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Imagine Lithium Hires SGS Lakefield for Metallurgy Testing on Jackpot Lithium Property and Provides Corporate Update

Metallurgy & Processing

www.imaginelithium.com

Suite 1240 – 789 W. Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 1H2

Imagine Lithium Hires SGS Lakefield for Metallurgy

Testing on Jackpot Lithium Property and Provides

Corporate Update

November 14, 202 2 Vancouver, BC, Canada – IMAGINE LITHIUM INC. (the

“Company” or “Imagine”) (TSX-V: ILI) (OTCQB: ARXRF) has entered into a

contractual agreement with SGS Natural Resources in Lakefield, ON to carry out

metallurgical testing on lithium ore from the Jackpot Lithium project. This is a

necessary step in the sales process of lithium products including: direct shipping ore,

lithium concentrate, lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide monohydrate. Sample

material is anticipated to come from the Jackpot Main Zone area and is believ ed to

be representative of other zones discovered to date on the property.

SGS is a recognized world leader in lithium analysis and will evaluate the ore and

produce spodumene concentrate up to 6% Li 2O. This is an essential step in the

development and opt imization of the process to produce a battery grade lithium

hydroxide monohydrate and lithium carbonate.

“Given the current elevated pricing environment for lithium products from direct

shipping ore, to concentrate , to fully processed lithium carbonate and lithium

hydroxide, we are considering multiple commercial opportunities for our lithium

products in tandem with exploration . Metallurg ical analysis and results are an

important input in the customer engagement proc ess,” said JC St-Amour, President

and CEO of Imagine Lithium.

The drill program at Jackpot is ongoing with a number of samples awaiting assay

results. The Company will provide an update as results become available.

Corporate Update

Further, the Company announces that the board of directors has granted 1, 750,000

options to officers and directors of the company pursuant to its stock option plan. The

options will be exercisable for a period of 5 years from the date of grant at a price of

$0.075 per option, and vest immediately.

About SGS

www.imaginelithium.com

Suite 1240 – 789 W. Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 1H2

SGS is the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company. SGS is

recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 96,000

employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,700 offices and laboratories around the

world. We are constantly looking beyond customers' and society's expectations in

order to deliver market leading services wherever they are needed. Working together

to make the world a better, safer place.

QA/QC Protocol

Imagine Lithium implemented a strict QA/QC protocol in processing all rock samples

collected from the core material obtained from the Jackpot property. The protocol

included the insertion and monitoring of appropriate reference materials, in this case

high concentration and low concentration cert ified OREAS lithium standards, blanks

and duplicates, to validate the accuracy and precision of the assay results. All

collected rock samples were put in sturdy plastic bags, tagged, and sealed in the core

shack under the supervision of professional geologists. Sample bags were then put in

rice pouches and kept securely before being sent by road transport to the Actlabs

laboratories in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lithium was analyzed by Peroxide Fusion ICP-

OES method (8-Li package).

Qualified Person

The technical content of this news release was approved by Michel Boily, PhD, P.Geo,

an Independent Qualified Person as defined by the National Instrument 43-101.

About Jackpot

The Jackpot Lithium property, located in the Georgia Lake Area about 140 km NNE of

Thunder Bay, Ontario, is approximately 12 km by air from the TransCanada Highway

(Hwy 11) and the main railroad which connects to the port town of Nipigon, on Lake

Superior. The property contains known lithium bearing granitic pegmatite dikes, of

which two provided estimated historical resources of 2 million tons at 1.09% Li2O and

750,000 tons at 1.38% Li2O*.

About Imagine Lithium Inc.

Imagine Lithium is a junior mining exploration company focused on seeking and

acquiring world -class mine ral projects. The company holds the Jackpot lithium

property located near Nipigon, Ont ario, Canada, which contains known pegmatite

showings including two historical resources of 2 million tons grading 1.09% Li2O and

750,000 tons at 1.38% Li2O.

* The estimates presented above are treated as historical information and have not been verified or relied

upon for economic evaluation by the Company. These historical mineral resources do not refer to any

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Suite 1240 – 789 W. Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 1H2

category of sections 1.2 and 1.3 of NI-43-101 such as mineral resources or mineral reserves as stated in the

2010 CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves. The explanation lies in the

inability by the Company to verify the data acquired by the various historical drilling campaigns. Th e

Company has not done sufficient work yet to classify the historical estimates as current mineral resources

or mineral reserves.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

“J.C. St-Amour”

J.C. St-Amour, President

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Telephone: +1-604-683-3995

Toll Free: 1-888-945-4770

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.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: This news release contains forward -looking statements,

which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management’s current

expectations and assumptions. Such forward -looking statements reflect management’s

current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to

the Company. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are neither

promises nor guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future

results to differ materially from those expected. These forward -looking statements are made

as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the

Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them t o reflect new events or

circumstances. All the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by

these cautionary statements and by those made in our filings with SEDAR in Canada (available

at WWW.SEDAR.COM).