Electric Metals (USA) Limited announced first assay results of the inaugural drill program at the high-grade Emily Manganese Project (" Emily Project"), Minnesota, USA. The Emily Project is located in the Cuyuna Iron Range of central Minnesota, USA, an area with a rich mining history and support from established local infrastructure, a skilled mining workforce and abundant power and gas. Drill core has been logged, sampled and forwarded to the ALS laboratory, Reno, Nevada, for analyses.

Assay results of samples from the initial two diamond drill holes, 23001A and 23002A, have been received from ALS. Each drill hole intersected intervals of more than 30m of high-grade manganese oxides plus iron mineralization3 with average manganese content of more than 17% Mn (22% MnO). Each hole also included zones with manganese grades exceeding 40% Mn (51.6% MnO).

This initial EML drilling program was designed to test and confirm historic drilling by U.S. Steel, Pickands Mather and others from the 1930s and in particular, U.S. Steel's 1959 designed ‘West Ruth Lake Mine' which targeted 24,012,200 tons of ore @ 15.29% Mn and 23.38% Fe. EML, operating under its wholly owned Minnesotan subsidiary, North Star Manganese, plans to drill approximately 30 holes in the current drill program and is anticipating completion of this stage of work in late summer 2023. All of the 2023 drill information will be added into the Emily Manganese geologic model which will then form the basis for an updated resource estimate, which will be completed by the end of the year.

Colorado-based Forte Dynamics Inc. have been appointed to undertake the updated NI 43-101 Technical Report, Resource Estimate, with an initial site visit scheduled for later this month.