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Astra Exploration Provides Update On Private Placement Financing

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ASTRA EXPLORATION INC. (TSX-V: ASTR, OTCQB: ATEPF)

NEWS RELEASE

Astra Exploration Provides Update On Private Placement Financing

Vancouver, British Columbia – March 12, 2024 – Astra Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: ASTR, OTCQB:

ATEPF) (“Astra Exploration” or the “Company”) is providing the following update on the private

placement financing previously announced on January 18, 2024.

The Company expects to close the financing on or before April 10, 2024.

The proceeds will be used for exploration activities on Astra’s flagship Pampa Paciencia project

in Northern Chile and for general working capital.

About Pampa Paciencia

Pampa Paciencia is a 3,840 hectare road-access project hosting a large low sulphidation

epithermal (“LSE”) gold-silver system and large porphyry copper target located in one of the most

important mining jurisdictions in the world – less than 15 kilometres from two major mines (Sierra

Gorda and Spence) and about five kilometres from the Faride LSE mine.

Astra has completed drilling, mapping and sampling, geophysical surveys, and localized

trenching, at the Pampa Paciencia District, and in doing so has defined a vein boulder (float) field

over approximately 75% of the project area. The veins do not outcrop as the majority of the project

area is covered by a thin layer of gravels and caliche but the vein float can be used to identify

areas of high prospectivity. Exploration has presently confirmed over two kilometres of thick

epithermal veins with multiple s hoots of high -grade gold , and a separate but related large

porphyry-copper target.

About the Company

Astra Exploration Inc. is an exploration company based out of Vancouver, BC. Astra is engaged

in the acquisition, exploration and development of epithermal gold -silver properties in Chile and

is building a portfolio of high -quality projects. Astra’s curren t focus is the development of the

Pampa Paciencia Project.

Qualified Person

The technical data and information as disclosed in this news release has been reviewed and

approved by Darcy Marud. Mr. Marud is a Practicing Member of the Association of Professional

Geoscientists of Ontario and is a qualified person as defined under the terms of National

Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

For further information please contact:

Brian Miller

Chief Executive Officer

Tel. 604.428.0939

Email: [email protected]

Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of

the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Mineralization hosted on adjacent and/or nearby and/or geologically similar properties is not

necessarily indicative of mineralization hosted on the Company’s properties.

This news release may contain certain “Forward-Looking Statements” within the meaning of the

United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities

laws. When or if used in this news release, the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”,

“target, “plan”, “forecast”, “may”, “schedule” and similar words or expressions identify forward -

looking statements or information. These forward-looking statements or information may relate

to the Company’s business activities; exploration on the Company’s properties; completion of the

transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement; receipt of all required regulatory

approvals; and marketing initiatives. Such statements represent the Company’s current views

with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions and

estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant

business, economic, competitive, political and social risks, contingencies and uncertainties. Many

factors, both known and unknown, could cause results, performance or achievements to be

materially different from the results, performance or achievements that are or may be expressed

or implied by such forward -looking statements. Such factors include, without limitation:

development of the industry in which the Company operates; risks associated with the conduct of

the Company's business activities; risks relating to reliance on the Company's management team

and outside contractors; currency fluctuations; risks regarding the failure to generate sufficient

cash flow from operations; laws and regulations governing the industry in which the Company

operates; the ability of the communities in which the Company operates to manage and cope with

the implications of COVID -19; the economic and financial implications of COVID -19 to the

Company; operating or technical difficulties; employee relations, labour unrest or unavailability;

stock market volatility; conflicts of interest among certain directors and officers; lack of liquidity for

shareholders of the Company; litigation risk; and other risk factors disclosed in the Company’s

public disclosure documents available on the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com. Readers are

cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward -looking statements or forward -looking

information. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause

actual results to differ materially, there may be other factor s that cause results not to be

anticipated, estimated or intended. The Company does not intend, and does not assume any

obligation, to update these forward -looking statements or information to reflect changes in

assumptions or changes in circumstances or any other events affecting such statements and

information other than as required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.