Mr. Steve Hanson reports

SURFACE METALS INC. ENGAGES BARWICKI INVESTOR RELATIONS TO LEAD STRATEGIC INVESTOR RELATIONS AND SHAREHOLDER COMMUNICATION PROGRAM

Surface Metals Inc. has engaged Barwicki Investor Relations to lead a strategic investor relations and shareholder communication program.

Founded by Andrew Barwicki in 2006, New York-based Barwicki Investor Relations is a full-service investor relations firm representing publicly traded companies and pre-IPO (initial public offering) companies. With over 30 years of experience in investor relations and financial public relations, Barwicki has created one of the industry's largest and most diverse database and network of institutional investors and retail investors while creating a framework of best practices in all aspects of corporate and shareholder communications. In addition to its relationships with many of the industry's most respected institutional investors, Barwicki Investor Relations has spent the past two decades creating an integrated platform that allows its clients far-reaching exposure to investors in a consistent and in-depth format.

Under the agreement between Surface Metals and Barwicki Investor Relations, the company has agreed to pay Barwicki a monthly fee of $5,300 (U.S.). The initial term of the agreement is month to month and may be terminated by the company at any time. Barwicki will not receive any shares or options of the company as compensation. Surface Metals and Barwicki are unrelated and unaffiliated entities. Barwicki has informed the company that neither it nor its principals have any interest, directly or indirectly, in Surface Metals or any securities of the company or any right or intent to acquire such an interest.

Additionally, Surface Metals has terminated its agreement with IDR Marketing.

About Surface Metals Inc.

Surface Metals is a North American mineral exploration company focused on advancing a diversified portfolio of gold and lithium projects in Nevada, United States, and Manitoba, Canada. The company's Cimarron gold project is located in Nye county, Nevada, a historically productive gold district. Its Clayton Valley lithium brine project hosts a National Instrument 43-101-compliant inferred resource of approximately 302,900 tonnes LCE (lithium carbonate equivalent) adjacent to Albemarle's Silver Peak mine. Surface Metals also holds additional lithium assets in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, and through a joint venture with Snow Lake Energy in southeastern Manitoba.

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