The concentrate samples have a low iron content, which is specifically required by certain users.

Validation of the Rose project material by some of the largest consumers of lithium concentrate with low iron content is part of the process of setting up long-term off-take contracts.

Concurrently, the Critical Elements Corporation team will launch a program over the coming months to produce a number of lithium carbonate samples. These samples will be shipped to battery manufacturers that the Company met with in the past year, for specification analysis and validation.

The Critical Elements Corporation team is also pursuing discussions with a number of potential users of lithium carbonate and tantalum with the goal of entering into long-term sales contracts.

Critical Elements is also pleased to announce that its President & CEO, Jean-Sébastien Lavallée, has been invited to speak at the 6th Lithium Supply & Markets Conference in Montréal on May 20-22, 2014, hosted by Industrial Minerals.