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LiCo Energy Metals – Receives $1,222,250 from the Exercise of Options and Warrants and is featured in the current issue of Resource Global Network

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LiCo Energy Metals – Receives $1,222,250 from the Exercise of Options and Warrants and is featured

in the current issue of Resource Global Network

December 7 th, 2017 – Vancouver, British Columbia; – LiCo Energy Metals Inc. (“the Company” or

“LiCo”) TSX-V: LIC, OTCQB: WCTXF is pleased to announce that from November 9 th, 2017 to December

4th, 2017, the Company has received $1,222,250 in proceeds from the exercise of warrants and options.

This amount, in addition to the recently closed non‐brokered private placement offering of $960,000, has

put an additional $2,182,250 into the Company’s treasury since November 9th, 2017.

“We are very happy that our shareholders continue to support our company and its exploration programs

globally” comments Mr. Tim Fernback, President & CEO of LiCo. “The funds that we have received over

the past month will not only go towards additional mineral exploration in Canada, but will be us ed to

make our final property payment in early 2018 to Glencore on the Glencore Bucke Property. Completing

this transaction with Glencore, and working towards the delineation of an aggregate in -situ value of

$100,000,000 or more, is part of our corporate plan to create a cobalt resource in Ontario. Hitting this in-

situ value mark is an important factor in Glencore’s Back-In Option with LiCo.”

The Company plans to allocate a minimum of $640,000 to a future Canadian exploration program in

accordance with i ts flow through spending requireme nts. Management anticipates formulating a

comprehensive 2018 Canadian exploration program once the final assay results are received from the

recently completed diamond drilling programs at LiCo’s Glencore Bucke and Teledy ne Properties at the

beginning of the calendar year.

LiCo was also featured in a recent issue of Resource Global Network Magazine (Volume 4 Issue 7) which

was unveiled at London’s Mines and Money Conference at the end of November 2017. This article

includes an interview with LiCo’s management and reviews LiCo’s international lithium and cobalt

properties and exploration programs. It can be read here, LiCo Feature in RGN . Mr. Fernback states

“Garnering interest from a quality publication like Resource Global Network is further testament that we

are onto something newsworthy at LiCo. By having properties in both lithium and cobalt, we are a unique

and true energy metals company, focused on more than one metal involved in the clean energy

movement.”

Qualified Person

The Glencore Bucke and Teledyne Properties are managed by Joerg Kleinboeck, P.Geo., (LiCo’s QP), and

supervised by Dwayne Melrose, Director and Head of the Technical Advisory Board of LiCo.

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About LiCo Energy Metals: https://licoenergymetals.com/

LiCo Energy Metals Inc. is a Canadian based explor ation company whose primary listing is on the TSX

Venture Exchange. The Company's focus is directed towards exploration for high value metals integral to

the manufacture of lithium ion batteries.

Glencore Bucke Cobalt Project, Cobalt, Ontario : The Company has entered into a property purchase

agreement to acquire a 100% interest from Glencore Canada Corporation (subsidiary of Glencore plc) in

the Glencore Bucke Property, situated in Bucke Township, 6 km east-northeast of Cobalt, Ontario, subject

to a back -in provision, production royalty and off -take agreement . Strategically, the Glencore Bucke

Property consists of 16.2 hectares and sits along the west boundary of LiCo’s Teledyne Cobalt Project. The

Property covers the southern extension of th e #3 vein that was historically mined on the neighbouring

Cobalt Contact Property located to the north of the Glencore Bucke Property. Diamond drilling in 1981

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on the Glencore Bucke Property delineated two zones of mineralization measuring 150 m and 70 m in

length.

Ontario Teledyne Cobalt Project:

The Company has an option to earn 100% ownership, subject to a royalty, in the Teledyne Project located

near Cobalt. Ontario. The Property adjoins the south and west boundaries of claims that hosted the

Agaunico Mine. From 1905 through to 1961, the Agaunico Mine produced a total of 4,350,000 lbs. of

cobalt and 980,000 oz. of silver. A significant portion of the cobalt that was produced at the Agaunico

Mine located along structures that extended southward onto property currently under option to LiCo

Energy Metals.

Chile Purickuta Lithium Project:

The Purickuta Project is located within Salar de Atacama, a salt flat encompassing 3,000 km2, being about

100 km long, 80 km wide and home to approximately 37% of th e worlds Lithium production. The salar

possesses a very high grade of both Lithium (1,840mg/l) and Potassium (22,630mg/l and is close to power,

labour, communications, transportation and other infrastructure. The property of 160 hectares is

enveloped by a concession owned by Sociedad Quimica y Minera (“SQM”) and lies, significantly, within a

few kilometers of the property of CORFO (the Chilean Economic Development Agency) where its leases to

both SQM and Albermarle’s Rockwood Lithium Corp Together these two companies have combined

production of over 62,000 tonnes of LCE (Lithium Carbonate Equivalent) annually making up 100% of

Chile’s current lithium output. The unique characteristics of Salar de Atacama make finished lithium

carbonate easier and cheaper to produce than any of its peer group globally.

Purickuta is a smaller exploitation concession rather than a large exploration concession thereby

accelerating the task of taking the project to production once a measured reserve can be established.

Currently, the Chilean government retains ownership of lithium separate from other minerals and thus

production can only proceed upon receipt of a special lithium operation contract know as a “CEOL”. In

the future, it will be necessary for LiCo and partner to negotiate a production contract with CORFO

concurrently with completing any positive feasibility study. “Chile, which has one of the world's most

plentiful supplies of lithium, is pushing ahead with new policies to develop those reserves”. (Reuters Jan

2, 2017).

Nevada Dixie Valley Lithium Project:

The Company has an option to acquire a 100% interest, subject to a 3% NSR, on a large lithium exploration

project at the Humboldt Salt Marsh in Dixie Valley, Nevada. The geologic setting and presence of lithium

in active geothermal fluids and surface salts in Dixie Valley match characteristics of producing lithium

brine deposits at Clayton Valley, Nevada and in South America.

Nevada Black Rock Desert Lithium Project:

The Company has entered into an option agreement whereby the Company may earn an undivided 100%

interest, subject to a 3% N SR, in the Black Rock Desert Lithium Project in southwest Black Rock Desert,

Washoe County, Nevada.

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The Company is planning additional exploration programs on a number of its properties over the next

several months. The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and app roved Joerg

Kleinboeck, P.Geo., an independent consulting geologist and a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors

Tim Fernback, President & CEO

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the

policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Disclaimer for Forward-Looking Information:

This news release may contain forward -looking statements which include, but are not limited to,

comments that involve future events and conditions, which are subject to various risks and uncertainties.

Except for statements of historical facts, comments that address resource potential, upcoming work

programs, geological interpretations, receipt and security of mineral property titles, availability of funds,

and others are forward -looking. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance

and actual results may vary materially from those statements. General business conditions are factors that

could cause actual results to vary materially from forward-looking statements.