Global Battery Metals Ltd. announced it has received an approved trenching permit from Ireland's Geoscience Regulation Office (GSRO) in relation to a short program of trenching at its Knockeen lithium pegmatite project. The Company intends to open up a shallow trench for a total of 50 metres in total length, approximately 1 - 2m deep and up to 1 - 1.5m in width, in order to confirm a previously announced historical spodumene bearing pegmatite dike in bedrock and anticipates this will enable 3D visualization of the 1.8m wide pegmatite reported from that time. The trench is designed to cross cut the pegmatite dike and then expose 10 - 20m along its strike length in order to then collect approximately 30-40 assay samples from the trench over the next 5-10 business days.

The trenching will also assist in the interpretation of the dike encountered in the 2023 summer drilling program. Work on this small footprint of field area will be undertaken in close association with the landowner's approval. The approved permit is for up to 10 shallow trenches for a combined length of up to 200m for a period of up to two years on PL 1597.

However, the current work is focusing on this single trench pegmatite target at this time. The permit was issued based on the full set of GSRO screening criteria being assessed and approved. The current phase of detailed exploration work returns to an area where a forty-year-old historical company report described a trench excavated at Knockeen Townlands on PLA 1597 which, uncovered in bedrock, exposed a 1.8m wide spodumene-bearing pegmatite dike.