Electric Metals Announces High-Grade Intercepts up to 48.5% Mn (62.6% MnO)(1) in First Drill Results from the Emily Manganese Project Minnesota, USA

Drilling highlights from the first two diamond drill holes include²:

• 32.1 metres of 17.67% Mn from 106m including 4.3m of 44.47% Mn from 110.6m
• 34.9 metres of 21.19% Mn from 59.9m including 6.1m of 43.42% Mn from 66.0m
• 13 of the intercepts assayed above 40% Mn (51.6% MnO).

TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / June 27, 2023 / Electric Metals (USA) Limited ("EML" or the "Company") (TSXV:EML)(OTCQB:EMUSF) is pleased to announce first assay results of the inaugural drill program at the high-grade Emily Manganese Project ("Emily Project"), Minnesota, USA. The Emily Project is located in the Cuyuna Iron Range of central Minnesota, USA (Figure 1), an area with a rich mining history and support from established local infrastructure, a skilled mining workforce and abundant power and gas.

Figure 1. The Emily Project is part of the Emily District of the Cuyuna Iron Range in Crow Wing County

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Drill core has been logged, sampled and forwarded to the ALS laboratory, Reno, Nevada, for analyses. Assay results of samples from the initial two diamond drill holes, 23001A and 23002A, have been received from ALS, as reported below.

¹ EML reports assayed manganese, not manganese oxide (MnO). For reference, 48.5% Mn converts to 62.6% MnO.
² Intervals shown are drilled widths.

Each drill hole intersected intervals of more than 30m of high-grade manganese oxides plus iron mineralization³ with average manganese content of more than 17% Mn (22% MnO). Each hole also included zones with manganese grades exceeding 40% Mn (51.6% MnO). Data is summarized in Table 1.

The two drill hole locations are shown in Figure 2 and a cross section displaying geology and assay intervals is provided in Figure 3.

Table 1. Averaged assay data highlights for drill holes 23001A and 23002A at the Emily Manganese Project⁴.

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Figure 2. Location of drill holes NSM 23001A and NSM 23002A showing Emily Manganese Project area, manganese host rock (Emily Iron Formation) and locations of section in Figures 3.

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³ Mineralogy of manganese oxides include manganite, braunite, cryptolomene, hollandite, jacobsite, and pyrolusite, and iron mineralogy include hematite and goethite.
⁴ Assaying undertaken by ALS (Reno, NV) included a 23-element suite (ME-XRF21). High manganese samples (>25% Mn) were re-assayed using ME ICP81.

Figure 3. Cross section A'-B' (refer Figure 2) at the Emily Manganese Project showing drill hole traces of 23001A (NSM-001) and 23002A (NSM-02), with manganese contents in assayed intervals and geology.