Organoclay Industry Veteran Frank B. Wright Jr. Joins Western Lithium as President of Hectatone Inc. and the Company Appoints Edward Flood as Co-Chairman

RENO, NEVADA--(Marketwired - July 31, 2014) - Western Lithium USA Corporation ("Western Lithium", the "Company") (TSX:WLC)(OTCQX:WLCDF) is pleased to announce that Frank B. Wright, Jr., has accepted the position of President of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary Hectatone Inc. effective August 1, 2014. Frank brings approximately 40 years of clay industry experience to the Company that includes:

• President of American Colloid Company, one of the world's leading producers of bentonite clay;
• Vice President of AMCOL International Corp. (now Mineral Technologies), a leading producer and marketer of diverse specialty materials with 2013 reported sales of over US$1 billion;
• President & CEO of Bentonite Performance Minerals, LLC (now subsidiary of Halliburton Company), a company with significant market share in markets for Wyoming bentonite;
• President of Volclay International, where he led strategic initiatives to open new plant operations in China, India, and Thailand;
• Plant operations manager, product development, and quality assurance manager with Baroid Fluids (now subsidiary of Halliburton Company).

Since 2008, as Director of Business Development for Egypt-based Rasheed Performance Minerals, Frank has been involved with the development of a startup organoclay producer, IDIC Specialty Drilling Chemicals, that is now a leading international and US supplier of organoclay and organolignite products for the drilling industry. Frank brings senior executive and operational experience to the Company's organoclay business in both domestic and international operations.

"As a recognized leader in the drilling additives industry, Frank will direct the Company's operations, sales, safety, and other strategic initiatives," said Western Lithium's CEO, Jay Chmelauskas. "Frank joins us as we launch our drilling additive business at a time when the US has demonstrated major exploration and development success with directional drilling technology. The US has increased domestic oil and gas production to near record levels, and the rest of the world, notably China, is now starting to use directional drilling and organoclay technology to realize vast shale and tight oil production opportunities. Our modern Hectatone™ plant is the newest organoclay plant built in the US in decades. Construction is effectively complete, mechanical commissioning has started, and we are on schedule for production and sales of our Hectatone™ organoclay product line in fall, 2014."