South Star Battery Metals Corp. (TSX-V: STS, OTCQB: STSBF) is a battery metals project developer focused on the selective acquisition and development of near-term production projects in the Americas. South Star’s Santa Cruz Graphite Project, located in Southern Bahia, Brazil is the first of a series of industrial and battery metals projects that will be put into production. Brazil is the second-largest graphite-producing region in the world with more than 80 years of continuous mining. Santa Cruz has at-surface mineralization in friable materials, and successful large-scale pilot-plant testing (>30t) has been completed. The results of the testing show that approximately 65% of Cg concentrate is +80 mesh with good recoveries and 95%-99% Cg. With solid infrastructure and logistics, South Star is carrying its development plan towards Phase 1 production projected in Q2 2023. South Star’s next project in the pipeline is a development project in Alabama located in the middle of a developing electric vehicle, aerospace, and defense hub in the Southeastern United States.