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RNS Number : 7042L  Power Metal Resources PLC  04 January 2023

4 January 2023

Power Metal Resources PLC

("Power Metal" or the "Company")

Acquisition - Canadian Graphite Project

New Battery Commodities Vehicle

Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW), the London listed exploration company
seeking large-scale metal discoveries across its global project portfolio
announces the acquisition of the 4,222-hectare Doerksen Bay graphite Project
("Doerksen Bay" or the "Project") located in mining friendly Saskatchewan,
Canada. Power Metal also announces the formation of ION Battery Resources
Limited, a new UK private battery metals and minerals focused vehicle.

HIGHLIGHTS

·    The acquisition of Doerksen Bay gives Power Metal shareholders
exposure to the exciting graphite space, a key component in new age battery
technology.

·    Graphite flake prices are trading near to historic highs, and tight
supply is expected to underpin the graphite market into 2023.(1)

·    Historical rock samples from Doerksen Bay have returned graphite
grades of up to 45% carbon (C) from coarse-grained graphitic gneiss (2).

·    The Project complements the Company's Authier North/Duval East as
well as North Wind lithium projects which are all to be held within a newly
incorporated special purpose battery commodities vehicle, ION Battery
Resources Limited.

Paul Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Power Metal Resources PLC commented:

"The acquisition of Doerksen Bay brings a potential high-grade graphite
opportunity into the Power Metal portfolio.

This acquisition enables us to create critical mass in specialist battery
commodities, through the formation of a new holding company ION Battery
Resources Ltd which we plan to hold Doerksen Bay, together with the Company's
two existing Canadian lithium interests.

We are continuing our desktop research for the Project with a view to
designing ground exploration to test the extremely high-grade graphite
occurrences reported from the Project as soon as weather conditions and team
availability allows."

ACQUISITION TERMS

The vendors of the Project (the "Vendors") are a consortium led by established
local prospector Brian Fowler. Mr. Fowler was previously the vendor of the
Schreiber-Hemlo properties that Power Metal sold in exchange for a strategic
shareholding in First Class Metals PLC as announced on 7 September 2021 and
the Reindeer Lake, Porter Lake and Old Woman Rapids uranium properties as
announced on 26 July 2022.

As consideration for the 100% acquisition of the Project, Power Metal will pay
the Vendors a total of £37,500 (the "Consideration").

The Consideration is payable through the issue of 2,500,000 Power Metal new
ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("Consideration Shares") at an issue price of
1.5p per share. The Consideration Shares will be subject to a 4-month lock-in
from today's date.

PROJECT INFORMATION

Doerksen Bay is located 230km northeast of La Ronge, Saskatchewan. The Project
is centred around five Saskatchewan Mineral Deposit Index ("SMDI") graphite
occurrences including the Ben, Ben North, Bear Bones, Brabant Lake and
Doerksen Bay showings.

These occurrences returned multiple grab samples of graphite bearing gneisses
including assays up to 45% C (incl. 45%, 36%, 14%, 13%, 12% and 10% C).

A modern airborne geophysical survey was carried out over the Project in 2013,
which highlighted numerous untested very-low-frequency electromagnetic
("VLF-EM") conductors. Graphite is a known conductor, and the SMDI graphite
occurrences on the Project are broadly coincident with the VFL-EM conductors.
As a result, the recently identified conductive anomalies may be related to
additional undiscovered high-grade graphite bearing gneiss units and
ground-truthing them will be a priority of future work programmes undertaken
by Power Metal planned for 2023.

NEW VEHICLE

Power Metal has formed a new wholly owned UK private subsidiary ION Battery
Resources Limited ("ION Resources"), which will act as a holding company
(through 100% owned Canadian operating vehicles) and through which we plan to
hold the Company's battery resources exploration interests including Doerksen
Bay (graphite), Authier North/Duval East (lithium) and the North Wind
(lithium).

ION Resources will focus on battery metals and minerals and will house the
Company's current graphite and lithium interests in Canada as outlined above,
as well as any future potential acquisitions in the battery metal space
including lithium, graphite and potentially vanadium.

After a suitable period of structuring, exploration and development, ION
Resources will be available for outright disposal or listing on an appropriate
stock exchange.

QUALIFIED PERSON STATEMENT

The technical information contained in this disclosure has been read and
approved by Mr Nick O'Reilly (MSc, DIC, MIMMM, MAusIMM, FGS), who is a
qualified geologist and acts as the Qualified Person under the AIM Rules -
Note for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies. Mr O'Reilly is a Principal
consultant working for Mining Analyst Consulting Ltd which has been retained
by Power Metal Resources PLC to provide technical support.

ADMISSION AND TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Application will be made for the 2,500,000 Consideration Shares to be admitted
to trading on AIM which is expected to occur on or around 11 January 2023
("Admission"). The Consideration Shares will rank pari passu in all respects
with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will
comprise 1,663,289,092 ordinary shares of 0.1p each. This number will
represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by
shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they can
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to
their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

References:

1:
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2403887-tight-supply-to-underpin-china-graphite-market-in-2023
(https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2403887-tight-supply-to-underpin-china-graphite-market-in-2023)

2:            Gneiss: a foliated (banded) metamorphic rock that is
formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on
formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic
law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("MAR"), and is
disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of
MAR.

For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/
(https://www.powermetalresources.com/)  or contact:

 Power Metal Resources plc
 Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer)                                          +44 (0) 7766 465 617

 SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nomad and Joint Broker)
 Ewan Leggat/Charlie Bouverat                                                    +44 (0) 20 3470 0470

 SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker)
 Nick Emerson                                                                    +44 (0) 1483 413 500

 First Equity Limited (Joint Broker)
 David Cockbill/Jason Robertson                                                  +44 (0) 20 7330 1883

 

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