Essential Metals Limited announced that 5,000m air-core/hammer drilling programme commencing. The Pioneer Dome Project (ESS: 100%) is located in the core of Western Australia's lithium corridor in the Eastern Goldfields, approximately 130km south of Kalgoorlie and 275km north of the Port of Esperance. A lithium Mineral Resource of 11.2Mt @ 1.21% Li2O has been defined at Dome North in the northern part of the Project area. The southern Yilgarn area is recognised as being well endowed with spodumene deposits, including the Bald Hill Mine, the Mt Marion Mine and the Buldania Project. The world-class Earl Grey deposit and the Mt Cattlin Mine are located further west and south of Pioneer Dome, respectively. The purpose of this 5,000m drilling programme is to explore for further spodumene-bearing pegmatites, with the aim of increasing the existing Mineral Resource base to a sufficient size to underpin a standalone mining operation. The proposed drilling will focus on testing for extensions of identified pegmatites and structural targets and follow-up anomalism from the previous air-core programme (May 2020) as well as testing two partially- exposed pegmatite targets (DN6 and DN21) south-west of the Heller Deposit. It is proposed that drilling will be carried out using air-core blade and hammer drilling to the proposed depth to ensure top-to-tail coverage is achieved. The Dome North spodumene-bearing pegmatites are interpreted to have intruded into north-east to north- north-east linking structures between two west-north-west bounding structures,. Other smaller (1 to 2m wide) pegmatites have been observed to either intrude at lithological contacts or to align with the main pegmatite trend. Cade is currently the mineralised LCT pegmatite within the Dome North tenement, and it is primarily hosted in the Black Flag sediments. Structural complexity is observed at Cade resulting in offsets and fault repeats. If this complexity occurs at the other defined pegmatites (Heller and Davy), it suggests that the strike potential of the zones may not have been tested with earlier drilling. Transported cover is present to the north of the drilled Davy spodumene pegmatite, which obscures the northern continuation. With the structural complexity observed at Cade, potential remains for the Davy pegmatites to continue to the northeast beyond the current limit of drilling. The host lithologies are interpreted to be the Black Flag sediments which also hosts the larger Cade deposit. Drill traverses at 300m spacings have been planned to test the potential for large pegmatite bodies in this area. Holes have also been planned to provide infill drilling of previous air-core drilling to the north of Davy where in parts, previous drilling was not deep enough to provide full coverage and to follow-up where anomalous litium had been intersected in the lower saprolite. One hole will test up-dip of previously-drilled RC hole PDRC335 (16m @ 0.99% Li2O including 8m @ 1.34% Li2O.