Appia Energy Corp. announced that in accordance with the Canada-U.S. Joint Action on Critical Minerals Collaboration announced in December 2019, the Company has submitted a proposal with respect to addressing the security of the heavy rare earth element ("REE") supply chain in the United States. In particular, the important heavy REEs are dysprosium, terbium, samarium, europium and gadolinium. The proposal is in regard to Appia's Alces Lake, Saskatchewan ("SK") project, which has some of the high grade rare earth oxide ("REO") mineralization in the world, hosted in monazite. A sample of the mineralization exposed at surface will be extracted this summer for recovery processing testing at the Saskatchewan Research Council's ("SRC") separation pilot plant and REE processing facility in Saskatoon, SK. SRC has the processing resources, capabilities and proven team expertise to produce heavy REOs from monazite mineralization hosting the REEs at Alces Lake. The Province of Saskatchewan's recent growth plan includes an aggressive two-year target for a commercially viable REE production demonstration plant, which could be important for Appia's Alces Lake project. The Company advises that the Alces Lake project as of this time does not have demonstrated quantified mineral resources, and does not have a prefeasibility study demonstrating economic and technical viability for developing a commercially mineable project.