On March 14, 2019 Dalares was granted the Exploration License No. 45 – EL for the hard-rock minerals by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the term of six (6) years. The Kene License area includes nine (9) exploration block claims for a total area of 20.1 km².

Kene site is geographically located in the Ulan administrative rayon of Eastern Kazakhstan Province, in the northern slope of the Kalbinsky ridge lowlands, to the west from the Karaburgali National Park. The absolute elevations reach 600-800 m with relative altitudes of 50-150 m. Waterflows within the area represented by Isyr and Kenebai creeks joining the Sibinka River, the left-bank tributary of the Irtysh River. The nearest village is Bayash Utepov, located 6 km to the south-east of the Kene License Area.

For the first time the rear-metal mineralization (Ta, Sn) was identified in 1971-1972 as a result of the comprehensive geological and geophysical surveying by O.K.Averin and L.F.Knyazwv, et al (so-called Kenebai ore occurrence). In 1974-1975 the group of geologists E.P. Pushko, K.K.Murtashin, et al as a result of prospecting works discovered a linear type pegmatitic field primarily represented by a series of albite spodumene pegmatite veins containing tantalum and tin.

The extensive Soviet exploration activities targeted tantalum and tin discoveries due to low demand for lithium by the Soviet industry. One of the key prospecting criteria for tantalum and tin discovery by Soviet geologists was the presence of albite spodumene pegmatites. It is worth noting that in the geological logs for pegmatitic veins it is indicated that spodumene (main lithium mineral) is contained almost in all pegmatites of the Kene area and very often constitutes the main ore-hosting mineral (up to 70 – 80% of the pegmatitic vein composition).

During the detailed assessment of the historical geological reports available to Dalares, the geologists identified the zone of the top priority and of an utmost interest for the first-line exploration — the zone of expanding albite spodumene pegmatites characterized by thick and vast lithium mineralization (historical data indicates up to 8,675 ppm of Li₂O grade, which the highest documented grade in the historical drillhole С-506 in the depth of between 115 m and 175 m with albite spodumene pegmatite veins of up to 8 m thickness (‘The Priority Zone’). This zone reaches 1,200 m along the vein strike and in the projection onto the horizontal plane reaches the width of ca.300 m.