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Receipt of US$2.5m Royalty Payment

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Receipt of US$2.5 Million Royalty Payment and Next Basin Drilling Programme Design Underway to Target a Further US$3 Million Royalty Payment

Bradda Head Lithium Ltd (AIM:BHL, TSX-V:BHLI, OTCQB:BHLIF), the North America-focused lithium development group, is pleased to announce receipt of the US$2.5 million payment from the Lithium Royalty Corporation ("LRC") upon confirmation of the Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") surpassing 1.0Mt Lithium Carbonate Equivalent ("LCE") at the Company's Basin Project, Arizona (September 28, 2023 PR). BHL has initiated a new drill plan for Basin with a particular focus on placing sites to reduce surface impact and meet the Company's objective of defining an inferred total MRE of +2.5Mt LCE. The Company has also expanded the claim block to the north by adding an additional 2.84km2 of claims over open ground which has exceptional exploration potential.

Overview:

  • BHL received payment of US$2.5 million from LRC following expansion of the Basin resource by drilling 2,355m and 14 sonic holes tripling the resource from 0.371Mt to 1.085Mt LCE.
  • The next plan and strategy for continued MRE expansion at Basin North is underway with an emphasis on drilling holes at approximately 800m spacings. The anticipated programme is for approximately 10 holes or +/- 3,000m of drilling. The programme is pending Notice of Intent permit expansion with the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM").
  • The Company has also expanded its land package, adding 2.84km2 of mining claims to the north of the Basin North claims, where land was open for staking, increasing the Basin land package to 19.7km2.
  • Our Exploration team in Arizona had identified the same stratigraphy of clays plus silica nodules along the northern boundary of the new claims as seen to the southwest in Basin West, a distance of over 4.0km.
  • The Company has confidence in achieving the next milestone of 2.5Mt of LCE in situ, enabling BHL to receive a further US$3.0 million payment from LRC under the Royalty Agreement.
  • SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd indicated that the Basin project has potential to grow another 1.0 to 4.0Mt LCE but notes that this is prior to the new license area added at Basin.

​Ian Stalker, Executive Chair, commented:

"The receipt of our first royalty payment is a significant event, substantiating the Company's confidence in its resource size and demonstrating the value of the Basin project, in particular. Following this, we are confident in proving up more than 2.5Mt of resource and triggering the final royalty payment of US$3 million from LRC.

"In addition to resource expansion, we are also expanding our claims, with indications that similarly positive geology extends to the north, into the new claims. These new claims will also feed into the high-grade potential of future resource expansion and will enable us to reach the 2.5Mt threshold for the next royalty payment more quickly.

"Diamond core drilling continues at the San Domingo Pegmatite project with approximately 50% of the program completed, where many of the holes have encountered long intervals of pegmatite with visible spodumene mineralization. Assay results have been slow to arrive due to the summer rush at the laboratory, but drilling progress is good. Additional permits were received from the State and BLM, sites are being constructed at the historic Morning Star lithium mine and we understand drilling there is planned to commence within the next week. The Company hopes to have news on San Domingo within the next few weeks as preliminary results have started to arrive."

About Bradda Head Lithium Ltd.

The Basin East Project has an Indicated Mineral Resource of 17 Mt at an average grade of 940 ppm Li and 3.4% K for a total of 85 kt LCE and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 210 Mt at an average grade of 900 ppm Li and 2.8% K (potassium) for a total of 1.0 Mt LCE. In the rest of the Basin Project SRK has determined an Exploration Target of 250 to 830 Mt of material grading between 750 to 900 ppm Li, which is equivalent to a range of between 1 to 4 Mt contained LCE. The Group intends to continue to develop its three phase one projects in Arizona, whilst endeavouring to unlock value at its other prospective pegmatite and brine assets in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. All Bradda Head's licences are held on a 100% equity basis and are in close proximity to the required infrastructure. Bradda Head is quoted on the AIM of the London Stock Exchange with the ticker of BHL, on the TSX Venture Exchange with a ticker of BHLI, and on the US OTCQB market with a ticker of BHLIF.

Technical Glossary

KtThousand tonnes
PpmParts per million
Inferred Mineral ResourceThat part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity and grade (or quality) are estimated based on limited geological evidence and sampling. Geological evidence is sufficient to imply but not verify geological grade (or quality) continuity. It is based on exploration, sampling and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes. An Inferred Mineral Resource has a lower level of confidence than that applying to an Indicated Mineral Resource and must not be converted to an Ore Reserve. It is reasonably expected that the majority of Inferred Mineral Resources could be upgraded to Indicated Mineral Resources with continued exploration.

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