Mr. Kerem Usenmez reports

VOLTA RENAMES ITS MAIN PROJECT AS "AKI PROJECT"

Volta Metals Ltd. has renamed the consolidated Falcon West, Crescent and ZigZag projects as the Aki project. The Anishinaabe word "Aki" means "earth." To the Anishinaabe people, walking in harmony and balance with the world is extremely important and Volta Metals wants to honour their connection to land, place and territory by recognizing their language, Anishinabemowin, in the naming of the Aki project.

The 66-square-kilometre Aki project has six known pegmatites within an eight km strike, with an overall recognized potential for 11 km strike length. The Aki project hosts the Falcon West pegmatite swarm to the east with six newly discovered mineralized pegmatites that host high-grade lithium-tantalum-cesium mineralization with values up to 1.24 per cent Li2O over 15.6 metres with 297.2 ppm (parts per million) cesium and 91.6 ppm tantalum, and Dempster East pegmatite to the west, with high-grade gallium, lithium, tantalum and cesium mineralization with values up to 78.1 ppm gallium, 2.98 per cent Li2O, 457 ppm tantalum and 1,970 ppm cesium respectively (see the company's Jan. 14, 2025, press release). The company plans to drill Dempster East pegmatite as part of the next exploration campaign.

Financing

The company is also pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement to raise proceeds of up to $1-million. The offering will be comprised of the issuance of units of the company, at a subscription price of five cents per unit. Each unit will comprise one common share of the company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant of the company, with each warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase an additional share of the company at an exercise price of 10 cents per warrant share for a period of 24 months from the closing of the offering.

It is expected that certain directors and officers of the company may participate in the offering. The participation of Insiders in the offerings will constitute a related party transaction within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 -- Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (MI 61-101). The company anticipates relying on exemptions from the minority shareholder approval and formal valuation requirements applicable to the related party transactions under sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a), respectively, of MI 61-101, as neither the fair market value of the units to be acquired by the participating insiders nor the consideration to be paid by such insiders is anticipated to exceed 25 per cent of the company's market capitalization.

The offering is expected to close on or about Feb. 14, 2025, and is subject to certain closing conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary approvals, including the acceptance of the Canadian Securities Exchange. The company expects to use the proceeds of the offering to follow up on exploration targets identified from recently announced channel and drill results, geophysical surveys, and geochemical analyses, and for general corporate and working capital purposes for the company.

The securities issued under the offering will be subject to a statutory hold period in Canada of four months and a day from the date of issuance in accordance with applicable securities laws.

Qualified person

The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Andrew Tims, PGeo, who is an independent qualified person (QP) as defined in National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The QP and the company have not completed sufficient work to verify the historical information on the properties, particularly regarding historical exploration, neighbouring companies and government geological work.

About Volta Metals Ltd.

Volta Metals is a mineral exploration company based in Toronto, Ont., focused on gallium, lithium, cesium and tantalum. It has optioned and is currently exploring a critical minerals portfolio of lithium, cesium and tantalum projects in Northwestern Ontario, considered one of the world's most prolific, emerging hard-rock lithium districts.

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