Note: As a development company, Avalon Advanced Materials implements TSM on a voluntarily basis and is not conducting external verifications of TSM performance results at this time.

Avalon Advanced Materials is a Canadian mineral development company specializing in critical metals and minerals with growing demand in new technology. The company has three advanced-stage projects across Canada, with exposure to lithium, tin, indium, zirconium and rare earth elements. Avalon is currently focusing on its Separation Rapids Lithium Project near Kenora, Ontario and its East Kemptville Tin-Indium Project in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, while continuing to advance its Nechalacho Rare Earth property in the Northwest Territories.

Avalon believes that a strong sustainability framework is fundamental to its long-term success. The company has implemented the TSM Guiding Principles in order to meet or exceed industry best practices and to continuously improve on its social, environmental, and health and safety performance. As Avalon is a development stage company, its annual TSM self-assessment is voluntary.

Avalon has demonstrated leadership among junior companies in the mineral development sector by producing an annual sustainability report compliant with the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) guidelines. Avalon reports on its activities to hold itself accountable, drive innovation, improve company performance, develop management systems and governance for future operations, and to demonstrate the benefits of sustainable practices to its stakeholders. In November 2018, Avalon published its seventh annual sustainability report and its second in accordance with GRI Standards, core option.

Avalon has placed among Corporate Knights’ Future 40 Responsible Corporate Leaders in Canada in 2015, 2016 and 2018.

During the 2018 reporting period (September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018), Avalon continued to advance its projects openly and transparently, with a commitment to the economic and social well-being of its projects’ local communities.

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