Hawthorn Resources Announces Commencement of Exploration Activities on Broken Handle Property

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Not for distribution to United States newswire services or for release publication, distribution or dissemination directly, or indirectly, in whole or in part, in or into the United States. Hawthorn Resources Announces Commencement of Exploration Activities on its Broken Handle Property, B.C.

Vancouver, Canada, September 28, 2023 – Hawthorn Resources Corp. (CSE: HWTN) (the “Company” or “Hawthorn”) is pleased to announce that exploration work is about to commence on its Broken Handle Property located in the Boundary District of southern B.C.. The road accessible, 2,098 hectare property is located approximately 50 kilometers north of the town of Grand Forks and approximately 5 kilometers south of the past-producing Franklin Mine Camp.

Hawthorn has contracted Coast Mountain Geological Ltd. to Exploration work undertake geochemical and ground magnetic surveys covering the central portion of the tenure, as well as prospecting unexplored/underexplored projections of prospective geology and underlying favorable regional geophysics. Man-portable backpack drilling may be performed at select locations that are deemed suitable to collect shallow core samples of mineralized outcrops. A total of approximately1125 B-horizon soil samples and roughly 28.2 line-km of ground magnetic data is expected to be collected during the program. Geological crews will also collect rock samples as deemed appropriate.

Overall, the aim of the programs to delineate and expand upon historically mined mineralization rediscovered in 2018 and 2019 and to follow-up on areas of altered limestone that may be comparable to the mineralized limestone unit in the Franklin gold camp. In 2019, grab samples collected at the Zap showing, on the Broken Handle property, assayed 23.03 g/t and 10.89 g/t gold, associated with 973 and 621 g/t silver, respectively. Broken Handle comprises of several historic showings including LJ, Burr, Ridge, Zap and WSW that have been reported to contain varying degrees of vein style mineralization (chalcopyrite, pyrite and galena, +/-sphalerite, +/chalcocite, +/-bornite, +/- tourmaline, +/- native gold. In comparison, the Franklin Camp produced significant quantities of silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper prior to World War Two in ore hosted within small skarns and fissure veins within the Harper limestone proximal to a granodioritic intrusion.

The work at Broken Handle is expected to be completed during the month of October and program results should be available late Q4, 2023.

Qualified Person

Qualified Person Kevin Brewer, a registered professional geoscientist, is a Director of the Company and a Qualified Person (as defined by National Instrument 43-101). He has given his approval of the technical information pertaining reported herein. The Company is committed to meeting the highest standards of integrity, transparency and consistency in reporting technical content, including geological reporting, geophysical investigations, environmental and baseline studies, engineering studies, metallurgical testing, assaying and all other technical data.

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Daniel Joyce, Director, President and CEO

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