Battery Mineral Resources Corp. Closes Second Tranche of Private Placement Battery" or the " Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed the second and final tranche of its previously announced private placement (the " Private Placement"). On completion of the second tranche, the Company issued 1,538,462 common shares shares for additional proceeds of US$800,000, for aggregate gross proceeds of US$11.1 million and C$800,000. As previously disclosed, Battery used a portion of the proceeds of the Private Placement to partially finance the acquisition from Minera Altos de Punitaqui Limitada (" MAP"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xiana Mining Inc. (" Xiana"), of the Punitaqui Mining Complex, a recently producing copper-gold mine located in the Coquimbo region of Chile (the "