VANCOUVER - Spark Energy Minerals Inc., ('Spark' or the 'Company' (CSE: SPRK) (OTC: MTEHF) (Frankfurt: 8PC) is pleased to announce its new CSE trading symbol SPRK effective today and that the Company will be attending the inaugural Brazil Lithium Summit (the 'Summit') to be held in the capital of the Brazil mining industry, Belo Horizonte, from the 12th-13th of June.

The Company will be represented at the event by Director, VP Exploration and Brazil Country Manager Jon Hill.

The theme of the Summit is 'Unlocking Brazil's Lithium Potential' focused on both immediate and long-term strategies, especially in the burgeoning, world class 'Lithium Vally' in Minas Gerais State. The Company has recently commenced exploration of some 60kHa of prospective, contiguous tenements in this region.

The Summit is the only official event for the Brazilian lithium industry, gathering governments, investors and the largest companies from the region and internationally. The Summit will present a unique platform for networking that will bring together existing and future companies from the lithium industry in Brazil. It is expected to shed light on updates in the present and future of the industry, the development of a vast market, large opportunities in the country and how to take advantage of the potential that Brazil has as a global lithium producer.

Gathering key industry players and international companies eyeing Brazil's lithium reserves, it will be the sole platform offering direct engagement with the region's decision-makers.

Keynote presentations will be made by His Excellency Romeu Zema, Governor of Minas Gerais and a staunch supporter of the lithium sector in Minas Gerais, the Secretaries of State for economic development and environmental and sustainable development, Fernado Passilio and Marilia Carvalho, respectively, and Joao Paulo Braga, CEO of Invest Minas.

Heading up a long list of chief executive officers of companies active in mining and exploration within the sector are Ana Cabral Gardner, CEO of Sigma Lithium Corp., Fabio Costa, CEO of AMG Lithium GmbH, Marc Fogassa, CEO of Atlas Lithium Corp., Christopher Gale, MD of Latin Resources Ltd., Blake Hylands, CEO of Lithium Ionic Corp., and Vinicius Alvarenga, CEO of Companhia Brasileira de Litio.

About Spark Energy Minerals Inc.

Spark Energy Minerals, Inc., is a Canadian company pursuing battery metals and mineral assets with newly acquired interests in Brazil. The Company has acquired assets in some of the world's most prolific mining jurisdictions in Brazil's growing lithium areas that is gaining recognition as a world hot spot for lithium and rare earth mineral exploration.

Contact:

Eugene Hodgson

Tel: +1-778-774-0742

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