Global Battery Metals Ltd. has completed the inaugural first phase of drilling on its Knockeen Lithium Pegmatite Project in SE County Carlow, Ireland. Focussing on a Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (LCT) pegmatite dike swarm, the first nine holes were completed in late October for a total of 2,022m. All nine holes successfully intersected lithium bearing Lithium LCT Pegmatites.

Samples were submitted to ALS Laboratories in County Galway and analysed using the specific ME-MS89L Lithium Pegmatite analytical suite which are now reported. The project is progressing under an ongoing and successful option agreement between GBML and Technology Minerals which is being operated by GBML. Drilling has confirmed and further defined a swarm of pegmatite dikes within host granites to reveal a new, structurally controlled LCT pegmatite system of significance; 24 intervals of lithium bearing spodumene pegmatites were intersected across the nine holes drilled and show that the pegmatites are all broadly parallel with a strike of NE-SW; The spodumene pegmatites range in width between 0.10m up to 0.63m (true width) with the highest values grading up to 2.57% Li2O in Intercept 15 in Hole 23-1597-06; Values grading over 1% Li2O were recorded in five of the nine holes drilled (Hole 23-1597-01, Hole 23-1597-02, Hole 23-1597-06, Hole 23-1597-07 and Hole 23-1597-09) with a sixth hole (Hole 23-1597-03) just shy of the 1% mark reporting a 0.96% Li2O intersect; and The project area is situated within the same tectonic zone and along strike to Blackstairs Lithium (Ganfeng /ILC joint venture) Avalonia Project.

This first phase of Knockeen drilling has been key in setting the scene to establish the geometry and nature of the pegmatites in an entirely new area where there is no surface outcrop, no historical drilling and a single short historical trench. The placing of the target area within the bounds of the interpreted East Carlow Deformation Zone is a key factor in developing the prospect further. Detailed structural and petrological studies will now commence at both the regional and drill core scale to interpret the structural regime of emplacement of the spodumene pegmatites and to determine the geometric model to guide the next phase of drilling.

This work has already commenced with the creation of a 3D exploration model in Leapfrog utilising the several thousands of structural readings collected from the orientated drill core.