Iris Metals

iris metals (asx:ir1) is an australian explorer with an extensive suite of assets prospective for lithium, gold and nickel, located in south dakota, united states (us) and western australia. in the us, the company’s large and expanding south dakota project is located in a mining friendly jurisdiction and highly prospective for hard rock lithium. the us project is iris’s current focus, giving the company strong potential leverage to the battery metals space and the incentives offered by the us government for locally sourced critical minerals. the black hills have a long and proud history of mining dating back to the late 1800s. the black hills pegmatites are famous for having the largest recorded lithium spodumene crystals ever mined. extensive fields of fertile lct-pegmatites outcrop throughout the black hills with significant volumes of lithium spodumene mined in numerous locations. in australia, iris’s wholly owned tenement portfolio, located in western australia, comprises a