Surge Battery Metals Inc. announced that it has recently staked a 663 ha. (1,640 acres) property in the Teels Marsh Playa, Mineral County, Nevada. The property is located in an active region for both lithium exploration and production, about 84 km northeast of Albemarle's Silver Peak brine mining operation in a similar geologic setting, and adjoining the Dajin Lithium Corp.'s Teels Marsh Lithium project on the southwestern edge of the playa.

To date, limited exploration has been conducted on the property including a gravity survey and various lithium brine and sediment samples. Playa sediment samples from the property have shown lithium values to 104.5 ppm Li and nearby hot springs sediments have been found to carry up to 500 ppm Li values during sampling. The property covers two sub-basins and a connecting buried paleo-channel defined in a detailed gravity survey conducted in 2020.

These features may contain trapped lithium rich brines or volcanic ash aquifers similar to the Clayton Valley deposit setting. Surge plans to conduct additional exploration this spring designed to identify sites for drill tests and plans to review all previous exploration results on the Teels Marsh West Project, including other potential sites in the vicinity. This will be accomplished in early 2022, in order to guide a Spring/Summer 2022 exploration program aimed at locating lithium bearing montmorillonite clay deposits and lithium rich brines within the basins.