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Golden Birch Announces Appointment of Chris Cornelius To Its Board Of Directors

Management Changes

Golden Birch News Release – April 15, 2020

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140 Cook’s Lake Road

Timmins, Ontario

P4R 0B7 Canada

GOLDEN BIRCH ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF CHRIS CORNELIUS

TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Timmins, ON, Canada (April 15, 2021) – Golden Birch Resources Inc. (CSE: GBRX) (“Golden Birch” or the

“Company”) is pleased to announce that it has nominated Chris Cornelius to the board of the Company

to fill the vacancy left from the resignation of Stephen Lewin. Mr. Cornelius has extensive experience in

the resources sector, with over 30 years of experience.

Chris Cornelius is a ‘hands-on’ prospect generator and resource developer, who has held multi-

dimensional positions in exploration, engineering, and operations. He has been directly involved in the

management, drilling, and completion of several thousand wells in many of the world’s major

hydrocarbon provinces. In 2007, he founded Cuadrilla Resources Corp, Europe’s foremost shale gas

explorer, leading the company as its CEO to the discovering of the Bowland Basin Shale Play in Lancashire;

an in-situ resource >300 trillion cubic feet. He is currently the CEO and President of CanCambria Energy

Corp, a private Vancouver based South American focused exploration company. With long time partners

he has been directly involved in the structured financing of numerous private and public start-ups. Chris

holds a B.Sc. from Manchester University and Ph.D. from Birmingham University in the UK, both in

geology.

Alan Martin, CEO & Executive Director of Golden Birch states, “Chris brings a wealth of information from

his many years of experience in the mining and exploration sectors. We are pleased to welcome Chris to

our Board of Directors and we look forward to his contribution as we advance Golden Birch’s projects in

Papua New Guinea.”

About Golden Birch Resources Inc.

Golden Birch Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring, and

developing quality mineral properties in Papua New Guinea. Golden Birch continues to maintain and

develop strong relationships with the local community and landowners that was initiated by Papuan

Minerals Ltd. The Company is also committed to the safety of its employees and consultants and respect

for the environment.

For further information please visit the Company’s website at www.goldenbirchresources.ca or contact:

Golden Birch Resources

Iain Martin, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)

& Executive Director

Tel: 705 288 0249

Email: [email protected]

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the

Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward Looking Statements

This Press Release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual

results to differ materially from the statements made. Such statements reflect the Company’s present views, future

plans, objective or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition

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or result to occur. When used in this document, the words “may”, “would”, “could”, “will”, “intend”, “plan”,

“anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect” and similar expressions ar e intended to identify forward-looking

statements. Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions,

by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Although these statements are based o n

information currently available to the Company, the Company provides no assurance that actual results will meet

management’s expectations. Many risks, uncertainties, and other factors involved with forward-looking information

could cause our actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including those factors discussed in

filings made by us with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities.

Forward-looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, the Offering, the Company’s

objectives, goals or future plans, statements, such actual results of current exploration programs, the general risks

associated with the mining industry, the price of copper, gold and other metals, currency and interest rate

fluctuations, increased competition and general economic and market factors, potential mineralization, the

estimation of mineral resources, exploration and mine development plans, timing of the commencement of

operations and estimates of market conditions. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such

forward-looking information include, but are not limited to failure to identify mineral resources, failure to convert

estimated mineral resources to reserves, the inability to complete a feasibility study which recommends a production

decision, the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required

governmental, environmental or other project approvals, political risks, uncertainties relating to the availability and

costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations

in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects, capital and operating costs varying significantly from

estimates and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, the inability to predict

and counteract the effects of COVID-19 on the business of the Company, including but not limited to the effects of

COVID-19 on the price of commodities, capital market conditions, restriction on labour and international travel and

supply chains, and those risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR.

Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information

in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as

of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time

frames or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward -looking

information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.