Grid Battery Announces the Completion of the Second Phase of its 2025 Fall Exploration Program on its Gold-Copper Property
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Coquitlam, BC – TheNewswire - September 25, 2025- Grid Battery MetalsInc. (the “Company” or “Grid”) (TSXV:CELL, OTCQB: EVKRF FRA: NMK2) is pleased toannounce that the second phase of the fallexploration program on our 275 km 2 Gold-Coppermineral project in Central British Columbia, Canada has been completedby our Canadian contract geological team, Hardline Exploration www.hardlineexploration.com . Thesecond exploration phase concentrated additional exploration work inthe Jupiter and Starlight claim blocks located to the furthest west(Jupiter) and furthest north (Starlight) of the Grid BC Gold-CopperProject.
Please refer to the Technical Report for Grid BCCopper-Gold Project, dated January 24, 2025 prepared by Jeremy Hanson,P.Geo. (filed on SEDAR+ and our website ).
Jupiter Claim Block
Additional work performed on the Jupiter Claim Blockincluded three east-west oriented soil lines south of the cirquebasin, 25 B-horizon soil samples together with silt and rock sampleswere collected. The area traversed in phase 2, referred to as“Work Area 15” contains outcrops of phyllite, which host numerousquartz veins.
Program Objective
The 2025 exploration program was designed to conduct afocused evaluation of the "Work Area 15" target, ahigh-priority geochemical anomaly identified by previous operators.The work involved two complementary activities:
Detailed prospecting and rock sampling directly on theridge-top anomaly.
First-pass soil and rock sampling in the cirque basinsituated directly below Work Area 15.
Geological Context andRationale
The program's target was derived from a 2021exploration program completed by Equity Exploration on behalf of South32 Ltd. (BC Assessment Report 39911). That work identified Work Area15 as a high-priority target due to its "High GeochemicalRank" and anomalous values in multiple pathfinder elements,including Ag, Cu, Mn, and Pb. A Worldview-3 satellite alterationsurvey, also part of the 2021 program, identified iron oxidesignatures on the ridge at Work Area 15.
The current program represents the first follow-up workby Grid Battery Metals on this specific target.
Figure 1 . Jupiter Property showing location of 2025 samples.
Figure 2 . Outcropping quartz veinsin phyllite below cirque.
Starlight Claim Block
Additional work conducted at the Starlight Claim Blockincluded reconnaissance prospecting, rock, andsoil sampling. A total of 72 rock samples and 24 conventional soilsamples were collected during traverses along prominent ridgelines inthe western and central portions of the property, east of the PinchiFault. Prospecting in these areas confirmed the presence of a suiteof intermediate to felsic intrusive rocks, including quartz diorite,granodiorite, monzodiorite, and monzonite. Various styles ofalteration were noted, most commonly potassic (K-feldspar) alteration,which was observed both pervasively and as veins. Localized epidoteand chlorite alteration were also recorded. Observations of coppermineralization included malachite, chalcocite, bornite, andchalcopyrite, often associated with altered intrusive rocks.
Following up on the additional prospecting andsampling, a Targeted MMI Geochemical Survey was designed to test twodistinct target areas.
Northern Target: A discrete magnetic anomaly locatedalong the main northwest-trending magnetic lineament that correspondswith the mapped trace of the Pinchi Fault.
Southern Target: An area adjacent to a historicalcopper-gold-molybdenum MMI anomaly, focusing on the trend of a strongmolybdenum response identified by previous operators.
Figure 3. Starlight Property showing location of 2025samples
Mr. Tim Fernback, President & CEO comments “Theexploration program follows up on previous work conducted and includesgeochemistry across various untested magnetic features on Starlightand Jupiter claims. This area of British Columbia has alreadygenerated several promising projects, and our land package isstrategically situated to exploit the high gold-copper values of theregion. Nearby the Mount Milligan open pit gold-copper mine operatedby Centerra Gold ( TSX: GX,NYSE:CGAU ) recently announced its pre-feasibility study that extended the life of its openpit ming by about 10 years. The area has proven itself to be a greatplace to look for both gold and copper. We have said this manytimes, British Columbia iswell known to be a safe and mining-friendly jurisdiction with reasonable government permittingprocesses and great mining infrastructure .”
Mr. Fernback continues “We expect to have these assayresults by the end of the fall and shortly thereafter our team plansto devise next exploration steps identified on the various claimblocks we hold in the area.”
Aboutthe BC Gold-Copper Property
The Company acquired a100% interest in 17 mineral claims comprising27,525 hectares (approximately 275 km 2 ) located inNorth Central British Columbia. The region ishost to numerous operating mines, good infrastructure includingexperienced exploration and supporting services. Prominent amongearly discoveries in the Omineca region include the nearby Lustdust/Stardust Copper – Gold deposit; the Kwanika Copper -Gold deposit and the Lorraine Copper deposit (all of which are owned by ( NorthWest Copper Corp. ( TSXV:NWST ) ).
The Company’s claimsare also located between Centerra Gold Inc.’s ( TSX: CG, NYSE: CGAU )prominent Copper/Gold assets, the Kemess North project and theoperating Mount Milligan mine, which has produced over 1.8 millionounces of gold and 742 million pounds of copper (Technical Report onthe Mount Milligan Mine, November 7, 2022, Borntrager. B, etal.).
B.C. Minfile assessment report data indicates that mostof the area covered by the Copper Property was at one time or anothercovered by staking during surges of exploration in B.C. dating fromthe 1940’s to present day. Largely the claims appear to have beenminimally explored with little follow-up. However, some work wasrecorded on several claims with results for stream sediment samplingshowing anomalous to highly anomalous results for gold in a few areas. These areas were recommended for detailed follow-up, however due toa downturn no further work was recorded
The Omineca Group claim areas are within the northernQuesnel Trough underlain by Cache Creek Terrane and lies close to thePinchi Fault. The Quesnel Trough hosts numerous porphyrycopper-gold deposits. The Pinchi Fault can be traced for 600 kmthrough north-central B.C and separates Cache Creek rocks from theJurassic Hogem Batholith and Triassic-Jurassic Takla rocks to thewest. Rocks have a north-northwest strike trend typical of theentire Intermontane Belt in which the Cache Creek Terrane lies(Gabrielse and Yorath, 1992). A wide range of Jurassic to Tertiaryintrusions cuts the Cache Creek Assemblage and many of these areemplaced along the prominent NW-trending structures and stratigraphicbreaks. Numerous mercury occurrences are present along the length ofthe Pinchi fault (Albino, 1987) and a few gold and base metaloccurrences are present near the Pinchi fault including the Lustdust,Lorraine, Indata and Axelgold properties. There are at least twoalkalic gold-copper Porphyry systems in the immediate Lustdust (nowknown as Stardust) area: J49 and Axel Properties (Schiarrizza,2000).
The QP has been unable to verify the information, andthat the information is not necessarily indicative to themineralization on the property that is the subject of thedisclosure.
Qualified Person
Jeremy Hanson, P.Geo.,an independent qualified person as defined under National Instrument43-101 has reviewed and approved the technical content in this newsrelease.
AboutGrid Battery Metals Inc. www.gridbatterymetals.com .
Grid Battery Metals Inc.is a Canadian based exploration company whose primary listing is onthe TSX Venture Exchange. The Company’s maintains a focus onexploration for high value battery metals required for the electricvehicle (EV) market.
The Company owns a 100%interest in the Texas Spring Property which consists of mineral lodeclaims located in Elko County, Nevada. The Property is in theGranite Range southeast of Jackpot, Nevada, about 73 kmnorth-northeast of Wells, Nevada. The target is a lithium clay depositin volcanic tuff and tuffaceous sediments of the Humbolt Formation. APhase 1 exploration program at the Texas Springs Property (Fall 2023)yielded average lithium grades of 2010 ppm, applying a1,000 ppm cut-off, and up to 5,610 ppm Lithium .
The Texas Springproperty adjoins the southern border of the Nevada North LithiumProject - owned by Surge Battery Metals Inc. (“Surge”) (TSXV:NILI, OTC: NILIF) and comprised of 725 mineral claims. Surge'sfirst round of drilling identified strongly mineralized lithiumbearing clays. The average lithium content within all near surfaceclay zones intersected in the 2022 drilling program, applying a 1000ppm cut-off, was 3254 ppm. (Press release March 29, 2023 ). More recent results have shown higher grade lithium upto 8070 ppm on this property after initial drilling (Press release September 12, 2023 ). Our exploration results are on-trendwith these results.
AboutClayton Valley Lithium Project
The Company owns a 100%interest in 113 lithium lode and placer claims covering over 930hectares in Clayton Valley. Clayton Valley is a down-dropped closedbasin formed by the Miocene age Great Basin extension and is stillactive due to movement along the Walker Lane structural zone. As aresult, the basin has preserved multiple layers of lithium bearingvolcanic ash, resulting from multiple eruptive events over the past 6million years including eruptions from the 700,000-year-old LongValley Caldera system and related events. These ash layers arethought to contribute to the lithium brines extracted by Albemarle andare also likely involved in the formation of the exposed lithium richclay deposits on the east side of Clayton Valley.
On Behalf of the Boardof Directors
Email: info@gridbatterymetals.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation ServicesProvider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX VentureExchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of thisrelease. This news release may contain forward-looking statementswhich include, but are not limited to, comments that involve futureevents and conditions, which are subject to various risks anduncertainties. Except for statements of historical facts, commentsthat address resource potential, upcoming work programs, geologicalinterpretations, receipt and security of mineral property titles,availability of funds, and others are forward-looking. Forward-lookingstatements are not guarantees of future performance and actual resultsmay vary materially fromthose statements. General business conditions are factors that couldcause actual results to vary materially from forward-lookingstatements. It should benoted that results from any adjacent property(s) are not an indicationof what may be found on the Company’s property(s).
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