Avalon Appoints Vienna Psihos as Supervisor, Public Affairs & Authorities Relations

Avalon Superior Supplies Inc. (TSX: AVL) (OTCQB: AVLNF) (“Avalon” or the “Firm”) is happy to announce the appointment of Vienna Psihos as Supervisor, Public Affairs & Authorities Relations.

Ms. Psihos brings sturdy expertise on the intersection of presidency decision-making, regulatory processes, and strategic communications. Her experience will help Avalon because it advances key important minerals initiatives throughout Canada. Ms. Psihos holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the College of Toronto.

Most just lately serving in a senior coverage position inside the Authorities of Ontario’s Treasury Board Secretariat, Ms. Psihos contributed to main provincial funding and coverage choices and supported the communications technique for the province’s 2025-2026 Finances. Her work concerned managing and evaluating large-scale funding initiatives inside Ontario’s largest spending portfolios, spanning capital, working, and program investments.

Her background additionally contains advising corporations throughout Ontario’s mining and infrastructure sectors on authorities relations, allowing, stakeholder engagement, and strategic communications. This contains supporting high-priority initiatives for trade leaders similar to Glencore Canada and Wyloo’s Ring of Fireplace efforts, the place she labored on methods tied to regulatory approvals, Indigenous engagement, and main undertaking growth.

“Vienna’s expertise navigating authorities processes and funding packages, alongside together with her work supporting main mining and infrastructure initiatives, aligns immediately with Avalon’s strategic priorities,” stated Scott Monteith, CEO of Avalon. “She is going to play a key position in strengthening our authorities relationships and enhancing the Firm’s public affairs and communications efforts.”

“As governments at each the provincial and federal ranges intensify their deal with constructing resilient, homegrown provide chains, investments like Avalon’s are exactly the form of initiatives wanted to advance Canada’s important minerals technique and presence on the worldwide scale. I am thrilled to hitch the staff at such a pivotal second of development and momentum.” stated Ms. Psihos, Avalon’s new Supervisor of Public Affairs & Authorities Relations.

About Avalon Superior Supplies Inc.

Avalon Superior Supplies Inc. is a Canadian important minerals firm advancing the availability of supplies important to a resilient North American provide chain. The Firm is targeted on growing strategic property that help safe, home provide chains and long-term financial development. Avalon is advancing the Nechalacho Uncommon Earth Components and Zirconium Mission within the Northwest Territories, which incorporates all gentle and heavy uncommon earth components, in addition to yttrium, zirconium, tantalum, and niobium-critical minerals utilized in superior applied sciences throughout the communications, protection, clear tech, and vitality sectors. The Firm can also be centered on vertically integrating the Ontario lithium provide chain by means of the event of Lake Superior Lithium Inc., Ontario’s first midstream lithium hydroxide processing facility, situated in Thunder Bay. This facility will function an important hyperlink between northern Ontario’s lithium sources and the rising EV battery manufacturing base in southern Ontario and North America. By a three way partnership with SCR Sibelco NV, Avalon is advancing the Separation Rapids Lithium Mission close to Kenora, Ontario, in addition to persevering with exploration at its Snowbank lithium and Lilypad lithium-cesium deposits.

Cautionary Assertion Concerning Ahead-Wanting Info

This information launch incorporates “forward-looking info” inside the that means of relevant Canadian securities laws. Ahead-looking info contains, however is just not restricted to, statements associated to administration staff adjustments and the anticipated advantages of strengthening Avalon’s public affairs and authorities relations features. Usually, forward-looking info will be recognized by way of forward-looking terminology similar to “add” or “further”, “advancing”, “anticipates” or “doesn’t anticipate”, “seems”, “believes”, “will be”, “conceptual”, “confidence”, “proceed”, “convert” or “conversion”, “ship”, “demonstrating”, “estimates”, “encouraging”, “develop” or “increasing” or “enlargement”, “anticipate” or “expectations”, “forecasts”, “ahead”, “purpose”, “improves”, “improve”, “intends”, “justification”, “plans”, “potential” or “probably”, “promise”, “potential”, “prioritize”, “displays”, “strong”, “scheduled”, “suggesting”, “help”, “top-tier”, “updating”, “upside”, “shall be” or “will think about”, “work in direction of”, or variations of such phrases and phrases or state that sure actions, occasions or outcomes “could”, “may”, “would”, “may”, or “shall be taken”, “happen”, or “be achieved”.

Ahead-looking info is topic to identified and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different components that will trigger the precise outcomes, stage of exercise, efficiency or achievements of the Firm to be materially completely different from these expressed or implied by such forward-looking info, together with dangers related to mineral exploration and growth operations similar to: environmental hazards and financial components as they have an effect on the associated fee and success of the Firm’s capital expenditures, the flexibility of the Firm to acquire required permits and approvals, the flexibility of the Firm to acquire financing, uncertainty within the estimation of mineral sources, uncertainty with respect to the flexibility to efficiently assemble and develop the Firm’s lithium processing facility, the value of lithium, no working historical past, no working income and detrimental money circulation, land title threat, the market value of the Firm’s securities, the financial feasibility of the Firm’s mineral sources and the Firm’s business viability, inflation and unsure world financial situations, unsure geo-political shifts and dangers, profitable collaboration with indigenous communities, adjustments in know-how and developments in innovation could influence the event of the Firm’s know-how innovation centre and its lithium hydroxide processing facility, future pandemics and different well being crises, dependence on administration and different extremely expert personnel, title to the Firm’s mineral properties, the continued battle in Ukraine and Israel, intensive authorities and environmental regulation, reliance on synthetic intelligence know-how to affect mining operations, volatility within the monetary markets, uninsured dangers, local weather change, menace of authorized proceedings, in addition to these threat components mentioned or referred to within the annual info type of the Firm dated November 28, 2024 (the “AIF”) beneath the heading “Description of the Enterprise – Danger Elements”. Ahead-looking info is predicated on the affordable assumptions, estimates, evaluation and opinions of administration made in gentle of its expertise and notion of developments, present situations and anticipated developments, in addition to different components that administration believes to be related and affordable within the circumstances on the date that such statements are made, however which can show to be incorrect. Though the Firm believes that the assumptions and expectations mirrored in such forward-looking info are affordable, undue reliance shouldn’t be positioned on forward-looking info as a result of the Firm can provide no assurance that such expectations will show to be appropriate. Along with different components and assumptions recognized within the AIF, assumptions have been made relating to, amongst different issues: administration of sure of the Firm’s property by different corporations or three way partnership companions, the Firm’s capacity to hold on its exploration and growth actions with out undue delays or unbudgeted prices, the flexibility of the Firm to acquire adequate certified personnel, tools and companies in a well timed and value efficient method, the flexibility of the Firm to function in a secure, environment friendly and efficient method, the flexibility of the Firm to acquire all vital financing on acceptable phrases and when wanted, the accuracy of the Firm’s useful resource estimates and geological, operational and value assumptions on which these are primarily based and the continuance of the regulatory framework relating to environmental manners. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing record is just not exhaustive of all components and assumptions that will have been used. Though the Firm has tried to determine essential components that might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these contained in forward-looking info, there could also be different components that trigger outcomes to not be as anticipated, estimated or supposed. There will be no assurance that such info will show to be correct, as precise outcomes and future occasions may differ materially from these anticipated in such info. Accordingly, readers mustn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking info. The Firm doesn’t undertake to replace any forward-looking info, besides in accordance with relevant securities legal guidelines.

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