in due course.

Contact:

Tel: +61 8 6144 0590

Southern Hemisphere Mining Limited is an experienced minerals explorer in Chile, South America. Chile is the world's leading copper-producing country and one of the most prospective regions of the world for major new copper discoveries. The Company's projects include the Llahuin Porphyry Copper-Gold Project and the Los Pumas Battery Metals Manganese Project, both of which were discovered by the Company, and the recently applied for Lago Lithium Brine Project

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