Galan Lithium Limited announced it has received permits from the Secretaria de Estado de Minería Gobierno de Catamarca (the authority that approves drilling permits in Catamarca, Argentina) to conduct its maiden drill programme over its Western Basin projects located on the Hombre Muerto salar in Argentina. This follows the recent completion of its initial resource drilling phase over the Candelas project located in the southeast region at Hombre Muerto. The Company has been granted permits to drill a total of 14 drillholes plus 5 water bores within 18 months. Work to enable access in preparation for drilling is now underway with drilling to commence thereafter. Initial exploratory drilling is planned within the Pata Pila and Rana del Sal project areas. The drilling will target highly conductive anomalies recorded from CSAMT (Controlled Source Audiofrequency Magnetotellurics) surveys previously completed in late September last year. These were the first surveys ever conducted over these targets withd cover alluvial fans interpreted by the Company to overlie prospective salar. Pata Pila covers a large alluvial fan along the western margin of the salar with the geophysical profile showing an upper, horizontal conductive layer over 2km being compatible with geological units interpreted to contain brines. The southwest extreme of the line shows the limit of the conductive materials which is more transitional and may be due to mixing of fresh/salty water content with brines in the area between stations 10400E and 10800E. To the west, the resistive materials are interpreted as metamorphic basement. The Rana de Sal profile covers an alluvial fan area interpreted to overlie the salar. The geophysical profile shows a highly conductive response over 1.5km that are compatible with units interpreted to contain brines . The eastern end shows the conductive anomaly remaining open, as expected, as the line enters the salar in the area where Livent has its operations. Towards the west a more resistive unit is interpreted as basement. Between stations 10700E and 11900E, the overlying materials are interpreted as alluvial fan sediments saturated with fresh or salty water.