Q2 Metals Corp. (TSX.V: QTWO | OTCQB: QUEXF | FSE: 458) (” Q2 ” or the ” Firm “) is happy to announce the appointment of Mr. Keith Phillips to its Board of Administrators.
Keith Phillips served as Chief Government Officer of Piedmont Lithium from the Firm’s inception in 2017 to its latest merger with Sayona Mining in 2025. Underneath his management, Piedmont achieved a peak market capitalization exceeding $1.0 billion, rising from an early-stage exploration challenge in North Carolina to a worldwide lithium producer with belongings in Canada, Ghana and the USA together with key business partnerships with Tesla and LG Chem. The successor firm, Elevra Lithium, is North America’s main hard-rock lithium producer.
Previous to becoming a member of Piedmont, Mr. Phillips had a distinguished 30-year profession on Wall Road, the place he managed strategic and financing transactions with an combination worth of over $100 billion. Amongst different positions, Mr. Phillips led the mining funding banking groups for Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and Dahlman Rose, having beforehand served as Head of Canadian Funding Banking Companies for Goldman Sachs. Mr. Phillips labored with quite a few mining firms, together with established world leaders, and devoted a lot of his profession to advising exploration and development-stage firms in attaining their strategic aims, with a specific give attention to acquiring relevance in the USA capital markets.
Mr. Phillips earned his Grasp of Enterprise Administration in Finance from The College of Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Laurentian College in Canada.
Alicia Milne, Q2 Metals President and CEO, commented, ” I’m thrilled to welcome Keith to the Q2 Board of Administrators. Along with his in depth expertise within the lithium trade in addition to in funding banking, Keith considerably strengthens our board and aligns with our strategic targets as we work in direction of publishing our inaugural inferred mineral useful resource estimate on Cisco within the first quarter of 2026. ”
Keith Phillips, Director, stated, ” I am excited to be becoming a member of Q2 Metals at such a pivotal second within the Firm’s progress . The Cisco Lithium Mission stands out on the worldwide stage for its scale, grade and prime location in a high tier mining jurisdiction. Having assessed lithium belongings throughout all main producing areas, I can confidently say Cisco ranks among the many most promising undeveloped hard-rock lithium initiatives worldwide. I’m wanting to collaborate with the Q2 group to unlock Cisco’s full potential and strengthen the Firm’s position within the North American and world lithium provide chain .”
Fairness Incentive Awards
The Firm pronounces that, pursuant to its fairness incentive plan and topic to the acceptance by the TSX Enterprise Alternate, the Firm has granted 1,300,000 inventory choices to sure administrators, officers and consultants of the Firm to buy an combination of 1,300,000 frequent shares within the capital of the Firm at an train worth of $0.95 per share for a interval of 5 years. The inventory choices and the frequent shares underlying such inventory choices are topic to a maintain interval of 4 months and at some point from the date of issuance.
Upcoming Occasions
Members of the Q2 group shall be attending the next conferences and occasions:
ABOUT Q2 Metals Corp.
Q2 Metals is a Canadian mineral exploration firm centered on the Cisco Lithium Mission which is situated throughout the higher Nemaska conventional territory of the Eeyou Istchee, James Bay area of Quebec, Canada. The identified mineralized zone at Cisco is simply 6.5 km from the Billy Diamond Freeway, which ends up in the railhead within the City of Matagami, roughly 150 km to the south.
The Cisco Mission has district-scale potential with an preliminary Exploration Goal estimating a variety of potential lithium mineralization of 215 to 329 million tonnes at a grade starting from 1.0 to 1.38% Li 2 O, primarily based solely on the primary 40 holes drilled. It’s famous that the potential amount and grade of the Exploration Goal are conceptual in nature and there was inadequate exploration to estimate and outline a Mineral Useful resource, as outlined by NI 43-101. It’s unsure if additional exploration will end result within the goal being delineated as a Mineral Useful resource.
The 2025 Exploration Program is ongoing, prioritizing infill drilling in direction of an preliminary mineral useful resource estimate anticipated in Q1 2026. Growth and exploration drilling continues on the essential zone, which stays open at depth and alongside strike, in addition to at excessive potential targets recognized throughout the broader 41,253 hectare challenge space.
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