Mr. Patrick Cruickshank reports

NINE MILE METALS APPOINTS MR. KEVIN HICKS AS DIRECTOR

Nine Mile Metals Ltd. has appointed Kevin Hicks to the board of directors.

Mr. Hicks is a very successful oil and gas industry professional for 38 years in Texas and Oklahoma. Early in his career, he designed and implemented numerous groundbreaking data acquisition and control technologies. He then moved on to large project management, primarily in the area of data management. Mr. Hicks has a patent for data systems technology in the oil and gas sector. Mr. Hicks is the current chief executive officer of Have Blue Capital Corp., an investment corporation focused on critical mineral investments in Canada, the United States and South America. Mr. Hicks holds a masters of electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University.

"We are pleased and honoured to welcome Kevin Hicks to the board of directors of Nine Mile Metals as an active member. Kevin's skill set and professional successes will help guide Nine Mile and our projects to new heights and future successes. Kevin Hicks is a significant shareholder of Nine Mile, and shares our business strategy and vision for the company," stated Patrick J. Cruickshank, MBA, CEO and director.

About Nine Mile Metals Ltd.

Nine Mile Metals is a Canadian public mineral exploration company focused on critical minerals exploration (CME) volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) (copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold) exploration in the world-famous Bathurst mining camp, New Brunswick, Canada. The company's primary business objective is to explore its four VMS projects: Nine Mile Brook VMS; California Lake VMS; Canoe Landing Lake (East-West) VMS; and the new Wedge VMS. The company is focused on critical minerals exploration, positioning for the boom in EV (electric vehicles) and green technologies requiring copper, silver, lead and zinc, with a hedge with gold.

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