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ESSEX ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT FOR $880,000

/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OR DISSEMINATION THROUGH A U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICE/

VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 20, 2022 /CNW/ - Essex Minerals Inc. (the "Company") (TSXV: ESX) (OTCQB: ESXMF) is pleased to announce that further to its news release of September 21, 2022, it has closed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the "Financing"), raising an aggregate of $880,000 in gross proceeds through the issuance of 44,000,000 units (the "Units") at a price of $0.02 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one common share and one share purchase warrant, with one whole warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share (a "Warrant Share") of the Company at a purchase price of $0.05 per Warrant Share for a period of 60 months from the date of closing.

Essex Minerals Logo (CNW Group/Essex Minerals Inc)

A company associated with the Company's CEO and President subscribed for 955,000 units.

The Company paid finder's fees in connection with the placement comprising an aggregate of $24,290 and 1,214,500 finder's warrants to Canaccord Genuity Corp and $7,000 and 350,000 finder's warrants to Primary Capital Inc. Each finder's warrant is exercisable into one common share at $0.05 for 60 months.

The finder's warrants are subject to a hold period, which will expire as follows:

Number of Finder's Warrants

Expiry date for hold period

1,141,000

January 29, 2023

350,000

January 30, 2023

350,000

February 8, 2023

73,500

February 20, 2023

All of the Units are subject to a hold period, which will expire as follows:

Number of Units

Expiry date for hold period

16,300,000

January 29, 2023

20,925,000

January 30, 2023

3,750,000

February 8. 2023

3,025,000

February 20,2023

The net proceeds from the Financing will be used by Essex for general working capital purposes, its mineral project and royalty generative activities and exploration expenditures on its existing mineral projects.

Approximately 15% of the proceeds will be utilised in payments to officers and directors as remuneration for management of the Company in the normal course of business, approximately 5% of the proceeds will be utilised in investor relations activities, including a contract renewal with the Company's existing investor relations consultant Harbor Access LLC, and the balance of the proceeds will be utilised in the Company's mineral project and royalty generative activities, costs related to the Company's existing mineral properties and general working capital. The Company is currently examining a number of new exploration and royalty acquisition opportunities, but no specific expenditure representing more than 10% of the gross proceeds has currently been agreed.

Paul Loudon
CEO & Director

www.essexminerals.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

The securities offered have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any U.S. state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons (as defined under the U.S. Securities Act) absent registration or any applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

SOURCE Essex Minerals Inc

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