Lithium Consolidated Mineral Exploration Ltd. announced that the Phase 1 Drilling Program at the Yilgarn Lithium Project in Western Australia was completed in December 2017. 94 aircore holes were drilled for a total of 3958m at 6 of the company licenses. The Ten Mile, Snomys, Cool, Bedonia, Dundas, and Nawoc licenses were drilled as planned. The 22 planned holes at the Junction license were not drilled due to delays from storm weather conditions. Drilling parameters were as follows: east-west drill traverses, with 200m spaced holes, over zones interpreted to be prospective for spodumene bearing lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites; holes drilled to blade refusal; a number of holes were extended into the basement using a hammer drill; the Aircore sample piles were logged at 1m intervals; and the analytical samples were collected in 1m single samples and composites up to 5m, based on logged geology, and forwarded to ALS Global for multi-element analysis, including lithium and other associated elements. Pegmatites were intersected in: 3 holes at the Dundas license (E63/1826); 1 hole at the Bedonia license (E 63/1814); and 1 hole at the Cool license (E 28/2651). The aircore drilling was a first pass exploration program designed to identify the lithium prospectivity of an area by drilling through the barren cover rocks and sampling the underlying older weathered Archean basement for Li-bearing pegmatites or indications of Li-bearing pegmatites in the area. As a result of this approach, all of the pegmatites intersected were strongly weathered and no spodumene was observed. Geochemical analysis will be used to determine whether the weathered pegmatites are Li-bearing.