Technology Minerals Plc announced that Global Battery Metals Ltd. (GBML) has completed the recent shallow trench sampling programme at its Knockeen lithium pegmatite project located on the Leinster Lithium Project in Ireland. The project is progressing under an ongoing and successful option agreement between GBML and Technology Minerals which is being operated by GBML. The intersected pegmatite in the trench contained spodumene crystals along its full exposed length and five chip samples were collected at 1m intervals along its exposed length.

These samples. along with several grab samples from large blocks of pegmatite in the trench are also being analysed by ALS Laboratories, in Ireland. Trench Details: The current trench was fully permitted through the Geoscience Regulation Office (GSRO) of the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.

The trench was designed to confirm a historically reported trenched spodumene pegmatite dike occurrence which was intersected over 1.8m width but with no assay data reported from this time. The current trench lies 25m along trend to the east of the old trench and forms a "T" shape by first cross cutting the dike with a 25m N-S trench and then exposing the dike along its length to the west towards the historical trench occurrence. Work on this small footprint of field area was undertaken in close association with the landowner and the Company will rehabilitate the trenched area back to the original field condition on completion.

The trenching will also assist in the interpretation of the spodumene bearing pegmatite dikes encountered in the 2023 summer drilling programme. The dike dips north westwards at approximately 40 degrees. This trench pegmatite is interpreted to be the same pegmatite intersected at 30m depth in drill hole 23-1597-02 and at 60m depth in drill hole 23-1597-03.

This gives a total down dip extension of at least 100m from surface. This dike is just one of the spodumene bearing dikes intersected in the drilling which form a broadly NE-SW trending dike swarm of up to seven dikes in 24 separate intercepts in nine diamond cored drill holes. Detailed soil profile sampling was also conducted along the length of the main N-S trench to determine the best soil sample medium, A-B-C horizon to locate bedrock pegmatites below surface.

This information will be used to help plan further broader reaching shallow soil geochemistry surveys.