Comstock Advances Purchase and Sale of Facility

VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., April 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comstock Inc. (NYSE: LODE) (“Comstock” and the “Company”) today announced the receipt of an additional $7 million toward the sale of the LINICO Battery Recycling Facility (the “Facility”) to American Battery Technology Company, a Nevada corporation (“ABTC”), bringing total cash received to date to $18 million of the $27.6 million purchase price. Comstock has successfully completed the purchase of Facility and is now scheduled to receive the remaining net proceeds of over $8 million dollars over the next three months, with $3 million due in the next two weeks.

“We are thrilled with accomplishing a majority of the critical milestones related to this transaction. The sale of this asset became strategic once we secured our permitted 200-acre battery metal storage facility in Mound House, Nevada, and expanded our metals recycling business into photovoltaics and other electronic devices, in addition to lithium-ion batteries,” stated Mr. Corrado De Gasperis, Comstock’s executive chairman and chief executive officer. “We have already received $6 million in net proceeds after the purchase of the building, with another $3 million due next week and over $5 million in additional proceeds to be received in the next few months. We are now very well positioned to well exceed our $30 million asset sale target for this year.”

Overall, ABTC will pay $27.6 million for the 2500 Peru building and related assets, of which $18 million in cash and 10 million restricted shares of ABTC common stock has been received as of April 21, 2023. The Company is entitled to receive an additional $3.0 million in cash on or before May 12, 2023. After the Company’s payment of $12.0 million to AQMS for Facility purchase and $1.5 million in escrow related to environmental liabilities, the Company expects to net over $14.0 million in cash from this transaction.

As previously contemplated in the First Amended and Restated Agreement, the Shares will be registered for resale pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by ABTC.

About Comstock

Comstock (NYSE: LODE) commercializes innovative technologies that contribute to global decarbonization by efficiently converting under-utilized natural resources, primarily, woody biomass into net zero renewable fuels, end of life metal extraction, and generative AI-enabled advanced materials synthesis and mineral discovery.

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