Houston Lake Mining Inc. announced the appointment of Mike Tamlin to the board of directors of the company. Mr. Tamlin has more than 25 years of commercial and technical experience in mining, milling and hydrometallurgy with significant expertise in lithium and tantalum concentrates and chemicals. His lithium experience covers the development of the Chinese chemical and global technical spodumene markets for the Greenbushes Mine in Western Australia, the Zhangjiagang Lithium Carbonate Project and the Rincon Brine Project.

Mr. Tamlin is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Neometals Ltd.