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First Drill Hole Spudded in August as Company Advances 25-Hole, Approximately 1,000-Metre Program Focused on Historical Verification and Metallurgical Testwork
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Union Power Metals Corporation (CSE: UPPR) (OTCQB: UPR) (FSE: UPERF) (“Union Power” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on its maiden drill program at the Michalová manganese project in central Slovakia.
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The Company spudded the first hole of the program in August and is advancing a planned 25-hole, approximately 1,000-metre drill campaign designed to verify historical geological information and generate fresh material for metallurgical testing.
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The program represents an important step in Union Power’s technical evaluation of Michalová, combining modern drilling and analytical work with the extensive body of historical exploration data compiled by the Company from Slovak state archives.
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Michalová Drill Program (Figure 1)
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The current program has been designed around two principal objectives:
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Verification of Historical Drilling
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Twin holes are being drilled adjacent to selected historical drill collars to provide a direct comparison between new drilling results and historical information contained in archival records held by the Slovak State Geological Institute (ŠGÚDŠ).
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The Company considers consistency between the new drilling and historical results to be an important initial technical objective of the program. If current drilling demonstrates reasonable correlation with the historical geological information, it would provide additional confidence in the extensive archival dataset as Union Power determines the appropriate next steps for the project.
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Metallurgical Testwork
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In parallel with drilling, the Company is assembling representative metallurgical composites from the oxide and carbonate manganese mineralization at Michalová.
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These samples are intended for metallurgical testwork designed to evaluate the characteristics of the mineralization and its potential suitability for processing toward high-purity, battery-grade manganese products.
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By advancing metallurgical work alongside geological verification, Union Power intends to begin evaluating both the physical scale and characteristics of the mineralization and its potential processing pathway at an early stage of the project.
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The Company expects to provide further updates as drilling progresses and analytical and metallurgical results become available.
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“What we are chasing at Michalová is a question Europe has not been able to answer for itself: whether a manganese deposit on this continent can be taken all the way to battery grade,” said Derrick Dao, Chief Executive Officer of Union Power Metals.
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“We are drilling to verify the historical work and running metallurgical testwork in parallel, rather than sequentially, because tonnes and grade alone will not tell us whether this deposit has a place in a cathode supply chain. The answer ultimately comes out of the laboratory.