Hawthorn Completes Initial Option Payment on its Broken Handle Property

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HAWTHORN COMPLETES INITIAL OPTION PAYMENT ON ITS BROKEN

HANDLE PROPERTY

VANCOUVER, B .C. (March 28 , 202 3) Hawthorn Resources Corp. (CSE: HWTN)

(“Hawthorn” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it will issue 150,000 common shares

(the “Shares”) and has paid $25,000 in cash in satisfaction of its anniversary option payment

pursuant to the Company’s option agreement with Origen Resources Inc. to acquire a 75% interest

in its Broken Handle Project. The 2,098.33 project is located approximately 50 kilometres north

of the town of Grand Forks, within the Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

and is approximately 5 kilometres south of the past producing Franklin Mine Camp. The Shares

will be issued at a deemed price of $0. 13 per share, and will be subject to a hold period of four

months from the date of issuance.

About Hawthorn Resources Corp.

Hawthorn Resources Corp. is a mineral exploration company that will acquire and explore mineral

properties. For further information, please refer to the Company ’s disclosure record on SEDAR

(www.sedar.com).

On Behalf of the Board of Directors

Daniel Joyce, Director, President and CEO

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statements with respect to: the timing of the resumption of trading of Shares on the CSE and the trading

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and financing, litigation, failure of counterparties to perform their contractual obligations, loss of key

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