Mr. Steve Hanson reports

SURFACE METALS INC. ANNOUNCES GRANT OF STOCK OPTIONS

Surface Metals Inc. has granted an aggregate of 2.25 million incentive stock options to directors and officers as per the company's stock option plan, with an exercise price of 15 cents per share for a period of five years from the date of grant.

About Surface Metals Inc.

Surface Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing battery and precious metal projects in partnership with leading technology and commodity companies in North America. Surface Metals holds a 90-per-cent interest in the Cimarron gold project in Nye county, Nevada, and, through its U.S. subsidiary, Acme Lithium U.S. Inc., is advancing and developing a lithium brine resource at Clayton Lake Valley, Nevada, and holds a sedimentary lithium claystone project at Fish Lake Valley, Nevada. Surface Metals has entered into a strategic exploration agreement with Snow Lake Resources Ltd., a leading partner, at a group of lithium projects in the pegmatite regions of Shatford, Birse and Cat-Euclid Lakes in southeastern Manitoba.

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