Wilmington, Delaware, May 12, 2026 – Electric Metals (USA) Limited (TSXV: EML| OTCQB: EMUS) (“Electric Metals” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the formal kickoff of the Preliminary Economic Assessment engineering study (“PEA”) for the planned HPMSM and EMM processing facilities (the “Processing Plant PEA”) that form the downstream processing platform of the Company’s North Star Manganese Project, a strategy focused on establishing a fully domestic U.S. manganese supply chain and building foundational industrial infrastructure for America’s critical minerals and advanced manufacturing sectors.
The Processing Plant PEA is being led by Hargrove Engineers & Constructors, a leading U.S. Engineering and EPC firm ranked the #1 firm in the Chemicals sector by Engineering News-Record (ENR) in 2025 and among the leading firms in industrial process engineering.
