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Rodinia Lithium Inc. Contracts Amec To Provide Independent Resource Estimate For Diablillos Project
November 17, 2010Toronto, Ontario: Rodinia Lithium Inc. (“Rodinia” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: RM; OTCQX: RDNAF), is pleased to announce that it has engaged AMEC Internacional Ingeniería y Construcción Limitada (“AMEC”) to prepare an initial mineral resource estimate and National Instrument 43-101 compliant independent technical report with respect to the Salar de Diablillos lithium-brine project located in Salta, Argentina (“Diablillos” or the “Project”). AMEC is an international engineering consulting firm with world wide experience that includes estimating mineral resources at certain Chilean salars and experience in several lithium projects, including previous work on Diablillos itself. AMEC’s staff of highly qualified engineers and geologists are available to begin working on the project immediately.
Will Randall, President and CEO of Rodinia, commented “we are very pleased to have a firm with AMEC’s reputation and depth of qualified professionals preparing the resource estimate for Diablillos. This will be the Company’s first lithium resource estimate and one of the few NI 43-101 compliant lithium resource estimates completed to date. Having the opportunity to work with a group of AMEC’s stature is a vote of confidence for the work we have completed to date. The entire Rodinia team is eager to deliver this significant milestone in the Company’s development.”
AMEC’s team of consultants will be lead by Mr. Douglas Chapman (Principal Mining Engineer), Dr. Armando Simon (Principal Geologist), Dr. Rustin Cabrera (Principal Geologist), and Marc Etienne (Senior Hydrogeologist). Collectively this team of experts has over 120 years of experience that includes mining and processing in the Salar de Atacama, lithium exploration campaigns in Chile, and management of lithium projects in Bolivia, Argentina, Peru and Chile, among others.