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Idaho Champion Gold Mobilizes Second Drill Rig to Champagne Project and Provides Update on Drill Programs

Exploration Programs

Idaho Champion Gold Mobilizes Second Drill Rig

to Champagne Project and Provides Update on

Drill Programs

Drilling to date amounts to approximately 29% of the 8,000 metres of drilling

planned for this season at two fully funded gold projects

• 6 holes totaling 1,286 metres have been completed at Baner;

approximately 43% of the program

• 6 holes totaling 1,045 metres have been completed at Champagne;

approximately 21% of the program

• Second drill rig mobilized for core drilling at Champagne

Toronto, ON – September 30, 2020 - Idaho Champion Gold Mines Canada Inc. (CSE:

ITKO) (OTCQB: GLDRF) (FSE: 1QB1)(“Champion” or the "Company"), announces an

update regarding its 2020 exploration program on both the Baner Gold and past-

producing Champagne Gold Projects in Idaho, USA.

Champagne Gold Project

Champion announces that it has completed six (6) holes totaling 1,045 metres at the

past-producing Champagne Gold Project. The completion of hole 6 represents

approximately 21% of the total drilling program.

In order to increase efficiencies and data for the maiden drilling program, the Company

also announces that it has mobilized a diamond core rig to site to complete the 5,000

metre program (See press release dated: August 19, 2020).

“Drilling targets at Champagne have been identified using historic and newly

acquired data which have been previously released,” stated Jonathan Buick,

President and CEO. “Ongoing district-wide geologic mapping and review of

completed reverse-circulation drill holes have led to recently initiating core drilling to

expedite testing and understanding the vuggy silica feeder zones beneath the near-

surface cap of gold-silver mineralization mined in the past via several open pits.

Precious-metal bearing solutions ascended along steep structural conduits which

comprise the principal target objective of the core drilling.”

Baner Gold Project

The Company reports that the drilling program is 43% complete with six (6) holes totaling

1,286 metres being sent to the assay lab. Champion is pleased with the pace of the Baner

program since mobilizing the drill rig (See press release dated: September 24, 2020).

President and CEO Jonathan Buick stated further, “Drilling at Baner North is progressing

well with the commencement of seventh core hole in the Orogrande Shear Zone. Our

geologists tell us that shear zone pyritic mineralization has been encountered.” The 2020

Baner North drill program is a continuation of the 2018 gold discovery drill program on

the Baner Gold zone.

About the Champagne Project

The Champagne Mine* was operated by Bema Gold as a heap leach operation on a high

sulfidation gold system that occurs in volcanic rocks. Bema Gold drilled 72 shallow reverse

circulation holes on the project, which complement drilling and trenching from other

previous operators. The property has had no deep drilling or significant modern exploration

since the mine closure in early 1992.

The Champagne Deposit contains epigenetic style gold and silver mineralization that

occurs in strongly altered Tertiary volcanic tuffs and flows of acid to intermediate

composition.

Champagne has a near surface cap of gold-silver mineralization emplaced by deep-seated

structures that acted as conduits for precious metal rich hydrothermal fluids. Higher grade

zones in the Champagne Deposit appear to be related to such feeder zones.

* The Company cautions that the information about the past-producing mine may not be

indicative of mineralization on Champion’s property, and if mineralization does occur, that

it will occur in sufficient quantity or grade that would result in an economic extraction

scenario. The historic data were simply used to evaluate the prospective nature of the

property. The Company has not yet conducted sufficient exploration to ascertain if a

mineral resource is present on the property.

About the Baner Project

The Baner Project is located within the Orogrande Shear Zone (OSZ), a 20-kilometre long

and up to 1-kilometre wide regional shear zone located in Central Idaho. The OSZ is

comprised of a series of grabens composed of metamorphosed Proterozoic sedimentary

rocks of the Belt Supergroup and granitic rocks of the Cretaceous Idaho Batholith, which

is intruded by Tertiary rhyolites and dacitic dikes. Hydrothermal alteration is spatially

associated with the OSZ consisting of: silicification, sericitization, and chloritization.

Different types of mineral systems occur in the OSZ and along sympathetic structures in

the area, most likely of Cretaceous or Tertiary ages. Mineralization may include

disseminated bulk-mineable precious metal mineralization associated with sheeted or

stockwork veins, hydraulic breccias and with extensive widespread alteration; but high-

grade gold also occurs within discreet structurally controlled quartz veins and silicified

zones.

The Baner Project is in the central Idaho Gold Belt, 8 km south of Elk City, Idaho. Elk City

is an historic gold mining region dating back to the 1860’s and once supported more than

20 underground mines and extensive placer operations. During the 1930’s there were

three cyanide gold mills along Crooked River, which processed open pit and underground

sulfide ore. Exploration in the district during the 1980’s and 1990’s was primarily focused

on near-surface bulk-tonnage gold potential and included companies such as Cypress-

Amax, Kinross Gold, and Bema Gold. Premium Exploration conducted extensive airborne

and surface geophysics, soil geochemistry, and drilling around 2010. Currently, in April

2020, Endomines AB, a Nordic gold producer, began mining operations at the Friday

Project at Orogrande, which is Idaho’s newest producing gold asset.

Qualified Person

The technical information in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Peter

Karelse P.Geo., a consultant to the Company, who is a Qualified Person as defined by NI

43-101. Mr. Karelse has more than 30 years of experience in exploration and development.

About Idaho Champion Gold Mines Inc.

Idaho Champion is a discovery-focused gold exploration company that is committed to

advancing its 100% owned highly prospective mineral properties located in Idaho, United

States. The Company’s shares trade on the CSE under the trading symbol “ITKO” and

on the OTCQB under the trading symbol “GLDRF”, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

under the symbol “1QB1”. Idaho Champion is vested in Idaho with the Baner Project in

Idaho County, the Champagne Project located in Butte County near Arco, and four cobalt

properties in Lemhi County in the Idaho Cobalt Belt. Idaho Champion strives to be a

responsible environmental steward, stakeholder and a contributing citizen to the local

communities where it operates. Idaho Champion takes its social license seriously,

employing local community members and service providers at its operations whenever

possible.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

“Jonathan Buick”

Jonathan Buick, President and CEO

For further information, please visit the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com or

the Company’s corporate website at www.idahochamp.com.

For further information please contact:

Nicholas Konkin, Marketing and Communications

Phone: (416) 477 7771 ext. 205

Email: [email protected]

THIS PRESS RELEASE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE

SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES IN ANY JURISDICTION, NOR

SHALL THERE BE ANY OFFER, SALE, OR SOLICITATION OF SECURITIES IN ANY

STATE IN THE UNITED STATES IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SALE, OR SOLICITATION

WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.

Cautionary Statements

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its regulation services provider has reviewed or accepted responsibility for

the adequacy or accuracy of this press release This press release may include forward-looking information within the

meaning of Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business of the Company. Forward-looking information is based

on certain key expectations and assumptions made by the management of the Company. Although the Company believes

that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward-looking information is based on are reasonable, undue

reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking information because the Company can give no assurance that they

will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press

release. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward looking information, whether as a

result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws.