Grid Battery Announces the Completion of the First Phase of its 2025 Fall Exploration Program for its British Columbia Gold-Copper Property
NEWS RELEASE
Grid Battery Announces the Completion of the First Phase of its 2025 Fall
Exploration Program for its British Columbia Gold-Copper Property
Coquitlam, BC – September 17, 2025- Grid Battery Metals Inc. (the “Company” or “Grid”) (TSXV:
CELL, OTCQB: EVKRF FRA: NMK2) is pleased to announce that the first phase of the fall exploration
program has been completed by our Canadian contract geological team, Hardline Exploration
www.hardlineexploration.com. Founded in 2014, Hardline, is a leading geological consulting firm
operating in western Canada. Hardline works directly with local contractors and First Nations to
ensure their projects receives the most efficient & dedicated exploration services available. They
specialize in executing complex exploration programs to generate new discoveries and have a proven
track record of successful projects incorporating highly skilled geologists and team members.
Please refer to the Technical Report for Grid BC Copper-Gold Project, dated January 24, 2025
prepared by Jeremy Hanson, P.Geo. (filed on SEDAR+ and our website).
2025 Exploration Program
Mr. Tim Fernback, President & CEO comments “We’re excited to have previously acquired
approximately 275 km 2 of tenures in such a favourable mining region within British Columbia,
Canada. This area of the Province has already generated several promising projects, and our land
package is strategically situated to exploit the high gold-copper values of the region. NorthWest
Copper Corp. ( TSXV: NWST ) on the nearby Kwanika project intercepted 400 metres of 1.01 %
Copper equivalent (News Release: January 16, 2023 Northwest Copper Corp ). Nearby the Mount
Milligan open pit gold-copper mine operated by Centerra Gold ( TSX: GX, NYSE:CGAU ) recently
announced its pre-feasibility study that extended the life of its open pit ming by about 10 years. The
area has proven itself to be a great place to look for both gold and copper. British Columbia is well
known to be a safe and mining-friendly jurisdiction with reasonable government permitting
processes and great mining infrastructure.”
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Grid Battery Metals Inc..
3028 Quadra Court
Coquitlam, BC, V3B 5X6
604- 428-5690
www.gridbatterymetals.com
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Mr. Fernback continues “We have recently concluded our initial exploration program on two of the
five claim blocks recently acquired as part of our Fall Exploration Phase 1. Here a large assaying,
trenching, sampling and geophysics program was strategically situated within the Jupiter and
Starlight claim blocks. We expect to have these assay results by the end of the fall with next
exploration steps identified on the various claim blocks shortly thereafter.”
“The exploration program follows up on previous work conducted by others in 2023 and includes
geochemistry across various untested magnetic features on Starlight and Jupiter claims. The areas
on these two large claim blocks include detailed soil sampling, mapping and prospecting on eight
targeted areas for both gold and copper initially identified by our geological team.”
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About the Gold-Copper Property
The Company acquired a 100% interest in 17 mineral claims comprising 27,525 hectares
(approximately 275 km2) located in North Central British Columbia. The region is host to numerous
operating mines, good infrastructure including experienced exploration and supporting services.
Prominent among early discoveries in the Omineca region include the nearby Lustdust/Stardust
Copper – Gold deposit; the Kwanika Copper - Gold deposit and the Lorraine Copper deposit (all of
which are owned by (NorthWest Copper Corp. (TSXV: NWST)).
The Company’s claims are also located between Centerra Gold Inc.’s ( TSX: CG, NYSE: CGAU )
prominent Copper/Gold assets, the Kemess North project and the operating Mount Milligan mine,
which has produced over 1.8 million ounces of gold and 742 million pounds of copper (Technical
Report on the Mount Milligan Mine, November 7, 2022, Borntrager. B, et al.).
B.C. Minfile assessment report data indicates that most of the area covered by the Copper Property
was at one time or another covered by staking during surges of exploration in B.C. dating from the
1940’s to present day. Largely the claims appear to have been minimally explored with little follow-
up. However, some work was recorded on several claims with results for stream sediment sampling
showing anomalous to highly anomalous results for gold in a few areas. These areas were
recommended for detailed follow-up, however due to a downturn no further work was recorded
The Omineca Group claim areas are within the northern Quesnel Trough underlain by Cache Creek
Terrane and lies close to the Pinchi Fault. The Quesnel Trough hosts numerous porphyry copper-
gold deposits. The Pinchi Fault can be traced for 600 km through north-central B.C and separates
Cache Creek rocks from the Jurassic Hogem Batholith and Triassic-Jurassic Takla rocks to the west.
Rocks have a north-northwest strike trend typical of the entire Intermontane Belt in which the Cache
Creek Terrane lies (Gabrielse and Yorath, 1992). A wide range of Jurassic to Tertiary intrusions cuts
the Cache Creek Assemblage and many of these are emplaced along the prominent NW-trending
structures and stratigraphic breaks. Numerous mercury occurrences are present along the length of
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the Pinchi fault (Albino, 1987) and a few gold and base metal occurrences are present near the Pinchi
fault including the Lustdust, Lorraine, Indata and Axelgold properties. There are at least two alkalic
gold-copper Porphyry systems in the immediate Lustdust (now known as Stardust) area: J49 and
Axel Properties (Schiarrizza, 2000).
In other news, the Company has announced that it has formally dropped the Volt Canyon Lithium
property from its Nevada lithium exploration portfolio. The Company had a 100% interest in 80
placer claims covering approximately 635 hectares of alluvial sediments and clays located 122 km
northeast of Tonopah, Nevada, but accessing the property proved difficult and initial sampling results
were considered average and not exceptional by our geological team.
Qualified Person
Jeremy Hanson, P.Geo., an independent qualified person as defined under National Instrument 43-
101 has reviewed and approved the technical content in this news release.
About Grid Battery Metals Inc. www.gridbatterymetals.com.
Grid Battery Metals Inc. is a Canadian based exploration company whose primary listing is on the
TSX Venture Exchange. The Company’s maintains a focus on exploration for high value battery
metals required for the electric vehicle (EV) market.
About Texas Springs Property
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Texas Spring Property which consists of mineral lode
claims located in Elko County, Nevada. The Property is in the Granite Range southeast of Jackpot,
Nevada, about 73 km north-northeast of Wells, Nevada. The target is a lithium clay deposit in
volcanic tuff and tuffaceous sediments of the Humbolt Formation. A Phase 1 exploration program
at the Texas Springs Property (Fall 2023) yielded average lithium grades of 2010 ppm, applying a
1,000 ppm cut-off, and up to 5,610 ppm Lithium.
The Texas Spring property adjoins the southern border of the Nevada North Lithium Project -
owned by Surge Battery Metals Inc. (“Surge”) (TSXV: NILI, OTC: NILIF) and comprised of 725
mineral claims. Surge's first round of drilling identified strongly mineralized lithium bearing clays.
The average lithium content within all near surface clay zones intersected in the 2022 drilling
program, applying a 1000 ppm cut-off, was 3254 ppm. (Press release March 29, 2023). More recent
results have shown higher grade lithium up to 8070 ppm on this property after initial drilling (Press
release September 12, 2023). Our exploration results are on-trend with these results.
About Clayton Valley Lithium Project
The Company owns a 100% interest in 113 lithium lode and placer claims covering over 930
hectares in Clayton Valley. Clayton Valley is a down-dropped closed basin formed by the Miocene
age Great Basin extension and is still active due to movement along the Walker Lane structural zone.
As a result, the basin has preserved multiple layers of lithium bearing volcanic ash, resulting from
multiple eruptive events over the past 6 million years including eruptions from the 700,000-year-
old Long Valley Caldera system and related events. These ash layers are thought to contribute to
the lithium brines extracted by Albemarle and are also likely involved in the formation of the
exposed lithium rich clay deposits on the east side of Clayton Valley.
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On Behalf of the Board of Directors
“Tim Fernback”
Tim Fernback, President & CEO
Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 604- 428-5690
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forward-looking statements. It should be noted that results from any adjacent property(s) are not an indication
of what may be found on the Company’s property(s).