Patriot Appoints Vice President ESG and Senior Advisor Environment and Permitting to its Team
Patriot Battery Metals Inc.
Suite 700 - 838 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6C 0A6
www.patriotbatterymetals.com TSX-V: PMET / ASX: PMT / OTC: PMETF / FSE: R9GA
Patriot Appoints Vice President ESG and Senior Advisor
Environment and Permitting to its Team
January 9, 2023 – Vancouver, BC, Canada January 10, 2023 – Sydney, Australia
Highlights
• 2 environment and permitting professionals appointed to Patriot’s management team
• Alix Drapack joins as Vice President of Environment, Social and Governance
• Andrée Drolet joins as senior advisor Environment and Permitting
• Both Alix and Andrée previously held senior positions for Osisko Mining Inc. a leading Quebec based
gold exploration company exploring the Windfall Lake Gold deposit in the Eeyou -Istchee James Bay
region.
Patriot Battery Metals Inc. (the “Company” or “Patriot”) (TSX -V:PMET) (ASX: PMT) (OTCQX: PMETF)
(FSE: R9GA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Alix Drapack, P.Eng., MBA, ICD.D to its Management
Team in the role of Vice President Environment, Social and Governance (ESG). Ms. Drapack will oversee the
company’s ESG activities including Environment, Community relations and First Nation relations, agreements, and
partnerships. The company is also pleased to announce that Ms. Andrée Drolet, P.Eng. has joined the PMET team as
senior advisor Environment and Permitting. Ms. Drapack and Ms. Drolet are two highly experienced professionals in
their respective fields and will be instrumental for the advancement of the Corvette Property located in the Eeyou
Istchee James Bay Region of Quebec.
Alix Drapack comments:
“Andrée and I are very pleased to be working together again on this exciting project in Eeyou Istchee James Bay. The
Corvette Project gives us an opportunity to continue our positive and productive relationship with the Crees and the
Quebec government regulators. The Patr iot team has completed an impressive amount of ESG work to date as an
exploration company. The permitting path has strong foundation, and we look forward to progressing the
environmental assessment process through to a successful completion”.
Blair Way, Company President, CEO and Director, comments:
“I am very pleased to bring on board two key team members as we grow the Company for advancing the Corvette
Property. Alix and Andrée have considerable experience in their respective fields with a focus on developing mineral
resource projects in Quebec. I look forward to working with them as we grow the Company.
Ms. Alix Drapack, P.Eng., MBA, ICD.D, is a Professional Engineer with over 30 years of experience in managing
mining, environmental and transportation/infrastructure projects in Canada and the USA, spanning operations,
consulting, and corporate office settings. Ms. Drapack was the Chief Sustainability Officer for Osisko Mining Inc.
where her portfolio included health & safety, environment, human resources, and indigenous and community relations.
During her time at Osisko she focused on permitting the Windfall Lake Project in Northern Quebec and initiated and
led the combined f ederal and provincial environmental assessment process for the Hammond Reef Gold Project in
Ontario, a proposed 30,000t per day open pit gold mine near Atikokan Ontario which included permitting involving
impacts to fish bearing waterbodies with the federal Department of Fisheries and Ocean (DFO).
Ms. Andrée Drolet is a mining Engineer, member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, with 23 years of experience
in the mining industry. She worked in water and mine waste management, mine closure and permitting. Ms. Drolet
was the Environment Director for Osisko Mining Inc., leading the environmental assessment and the permitting of the
Windfall project located on the traditional territory of the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi.
About Patriot Battery Metals Inc.
Patriot Battery Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of mineral
properties containing battery, base, and precious metals.
The Company’s flagship asset is the 100% owned Corvette Property, located proximal to the Trans- Taiga Road and
powerline infrastructural corridor in the James Bay Region of Québec. The land package hosts significant lithium
potential highlighted by the 2.2 km long CV5 spodumene pegmatite with drill intercepts of 159.7 m at 1.65% Li 2O
and 193 ppm Ta2O5 (CV22-042), and 70.1 m at 2.22% Li2O and 147 ppm Ta2O5, including 40.7 m at 3.01% Li2O and
160 ppm Ta2O5 (CV22-017). Additionally, the Property hosts the Golden Gap Trend with grab samples of 3.1 to
108.9 g/t Au from outcrop and 7 m at 10.5 g/t Au in drill hole, and the Maven Trend with 8.15% Cu, 1.33 g/t Au, and
171 g/t Ag in outcrop.
The Company also holds 100% ownership of the Freeman Creek Gold Property in Idaho, USA which hosts two
prospective gold prospects - the Gold Dyke Prospect with a 2020 drill hole intersection of 12 m at 4.11 g/t Au and
33.0 g/t Ag, and the Carmen Creek Prospect with surface sample results including 25.5 g/t Au, 159 g/t Ag, and 9.75%
Cu.
The Company’s other assets include the Pontax Lithium -Gold Property, QC; and the Hidden Lake Lithium Property,
NWT, where the Company maintains a 40% interest, as well as several other assets in Canada.
For further information, please contact us at [email protected] Tel: +1 (604) 279- 8709 or visit
www.patriotbatterymetals.com.
Please refer to the Company’s continuous disclosure filings, available under its profile at www.sedar.com and
asx.com.au, for available exploration data.
This news release has been approved by the Board of Directors,
“BLAIR WAY”
Blair Way, President, CEO, & Director
Competent person statement (ASX Listing Rule 5.22)
The information in this news release which relates to previously announced exploration results for the Corvette Property were first released by the
Company in its prospectus for its ASX listing dated 9 November 2022 and released to the ASX platform on 5 December 2022 ( Prospectus). The
Company confirms it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the exploration results included in the Prospectus.
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