Askari Metals Limited announced that an extensive soil auger drilling and reconnaissance campaign has commenced at the 100% owned Myrnas Hill Lithium Project (E45/4907), located in the highly prospective eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Myrnas Hill Lithium Project is considered highly prospective for hard-rock Lithium-Tin- Tantalum (Li + Sn + Ta) mineralisation and boasts the same host lithology (the North Star Basalt) as the Archer Lithium Deposit, currently being developed by Global Lithium Resources Limited. The Myrnas Hill project covers an area of approximately 35km and is considered highly prospective, given the geological setting within the project area, which is analogous to other known hard-rock Li-Sn-Ta deposits in the eastern Pilbara.

The soil auger drilling program will test the targets of the recent Hyperspectral Survey and will provide the Company with additional high-priority targets that will be further tested in future exploration campaigns, consisting of possible RC and Aircore drilling. A review of the historical data over the Myrnas Hill Project identified a tantalum working and previously identified gold mineralisation that correlate well with the Company's interpreted mineralisation model on the project. The Myrnas Hill Lithium Project is hosted by favourable greenstone units and flanked to the east and west by potential granitic source magmas.

The northeastern portion of the project is characterised by the same geological units as found at the Archer Lithium Project. The Myrnas Hill Project is flanked by the Pilbara Supergroup, which hosts the Pilgangoora and Marble Bar Lithium projects and the De Grey Supergroup, which surrounds the Wodgina Lithium project. Soil Auger Drilling Program The Company has designed an extensive soil auger drilling campaign consisting of more than 600 samples which will enable the Company to generate priority exploration targets for future campaigns.

including possible shallow Aircore and RC drilling. The soil auger drilling campaign will follow up on those areas that were identified from the Hyperspectral Survey, but will cover almost the entire project area. Historical exploration at Myrnas Hill was focused on the gold and base metal potential of the project with no lithium-focused exploration having being undertaken.

This presents a significant opportunity for the Company to implement the lithium-focused exploration model similar to what was utilised at the Company's Yarrie Lithium Project, and which has been utilised at surrounding project areas including the Dom's Hill (Kalamazoo ­ SQM JV) and Pear Creek (Kalamazoo) projects. Certain areas of the Myrnas Hill project tenement are covered by windblown soils that obscure the geology below and auger sampling was selected to penetrate and sample below this layer. The depth of each sample may vary, but the anticipated sample depth at Myrnas Hill is one to one and a half meters.

The sample is collected from the bottom of the hole by collecting it from the auger bit once the regolith is reached. The soil auger drilling campaign has been designed on a 200m x 200m grid covering the entire tenement. Hyperspectral Survey: Targets Generated The hyperspectral study at the Myrnas Hill Lithium Project identified several exploration targets.

These targets will be the focus of the ground-based field exploration and reconnaissance work. Another useful exploration tool is satellite imagery, especially since LCT pegmatites are often found in dykes and/or dyke swarms which may be visible on high-quality satellite imagery. The Company is very pleased by the correlation between visible dyke-like features identified using the satellite imagery of the tenement and the targets identified by the hydrogen target map.

The mafic/ultramafic geology which hosts the Myrnas Hill project is analogous to the geology which hosts some of the large hard-rock lithium projects in the eastern Pilbara. Next Phase: The soil auger program will provide valuable data and identify those areas of anomalous Lithium mineralisation. The Company will use this information to design the follow-up exploration programs, including possible Aircore and RC drilling.