Patriot Battery Metals Inc. announced that it has collared the first drill hole of the 2022 drill campaign at its wholly owned Corvette Property, located in the James Bay Region of Quebec. The target drill area – at the CV Lithium Trend – is located approximately 13.5 km south of the regional and all-weather Trans-Taiga Road and powerline infrastructure. The 2022 drill campaign will be completed in two phases – winter/spring and summer/fall – and is planned to include 15,000 to 20,000 m of NQ size coring utilizing two (2) drill rigs.

The winter/spring drill program will test the areas northeast and along strike of the CV5-6 pegmatites, beneath a shallow lake, and extend to the CV1-2 pegmatites outcropping on the opposite shore. The primary objective will be to test for mineralized pegmatite along strike, potentially connecting CV5-6 with CV1-2, as well as testing the mineralization at depth. The summer/fall phase will focus on continued land-based infill and step-out drilling around CV5-6 and CV1-2, as well as testing new regional targets.

The aggressive 2022 drill campaign is being completed as a direct follow-up to the strong lithium-tantalum mineralization encountered in the first four (4) drill holes to test the CV5-6 pegmatite this past fall. Drill intercept highlights include 155.1 m at 0.94% Li2O and 117 ppm Ta2O5 (CF21-002), and 58.1 m at 1.25% Li2O and 194 ppm Ta2O5 (CF21-003). The second drill rig has also now arrived on site and is currently mobilizing from the staging area to the drill site and is expected to begin coring shortly.

The Company has engaged Forage Fusion Drilling Ltd. of Hawkesbury, Ont., to carry out the diamond drilling with the program being managed by Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd. of Edmonton, AB. The Company notes that it has developed a COVID Management Plan for the program and will carry out its field programs while adhering to all federal, provincial, and regional restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mineral exploration has been recognized as an essential service in Canada and the Province of Quebec.