Platypus Minerals Ltd. announced that Mr. Joe Walsh has been appointed as Managing Director. Concurrent with this, Mr. Tom Dukovcic was appointed to the executive position of Director Exploration after serving the Company as Managing Director for the past thirteen years. The company's strategy is to become a lithium producer by 2019, via the commercialisation of its proprietary the L-Max® technology, which is currently the subject of a pre-feasibility study, and the exploration and acquisition of deposits containing lithium rich micas as well as other lithium bearing minerals.

The Board of Platypus believes that these latest appointments provide the leadership for Platypus to implement its strategy and be a creative leader in the lithium space.