Vital Battery Metals Field Program Outlines Significant Cu-Au-Zn Soil Anomaly at Sting Copper Project

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vital Battery Metals Inc. (“Vital” or the “Company”) (CSE: VBAM | OTC: VBAMF | FRA: C0O) is pleased to announce results from the soil sampling and surficial geological study recently completed on the Sting project (the “Project”), located in northwestern Newfoundland.

Key Highlights

• Compelling consecutive gold, copper, and zinc values in soil were returned along the Gregory River Fault
• Significant multi-station soil results for copper, gold, and zinc in two zones across a regional NE trend spanning ~ 2 km
• Highlighted results include 1.96 ppm gold, 0.27% copper and 0.42% zinc from soil.
• On trend with the York Harbour Copper Mine¹ - The faulted contact between mafic marine volcanics and hypabyssal intrusive rocks, referred to as the Gregory River Fault, runs through the center of the Project and the York Harbour Copper Mine further south.
• Surficial geology study completed that shows correlation between anomalous values and colluvial material, indicating nearby bedrock source.
  

Adrian Lamoureux, Vital’s Chief Executive Officer and President, stated, “This expansive Cu-Au-Zn soil anomaly covering ground with no recorded mineralization highlights the prospectivity of the Project. More importantly, sampling and surficial mapping has revealed that the anomaly is likely sourced directly from underlaying bedrock. When combined with recent rock sampling results, a compelling critical metal drill target is emerging.”

The mafic rocks that underlie the coincident Cu-Au-Zn soil anomaly are part of the Bay of Islands Complex that is host to copper and copper/zinc deposits such as the York Harbour Mine¹, a former producer located 35 km to the south-southeast. Within the Project, the contact between these volcanic rocks and associated intrusive rocks, known as the Gregory River fault, has been shown to host copper, gold and zinc mineralization, evidenced by rock sampling results from the recently completed prospecting program (see news release dated October 26, 2023) that returned <0.001 to 9.50 ppm gold, <1 to 48400 ppm copper and 4 to 19700 ppm zinc from outcrop located on the soil anomaly’s southwestern flank.