Critical Elements Lithium reports results from program at Rose West Discovery

Critical Elements Lithium announced the most recent results from the winter 31-hole, 3,670-meter drill program on its 100% owned Rose West Discovery with multiple wide intersections of lithium-rich pegmatites. The Rose West Discovery is situated within the Rose Lithium-Tantalum and Rose South property blocks, which constitute 395 km2, or only 38% of the total 1,050 km2 in the Corporation’s highly prospective exploration portfolio in Quebec. The 2024 winter drill campaign successfully completed 3,670 meters of drilling in 31 holes on the spodumene-bearing pegmatite showings discovered during the 2023 summer prospecting campaign, herein referred to as Rose West. Drilling results to date have demonstrated the continuity of a mineralized pegmatite body, which thus far extends over 450 m strike, 370 m down dip and to a vertical depth of 140 m. In the west, the body is comprised of multiple near surface mineralized pegmatites that range up to an apparent thickness of 12.40 m individually. These bodies appear to coalesce into a more substantial spodumene-bearing pegmatite in the east with an apparent width of up to 40.40 m. The near surface pegmatites appear to strike northwesterly with a gentle dip of 15 degrees , while the thicker pegmatite appears to strike easterly with a near-horizontal dip of 13 degrees. The body is still open in all directions, while the greatest exploration potential appears to be to the east. New assay results from the drill program have been received for fourteen new drillholes. Several of the new drillhole results returned wide high grade lithium assays, as highlighted: 1.39% Li2O and 157 ppm Ta2O5 over 35.30 m, including 2.33% Li2O and 152 ppm Ta2O5 over 9.00 m in hole RD-24-25A; 1.29% Li2O and 121 ppm Ta2O5 over 31.50 m, including 1.69% Li2O and 127 ppm Ta2O5 over 13.50 m in hole RD-24-24; 1.22% Li2O and 250 ppm Ta2O5 over 20.50 m, including 1.60% Li2O and 181 ppm Ta2O5 over 15.00 m in hole RD-24-17; 1.27% Li2O and 192 ppm Ta2O5 over 18.65 m in hole RD-24-27; 1.59% Li2O and 127 ppm Ta2O5 over 13.80 m in hole RD-24-18; 1.75% Li2O and 201 ppm Ta2O5 over 10.10 m in hole RD-24-19.