Rain City Resources Inc. announced the appointment of Benjamin Hill (Ben) as Director. Ben joins the Company with global resource experience across multiple commodities including nickel, lithium, copper, coal, gold and copper. As a considered investor, Ben has sat on boards of a number of companies in a variety of jurisdictions in both executive and non-executive positions. With experience in originating, structuring, funding, managing, and exiting investments across various sectors and locations, Ben brings great perspicacity and insight to the Company as it embarks on an exciting phase of growth and development. Ben is skilled in equity, convertible and debt financing with demonstrable experience in fund management having previously worked for a number of family offices and RAB Capital. He brings extensive private equity and capital markets expertise from his 25- year career, predominantly in the resources sector starting at RAB Capital's flagship Special Situations Fund (the "Fund") where he was part of the senior investment management team that grew the Fund's AUM from $300M to over $2.7B. A qualified Barrister, Ben used his legal, structuring and investment expertise to grow and manage the unlisted side of the Fund's portfolio under Philip Richards. Company announced appointment of Ian Hutcheon to Board of Directors. The Company also welcomed Dr. Ian Hutcheon to the Board of Directors. Dr. Hutcheon is Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment at the University of Calgary. He has worked extensively with industry and government in Canada and worldwide. His research and industrial career spans more than 50 years focusing on the chemical reactions between rocks and waters, with particular emphasis on brines in deep formations as well as surface and groundwater. Since 2010 he has been engaged in lithium exploration and development projects in Chile and Nevada and, most recently, in examining various DLE technologies. The Company is very pleased to announce the following initial appointments to its newly created Advisory Board: Doug Brett: Mr. Brett is a Professional Engineer. Prior to joining Avonlea, Doug has been involved in the upstream oil and gas industry in various locations throughout the world. He brings considerable experience in building companies from the ground up along with both a business and technical background to Avonlea. From 2002 to 2009, Mr. Brett built and managed an international team of 140 exploration professionals headquartered in California for a company that developed drilling projects in over 8 countries. In 2018, Mr. Brett joined Avonlea as president and has been involved in all aspects of the technology development, business direction and its growth. Ron Lincz: Mr. Lincz is a Professional Engineer and the Chief Operating Officer for Avonlea with over 35 years' experience in Water Treatment and Industrial Waste Management in the Oilfield and other Industries. He was President of Newpark Environmental Services for 6 years, managing over 260 staff until 2006 when he moved overseas for 8 years working in waste management, in Eastern Europe, MENA and Brazil. He has been COO at Avonlea since 2018 and jointly developed the Cavitek technology and related processes. Company announced Appointment of Head of Corporate Development: Jason Cubitt: The Company welcomes Mr. Cubitt to the executive team. He has worked for the past fifteen years with mining exploration companies and held executive and non-executive board positions with both private and publicly traded companies on Canadian, US and Australian exchanges. Most recently he served for seven years as president and CEO of Solis Minerals Ltd., a mining exploration company with copper projects in Peru and lithium projects in Brazil. He was formerly focussed on venture capital primarily serving the natural resource sector. He co-founded Ascenta Asset Management and Vertus Investment Advisory, offshore investment advisory firms for which he was responsible for precious metals and special situations mining funds. Prior to this, in 2005 he co-founded Ascenta Finance Corp. where he served as managing director and dealer for nine years. The Company has accepted the resignation of Mr. Chris Reynolds as acting Interim Chief Executive
Officer and thanks him for his contributions. Mr. Reynolds will remain on the Board of Directors. The Company has accepted the resignations of Justin Corinella and Nicholas Rodway from the Board of Directors and thanks them for their contributions.