Mr. Karl Kottmeier reports

EMP METALS ADVANCES CONSTRUCTION OF PROJECT AURORA DEMONSTRATION PLANT BY COMPLETING INTERIOR FINISHING

EMP Metals Corp. has successfully completed the building interior that will house its coming lithium refining demonstration plant. The building structure is now complete, insulated and metal cladded on the exterior and interior. Lighting and facility cable runs are currently being installed as per general arrangement drawings (GADs) in preparation for the arrival of process equipment and buildout of other functional areas of the facility.

Process equipment build continues to progress at Saltworks Technologies Inc. in Richmond, B.C., with precommissioning beginning on completed skids. The build of the Gen-II direct lithium extraction (DLE) system for Project Aurora, as previously described by Saltworks, is also progressing on schedule.

Paul Schubach, chief operating officer of EMP Metals, commented: "Progress continues to remain on schedule at the Aurora demonstration plant site in Saskatchewan, as well as with the surface refining equipment build and commissioning activities at Saltworks. We remain on pace to start up one of the first direct wellhead-connected lithium extraction facilities in Saskatchewan in Q2."

The company will provide further updates as progress continues and major milestones are achieved.

The Project Aurora demo plant will establish, test and optimize a wellhead-connected, continuous flow, modular hub and spoke lithium extraction and refining model. The on-site program aims to unlock performance improvements and cost savings while derisking future investments. Project Aurora, a joint initiative between EMP Metals and Saltworks, is aimed at driving down costs, simplification, and leveraging the best available and most economic technology while optimizing a complete lithium system, from well to battery chemical. As part of the collaborative's launch, Saltworks will advance full-scale plant design and cost estimates for a more-than-3,000-tonne-per-year modular, repeatable commercial refinery for EMP Metals utilizing data and insights from the demo plant project.

About EMP Metals Corp.

EMP is a Canadian-based lithium exploration and development company focused on large-scale resources using direct lithium extraction (DLE). EMP currently holds over 205,000 net acres (83,000 hectares) of subsurface dispositions and strategic wellbores in Southern Saskatchewan.

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