June 22, 2021 – Cruz Battery Metals. (CSE: CRUZ) (OTC Pink: BKTPF) (FSE: A2DMG8) (“Cruz” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has hired Vital Drilling Services of Val Caron, Ontario to conduct the Company’s planned upcoming 2021 drill program in the historic Cobalt Camp of Ontario.
Cruz is one of the largest landholders in the historic silver-cobalt producing region of Cobalt, Ontario, with five separate projects in the world-famous silver-cobalt camp. Cruz’s projects are in the direct vicinity of First Cobalt Corp. (TSX.V-FCC). On Dec. 22, 2020, the government of Canada and the government of Ontario announced a joint $10-million investment in the First Cobalt Corp. refinery in Cobalt, Ontario. (see map below).
Cruz’s Ontario Silver-Cobalt Properties
Jim Nelson, President of Cruz states, “We are pleased to have now hired a drill contractor for our upcoming 2021 drill program in the historic silver-cobalt producing region of Cobalt, Ontario. This drill program is expected to begin shortly and will be fully funded by flow-through funds already on-hand. On June 17, 2021, in a recent electric vehicle (EV) segment featured on CNBC, consulting firm Alix Partners, who tracks auto-investments around the world, announced that through 2025 the auto-industry is estimated to invest $330 billion on EV infrastructure, in addition to having an estimated 24% of all auto-sales being EV’s by 2030. EV sales are expected to surge for the rest of this decade along with the demand for battery metals. Cruz is in a unique position to potentially capitalize on both our cobalt and lithium assets. Not only does Cruz have cobalt projects in Ontario & Idaho, we also have a lithium project in the Clayton Valley of Nevada, being one of the few companies that has access to the deepest parts of the only lithium brine basin in production in North America (see map below). Cruz currently has approximately $1.5 million in the treasury, including flow-through funds. We are about to come into a major news flow cycle and management remains confident that 2021 will be a transformative year for the Company as Cruz has multiple strategically located, and ethically sourced, cobalt and lithium projects in North America.”
The technical contents of this release were approved by Greg Thomson, PGeo, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Cruz Management cautions that past results or discoveries on properties in proximity to Cruz may not necessarily be indicative of the presence of mineralization on the Company’s properties.
About Cruz Battery Metals
Cruz currently has twelve projects located
throughout North America, comprising five in Ontario, four in British Columbia,
two in Idaho, and one in Nevada. Cruz’s five separate Ontario projects are all
located in the vicinity of the town of Cobalt, making Cruz one of the largest
landholders in this historic silver-cobalt producing district. Cruz’s Ontario
projects, which are prospective for Cobalt, diamonds and silver include the
1,525-acre Coleman cobalt project, the 988-acre Johnson cobalt project, the
6,146-acre Hector cobalt project, the 1,458-acre Bucke cobalt project and the
1,453-acre Lorraine cobalt project. The company’s BC projects include the 1,542-acre
War Eagle cobalt project, the 2,552-acre Larry diamond project, the 5,572-acre
Jax diamond project, and the 1,529-acre Mark diamond project. Cruz’s USA
projects include the 2,211-acre ‘Idaho Cobalt Belt Project’, the and the
80-acre ‘Idaho Star Cobalt Prospect’, and the 240-acre ‘Clayton Valley Lithium
Prospect’ in Nevada. Management cautions that past results or discoveries on
properties in proximity to Cruz may not necessarily be indicative of the
presence of mineralization on the Company’s properties.
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Cruz Battery Metals.
“James Nelson”
James Nelson
President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and Director
For more information regarding this news release, please contact:
James Nelson, CEO and Director
T: 604-899-9150
Toll free: 1-855-599-9150
Twitter: @CruzCobalt
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