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a p r i l / m a y 2 0 1 5 www.resourceworld.com 31 completing a NI 43-101 inferred resource at Clayton Valley by the end of the second quarter of 2015. Concurrent to that, the company is pilot plant testing brine samples from the project at POSCO's lithium research facility in Korea as well as Tenova Bateman's lithium research facility in Israel. Recently the company announced very promising initial results from its lithium extraction technology testing at the Tenova Bateman Technologies (TBT) facility. Pure Energy supplied a raw brine bulk sample from Clayton Valley to test TBT's proprie- tary LiP™ and LiSX™ processes. The first membrane-based process removed almost all of the calcium, magnesium and stron- tium from the solution while the second solvent extraction-based process extracted high purity >99.9% lithium chloride from the solution. "The draft report from Tenova Bateman is extremely encouraging, achieving virtu- ally 100% lithium recovery and exceeding our target purity of final product is a sig- nificant development," commented Robert Mintak, Pure Energy CEO. "These pre- liminary results suggest that the combined Tenova Bateman LiP and LiSX processes for extraction of Li (lithium) can be applied successfully to raw Clayton Valley brine provided from Pure Energy's project site." Dajin Resources Corp. [DJI-TSXV; DJIFF-OTC; C2U-FSE] is an early stage energy metals exploration company hold- ing a 100% interest in claims covering 5,414 acres of ground known to contain lithium and boron values in the Teels Marsh region of Mineral County, Nevada. Teels Marsh is a dry lake very similar to the Clayton Valley property, being that they are both closed desert basins that were mined for borax starting in the mid 1800s. Dajin recently completed an initial gravity survey at Teels Marsh. Additional geological and geophysical work is being completed to prepare for an exploration drilling campaign. This program will test the depth and size of the aquifers within the Teels Marsh basin and their lithium concentrations. Earlier sampling work identified prom- ising lithium and boron results taken over an area measuring 5.5 km by 1.8 km. A total of 74 sample locations were tested spaced at 300-metre intervals along east- west lines 487 metres apart. The highest lithium assay value was 460 ppm. There were 28 assays that returned values greater than 150 ppm, 23 assays were greater than 100 ppm and only 5 assays were lower than 100 ppm. Teels Marsh is also a known geothermal site. Just as with circulating basin waters, the hot waters associated with the geo- thermal resource dissolve rocks, liberating boron, lithium and other elements such as sodium and chloride. These minerals are brought to the surface as springs emanat- ing from faults bounding the basin. Halite (table salt) and ulexite (a calcium sodium borate) were mined in the valley in the late 1800s (1872 – 1892). The supposition of a closed basin in an arid environment with a geothermal circulation system and sources of lithium suggests that Teels Marsh is a target for significant lithium rich brines. Following the recent gravity survey on the Teels Marsh property, additional geological and geophysical work will be completed in preparation for exploratory drill holes. Management is currently on the ground in Nevada reviewing the work to date and planning the upcoming exploration. An advisory team is being assembled to assist in the review and evaluation relating to Dajin's lithium projects in Nevada and Argentina. Dajin also holds a 100% interest in concessions or concession applications in Argentina. These concessions total approx- imately 247,000 acres with 198,000 acres located in the Salinas Grandes/Guayatayoc salt lakes basin adjacent to concessions held by Orocobre which is partnered with Toyota Tsusho. Dajin believes that planned drill programs on its own concessions could produce similar results as Orocobre and ultimately lead to delineating its own resource. n Successfully serving the mining exploration industry, focusing on US production of strategic minerals. Leaders in Project Generation www.geoxplor.com Acquisition & Development Clayton Valley, Nevada