15 June 2015
Toronto, ON -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX and NYSE MKT: AVL) (“Avalon” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the start of a $1.3 million work program on the East Kemptville Tin-Indium Project in southwestern Nova Scotia. The program will involve 2,000 metres of diamond drilling, metallurgical process testwork and preliminary environmental studies. This work will generate the data required to complete a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) by November, 2015. Drilling is scheduled to commence in early July and be completed in September with initial results expected in late August. The drilling program will increase confidence in mineral resources in both the Main and Baby Zones, collect fresh sample material for bench-scale metallurgical process testwork and test two exploration targets (Duck Pond and South Grid) where there are encouraging results from historical drilling.