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Fourth quarter 2020 (same period previous year)

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Significant events during the period

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Summary of comments from Eurobattery Minerals CEO Roberto García Martínez:

“Q4 rounds of a very active year for Eurobattery Minerals and I am proud of the progress the company made in 2020 in delivering on our vision of being the foundation of the battery and electric vehicle value chain by producing ethical and fully traceable battery minerals in Europe.

Specifically, I’d like to highlight our progress in Finland during the quarter where we have received the final assays from our drilling campaign in Hautalampi project that confirmed a significant resource expansion. Further to this the same project has been awarded a development grant and we have also submitted the EIA-programme for it – in all, we are ready for the next step in Hautalampi”.

Eurobattery Minerals AB Year-end Report January – December 2020 is attached to this press release and is available to download from the Company’s website:

https://eurobatteryminerals.com/en/economic-reports/

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

E-mail: roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

Website: https://eurobatteryminerals.com/en/

This information is of the kind that the Company is required to disclose in accordance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation. The information was issued for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above on 25th of February 2021 at 08:00 CEST.

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT) and Börse Stuttgart (EBM). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

[1] Eurobattery Minerals becomes memeber of global responsible mining initative. Press release 07/10/20

[2] New granted reservation permit for exploration in Finland. Press release 14/10/20.

[3] Eurobattery Minerals receives approximately SEK 22.7 million through warrant redemption. Press release 16/10/20.

[4] Eurobattery Minerals supports Uppsala University’s Vinnova application for new scientific approach to extracting battery minerals. Press release 19/11/20.

[5] Research on vanadium enters next phase in Eurobattery Minerals’ Fetsjön project. Press release 25/11/20.

[6] Assays confirm resource expansion at the Hautalampi project, Finland. Press release 30/11/20.

[7] Finncobalt OY’s Hautalampi mine development project environmental assessment (“EIA”) programme published and submitted. Press release 14/12/20.

[8] Finnish Hautalampi project awarded a development grant of SEK 6.4 million. Press release 16/12/20.

[9] Eurobattery Minerals expands to Germany via dual listing and new office. Press release 15/01/21.

[10] Resource upside at Hautalampi-Project in Finland. Press release 25/01/21

[11] Sustainable and cost-effective method of Fetsjön vanadium enrichment identified in research collaboration. Press release 01/02/21

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”), a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, announced a positive first result from its collaboration with the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. The joint research project has two goals; to identify the main mineral carriers of the battery mineral vanadium and to develop optimal sustainable methods for extracting the metal from vanadium-rich minerals. Vanadium is a critical raw material in batteries and a key component for the electric vehicle (EV) industry. 

Key points:

Via experimental studies on vanadium-rich black shales from Eurobattery Minerals Fetsjön-project, the scientists have concluded that part of the vanadium is tied to the mineral rutile (TiO2) and part to clays and mica minerals. The scientists have managed to thermally concentrate vanadium-enriched fractions to identify the vanadium-bearing minerals and additional rare earth elements (REE) in the black shales. The separation has been successful already at relatively low temperatures meaning that less power is needed. Furthermore, the process allows for separation without using chemicals. Producing a low-cost metal-enriched concentrate may be a new method in extracting vanadium.

“We are thrilled about these early results suggesting that the vanadium in our Fetsjön project, and elsewhere, can be obtained more sustainably and cost-effectively than what we have known to date”, said Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.

Dr Maciej Manecki runs the research project at the Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland, and he is optimistic about the results: 

“The research supports my hypothesis, as well as previous research at Fetsjön and other parts of the world with similar rock formations – vanadium in black shales is bound to oxide and/or mica minerals and it’s possible to thermally concentrate the metal at relatively low temperatures and without the use of chemicals. I am looking forward to seeing the outcome from further tests on the separation and extraction of vanadium and REE”, Dr Maciej Manecki concludes. 

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

https://eurobatteryminerals.com/en/

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT) and Börse Stuttgart (EBM). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”; “the Company”) a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, today announces that FinnCobalt Oy has updated the Company on the final assay results from summers drilling programme at the Hautalampi Ni-Co-Cu Project (“Hautalampi”; “the Project”), eastern Finland. The drilling has confirmed significant resource expansion potential from 800m to 1,400m along strike to the northeast of the historical mineral resource, as well as continuity of the westernmost mineralised horizon (Blue Sky 1) in a southwest direction towards the historic Hautalampi mineral resource. Eurobattery Minerals has the option to acquire 100% of FinnCobalt Oy in a staged acquisition.

Key points:

“The final phase 1 drilling results from the nickel-copper-cobalt Hautalampi project further demonstrate the continuity of the mineralised horizon along strike from the historic resource. This is very promising and we are confident there is still significant upside to be realised with additional drilling both along strike and downdip. We look forward to seeing the final analysis from FinnCobalt soon which will then be used for drill planning and resource definition,” said Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.

The Hautalampi Project

FinnCobalt has informed the Company of the final assay results received from Phase 1 drilling at the project completed in September 2020. The Phase 1 drilling targeted resource extensions to the northeast of the historic NI43-101 mineral resource estimate of 3.15Mt @ 0.43% Ni, 0.35% Cu, 0.12% Co (Fig. 1). A total of 29 drill holes were completed for 3,769m with all drill holes completed within the valid Hautalampi mining concession (Fig. 1). More than 1,700 samples from the drilling have been submitted for geochemical assaying at ALS Geochemistry. All sample preparation and analysis were subject to industry standard QA/QC procedures.

Previous drilling results highlighted the potential for resource expansion with significant Ni-Co-Cu sulphide mineralisation being confirmed from 800m to 1,400m along strike [2],[3]. The latest results further confirm the continuity of the westernmost mineralised horizon (Blue Sky 1) in a southwest direction towards the historic Hautalampi mineral resource. Good thicknesses and grades of mineralisation were intersected in HA20-022, HA20-023, HA20-026 and HA20-027 (Fig. 1). The latest assay highlights are summarised in Table 1. Pyrrhotite, pyrite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite are the dominant sulphide minerals.

Hole IDTarget From (m)To (m)Int (m)Ni (%)Co (%)Cu (%)NiEq (%)
HA20-022Blue Sky 1 59.0070.0011.000.180.050.120.37
  incl.62.0067.005.000.190.070.210.46
   74.0077.003.000.370.020.000.41
HA20-0231Blue Sky 1 83.0084.001.000.430.080.110.66
   110.30115.004.700.260.030.110.38
  incl.113.60115.001.400.470.060.230.72
HA20-0242Blue Sky 1 88.1099.3011.200.160.040.100.30
  incl.88.1092.003.900.190.060.200.42
   104.50111.657.150.460.060.100.64
  incl.104.50106.802.300.690.100.221.04
  incl.105.50106.000.501.150.180.321.72
  and107.15109.852.700.510.050.060.65
  and110.60111.651.050.310.030.050.41
HA20-025Blue Sky 1 39.0048.009.000.230.050.040.38
   53.0056.003.000.200.040.030.31
   59.0062.003.000.200.050.090.36
   66.0070.004.000.270.020.060.35
  incl.66.0067.001.000.430.030.100.55
HA20-026Blue Sky 1 53.5054.000.500.420.030.160.57
   57.5061.003.500.220.050.050.36
   66.1075.109.000.240.090.180.55
  incl.66.7567.250.500.650.290.151.40
  and68.5069.250.750.280.140.320.77
   102.40103.000.600.370.030.020.46
HA20-0273Blue Sky 1 82.6091.108.500.230.060.100.42
  incl.88.0091.103.100.440.110.130.76
  incl.89.7090.400.701.410.330.192.28
HA20-0284Blue Sky 1 35.3649.0013.640.210.050.050.33
   51.0054.003.000.250.050.070.39
   57.0059.002.000.300.020.100.40
  incl.57.0058.001.000.380.030.140.50

Table 1. Summary of latest assay highlights from the Hautalampi project. The true width of the intercepts is estimated to be mainly 90 – 99 percent and in minimum 75 percent of the intercept length. All core loss is assigned a 0 value.  

1 Includes core loss 113.1m-113.6m (0.5m).

2 Includes core loss 90.8-91.0m (0.2m); 94.4-95.6m (1.2m); 97.7-98.6m (0.9m); 106.8-107.15m (0.35m); 109.85-110.6m (0.75m).

3 Includes core loss 89.3-89.7m (0.4m).

4 Includes core loss 42.6-42.7m (0.1m).   

Further Steps: FinnCobalt is currently interpreting geological and structural data collected from the Hautalampi core and adapting the geological and ore deposit model previously developed for the Keretti copper mine. All the drilling and assay data will be used for assessment of mineral resources and planning of Phase 2 drilling in 2021. Future drilling will target down-dip extensions to the recent drilling and also infill drill the gap between the historic resource and the 2020 drilling. There is good potential to define an additional 775m of strike extension of the Blue Sky mineralised lodes in this area.

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Figure 1. Drill hole collar plan for Hautalampi Project. Drill holes recently completed highlighted by red dots.

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Figure 2. Drill core from HA20-027 between 80.8m and 87.6m.

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

E-mail: roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

Website: https://eurobatteryminerals.com/en/

This information is of the kind that the Company is required to disclose in accordance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation. The information was issued for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above on 25 of January 2021 at 08:00 CEST.

The technical information in this press release has been reviewed by Dr Hannu Makkonen from Suomen Malmitutkimus Oy. He has 40 years of experience in mineral exploration in Finland, he is a European Geologist (EurGeol) and a Competent/Qualified Person as defined by the JORC Code, 2012 Edition and by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Dr Makkonen owns no shares in FinnCobalt Oy or Eurobattery Minerals AB.

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT) and Börse Stuttgart (EBM). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

[1] NiEq = nickel equivalent percentage. NiEq grade calculated using (USD prices of) nickel $14,264/t, copper $6,545/t and cobalt $34,200/t. No metallurgical or recovery factors have been assumed at this early stage of the Project. NiEq grade calculation = Ni% + (Co%*34200+Cu%*6545)/14264.

[2] Press release 13/10/20: “High grade cobalt and nickel at Hautalampi project in Finland”.

[3] Press release 30/11/20: “Assays confirm resource expansion at the Hautalampi project, Finland”.

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”; “the Company”), a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision of helping Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, today announces its expansion to the Börse Stuttgart, under the ticker EBM, via an extension of its listing on Nordic Growth Market (NGM) in Sweden. As of today, the Eurobattery Minerals stock can be traded in both Sweden and Germany. Furthermore, the Company will open an office in Berlin during the first quarter of 2021. Being presence in the most important automotive market in Europe, enabling easy access for the significant German investor community to invest in Eurobattery Minerals, is a key driver behind the expansion. The Company will remain a Swedish public limited company (AB) with head office in Stockholm.

Key points:

“Our business strategy is clear: Eurobattery Minerals shall be the foundation of the battery value chain. Accordingly, the news today is significant for two reasons. Firstly, we will establish a presence in the very heart of the European and global centre for the automotive industry. Secondly, the dual listing grants the Company access to the largest investor community in the EU, a community where sustainable investments are top of the agenda,” comments Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.

The dual listing on Börse Stuttgart, where Eurobattery Minerals will be traded under the ticker EBM, will enable for investors across the EU and elsewhere to more easily trade in the stock. Private investors and large institutional investors will now have the opportunity to invest in a European and sustainable battery minerals company. 

“Recently, the European Commission pointed to the fact that for the electric revolution to succeed, Europe and its large auto industry need to become self-sufficient in these critical raw materials, and they need to be mined sustainably. I am therefore optimistic that the news today will help the EU and the substantial German auto industry to move in this direction,” Roberto García Martínez comments. 

Ongoing battery minerals projects

Eurobattery Minerals is focused on several battery minerals projects in the exploration and development phases in Europe to supply the raw materials critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Projects include the Hautalampi project in Finland, the Corcel project in Spain and the Fetsjön project in Sweden, along with seven other exploration projects in northern Sweden.  

Collaboration for sustainability

Eurobattery Minerals believes in joining forces with industry bodies to form partnerships that will promote a reinvigoration of the European mining industry, but also to support a responsible and sustainable mining industry across Europe. In 2020, the Company joined the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), the response to global demand for more socially and environmentally responsible mining. Furthermore, Eurobattery Minerals is one of the founding members of the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA). The organisation aims to make Europe economically more resilient by diversifying its supply chains, creating jobs, attracting investments to the raw materials value chain, fostering innovation and training young talents.

The launch of NGM Reach will be live streamed today at 8.40 CET via this link: https://www.ngm.se/en/ngm-reach

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

https://eurobatteryminerals.com/en/

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT) and Börse Stuttgart (EBM). As the foundation of the battery value chain, the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply critical raw materials to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”; “the Company”), a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, today announces that FinnCobalt Oy has received a decision of 630,000€ (6.4 MSEK) development grant for its Finnish Hautalampi mine and processing plant project from the South Savolax Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (“ELY-centre”). The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) program granted the funds. Eurobattery Minerals has the option to acquire 100% of FinnCobalt Oy in a staged acquisition.

“I am very pleased with the positive grant decision. It’s a clear sign that the governmental bodies in the EU are supporting the transition to sustainable mined battery minerals as the foundation of the electrification of the transport industry. For the Hautalampi project, the grant will be an important injection for our aim to transform it from development to a fully-fledged battery mineral mine”, comments Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.The 630,000€ development funds have been granted for diamond core drilling and related chemical assaying, consultancy work and personnel costs directly related to the development project of Hautalampi mine and battery minerals processing plant. About 300,000€ of the grant will be invested in diamond core drilling and assaying as well as the balance for consultant and personnel salary costs. The project period for granted funds run from the 2nd of June 2020 to the 30th of June 2022. This means that already accrued project costs since the project start-up are eligible for the grant.

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For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

https://eurobatteryminerals.com//en/

This information is of the kind that the Company is required to disclose in accordance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation. The information was issued for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above on 16th of December 2020 at 08:00 CEST.

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”; “the Company”) a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, today announces that FinnCobalt Oy has updated the Company on additional assay results from summers drilling programme at the Hautalampi Ni-Co-Cu Project (“Hautalampi”; “the Project”), eastern Finland. The Company has the option to acquire 100% of FinnCobalt Oy in a staged acquisition.

Key points:

“In combination with the previously announced results, and the fact that the drilling campaign only covered a small area of the Hautalampi project, the analysis gives us even more confident that the mineralisation along strike from the historic resource contains high metal grades. Based on visual observations, we anticipate that the remaining assays will define a prospective zone that is at least 600 meter in length which is still open along strike and down-dip, this is very encouraging, said Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.

FinnCobalt has informed the Company of assays received from Phase 1 drilling at the project from July to September, 2020. The Phase 1 drilling targeted resource extensions to the northeast of the historic NI43-101 mineral resource estimate of 3.15Mt @ 0.43% Ni, 0.35% Cu, 0.12% Co (Fig. 1). A total of 29 drill holes were completed for 3,769m with all drill holes completed within the valid Hautalampi mining concession (Fig. 1). More than 1,700 samples from the drilling have been submitted for geochemical assaying at ALS Geochemistry. All sample preparation and analysis was subject to industry standard QA/QC procedures.

Drilling has further confirmed the occurrence of Ni-Co-Cu sulphide-bearing lodes along strike of the historic resource. The westernmost lode (Blue Sky 1) is particularly exciting with assays now confirming significant mineralisation between 800 – 1,400m along strike from the historic resource. The latest results are particularly pleasing as extensional drilling to previous announced results confirm that the mineralisation is continuous along strike[2]. Pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite are the dominant sulphide minerals which is important as these minerals are recoverable using conventional mineral processing technologies (Fig. 2). The latest assay highlights are summarised in Table 1.

FinnCobalt is currently interpreting geological and structural data collected on the core and optimising the geological and ore deposit model developed for the adjacent Keretti copper mine. All the ore intersections encountered occupy a position in the hangingwall of the Keretti deposit and were not the target of most of the historical drilling or any mining. The current model interprets the mineralisation as a tightly folded antiform which is inclined to the northwest. Importantly, the lower limb of the mineralisation is thickening and increasing with grade at depth with mineralisation still open down-dip (Fig. 3).

The latest assay results have further proven the potential for economic grades of Ni-Co-Cu mineralisation along strike from the historical mineral resource. Remaining assay results from the 2020 drilling programme will be announced early 2021.

Hole ID

Target From (m)To (m)Int (m)Ni (%)Co (%)Cu (%)NiEq (%)
HA20-015Blue Sky 1 92.7593.550.800.300.110.160.63
   95.00110.10*15.100.250.080.250.57
  incl.95.4098.052.650.360.160.400.94
  and102.00106.954.950.250.080.290.58
HA20-021Blue Sky 1 94.0098.004.000.420.060.040.59
  incl.94.0095.001.000.560.130.120.93
   117.00129.0012.000.270.090.210.57
  incl.121.00123.002.000.270.110.260.65
  and125.00127.002.000.420.190.541.12
   132.00133.001.000.250.030.230.43
   256.00263.007.000.340.020.000.39
HA20-029Blue Sky 1 52.0067.8015.800.240.050.050.39
  incl.52.0060.008.000.280.060.080.47
  incl.53.9056.152.250.370.090.180.67
  and62.0067.805.800.200.040.040.32
HA20-020Blue Sky 1 61.4065.003.600.380.050.070.54
   90.0096.006.000.260.060.110.45
  incl.94.0095.001.000.370.110.160.69
HA20-014Blue Sky 1 36.2037.301.100.280.030.330.51
   66.0070.804.800.270.030.010.34
  incl.69.0070.001.000.320.030.010.39
   75.0078.003.000.260.040.060.38
  incl.77.0078.001.000.240.070.070.43
HA20-019Blue Sky 1 29.0030.001.000.350.020.010.41
   142.70143.701.000.350.040.160.51
HA20-009Blue Sky 2 & 3 40.1041.101.000.450.010.020.49
HA20-010Blue Sky 2 & 3 37.7040.002.300.340.020.020.41
Table 1. Summary of latest assay highlights from the Hautalampi project. * Includes 0.15m of core loss from 106.95 – 107.1m.
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Figure 1. Drill hole collar plan for Hautalampi Project. Drill holes recently completed highlighted by red dots. Location of cross-section in Figure 2 highlighted by yellow triangles (section 47).
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Figure 2. Pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite skarn mineralisation. (Top) Drill hole HA20-015: 96.5–97.5m; (Bottom) Drill hole HA20-021: 126.0–127.5m.
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Figure 3. Cross-section (section 47) showing recent assay highlights and geological interpretation.

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO

Email: roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

This information is of the kind that the Company is required to disclose in accordance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation. The information was issued for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above on 30th of November 2020 at 08:00 CEST.

Eurobattery Minerals in brief

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, tel. +46 8 505 651 72, email: info@augment.se is Eurobattery Minerals’ Mentor

[1] NiEq = nickel equivalent percentage. NiEq grade calculated using (USD prices of) nickel 14,264/t, copper 6,545/t and cobalt 34,200/t. No metallurgical or recovery factors have been assumed at this early stage of the Project. NiEq grade calculation = Ni% + (Co%*34200+Cu%*6545)/14264.

[2] See press release 13th October 2020 “High grade cobalt and nickel at Hautalampi project in Finland”.

Due to increased turnover in the share, Eurobattery Minerals AB (publ) terminates its agreement with Mangold Fondkommission AB as a liquidity provider for Eurobattery Minerals’s share on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). The last day for trading in the liquidity guarantee is 25 November 2020.

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO

Email: roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

Eurobattery Minerals in brief

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, tel. +46 8 505 651 72, email: info@augment.se is Eurobattery Minerals’ Mentor

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”), a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, and the AHG University of Science and Technology in Krakow in Poland, today announced an extension of its existing project collaboration.

The goal of the project is to identify the main mineral carriers of the battery mineral vanadium and methods to extract the metal efficiently. In this research project, scientists will use black shale rock material from Eurobattery Minerals exploration project Fetsjön in northern Sweden. Previous results from 52 exploration boreholes and chemical analyses confirm that the black shales at Fetsjön include large quantities of vanadium.  

“Vanadium plays a key role in the electrification of the society as it’s included in high capacity chargeable batteries. As a provider of critical raw material, supporting groundbreaking research projects on efficient extraction of these minerals is one important part of our business”, said Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.

Dr Maciej Manecki at the Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry at AGH University of Science and Technology conducting this scientific project, hypothesize that vanadium in this kind of rock is bound to oxide and mica minerals. This hypothesis is supported by previous research at Fetsjön and other parts of the world with similar rock formations.

To identify the vanadium-bearing minerals, the scientists will thermally remove the carbonaceous substance of the shales and then use a sequence of procedures for the separation of mica and heavy minerals to obtain and identify the vanadium-enriched fractions.

“The preliminary work carried out on the core samples a year ago strengthened my confidence that there is a raw material potential in Fetsjön shales and I am happy to continue the project with support from Eurobattery Minerals”, said Dr Maciej Manecki. “If vanadium-enriched fractions are obtained and identified in the way we believe is possible, works can be undertaken in the future to develop an optimal technology for the extraction of vanadium”.

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

https://eurobatteryminerals.com//en/

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT”), a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, announced an extension of its ongoing collaboration with Uppsala University. The company supports the university in its application to the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova in a project that focuses on new and modern methods of extracting REE from the shales in Fetsjön and other apatite rich discoveries in Sweden. As part of this project, Eurobattery Minerals will provide both mineralised samples from Fetsjön as well as financial funding. Vinnova is expected to announce their decision in the beginning of spring 2021.

The scientist from the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University has figured out an efficient way of extracting REE from phosphates typically located in black shales, such as in Fetsjön. The next step is now to create a small experimental plant and run the University led REE beneficiation experiments on a bigger scale.

“We are thrilled to continue to support the scientists at Uppsala University. In Fetsjön, we know from previous comprehensive drilling and analyses that the REE level in the black shales is high. As critical components to the electric revolution, we are interested in finding efficient and sustainable methods to obtain those minerals from our projects”, said Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.

The project that is headed by Dr Jaroslaw Majka, Associate Professor in Metamorphic Petrology at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, is pleased with the continued support from Eurobattery Minerals.

“We are excited about the possibility to conduct larger-scale testing of this new industrialised method for extracting rare earth elements. We believe that it will enable more efficient and sustainable extraction of these key components in electric vehicles and other battery-run equipment”, said Dr Jaroslaw Majka.

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO 

roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

https://eurobatteryminerals.com//en/

This information is the sort of information that the company is obliged to disclose under the EU market abuse regulation. The information was submitted by the above contact person for publication on 19 November 2020 at 08:00 CEST.

About Eurobattery Minerals

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, e-mail: info@augment.se, phone: +46 8 505 651 72, is the company’s Mentor.

Third quarter 2020 (same period previous year)

First nine months of 2020 (same period previous year)

Significant events during the period

Significant events after the period

Summary of CEO comments:

“During the third quarter, we have developed our operations further across our projects in Finland, Spain and Sweden, and overall as a company via a successful rights issue subscribed to 209 percent. In combination with the warrant trade finalised in late October, we have raised an additional SEK 70 million for the Company, enabling us to advance our operations.

We have also joined the EU funded European Raw Material Alliance (ERMA) with the purpose to secure access to strategic metals and minerals, advanced materials, as well as industrial processing know-how, focusing on sustainability. In our efforts to provide ethical and traceable battery minerals, we also joined the initiative for responsible mining assurance (IRMA). Sustainable mining is at the core of our business strategy, so we look forward to collaborating with IRMA in the future”

Eurobattery Minerals AB Interim Report January – September 2020 is attached to this press release and is available to download from the Company’s website:

https://eurobatteryminerals.com//en/economic-reports/

For further information, please contact:

Roberto García Martínez, CEO

Email: roberto@eurobatteryminerals.com

This information is of the kind that the Company is required to disclose in accordance with the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation. The information was issued for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above on 18th of November 2020 at 08:00 CEST.

Eurobattery Minerals in brief

Eurobattery Minerals AB is a Swedish mining company listed on NGM Nordic SME (BAT). As the foundation of the battery value chain the company’s vision is to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical and fully traceable battery minerals for the electric vehicle industry. The company is focused on exploration and development of several nickel-cobalt-copper projects in Europe to supply raw material critical to the expanding electric vehicle battery market. Please visit www.eurobatteryminerals.com for more information.

Augment Partners AB, tel. +46 8 505 651 72, email: info@augment.se is Eurobattery Minerals’ Mentor

[1] Drilling to commence at the Hautalampi project, Finland, press release 09/07/2020.

[2] Eurobattery Minerals’ rights issue subscribed to 209 per cent, the company will receive sek 47.3 million, press release 17/07/2020.

[3] Hautalampi project Environmental Impact Assessment procedure commenced, press release 17/08/2020.

[4] Mineral tests confirm economical grade nickel sulphide at Corcel, press release 21/09/2020.

[5] Eurobattery Minerals is part of the European Raw Materials Alliance launched today, press release 29/09/2020.

[6] The subscription price for the warrants of series 2020:1 has been set to SEK 12.00 and the exercise period begins on Monday 5 October 2020, press release 02/10/2020.

[7] Eurobattery Minerals receives approximately SEK 22.7 million through warrant redemption, press release 21/10/2020.

[8] Eurobattery Minerals becomes member of global responsible mining initiative, press release 07/10/2020.

[9] High grade cobalt and nickel at Hautalampi project in Finland, press release 13/10/2020.

[10] New granted reservation permit for exploration in Finland, press release 14/10/2020.

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