BelmontResources Inc. said July 11 that it has staked 213 additionalplacer claims totaling about 1,724 hectares, adjoining its Kibby Basin lithiumproperty in Clayton Valley, Nev.

The staking increased the total Kibby Basin land position to2,760 hectares.

As a result of the recently completed gravity survey, theproperty's potential to host lithium-bearing brines has been enhanced.