Authorized

Authorized share capital: an unlimited number of common shares with no par value.

Issued and Outstanding

On April 29, 2026, the Company and EV Metals (collectively EV Metals VI LLC, EV Metals 7 LLC, EV Metals 8 LLC, and or EV Metals 9 LLC, companies controlled by Jacob Warnock, a director of the Company and a related party), in connection with the 2025 EV Metals Letter Agreement purchased 34,315,465 units priced at $0.08 per unit (CAD$0.109) for gross proceeds to the Company of $2.8 million. Each unit consists of one Common Share and one warrant to purchase a Common Share. Each Warrant, which expires four years from the date of issuance, entitles the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of CAD$0.148 which expires four years from the date of issuance. As part of this offering, the Company paid Mr. Warnock a structuring fee of 5% of the gross proceeds or $0.1 million.

On February 23, 2026, the Company and EV Metals, in connection with the 2025 EV Metals Letter Agreement purchased 26,427,053 units priced at $0.08 per unit (CAD$0.104) for gross proceeds to the Company of $2.0 million. Each unit consists of one Common Share and one warrant to purchase a Common Share. Each Warrant, which expires four years from the date of issuance, entitles the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of CAD$0.14 which expires four years from the date of issuance. As part of this offering, the Company paid Mr. Warnock a structuring fee of 5% of the gross proceeds or $0.1 million.

On October 30, 2025, the Company and EV Metals, came to an agreement under the 2025 EV Metals Letter Agreement for EV Metals to acquire an additional 12,464,000 units priced at $0.16 per unit (CAD$0.255) for gross proceeds to the Company of $2.0 million. Each unit consists of one Common Share and one warrant to purchase a Common Share. Each Warrant, which expires four years from the date of issuance, entitles the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of CAD$0.30 which expires four years from the date of issuance. As part of this offering, the Company paid Mr. Warnock a structuring fee of 5% of the gross proceeds or $0.1 million.

On July 20, 2025, the Company entered into the Subscription Agreements with certain entities managed or sub managed by Encompass Capital Advisors LLC (“Encompass”), a beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Company’s securities, for the purchase of up to 25,765,259 units at a price of CAD $0.26625 per unit (USD$0.19406 per unit) for gross proceeds of $5.0 million to the Company (the “Encompass Offering”). The 2025 Encompass Offering closed on August 5, 2025. Each 2025 Encompass Unit consists of one Common Share and one warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional Common Share for a period of three years from the closing date of the 2025 Encompass Offering at an exercise price of CAD$0.355 per share. In addition, the Company has agreed to grant Encompass the right but not the obligation to purchase up to $2.0 million additional units of the Company at any time on or before December 31, 2025. Encompass did not exercise its right to purchase any additional units of the Company prior to December 31, 2025.

On July 20, 2025, the Company entered into amended and restated registration rights agreements (“A&R Registration Rights Agreements”) which amended the Registration Rights Agreements with each of EV Metals and Encompass. Pursuant to the A&R Registration Rights Agreements, we have agreed to use our reasonable best efforts to cause this Registration Statement to be declared effective as promptly as reasonably practicable but in no event later than July 20, 2026. In addition, pursuant to the Encompass A&R Registration Rights Agreement, upon the closing of the 2025 Encompass Offering we have agreed that, upon request of Encompass, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to (i) file a registration statement registering the Common Shares to be issued at closing of the 2025 Encompass Offering, including the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants which form a part of the 2025

Encompass Units within 90 days and (ii) have such registration statement declared effective as promptly as reasonably practicable following the filing thereof but in no event later than 60 days if the registration statement is not reviewed by the SEC or 180 days if subject to review. The A&R Registration Rights Agreements provide that, subject to certain requirements and customary conditions, each of EV Metals and Encompass will have “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to underwritten offerings by us and other shareholders. In addition, upon the request of EV Metals, we have agreed to take necessary steps to facilitate up to two underwritten offerings which must occur prior to the third anniversary of the effective date of the Company's registration statement on Form S-1, or February 11, 2029; provided that the aggregate price of such offering is expected to be $25 million or less.

The A&R Registration Rights Agreements contain customary cross-indemnification provisions, under which we are obligated to indemnify the selling shareholders in the event of material misstatements or omissions in the registration statement and any violation or alleged violation by us of the Securities Act, Exchange Act, or any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder, and the selling shareholders are obligated to indemnify us for material misstatements or omissions attributable to them. We will generally pay all registration expenses in connection with our obligations under the A&R Registration Rights Agreements, regardless of whether any our Common Shares are sold pursuant to a registration statement.

In connection of the foregoing, pursuant to the A&R Registration Rights Agreements, we agreed to extend the expiration date of the warrants previously issued to Encompass and EV Metals pursuant to the private placements which occurred on April 21, 2023, February 29, 2024, May 3, 2024, and June 19, 2024 to the earlier of (i) five years from the date of such warrants original issuance or (ii) three years from the date of the closing of the 2025 Encompass Offering (the “Warrant Amendments”) and each of EV Metals and Encompass has agreed to waive their respective rights to any possible claims, including the right to liquidation damages, under the Registration Rights Agreements provided that the Warrant Amendments are approved by the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV").

On February 28, 2025, the Company entered into a letter agreement (the “2025 EV Metals Letter Agreement”) with EV Metals, agreeing to the principal terms and conditions upon which EV Metals, directly or through one or more of its subsidiaries or affiliates, could complete one or more transactions to purchase up to $15.0 million of units (the “2025 Offering”), which each unit (the “2025 Units”) consisting of one Common Share of stock and one warrant to purchase a Common Share. On March 2, 2025, two entities controlled by EV Metals, entered into binding subscription agreements for the purchase of a portion of the 2025 Offering. The first closing of the 2025 Offering occurred on March 31, 2025 for gross proceeds of $7.55 million and the second closing of the 2025 Offering occurred on April 11, 2025 for gross proceeds of $679,000, which are reflected in Obligation to issue shares as a liability. In connection with the two closings, EV Metals acquired a total of 27,739,348 (25,393,475 in the first closing and 2,345,873 in the second closing) and 690,979 2025 Units, respectively. The pricing of the 2025 Units was CAD $0.4168 per share (USD$0.2894 per share), which was based on the five-day trading average of the Common Shares on the TSXV, less a discount of 25% (the maximum allowable discount permitted by the rules of the TSXV).

The pricing of the 2025 Units was be based on the five-day trading average of the common shares on the TSXV for the applicable tranche less the maximum allowable discount permitted by the rules of the TSXV. The warrants included in the 2025 Units will have a term of four years from date of issuance and will entitle the holders to purchase a common share at an exercise price equal to the closing price of the common shares on the TSXV as of the date immediately preceding the date of the news release announcing the 2025 Offering or the closing of the applicable tranche of the 2025 Offering. In connection with the first and second closing of the 2025 Offering, the Company paid structuring fees of $411,450 to Mr. Warnock, a director and control person of EV Metals.

On June 19, 2024, the Company completed another further private placement with EV Metals and Encompass, issuing 8,478,246 units and 3,000,000 units, respectively, for a total of 11,478,246 units and total proceeds of approximately $6.4 million. Each unit consisted of one common share and one common share purchase warrant with each warrant entitling the holder to purchase on additional common share for a period of two years from the date of issuance at an exercise price of CAD$0.9579. The Company agreed to pay Jacob Warnock, a director of the Company and controlling shareholder of EV Metals, a structuring fee of approximately $238,000 which was paid by issuing an additional 423,912 common shares and agreed to cover certain cost incurred in connection with the private placement by the Encompass, which was paid in cash totaling $45,000.

On May 6, 2024, the Company completed a further private placement with EV Metals and Encompass, issuing 7,924,157 units and 10,717,977 units, respectively, for a total of 18,642,134 units and total proceeds of approximately $10.4 million. Each unit consisted of one common share and one common share purchase warrant, with each warrant entitling the holder to purchase on additional common share for a period of two years from the date of issuance at an exercise price of CAD$0.9579. The Company agreed to pay EV Metals a structuring fee of approximately $322,000 which was paid by issuing an additional 574,840 common shares and agreed to cover certain costs incurred in connection with the private placement by Encompass, which was paid by issuing an additional 80,385 common shares.

Equity Incentive Plans

On December 17, 2025, the Company adopted the 2025 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “Omnibus Plan”) which provides for the issuance of up to 49,496,161 Common Shares plus any shares forfeited or cancelled under the Company’s Prior Plans (as defined below). Pursuant to the Omnibus Plan, the Company can issue Options, Restricted Share Awards (RSAs), Restricted Share Units (RSUs), Performance Share Units (PSUs), Deferred Share Units (DSUs), Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) and Dividend-Equivalent Rights.

In addition to the Omnibus Plan, the Company has 6,498,500 options outstanding under the Company’s Rolling 10% Incentive Share Option Plan dated December 15, 2023 (the “Option Plan”), and 6,400,000 RSUs outstanding under the Company’s Amended and Restated Restricted Share Unit Plan dated as of December 17, 2023 (the “RSU Plan” and together with the Option Plan, the “Prior Plans”) Upon the approval of the Omnibus Plan by shareholders, each of the Prior Plans were frozen and no additional awards may be issued under the Prior Plans. Awards outstanding under the Prior Plans will be continue to be governed by the terms of the respective Prior Plan.

Stock Options

The Company previously had the “Stock Option Plan" which provided the Company the ability to issue options up to 10% of the number of common shares of the Company issued and outstanding as of each award date, inclusive of all common shares reserved for issuance pursuant to previously granted stock options. Options had a maximum term of ten years from date of issue and vesting was determined by the Board. As of December 17, 2025, there were 6.5 million options outstanding under the Stock Option Plan. Upon adoption of the Omnibus Plan, the Stock Option Plan was frozen and no new options may be issued pursuant to the Stock Option Plan.

The Company’s has historically issued options utilizing Canadian dollars (CAD$) for the strike price as the Company’s principle public listing of common shares is reported on the TSXV utilizing CAD$. There were no options issued during the three months ended June 30, 2026. The following table summarizes information regarding the options including the historical CAD$ strike prices during the three months ended June 30, 2026:

The share-based compensation expense for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 less than $0.1 million and a credit of $0.2 million, respectively. Share-based compensation is included in selling, general and administrative expenses, excluding deprecation in the condensed consolidated financial statements. There were no proceeds for option exercises during the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025. As of June 30, 2026, unrecognized compensation expense associated with unvested options granted and outstanding is less than $50 thousand to be recognized over the remaining period of 0.67 years.

Restricted Share Units

The Company previously had the RSU Plan which provided the Company with the ability to issue RSUs covering up to 20,577,824 common shares, inclusive of all common shares reserved for issuance pursuant to previously granted RSUs. Upon adoption of the Omnibus Plan, the RSU Plan was frozen and no new RSUs may be issued pursuant to the RSU Plan.

On June 19, 2026, the Company granted 740,524 RSUs to a member of management. The RSUs vest in equal installments on the first through third anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 740,524 RSUs is $78,000 and will be expensed over the vesting period.

On May 19, 2026, the Company granted 200,000 RSUs to certain employees. The RSUs vest in equal installments on the first through third anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 200,000 RSUs is $19,000 and will be expensed over the vesting period.

On May 14, 2026, the Company granted 2,000,000 RSUs to members of management. The RSUs vest in equal installments on the first through third anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 2,000,000 RSUs is $189,000 and will be expensed over the vesting period.

On February 4, 2026, the Company granted 15,140,352 RSUs to members of management. 2,087,683 of the RSUs vest on the first anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 2,087,683 RSUs is $206,386 and will be expensed over the vesting period. 50% of 4,089,298 RSUs shall vest upon the Issuer achieving a $750 million market capitalization over a 60 day volume weighted average trading price and the remaining 50% shall vest upon the Issuer achieving $1.5 billion market capitalization over a 60 day volume weighted average trading price. The value of the 4,089,298 RSUs is $295,478 which will be expensed between 2.5 and 3.0 years from the date of grant. 50% of 7,963,371 RSUs shall vest upon the Issuer achieving an annualized EBITDA of $25 million and the remaining 50% shall vest upon the Issuer achieving an annualized EBITDA of $50 million. The remaining 1,000,000 RSUs will vest in full 60 days following the Issuer's successful listing on a major stock exchange.

On November 3, 2025, the Company granted 50,000 RSUs to a member of management. The RSUs vest in equal installments on the first through third anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 50,000 RSUs is $12,500 and will be expensed over the vesting period.

On October 2, 2025, the Company granted 700,000 RSUs to members of management. The RSUs vest in equal installments on the first through third anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 700,000 RSUs is $241,500 and will be expensed over the vesting period.

On June 2, 2025, the Company granted 2,550,000 RSUs to members of management. 850,000 of the RSUs vest on the first anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 850,000 RSUs is $637,500 and will be expensed over the vesting period. The remaining 1,700,000 RSUs vest upon the Company entering into an executed agreement for the deployment of a second and third MDLE plant.

On April 7, 2025, the Company granted 3,000,000 RSUs to a member of management. 1,000,000 of the RSUs vest on the first anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 1,000,000 RSUs is $550,000 and will be expensed over the vesting period. The remaining 2,000,000 RSUs vest upon the Company entering into an executed agreement for the deployment three MDLE Plants, including the Existing MDLE Plant.

On February 12, 2025, the Company granted 100,000 RSUs to members of management. The RSUs vest in equal installments on the first through third anniversary of the grant date. The value of the 100,000 RSUs is $49,500 and will be expensed over the vesting period.

The share-based compensation expense for all of the RSUs in the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 was $0.2 million and a credit of approximately $30 thousand due to forfeitures from prior members of management

Restricted Share Awards

On December 18, 2025, under the 2025 Omnibus Plan, the Company granted RSAs to the certain non-employee members of the Board of Directors with four directors each receiving 1,149,954 RSAs. The closing price on December 18, 2025 was CAD$0.16 and the aggregate value of these RSAs is approximately $517,000. The vesting period for these RSAs is one year and will be expensed over the vesting period. As of June 30, 2026, the Company had 4,599,816 RSAs outstanding under the Omnibus Plan. The share-based compensation expense for the three months ended June 30, 2026 was $0.1 million. and none during the three months ended June 30, 2025.

Warrants

The Company has historically issued warrants utilizing CAD$ for the strike price as the Company’s principle public listing of common shares is reported on the TSXV utilizing CAD$. The following table summarizes information regarding the warrants including the historical CAD$ strike prices during the periods ended June 30, 2026 and 2025:

As the strike price of the warrants is stated in a currency, Canadian dollars, which is different than the Company’s functional currency, the warrants are treated as a liability in the consolidated balance sheets. The outstanding warrant liability as of June 30, 2026 and March 31, 2026 was approximately $9.8 million and $10.0 million, respectively. During the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, the Company recognized a gain for the change in fair value of the warrants of approximately $2.9 million and $5.3 million, respectively. The fair value of the options was estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted average assumptions: