United Lithium Completes 2023 Surface Sampling Program at the Liberty Project, South Dakota

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United Lithium Corp. (CSE: ULTH; OTC: ULTHF; FWB: 0ULA) (“United” or “ULTH” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has completed a bedrock and soil sampling program at its 100%-owned Liberty Project in South Dakota. Covering approximately 6,000 hectares (“ha”) within the Black Hills Mining District, the 2023 program was designed to follow-up on a 2022 reconnaissance sampling program, conducted at the time of staking. The program which returned high-grade results of up to 1.51% Li₂O (“lithium oxide”) from outcropping bedrock samples.

Highlights:

• The Black Hills region produced significant amounts of lithium in the 1940’s and 1950’s from pegmatites across several historical mines. United controls a highly prospective area compromising 729 claims (6,000 ha) making the Company one of the largest lithium explorers in the district;
• The largest known spodumene crystals in the world have been found in the Black Hills Mining District and have reached record sizes up to 42 feet long;
• United’s adjoining claim holder Iris Metals (ASX:IR1) recently announced results of a 2023 drill program at their Beecher Project, which noted several high-grade results including 60 metres (“m”) of 1.21% Li₂O (true width) from a depth of 16 m down hole in drill hole BDH-23-001 (see news release dated August 9, 2023);
• The highest-grade rock chip sample assay reported to date from United’s Liberty Project is 1.51% Li₂O, identified in the 2022 sampling program;
• The Liberty Project is an outcrop rich environment, with approximately 1,400 observed pegmatite outcrops; and
• The 2023 Liberty sampling program covered 50 square kilometres, supported by the latest technology in portable analytical tools including LIBS and XRF analyzers which provide real-time results.

Scott Eldridge, United’s CEO stated: “Our Liberty Project is surrounded by past producing pegmatite mines and has demonstrated widespread high-grade lithium hosting samples at surface. For the first time in decades the historically important Black Hills Mining District has been reignited by our immediate neighbor, Iris, who recently announced a discovery drill hole of 60 m of 1.21% lithium oxide.”