** Shares of Australia's Lithium Plus Minerals LPM.AX
climb as much as 9.7% to A$0.34
** Stock on track for best day since May 19, if gains hold
** Lithium miner says it has struck a wide pegmatite
interval in its initial diamond hole of phase three drilling at
its Lei prospect in the Northern Territory
** Co says in its maiden hole, it struck a 43-metre
pegmatite interval intersected downhole from 443 metres to 486
metres
** Stock down 16.2% YTD, as of last close
(Reporting by Riya Sharma in Bengaluru)
((Riya.Sharma@thomsonreuters.com;))