TORONTO, May 19, 2017 /CNW/ - LSC Lithium Corporation (the "Company" or "LSC") (TSXV: LSC)  announced that the Board of Directors of the Company granted 750,000 options to purchase common stock to certain independent directors, at an exercise price of $1.30, for a term of five years, pursuant to the Company's incentive stock option plan. Concurrently, the Board resolved to freeze directors' fees for a period of three years.

ABOUT LSC LITHIUM CORPORATION:

LSC has amassed a large portfolio of tenements on prospective lithium rich salars in Northern Argentina. LSC's six major development plays are on the salars Pozuelos (pending completion of the previously announced acquisition in respect of same), Pastos Grandes, Salinas Grandes (Salta), Salinas Grandes (Jujuy), Rio Grande and Jama, all of which are located in the "Lithium Triangle," an area at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile where the world's most abundant lithium brine deposits are found. After completion of all announced acquisitions, LSC will hold a land package portfolio totaling approximately 300,000 hectares, which represents extensive lithium prospective tenement holdings in Argentina.

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SOURCE LSC Lithium Corporation

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