Arizona Lithium (ASX:AZL) appoints new CTO

• Arizona Lithium (AZL) announces the appointment of Brett Rabe as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
• Mr Rabes is the former Vice President of Engineering and Project Management at Lithium Americas Corp (LAC) for the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada
• Arizona Lithium says Thacker Pass, which hosts the largest known lithium resource in the US, is the most comparable project to its Big Sandy lithium project in the US state of Arizona
• AZL shares up 3.23 per cent to 16 cents

Arizona Lithium (AZL) has appointed Brett Rabe as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

The company said Mr Rabe, former Vice President of Engineering and Project Management at Lithium Americas Corp (LAC) for the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada, brings significant lithium project management and engineering experience to Arizona Lithium.

Thacker Pass is the largest known lithium resource in the US and Arizona said it was the most comparable to its Big Sandy lithium project in terms of style and mineralogy.

The company said Mr Rabe was instrumental in the running of the pilot plant and technical design documents for the Thacker Pass project.

“With (Brett’s) significant experience in engineering and project management at LAC’s Thacker Pass project, I’m confident that he’ll be able to contribute significantly towards the sustainable development of Big Sandy,” Arizona Managing Director Paul Lloyd said.

“Thacker Pass represents the most similar project to Big Sandy and, through Brett’s appointment, we’ll be able to apply his learnings to fast-track the project.”

Arizona’s Big Sandy lithium project in the US state of Arizona hosts a shallow, flat lying mineralised sedimentary lithium resource.

The company’s drilling program in 2019 resulted in the estimation of an indicated and inferred JORC resource of 32.5 million tonnes grading 1,850 parts per million lithium for 320,800 tonnes of contained lithium carbonate.

AZL shares were up 3.23 per cent to 16 cents at 11:31 am AEDT.