Red Dirt Metals Limited announced that drilling production rates at the Mt Ida Lithium-Copper-Gold project have increased with 2 RC rigs now onsite and producing in excess of 350m per day. The increased capacity has given RDT the flexibility to move the focus of near-term exploration to the delineation and exploration of 5 high priority regional targets outside of the central Mt Ida area. These 5 targets, additional to the existing Southern and Northern pegmatites have been identified through rock chip sampling and mapping within a corridor extending 4km to the NW of the central Mt Ida project area. Two of these new northern pegmatites have now been tested with a limited number of RC holes and both areas intersected wide pegmatite dykes up to 11m in thickness. Two separate pegmatite intrusives were intersected in the Peg 3 location within hole IDRC137, which intersected 7m of high spodumene content from visual estimates within fresh pegmatite at only 52m downhole showing excellent near surface resource potential. Red Dirt is developing a better understanding of the association and location of the pegmatites with respect to the structural displacements observed at surface. The larger LCT bearing pegmatites have been observed to be closely associated with the predominantly E-W tending type 2 fault systems mapped at Mt Ida and within the Anorthosite and mafic sequences adjacent to the Granite intrusive. These type 2 faults have been mapped and interpreted along the central area of the Mt Ida project area over at least a 5km strike. Minimal historical interpretation or mapping has been completed North of the areas that host known gold mineralisation, leading RDT to believe significant potential exists to have multiple occurrences of additional pegmatite intrusives perpendicular to the 15km western granitic contact within the RDT tenement package. RDT intends to ramp up its exploration footprint rapidly in the new year in addition to the continuing drill out and delineation of the existing known pegmatitic intrusives. The commencement of diamond drilling will target the down dip extension of the thick pegmatite body to the south of the Timoni shaft. The initial focus will be to systematically drill out deeper sections of both the defined pegmatites in the south and produce metallurgical samples for submission to Nagrom laboratories in January for preliminary metallurgical test work.