Vital Battery Metals Inc. announced results from the soil sampling and surficial geological study recently completed on the Sting project (the "Project"), located in northwestern Newfoundland. 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 Mine, 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 to shown to host copper, gold and zinc mineralization, evidenced by rock sampling results from the recently completed prospecting program that returned <0.001 to 9.50 ppm gold, <1 to 48,400 ppm copper and 4 to 19,700 ppm zinc from outcrop located on the soil anomaly's southwestern flank.

A detailed surficial geology study over the core claims comprising the Project was undertaken by Dr. Derek Turner, M.Sc., Ph.D., P.Geo. (B.C.) on behalf of the Company and has revealed that the soil anomaly strongly correlates with colluvial surficial material, indicating that the anomaly is likely derived from underlaying bedrock with little mechanical or gravitational dispersion. Immediately west of the anomaly, till veneers (< 1 m depth) and till blankets (> 1 m depth) likely mask potential indications of bedrock mineralization.

In total, 404 soil samples were collected. Results ranged from < 0.001 to 1.96 ppm Au, 4 to 2,675 ppm Cu, and 4 to 4,164 ppm Zn. Soil samples were collected from the B-horizon, where available, in pits dug with a spade-bladed long handle rock hammer.

Approximately 200-400 g of material was placed into brown kraft paper bags, tied closed with flagging tape, and then each bag was assigned a unique sequential identifying number denoting the location and the sampler. Samples were hand-delivered to the SGS Labs prep facility in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and prepared with code PRP104, where samples are dried to 60°C, and then screened through an 80 mesh. Prepared material was then shipped to SGS's main lab in Burnaby, B.C. where samples were analyzed using method GE_ARM3V25 which involves analysis by ICP-MS following a 2-acid digestion producing a 49-element suite Thomas Hawkins, P. Geo (1000315), a "Qualified Person" for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information contained in this news release.