Surge Battery Metals Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement
Surge Battery Metals Inc.
3028 Quadra Court
Coquitlam, BC, Canada V3B 5X6
778-945-2656
www.surgebatterymetals.com
Surge Battery Metals Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement
Tuesday, January 17, 2023: Coquitlam, BC; Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the “ Company” or “Surge”)
(TSXV: NILI, OTCPink: NILIF, FRA: DJ5C) announces that it has closed a non -brokered private
placement financing offering of 2,412,360 units (“Units”) at a price of $0.25 per Unit for gross
proceeds of $603,090.
Each Unit is comprised of one common shar e and one share purchase warrant (“ Warrant”). Each
Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one additional common share of the Company at
an exercise price of $0.30 per share for a period of five years from closing, subject to TSX Venture
Exchange (“Exchange”) approval.
The Company also paid Finder fees in the amount of $32,000 cash and 141,545 shares in connection
with the private placement. The finder fees are subject to Exchange approval.
All securities issued in connection with the privat e placement will be subject to a four‐month and a
day hold period expiring on May 18, 2023 in accordance with applicable Canadian Securities Laws.
The proceeds of the Private Placement will be used for exploration and development and for general
working capital purposes.
About Surge Battery Metals Inc. surgebatterymetals.com
The Company is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company active in the exploration for nickel-
iron alloy in British Columbia and lithium in Nevada 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.
Nevada Lithium Projects
The Company owns a 100% inter est in 225 mineral claims located in Elko County, Nevada. The
Nevada North Lithium Project 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 tufface ous
sediments of the Jarbidge Rhyolite package.
In addition, the Company has a Property Option Agreement to earn an undivided 80% interest in 16
mineral claims, comprising 640 acres located within Nevada's San Emidio Desert, known as the Galt
Property. Recent mineral exploration on the Galt claim group includes 51 playa sediment samples
collected for chemical analysis at ALS Geochemistry in Vancouver, B.C. Results of aqua regia leaching
of the samples show 68 to 852 parts per million lithium (mean 365 pp m), 5.3 to 201 ppm cesium
(mean 72 ppm) and 35 to 377 ppm rubidium (mean 180 ppm). Results from two seven -foot-deep
auger holes show lithium, cesium, and rubidium concentrations in the range of 143.5 to 773 ppm Li,
56.8 to 102.5 ppm Cs and 155 to 272 Rb.
Finally, the Company owns a 100% interest in 663 ha (1,640 acre) property in the Teels Marsh
Project located in Mineral County, Nevada. The property is in an active region for both lithium
exploration and production.
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Nickel Projects, Northern BC
The Company has a Property Option Agreement to earn an undivided 80% interest in certain mineral
claims from Nickel Rock Resources Inc. The Project (The Surge Nickel Project) consists of two non -
contiguous mineral claims groups consisting of 6 mineral clai m blocks located in northern British
Columbia. One claim in the Mount Sidney Williams area (claim HN4), covers 1863 hectares
immediately south of and adjacent to the Decar Project, currently being advanced by FPX Resources,
and 5 claims in the Mitchell Ra nge area, northeast of Decar, (N100 Group) covering 8659 hectares.
Three of the claims are subject to 2% NSR, including the (HN4 claim and the two southernmost claims
of the N100 claim group). Both projects target the nickel -iron alloy mineral “Awaruite”, hosted by
serpentinized intrusive rocks of the Trembleur Ultramafic Uniton Behalf of the Board of Directors.
“Greg Reimer”
Greg Reimer, President & CEO
Contact Information
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 778-945-2656
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the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release . 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 guaranteeing 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.