Mr. Blair Way reports

PATRIOT BATTERY METALS APPOINTS VICE PRESIDENT PROJECT DEVELOPMENT TO ITS EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Patriot Battery Metals Inc. has appointed Greg Barfoot, BEng, Meng, MBA, to the position of vice-president, project development.

Blair Way, company president, chief executive officer and director, comments: "I am very pleased to welcome Greg to the Patriot team. Our team is growing as we start heading down the development pathway for the CV5 project. It is very exciting to be building a team that is so well qualified and passionate about the sustainable advancement of the Corvette lithium district."

Mr. Barfoot is an experienced project management professional with an extensive international background in all phases of project development from concept to operations. Mr. Barfoot's expertise includes management of diverse projects of up to $6.5-billion in total invested capital across a variety of commodities, locations and technical challenges. Over the past 25 years, Mr. Barfoot has held senior project development roles with BHP, SNC Lavalin and Fluor. Most recently, he spent eight years based in Canada managing the infrastructure development for the BHP Jansen potash mine in Saskatchewan. Previously, he spent five years based in South America with SNC-Lavalin, and 12 years with Fluor on projects in Canada, the United States and Australia.

Mr. Barfoot holds a master of business administration from Curtain University, Perth; a master of engineering (mechanical) from the University of Newcastle; and a bachelor of engineering (electrical) from the University of Technology Sydney.

About Patriot Battery Metals Inc.

Patriot Battery Metals is a hard-rock lithium exploration company focused on advancing its district-scale 100-per-cent-owned Corvette property located in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec, Canada. The Corvette property is one of the largest and highest-grade hard rock lithium projects being explored, with over 50 kilometres of strike length over a 214-square-kilometre land package and more than 70 lithium-bearing pegmatite outcrops identified to date.

The Corvette property is situated proximal to the all-weather Trans Taiga Road and Hydro-Quebec power line infrastructure in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec. The property hosts significant lithium potential highlighted by the CV5 pegmatite, which has been traced by drilling over a strike length of at least 3.7 km with spodumene pegmatite encountered as deep as 425 m vertical depth.

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