Osisko Metals Closes C$12.7 Million "Bought Deal" Private Placement of Flow-Through Shares and Units, Including Exercise of Underwriters' Option

OSISKO METALS CLOSES C$12.7 MILLION "BOUGHT DEAL" PRIVATE

PLACEMENT OF FLOW-THROUGH SHARES AND UNITS, INCLUDING EXERCISE

OF UNDERWRITERS' OPTION

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UNITED STATES

(Montréal, Québec — June 16, 2022) Osisko Metals Incorporated (the " Corporation" or "Osisko Metals")

(TSX-V: OM; OTCQX: OMZNF; FRANKFURT: OB51) is pleased to announce that it has closed its

previously-announced "bought deal" brokered private placement offering (the " Offering") of an aggregate

of (i) 4,600,000 common shar es of the Corporation that will qualif y as "flow-through shares" (within the

meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada)) ("Flow-Through Shares") at an issue price

of C$0.50 per Flow-Through Share, and (ii) 19,166,667 units of the Corporation (" Flow-Through Units")

at an issue price of C$0.54 per Flow-Through Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$12.7

million, including the partial exercise of the option granted to the Under writers (as defined herein). Each

Flow-Through Unit is comprised of one common sh are of the Corporation and one-half of one common

share purchase warrant of the Corporation (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"), each of which will qualify as

a "flow-through share" (within the me aning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada)). Each

Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire o ne common share of the Corporation (each, a " Warrant

Share") at a price of C$0.57 per Warrant Share for a period of 60 months following the closing date of the

Offering. The Offering was led by Eight Capital, on behal f of itself and Haywood Securities Inc. (together,

the "Underwriters").

The gross proceeds raised under the Offering will be used by the Corporation to, directly or indirectly, incur

eligible "Canadian exploration expenses" (as such term is defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada)) that

are intended to qualify for the "critical mineral exploration tax credit" announced in the 2022 Federal Budget

delivered on April 7, 2022, provided the Corporation meets the requirements under applicable law once

released by the Department of Finance (Canada) (or will otherwise qualify as "flow-through mining

expenditures", as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada)) (the "Qualifying Expenditures"). All Qualifying

Expenditures will be renounced in favour of the subscribers of the Flow-Through Shares and Flow-Through

Units effective December 31, 2022.

In consideration for their services, the Underwriters were paid a cash commission equal to 6.5% of the

gross proceeds of the Offering (other than in respect of subscribers on the President's List for which 3.25%

commission was paid) and 1,416,458 compensation warrants. Each compensation warrant entitles the

holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Co rporation at a price of C$0.54 per common share

until the close of business on the date which is 24 months from the closing date of the Offering.

All securities issued under the Offering will be subjec t to a hold period expiring four months and one day

from the date hereof. The Offering is subject to final acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange.

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Mr. Robert Wares, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, has subscribed for 330,000 Flow-

Through Shares under the Offering. Prior to the Offering, Mr. Wares held 37,365,618 common shares,

1,294,200 options and 1,250,000 wa rrants, representing approximate ly 18.5% of the issued and

outstanding common shares of the Corporation prior to the Offering on a non-diluted basis (approximately

19.5% on a partially diluted basis). Subsequent to the Offering, Mr. Wares holds 37,695,618 common

shares, 1,294,200 options and 1,250,000 warrants, repr esenting approximately 16.7% of the issued and

outstanding common shares of the Corporation immedi ately following the Offering on a non-diluted basis

(approximately 17.6% on a partially diluted basis).

The subscription by Mr. Wares, an "insider" of the Corporation, is considered to be a "related party

transaction" for the purposes of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in

Special Transactions ("MI 61-101 "). The Corporation will file a material change report on SEDAR

(www.sedar.com) under its issuer profile to provide disclosure in relation to the "related party transaction".

The Corporation did not file the material change report more than 21 days before the expected closing date

of the Offering as details of the Offering and participation therein by Mr. Wares was not settled until shortly

prior to the closing of the Offering, and the Corporation wished to close the Offering on an expedited basis

for sound business reasons. The Corporation is re lying on exemptions from the formal valuation and

minority shareholder approval requir ements available under MI 61-101. The Corporation is exempt from

the formal valuation requirement in section 5.4 of MI 61-101 in reliance on section 5.5(a) of MI 61-101 as

the fair market value of the transaction, insofar as it involves Mr. Wares, is not more than 25% of the

Corporation's market capitalization. Additionally, the Corporation is exempt from minority shareholder

approval requirement in section 5.6 of MI 61-101 in reliance on section 5.7(b) of MI 61-101 as the fair

market value of the transaction, insofar as it involves Mr. Wares, is not more than 25% of the Corporation's

market capitalization.

The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended,

and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption

from the registration requirements. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the

solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any State in which such

offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

About Osisko Metals

Osisko Metals Incorporated is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on creating value

in the base metal space. The Corporation owns one of Canada's premier past-producing zinc mining camps,

the Pine Point Project, located in the Northwest Territories for which the 2020 PEA (as defined herein) has

indicated an after-tax NPV of $500 million and an IRR of 29.6%. The 2020 PEA is based on current Mineral

Resource Estimates that are amenable to open pit and shallow underground mining and consists of 12.9Mt

grading 6.29% ZnEq of Indicated Mineral Resources and 37.6Mt grading 6.80% ZnEq of Inferred Mineral

Resources. Please refer to the technical report ent itled "Preliminary Economic Assessment, Pine Point

Project, Hay River, North West Territories, Canada" dated July 30, 2020 (with an effective date of June 11,

2020) (the "2020 PEA"), prepared by BBA Inc. and WSP Canada Inc., for Osisko Metals and Pine Point

Mining Limited, a copy of which is available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) under Osisko Metals' issuer

profile. Pine Point is located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, near

infrastructure, paved highway access, and has an electrical substation as well as 100 kilometres of viable

haulage roads already in place.

For further information on this news release, visit www.osiskometals.com or contact:

Robert Wares, CEO

Osisko Metals Incorporated

Email: [email protected]

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Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Information

This news release contains "forward ‐looking information" within the meaning of the applicable Canadian

securities legislation that is based on expectations, estimates, projections and interpretations as at the date

of this news release. The information in this news release about the Offering; the use of the proceeds from

the Offering; the timing and ability of the Corporation to obtain final approval of the Offering from the TSX

Venture Exchange, if at all; the tax treatment of the Flow-Through Shares and the Flow-Through Units; the

timing of the renouncement of the Qu alifying Expenditures in favour of the subscribers, if at all; the

prospects of the Pine Point Mining Camp and / or the Gaspé Copper mine; and any other information herein

that is not a historical fact may be "forward ‐looking information". Any statement that involves discussions

with respect to predictions, expectations, interpre tations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives,

assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does

not expect", "is expected", "interpreted", "management's view", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate",

"plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words

and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be

taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward‐looking information

and are intended to identify forward ‐looking information. This forward ‐looking information is based on

reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Corporation, at the time such assumptions

and estimates were made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors which may

cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Corporation to be materially different from

any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward‐looking information.

Such factors include, among others, risks relating to the Offering; volatility in the trading price of common

shares of the Corporation; risks relating to the ability of the Corporation to obtain required approvals; ability

of Osisko Metals to complete further exploration acti vities; property interests; the results of exploration

activities; risks relating to mining activities; th e global economic climate; metal prices; dilution;

environmental risks changes in the tax and regulatory regime; community and non ‐governmental actions;

and those risks set out in the Co rporation's public documents file d on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) under

Osisko Metals' issuer profile. Although the forward-lo oking information contained in this news release is

based upon what management believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the

Corporation cannot guarantee sharehol ders and purchasers of securities of the Corporation that actual

results will be consist ent with such forward ‐looking information, as there may be other factors that cause

results not to be as anticipated, estimated or inte nded, and neither Corporation nor any other person

assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completene ss of any such forward looking information. The

Corporation does not undertake, and assumes no obligation, to update or revise any such forward looking

statements or forward‐looking information contained herein to reflect new events or circumstances, except

as may be required by law.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in

the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of

this news release.