February 5 Webinar: EMP Metals Corp. EMP

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EMP will be hosting our next live webinar on Thursday, February 5. Paul Schubach, COO will be updating us on Project Aurora.

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Vancouver, British Columbia, November 26 2025 – EMP Metals Corp. (CSE: EMPS) (OTCQB: EMPPF) (“EMP Metals” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the successful completion of all exterior construction work on the building that will house its upcoming lithium refining demonstration plant, known as Project Aurora, at the Company’s Viewfield Project in Saskatchewan. At this stage the building is fully weather sealed, power has been run to the building from the fully serviced site, and prepared for interior finishing and electrical work to begin.

The Company’s Project Aurora partner, Saltworks Technologies Inc. (“Saltworks”), reports that construction of equipment for the Aurora direct well-head connected ‘spoke’ demonstration plant is 70% complete. Importantly, 60% of the equipment that will populate the Aurora facility is already being successfully used with in-field, fully automated performance on analogous projects. The continuous flow and fully automated 2nd generation direct lithium extraction (Gen II DLE) plant is designed to produce ultra-high purity and highly concentrated lithium chloride for delivery to the Aurora conversion hub. The Aurora conversion hub, located in Richmond BC, is constructed and commissioned, and already producing various grades of lithium carbonate using other brine sources.

Saltworks notes that Aurora’s Gen II technology introduces a double DLE process that boosts eluate purity and lowers capital expenditure (capex). This is achieved by taking a complete integrated and optimized system approach, coupled with simplification enabled through the Gen II technology.

Paul Schubach, COO of EMP Metals, commented, “Completing the building’s exterior and essential site infrastructure marks a major step forward for our demonstration plant. With these foundational elements in place, we can now focus on the remaining interior work and begin preparing for the arrival of the Saltworks processing equipment in early 2026.”
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EMP is a Canadian-based lithium exploration and development company focused on large-scale resources using direct lithium extraction (DLE). EMP currently holds over 205,000 net acres (83,000 hectares) of Subsurface Dispositions and strategic wellbores in Southern Saskatchewan.

The Project Aurora demo plant will establish, test, and optimize a wellhead connected, continuous flow, modular Hub and Spoke lithium extraction and refining model. The on-site program aims to unlock performance improvements and cost savings while de-risking future investments. Project Aurora, a joint initiative between EMP Metals Corp. and Saltworks, is aimed at driving down costs, simplification, and leveraging the best available and most economic technology while optimizing a complete lithium system, from well to battery chemical. As part of the collaborative’s launch, Saltworks will advance full-scale plant design and cost estimates for a 3,000+ tonne per year modular, repeatable commercial refinery for EMP Metals utilizing data and insights from the demo plant project.

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Vancouver, British Columbia, January 26, 2026 – EMP Metals Corp. (CSE: EMPS) (OTCQB: EMPPF) (FSE: 9ST) (“EMP Metals” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the successful completion of the building interior that will house its upcoming lithium refining demonstration plant. The building structure is now complete, insulated, and metal-cladded on the exterior and interior. Lighting and facility cable runs are currently being installed as per General Arrangement Drawings (GAD’s) in preparation for the arrival of process equipment and build-out of other functional areas of the facility.

Process equipment build continues to progress at Saltworks Technologies Inc. (“Saltworks”) in Richmond, BC, with pre-commissioning beginning on completed skids. The build of the Gen-II Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) system for Project Aurora, as previously described by Saltworks, is also progressing on schedule.

Paul Schubach, COO of EMP Metals, commented: “Progress continues to remain on schedule at the Aurora Demonstration Plant site in Saskatchewan, as well as with the surface refining equipment build and commissioning activities at Saltworks. We remain on pace to start up one of the first direct well-head-connected lithium extraction facilities in Saskatchewan in Q2.”

The Company will provide further updates as progress continues and major milestones are achieved.