VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — South Star Battery Metals Corp. (“South Star” or the “Company”) (TSXV: STS) (OTCQB: STSBF) is pleased to announce that the Company has increased the size of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of common shares (the “Share Offering”) from CAD $4,000,000 to up to CAD $4,800,000. The upsized Share Offering will now consist of up to 32,000,000 common shares (the “Shares”) at a price of CAD $0.15 per Share. The increase in the size of the Share Offering was driven primarily by strong investor demand, with the order book remaining oversubscribed even after the increase from the originally announced size. All other terms of the Share Offering remain unchanged from those set out in the Company’s news release dated May 6, 2026 (the “Initial News Release”).