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American Battery Materials, Inc. – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/23 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Monday, 4/1/24, at 3:25pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/23   ·   Accession #:  1213900-24-28635   ·   File #:  1-41594

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 4/01/24  American Battery Materials, Inc.  10-K       12/31/23   56:4.6M                                   EdgarAgents LLC/FA

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   SEA’34

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K        Annual Report                                       HTML    916K 
 2: EX-21.1     Subsidiaries of the Registrant                      HTML     15K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
12: R1          Cover                                               HTML     90K 
13: R2          Audit Information                                   HTML     22K 
14: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    102K 
15: R4          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parentheticals)        HTML     37K 
16: R5          Consolidated Statements of Operations               HTML     67K 
17: R6          Consolidated Statements of Operations               HTML     25K 
                (Parentheticals)                                                 
18: R7          Consolidated Statements of Changes in               HTML     85K 
                Stockholders? Deficit                                            
19: R8          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML     91K 
20: R9          Nature of the Business                              HTML     26K 
21: R10         Going Concern                                       HTML     20K 
22: R11         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     37K 
23: R12         Debt                                                HTML     37K 
24: R13         Capital Lease Obligations                           HTML     20K 
25: R14         Capital Stock                                       HTML     33K 
26: R15         Stock Options and Warrants                          HTML     37K 
27: R16         Income Taxes                                        HTML     45K 
28: R17         Subsequent Events                                   HTML     27K 
29: R18         Pay vs Performance Disclosure                       HTML     29K 
30: R19         Insider Trading Arrangements                        HTML     23K 
31: R20         Accounting Policies, by Policy (Policies)           HTML     61K 
32: R21         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     25K 
33: R22         Capital Lease Obligations (Tables)                  HTML     20K 
34: R23         Stock Options and Warrants (Tables)                 HTML     37K 
35: R24         Income Taxes (Tables)                               HTML     43K 
36: R25         Nature of the Business (Details)                    HTML     22K 
37: R26         Going Concern (Details)                             HTML     34K 
38: R27         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     24K 
                (Details)                                                        
39: R28         Debt (Details)                                      HTML    122K 
40: R29         Debt (Details) - Schedule of Maturities of Debt     HTML     25K 
41: R30         Debt (Details) - Schedule of Recognized at Fair     HTML     21K 
                Value in the Consolidated Financial Statements                   
42: R31         Capital Lease Obligations (Details) - Schedule of   HTML     25K 
                Minimum Future Rental Payments                                   
43: R32         Capital Stock (Details)                             HTML    107K 
44: R33         Stock Options and Warrants (Details)                HTML     40K 
45: R34         Stock Options and Warrants (Details) - Schedule of  HTML     35K 
                Warrant Securities Outstanding                                   
46: R35         Stock Options and Warrants (Details) - Schedule of  HTML     65K 
                Warrant Activity                                                 
47: R36         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     25K 
48: R37         Income Taxes (Details) - Schedule of Loss from      HTML     50K 
                Operations Before Provision (Benefit) for Income                 
                Taxes                                                            
49: R38         Income Taxes (Details) - Schedule of Deferred Tax   HTML     38K 
                Assets and Liabilities                                           
50: R39         Income Taxes (Details) - Schedule of                HTML     33K 
                Reconciliation of the Income Tax Provision                       
51: R40         Subsequent Events (Details)                         HTML     52K 
53: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     95K 
56: XML         XBRL Instance -- ea0202445-10k_american_htm          XML    576K 
52: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Report Info              XLSX     89K 
 8: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- blth-20231231_cal               XML     96K 
 9: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- blth-20231231_def                XML    508K 
10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- blth-20231231_lab                     XML    951K 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- blth-20231231_pre              XML    467K 
 7: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- blth-20231231                         XSD    137K 
54: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              398±   564K 
55: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001213900-24-028635-xbrl      Zip    463K

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