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PUMA Exploration Closes $750,000 Private Placement

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PUMA TSXV

175, rue Legaré | Rimouski (Québec) G5L 3B9 www.explorationpuma.com

PRESS RELEASE

PUMA EXPLORATION CLOSES $750,000 PRIVATE PLACEMENT

Rimouski, December 17th, 2020 – Puma Exploration Inc., PUMA -TSXV, (“Puma”) is pleased to

announce the closing of the fully subscribed current ordinary units private placement for an

amount of $ 750,000. The Company issued 5 million units (“Units”) at the price of $0.15 per Unit.

Each unit comprises one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each

warrant gives its holder the right to purchase one common share at a price of $0.25 per share

until December 17, 2022.

In connection with the private placement, the company has paid cash finders' fees totalling

$15,315 and issued 364,200 finders' warrants, each entitling the holder to acquire one additional

common share of Puma at a price of $0.15 for 24 months. All securities issued to purchasers and

finders under the offering are subject to a four -month holding period from the date of issuance

of the securities, pursuant to applicable securities legislation and the policies of the TSX Venture

Exchange. The placement has received the conditional approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

The company will use the proceeds of the offering for working capital purposes, and to explore

its current flagship Triple Fault Gold Project.

The technical team is still on site on the Willi ams Brook Gold property to finalize the summer

exploration program which currently includes the trenching and stripping of the new discoveries

made during the initial phase of exploration.

The net proceeds from the offering will be mainly used for the exploration of the flagship Triple

Fault Gold Project in New Brunswick, including, but not limited to, proceeding with district -scale

Heli-Borne Geophysics surveys, to initiate the first drilling program on the Williams Brook property,

to begin the drilling program on its Chester Copper Project, as well as for general corporate

purposes.

PUMA TSXV

175, rue Legaré | Rimouski (Québec) G5L 3B9 www.explorationpuma.com

O’NEIL GOLD TREND (OGT)

The first phase of the 2020 summer exploration program lead to the discovery of the GOLD O’Neil

Showing with the presence of a significant and pervasive potential gold trend over 5.0km along

the O’Neil Gold Trend (OGT). The O’Neil Showing consists of an altered and brecciated rhyolite

injected with quartz veins and quartz stockworks. The altered and brecciated rhyolite is open in

all directions.

The highest gold sample, grading 128.0 g/t Au, is part of the main quartz vein (ranging from 30 -

50 cm) followed and sampled, so far, over 10 meters in length. The average gold grade sample

of the vein of 30.86 g/t Au over 10 meters (128.0 g/t Au, 35.2 g/t Au, 18 g/t Au, 14.5 g/t Au, 10.25

g/t Au, 8.33 g/t Au and 1.74 g/t Au), was estimated from chip and grab samples collected

continuously every 1.5 meters on the main vein.

Following the hand and shovel cleaning of the main vein, surrounding quartz stockworks and

veinlets within the rhyolite were found, sampled and reported respectively high grade gold o f

16.90 g/t Au, 8.24 g/t Au, 6.14 g/t Au, 3.57 g/t Au, 2.2g/t Au, and 1.14 g/t Au.

TRIPLE FAULT GOLD PROJECT

The Triple Fault Gold Project includes three (3) properties named Williams Brook, Jonpol Gold, and

Portage Lake, covering more than 19,147 hectares of favorable gold exploration land package.

The project is located about 60 km west of Bathurst with the paved road cross -cutting the

property.

Puma is currently focusing its field work on its first priority, the Williams Brook property. The Williams

Brook property includes selected drill results of 11.2 g/t over 2.8m, 2.1 g/t Au over 9.0m , and 1.0

g/t over 23m, gold occurrences grading up to 109.0 g/t Au, 50.8 g/t Au, 38,9 g/t Au in bedrock,

numerous gold soil anomalies and extremely anomalou s till samples with up to 508 gold grains

that occur over an area approximately 12 by 3 kilometers.

There has been very limited drilling and exploration in the area mapped to be part of the

Dunnage Zone hosting major gold deposits and gold occurrences in siluro -devonian rocks and

considered as an emerging gold exploration and development district.

PUMA TSXV

175, rue Legaré | Rimouski (Québec) G5L 3B9 www.explorationpuma.com

QUALIFIED PERSONS

Dominique Gagné, PGeo, independ ent qualified person as defined by Canadian National

Instrument 43-101 standards, has reviewed and approved the geological information reported in

this news release. Neither 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 release. Mr. Gagné is independent of the Company.

QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROL (QA/QC)

Rock samples were bagged, sealed and sent to the facility of ALS CHEMEX in Moncton, New

Brunswick where each sample is dried, crushed , and pulped. The samples were crushed to 70%

less than 2mm, riffle split off 1kg, pulverise split to better than 85% passing 75 microns (Prep -31B).

A 30-gram subsplit from the resulting pulp was then subjected to a fire assay (Au -ICP21). Rock

sample ICP results with gold >1g/t were subjected to a metallic screening (Au -SCR24) 1kg pulp

screened to 100 microns. Other screen sizes available. Duplicate 50 g assay on screen undersize.

Assay of entire oversize fraction.

ABOUT PUMA EXPLORATION

Puma Exploration is a Canadian -based mineral exploration company with precious and base

metals projects in early to advanced stages located in the Famous Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC)

in New Brunswick, Canada. Great efforts will be made by the Company in the coming years to

deploy its DEAR strategy (Development, Exploration, Acquisition and Royalties) in order to

generate maximum value for shareholders with low shares dilution.

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Learn more by consulting www.pumaexploration.com for further information on Puma.

Marcel Robillard, President, (418) 724-0901; [email protected]

Christian Tweedy, Communications, (604) 619-5810; [email protected]

PUMA TSXV

175, rue Legaré | Rimouski (Québec) G5L 3B9 www.explorationpuma.com

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Forward-Looking Statements: This press release may contain forward -looking statements. Such

forward-looking statements involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and

other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Puma to be

materially different from actual future results and achievements expressed or implied by such

forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned no t to place undue reliance on these

forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date the statements were made, except

as required by law. Puma undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward -

looking statements. These risks and un certainties are described in the quarterly and annual

reports and in the documents submitted to the securities administration.