Mr. Blair Way reports

PATRIOT ANNOUNCES BOARD CHANGES

Patriot Battery Metals Inc. has appointed Melissa Desrochers to the board, effective immediately.

Ken Brinsden, Patriot Battery Metals non-executive chair, commented:

"We are very pleased to welcome Melissa to the Patriot Battery Metals team as independent director and member of the audit committee. Melissa brings broad experience in strategic communications and stakeholder engagement in Quebec for mineral resources companies.

"Further, and on behalf of the entire company, I would like to sincerely thank JC for his contributions over the last year and wish him well as he pursues his expanded personal interests."

Ms. Desrochers is an experienced consultant with a background in strategic communications and stakeholder engagement for major and complex projects within the Quebec mining industry. Her expertise lies in communications, government relations, and enhancing companies environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities. Her previous work experience includes director of government relations and external communication for Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., communications and community relations manager for Canadian Malartic Mine, and formerly co-owning a communications firm for several years, in which she worked closely with stakeholders from the natural resources sector.

Ms. Desrochers studied communications, indigenous affairs, management and holds a graduate degree in project management from the Universite du Quebec en Abitibi-Temiscamingue. She is an independent director for O3 Mining Inc., a gold exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, and a member of Autorites des marches financiers (AMF) mining advisory committee.

The company also announces the resignation of director Jon Christan Evensen. The company would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Evensen for his valued contribution to the board during his tenure with the company.

About Patriot Battery Metals Inc.

Patriot Battery Metals 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-per-cent-owned Corvette property, located proximal to the Trans-Taiga road and power line infrastructural corridor in the James Bay region of Quebec. The land package hosts significant lithium potential highlighted by the 2.2-kilometre-long CV5 spodumene pegmatite with drill intercepts of 159.7 metres at 1.65 per cent Li2O (lithium oxide) and 193 ppm (parts per million) Ta2O5 (ditantalum pentoxide) (CV22-042), and 70.1 m at 2.22 per cent Li2O and 147 ppm Ta2O5, including 40.7 m at 3.01 per cent 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 (grams per tonne) gold from outcrop and seven m at 10.5 g/t Au in drill hole, and the Maven trend with 8.15 per cent copper, 1.33 g/t Au and 171 g/t silver in outcrop.

The company also holds 100 per cent ownership of the Freeman Creek gold property in Idaho, United States, 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 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 per cent Cu.

The company's other assets include the Pontax lithium-gold property, Que.; and the Hidden Lake lithium property, Northwest Territories, where the company maintains a 40-per-cent interest, as well as several other assets in Canada.

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