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Welcome
Battery Mineral Resources is a focused upstream battery material provider. Its projects include high quality cobalt, lithium and graphite assets, covering most cathode chemistries and the dominant anode material.

Battery Mineral Resources
Battery Mineral Resources Limited has assembled an extensive portfolio of cobalt, lithium and graphite assets located in Canada, the United States and South Korea. Upon successful delineation of mineral resources, the Company intends to develop these assets and secure long-term strategic alliances with supply chain partners, battery manufacturers and other end users.

Low-to-medium grade materials will always be captive to market dynamics.

High-purity and consistent quality battery-grade materials are key to maximizing market penetration and revenues, and requires:

1. A reliable supply of quality (high-grade) raw materials with minimal deleterious elements. 2. Integration of upstream supply chain processes to ensure the integrity of key processed materials and tailoring to end user requirements.

The Ontario Cobalt Belt
Within the Ontario Cobalt Belt, the Cobalt Silver District is one the world’s great silver and cobalt districts having produced an estimated 525 million ounces of silver and around 14,000 tonnes of cobalt. The focus of past exploration and production was silver, with cobalt produced only as a by-product and metallurgical recovery was optimized for silver not cobalt. Battery is the first company to develop an exploration programme for the entire Cobalt Belt.

Governance
Battery Mineral Resources is committed to operating under the highest standards of integrity and honesty and in accordance with the law. We believe that good corporate governance is important to ensure that Battery Mineral Resources is managed for the long-term benefit of our shareholders.

In carrying out its duties, the Board receives recommendations from Battery Mineral Resources four oversight functions: Internal Audit, Risk Management, Compliance, and Finance. They assist the Board by verifying the effectiveness of the controls within the operating units and ensuring that activities, results and risk exposure are reliably reported. To achieve this, the Board of Directors of Battery Mineral Resources maintains several operating committees including the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee, the Governance, and Nominating Committees.

We also have a Code of Business Conduct & Ethics that provides a framework for operating standards and ethics at Battery Mineral Resources that we expect of all our officers, directors, and employees. To protect shareholders and potential investors we have also developed a risk and information security policy that covers all geographical areas of the company.

We believe that our Board of Directors and committees, led by a group of strong and independent directors, provide the necessary leadership, wisdom, and experience that Battery Mineral Resources needs to make good business decisions and to fulfil the responsibilities to our shareholders. To this end, it is the policy of our Board of Directors that the majority of its members be independent.

Currently, our directors meet the standards for independence as defined by applicable law and the 5600 rules of the NASDAQ OMX Group Company Reference Guide.

As governance standards change, and the Company grows, we assess our corporate governance practices and modify them as needed.

Strategic Alliances
Established working relationships with leading battery researchers include: 	CoG3 Six UK universities and the UK’s national synchrotron science facility in a multidisciplinary program investigating solutions for the extraction of cobalt from ore deposits. (Prof Richard Herrington).

	Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong. (Distinguished Prof Shi Xue Dou, Dr Xiao Lu)

	Solid State and Battery Materials Chemistry Study Group UNSW (Dr Neeraj Sharma)

	High Performance Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries University of Technology, Sydney. (Prof Guoxiu Wang)

CoG3
The principal aim of CoG3 project is to understand the natural behaviour and biogeochemistry of cobalt in order to develop and apply novel bioprocessing strategies for cobalt extraction, recovery and the synthesis of targeted products using an integrated multi-institute and multidisciplinary approach. The project will deliver: 	New knowledge about cobalt residence and behaviour in natural systems 	New bioprocessing strategies for cobalt ores 	Bioengineered and biomineral products 	‘Mine to product’ concept for cobalt 	Improvement of supply chain 	Promotion of public understanding of cobalt and its place in a modern society

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/our-science/our-work/sustainability/project-details-cog3.pdf Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials

ISEM at the University of Wollongong consists of more than 100 researchers and postgraduate students, working on seven large programs under the direction of Distinguished Professor Shi Xue Dou.

https://isem.uow.edu.au/researchprograms/index.html

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olid State and Battery Materials Chemistry study group
Energy-related devices such as batteries and fuel cells are essential in our lives. In order to develop the next generation of technologies we need more power, or better performance, at a lower environmental cost. Research into understanding the interplay between the crystal structure of new materials and their physical properties will allow us to revolutionise how we obtain and store energy.

Dr Neeraj Sharma’s research approach at the University of NSW, encompasses exploratory synthesis, structural determination, physical property measurements and in situ structure and property characterisation of batteries and other devices.

http://www.chemistry.unsw.edu.au/staff/neeraj-sharma

High Performance Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries
Professor Wang has been working in the areas of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Energy storage and conversion, Battery technology, and NanoScience and Nanotechnology for 20 years.

He has performed extensive research on electro-materials for applications in rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, lithium-air batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium–sulphur batteries, supercapacitors and fuel-cells, controllable synthesis of one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their applications for chemical and biosensors, and semiconductor quantum dots, quantum wires and quantum tubes for nanoscale electronic and photonic devices. He has won a large number of external research grants.

Professor Wang has published over 400 refereed journal papers and delivered 100 keynote/invited talks/seminars worldwide.

https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/guoxiu.wang