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Q Battery Metals Corporation 2023 Exploration Planning, LA Corne South Lithium Project, Quebec

Exploration Programs

Q BATTERY METALS CORPORATION

500- 666 Burrard Street

Vancouver, BC, V6C 3P6

www.wallstreetnation.com/qme

Q BATTERY METALS CORPORATION

2023 EXPLORATION PLANNING,

LA CORNE SOUTH LITHIUM PROJECT, QUEBEC

March 16, 2023, Vancouver, BC – Q Battery Metals Corp. (“Q Battery Metals ” or the “Company) (CSE:

QMET, OTC: BTKRF, FRA: 0NB) is pleased to provide their exploration plan for 2023. The company will be

concentrating exploration on their lithium projects , in particular the La Corne South Lithium project

located north of Val d’Or, Quebec. The explo ration work will involve a combination of prospecting,

mapping and rock sampling, combined with soil sampling and geophysical surveying. Exploration is slated

to begin in April 2023.

Exploration on the La Corne South project will include;

• Prospecting, mapping, rock sampling

• Geophysical ground surveys (resistivity)

• Soil sampling over target features

• Trenching and,

• Diamond drilling best targets

The La Corne South lithium project is located in an area of the Abitibi Greenstone belt of rocks that is

host to numerous deposits and mines. In particular, the area around the La Corne Batholith hosts 16

documented lithium showings and two deposits. Nine lithium projects are located within 20 kilometres

(km) of the La Corne South project, including North American Lithium (NAL) mine (Sayona Mining-

Piedmont Lithium Joint Venture) with associated spodumene concentrator, located 11 km NW of La

Corne South. The NAL mine is currently in the process of restarting operations.

(https://sayonamining.com.au/projects/nal-project/).

Nine km to the north of the La Corne South project, Sayona Mining and Jourdan Resources are planning

an extensive diamond drilling program for 2023 to expand the Vallee Lithium deposit (Jourdan news

release March 7, 2023). The reader is cautioned that lithium resources that exist on properties outside

of the Q Battery Metals claims are not direct indicators of lithium mineralization on the claims.

The Q Battery claims were staked over the La Corne Bathol ith and contacting volcanic rocks. The claims

cover 10 kilometers of the La Corne Batholith contact. The batholith periphery will be the primary focus

for lithium exploration in 2023.

La Corne South Exploration 2023

On the Q Battery claims, recently u ndertaken data review of historic work indicates the presence of

pegmatitic rocks with elevated lithium from rock sampling and drill testing (see news release dated March

7, 2023). Initial exploration will concentrate on the Boily-Berubé mineral showing where elevated lithium

(468 ppm Li) was returned from 2021 rock sampling undertaken by Q Battery Metals.

One kilometer north of the Boily-Berubé showing, in 2004, Falconbridge ( Noranda Inc. ) completed

diamond drill hole FIE 15-04-01 where core sampling returned up to 333 ppm lithium (186.1-187.6 metres

depth, see news release dated March 7, 2023). Lithium was not the targeted element during these

previous exploration programs, and most historic drill holes did not analyze core for lithium.

The initial phase of 2023 exploration on the La Corne South will be to prospect, map, and sample the area

of 2021 rock sampling that returned elevated lithium and the contact to the La Corne Batholith. The Boily-

Berubé showing has been prospected primarily for molybdenum (GM16255) with discovery of elevated

molybdenum and bismuth in quartz -feldspar “veins”. In 1989, trenching and prospecting (GM49151)

uncovered vein material at five locations in proximity to the Boily-Berubé showing. The veins were tested

for molybdenum and copper. The reader is cautioned that historic trenching and drilling results reported

by previous operators have not been verified by Q Battery Metals.

Q Battery Metals is currently cont acting geophysical consulting companies to undertake a resistivity

survey over the target area on the La Corne South project. Resistivity surveying is demonstrated as capable

of mapping pegmatite within the host volcanic rocks. Prior surveying undertaken b y Q Battery Metals

included magnetics and conductivity surveys. The results of these surveys will be remodelled for features

that might indicate pegmatite bodies. Follow-up to the geophysical surveying will include rock sampling

of any available outcrops, and soil sampling in areas of cover. The company plans to trench and drill the

most prospective targets delineated from the 2023 exploration program.

Q Battery Metals is prepared to drill test the best targets that are derived from the exploration work.

Drilling could be undertaken summer 2023.

Q Battery Metals exploration programs undertaken in Quebec are supervised by Dr. Mathieu Piché, OGQ,

with office located north of Val d’Or. He is also a Q Battery Metals company director. The company has

100% interest in mineral claims within Quebec and British Columbia, with exploration targeting strategic

and precious metals.

Perry Grunenberg, P.Geo, a “Qualified Person” as that term is defined under NI 43-101, has reviewed and

approved the technical information in this news release.

Cautionary Statement

This press release contains forward -looking statements based on assumptions as of that date. These

statements reflect management’s current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations; they are not

guarantees of future performance. The Company cautions that all forward -looking statements are

inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many

of which are beyond the Company’s control. Such factors in clude, among other things: risks and

uncertainties relating to exploration and development; the ability of the Company to obtain additional

financing; the Company’s limited operating history; the need to comply with environmental and

governmental regulatio ns; fluctuations in the prices of commodities; operating hazards and risks;

competition and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in the Company’s Prospectus

dated September 8, 2017 available on www.sedar.com. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions,

and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions, and expectations expressed or

implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the

Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Richard Penn

CEO

(778) 384-8923