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Sitka Provides Summary of 2023 RC Gold Exploration Program

Exploration Programs

NEWS RELEASE

December 21, 2023

NR 23-36

www.sitkagoldcorp.com

Sitka Provides Summary of 2023 RC Gold Exploration

Program

VANCOUVER, CANADA – December 21, 2023: Sitka Gold Corp. (“Sitka” or the

“Company”) (CSE:SIG) (FSE:1RF) (OTCQB:SITKF) is pleased to provide an update and

summary of the pivotal 2023 exploration season at its year-round, road-accessible, RC Gold

Property (“RC Gold” or the “Property”) located in the prolific Tombstone Gold Belt in the

Yukon Territory, Canada. The Company has progressed RC Gold from an initial 1500 metre

reconnaissance diamond drill program in 2020 to the discovery of the Blackjack and Eiger

deposits with an initial pit-constrained inferred resource estimate of 1.34 million ounces of gold

published in 2023 (see news release dated January 19, 2023), creating tremendous value

for Sitka shareholders. 2023 exploration focused on adding to that value by conducting

drilling focused on expanding the resource in the Blackjack deposit, testing the potential for

additional resources in the Saddle zone, located midway between the Blackjack and Eiger

deposits, and the first ever diamond drill testing of the Josephine intrusion. In addition,

several drill ready intrusion-related gold deposit targets were also identified during the 2023

exploration program across the district-scale, 386 square kilometre Property. With

approximately $8 million in the treasury and no debt, the Company is well positioned to

substantially advance RC Gold through 2024.

2023 RC Gold Highlights:

●

Announced initial pit-constrained inferred mineral resource estimate of 1.34 million

ounces of gold comprising the Blackjack Deposit (900,000 ounces of gold

grading 0.83 g/t gold) and the Eiger Deposit (440,000 ounces of gold grading

0.50 g/t gold)(see news release dated January 19, 2023).

●

Completed a 16-hole, 6,515 metre resource expansion drill program that significantly

expanded the known gold mineralization at the Blackjack Deposit area with the deposit

still remaining open in all directions.

●

Drilled the best intersection to date at the Property which expands the known gold

mineralization from the southern extent of the current Blackjack Deposit, returning 219.0

m of 1.34 g/t gold including 124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold and 55.0 m of 3.11 g/t gold in

hole DDRCCC-23-047 (see news release dated September 26, 2023), along with 4.3 m

of 33.10 g/t gold including 1.2 m of 108.00 g/t gold in hole DDRCCC-23-46 (see news

dated September 11, 2023) demonstrating the exceptional grades that exist within this

intrusion related gold system.

●

DDRCCC-23-54 located in the Saddle zone, 450 metres east of the Blackjack resource

boundary returned the best drill result to date there with 84.0 m of 1.21 g/t gold

beginning at surface (see news release dated October 30, 2023). With only four drill

holes completed, the Saddle zone remains open in all directions and is underlain by

both the largest and the highest grade gold-in-soil anomaly on the Property

highlighting the potential for building additional resources at the project.

●

First ever drilling confirmed significant gold bearing mineralization within the Josephine

intrusion.

●

Reconnaissance field exploration work and data compilation (historical and recent) has

identified five additional drill ready Intrusion related drill targets within the district scale

RC Gold property as well as other prospective target areas that have potential for

undiscovered intrusions to follow up on.

●

Completed all requirements to obtain 100% ownership of the Clear Creek property which

encompasses the northern portion of the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex including the

Blackjack and Eiger deposits.

Cor Coe, P.Geo., Director and CEO of Sitka commented: “2023 has been a very exciting year

for Sitka Gold exploring the RC Gold property. Our team has accomplished several milestones

starting with the publication of the initial mineral resource estimate at the Blackjack and Eiger

deposits. Drilling at the Blackjack area continued to encounter exceptional grades in many of

the 2023 drill holes highlighted by the 55.0 m of 3.11 g/t gold in Hole 47. The potential for high

grades within Reduced Intrusion Related Gold Systems in the Yukon’s Tombstone Gold Belt has

been recognized with the discovery of the Valley Target by Snowline Gold and the grades

intersected in our Blackjack deposit. The RC Gold project encompasses the Blackjack and Eiger

Deposits, and seven other under-explored intrusive bodies with known gold mineralization. The

exceptional grades intersected in many of the drill holes in the Blackjack Zone, both within and

outside of the current resource area, highlight the significant potential of the property. The scale,

grade and continuity of the gold system here continues to impress us and really demonstrates

the potential of this area to host a multi-million ounce economic gold resource. The Company

has focused drilling on the current resource discoveries while compiling information on the many

additional highly prospective targets within the district scale property using both current and

historical data during 2023. With a treasury of approximately $8 million and no debt, Sitka is well

positioned to advance both the current drill-ready targets elsewhere on the property and

continue to expand and define the very fertile, gold endowed Clear Creek Intrusive Complex

area that currently hosts the Blackjack and Eiger deposits (see Figure 1).”

Figure 1: Plan map of the Northern Extent of the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex where several drill

intervals and surface samples have demonstrated the high-grade nature of the Reduced Intrusion

Related Gold System present. Yellow stars indicate where outcrop rock samples or drill hole

intervals have returned >10 g/t gold. Several additional targets with the potential to host

intrusion related gold deposits of significant size and grade have yet to be drilled within

this approximately 3 km x 5 km area.

Table 1 - Blackjack zone drill result highlights with numerous intersections of greater

than 1.5 g/t gold highlighted in yellow.

Hole ID

DDRCCC-20-002

including

From (m)

65.0

156.4

Interval (m)*

231.0

100.8

Gold (g/t)

0.61

0.82

and

DDRCCC-21-021

Including

DDRCCC-21-022

Including

DDRCCC-21-023

294.0

surface

120.0

46.0

253.0

surface

2.0

220.0

50.5

273.0

62.0

205.8

16.10

1.17

2.08

0.52

1.21

1.01

Including

DDRCCC-21-024

Including

DDRCCC-21-025

Including

46.0

4.5

16.0

19.0

25.0

91.0

107.5

66.0

349.0

221.0

1.61

1.44

2.11

0.71

1.01

DDRCCC-21-029

Including

DDRCCC-21-030

Including

DDRCCC-21-036

DDRCCC-21-037

DDRCCC-21-038

Including

DDRCCC-21-040

including

DDRCCC-23-041

including

DDRCCC-23-042

including

including

DDRCCC-23-043

including

DDRCCC-23-044

including

DDRCCC-23-046

and

including

DDRCCC-23-047

including

including

27.0

124.0

surface

surface

34.9

186.0

73.0

176.0

8.0

8.0

200.0

234.0

273.7

381.5

381.5

4.0

315.0

107.2

253.0

134.0

326.1

327.8

190.0

233.0

276.0

116.0

19.0

146.6

33.8

132.1

37.5

401.5

180.0

201.0

90.0

292.0

75.0

215.1

43.5

30.7

449.0

138.0

161.8

16.0

56.0

4.3

1.2

219.0

124.8

55.0

0.65

1.22

0.90

1.42

0.51

0.68

0.63

1.04

1.26

2.04

1.00

2.05

1.00

1.66

2.19

0.74

1.14

0.71

2.36

1.23

33.10

108.00

1.31

2.01

3.11

including

DDRCCC-23-048

including

including

311.0

152.0

179.5

195.0

14.0

58.1

21.6

6.2

5.53

0.72

1.22

2.85

*Intervals are drilled core length, as insufficient drilling has been completed at this time to determine true widths

The 2023 drilling campaign was focused on expanding the recently announced resource at the

Blackjack Deposit. All 12 drill holes completed in the Blackjack zone intersected additional

significant gold mineralization except for the most northeasterly drilled hole on the project which

deviated from the drill target and only encountered anomalous gold values. The highlight of the

drilling was the highest grade intersection at the project to date at the current southern extent of

the Blackjack zone returning 219.0 m of 1.34 g/t gold including 124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold

and 55.0 m of 3.11 g/t gold in hole DDRCCC-23-047.

Figure 2 - Plan map of the 2023 resource expansion drilling at the Blackjack deposit with

highlights from selected drill holes. The deposit remains open in all directions.

Figure 3: Cross section of DDRCCC-23-047 where the best gold interval to date was encountered.

Figure 4 - Cross Section of the Blackjack deposit with the Saddle Stock projected to surface and

the current resource at a 0.25 g/t gold cut-off grade. Drilling demonstrated strong grades to the

south and to depth while large step-outs to the north encountered gold grades at the northern

contact of the Saddle stock.

The potential of the Saddle zone to host additional resources on the property was confirmed

with drilling in 2023. Two drill holes were completed in the Saddle zone approximately 450

metres from the eastern margin of the Blackjack deposit and approximately 125 metres to the

west of two previous drill holes completed in the Saddle zone in 2020 and 2021. Drill hole

DDRCCC-23-054 intersected 84.0 m of 1.21 g/t gold beginning at surface, including 4.0 m

of 5.12 g/t gold, while drill hole DDRCCC-23-053 intersected 29.0 m of 0.68 g/t gold

including 3.9 m of 4.76 g/t gold (see news release dated October 30, 2023). Previously hole

DDRCCC-20-001 intersected 84.8 m of 0.52 g/t gold and DDRCCC-21-019 intersected 80.0 m

of 0.59 g/t gold. The Saddle zone remains open in all directions where it is underlain by the

highest grade gold in soil anomaly on the project.

Figure 5 - Saddle zone plan map with drilling highlights from 2020, 2021 and 2023 drilling and

gold-in-soil geochemistry in the background. The zone has excellent potential to expand both

west and east towards the Blackjack and Eiger deposits respectively.

Figure 6 - Saddle Zone DDRCCC-23-053 and -054 Cross section.

The company continued to evaluate the potential of the northern portion of the Clear Creek

Intrusive Complex which encompasses both the Blackjack and Eiger deposits, the Saddle Zone

and numerous other high priority exploration targets identified by soil geochemistry, geological

mapping and geophysics. Several of these areas are highlighted in Figure 7 and are described

in more detail in the news release of August 2, 2023 including the discovery of visible gold in

metasedimentary rocks along the southern margin of the Josephine intrusion.

Figure 7 - Northern portion of the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex with selected exploration

highlights.

Two drill holes were completed near the southern margin of the Josephine intrusion. Hole

DDRCCC-23-055 intersected the Josephine intrusion which consisted of equigranular and

feldspar megacrystic granodiorite phases. Abundant narrow 1-2 cm sheeted quartz-arsenopyrite

veins were encountered throughout the drill hole. Highlights from the drill hole included 6.0 m of

0.85 g/t gold within 18.0 m of 0.41 g/t gold. A second hole DDRCCC-23-056 was collared south

of the Josephine intrusion and encountered variably altered metasedimentary rocks cut by

occasional narrow fine grained feldspar porphyry dykes, but did not reach the southern contact

of the Josephine intrusion. Quartz, quartz-arsenopyrite and quartz-arsenopyrite-tourmaline

veining was noted throughout the hole along with anomalous gold values. Sitka is pleased with

these first diamond drill holes ever drilled in the vicinity of the Josephine intrusion proving the

potential for the gold-bearing intrusion to host potentially economic gold grades. Future work will

use these initial results to aid in further drill targeting of the Josephine zone.

Figure 8 - Plan map of 2023 drilling in the northern Clear Creek Intrusive Complex.

Table 2 - 2023 RC Gold Property Drill Results

Hole ID

From (m)

Interval (m)*

Gold (g/t)

200.0

234.0

273.7

381.5

381.5

4.0

315.0

107.2

253.0

292.0

75.0

215.1

43.5

30.7

449.0

138.0

161.8

16.0

1.00

2.05

1.00

1.66

2.19

0.74

1.14

0.71

2.36

Blackjack Zone

DDRCCC-23-041

including

DDRCCC-23-042

including

including

DDRCCC-23-043

including

DDRCCC-23-044

including

DDRCCC-23-045

No Significant Results

DDRCCC-23-046

and

including

DDRCCC-23-047

including

DDRCCC-23-048

including

including

DDRCCC-23-048

Including

Including

DDRCCC-23-049

Including

Including

DDRCCC-23-050

DDRCCC-23-051

Including

DDRCCC-23-052

No Significant Results

134.0

326.1

327.8

190.0

233.0

152.0

179.5

195.0

152.0

179.5

195.0

97.5

190.0

190.0

206.0

190.8

263.0

56.0

4.3

1.2

219.0

124.8

58.1

21.6

6.2

58.1

21.6

6.2

140.6

48.0

29.9

78.0

104.2

32.0

1.23

33.10

108.00

1.31

2.01

0.72

2.85

2.85

0.72

1.22

2.85

0.34

0.51

0.73

0.30

0.30

0.59

21.7

253.5

406.1

4.0

11.0

37.0

417.4

29.0

3.9

84.0

4.0

51.1

0.25

0.68

4.76

1.21

5.12

1.52

42.0

121.0

123.0

242.0

242.0

34.4

18.0

6.0

12.0

8.0

0.22

0.41

0.85

0.25

0.33

Saddle Zone

DDRCCC-23-053

Including

Including

DDRCCC-23-054

Including

Including

Josephine Zone

DDRCCC-23-055

Including

Including

DDRCCC-23-056

No Significant Results

*Intervals are drilled core length, as insufficient drilling has been completed at this time to determine true widths

“The accomplishments at RC Gold this past year are a direct reflection of the hard work and

dedication of the outstanding Sitka Gold team and I would like to thank everyone who

helped us reach our goals in 2023 including our supportive shareholders, investors and

contractors”, stated Cor Coe, CEO and Director of Sitka. “We look forward to building on the

success of 2023 with continued expansion of the resource at RC Gold while testing additional

drill ready targets in 2024. The initial drill testing completed at Josephine this year also returned

significant results, including 6.0 m of 0.85 g/t gold within 18.0 m of 0.41 g/t gold, confirming the

Josephine intrusion has the ability to host significant gold mineralization and we look forward to

follow-up drilling in that area next year. We continue to be excited about the potential for

additional new discoveries on the Property, not only in the Northern portion of the Clear Creek

Intrusive Complex but also on the many known and potentially undiscovered intrusions on the

remainder of the district-scale property. With a healthy treasury and a proven exploration

approach, Sitka is well positioned to create substantial value for our shareholders as we

continue to develop this exciting asset through 2024 and beyond.”

About the RC Gold Project

The RC Gold Project (RC Gold) consists of a 386 square kilometre contiguous district-scale land

package located in the newly road accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek

districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. The project is located approximately 100

kilometres east of Dawson City and is accessed via a secondary gravel road from the Klondike

Highway which is usable year-round and is an approximate 2 hour drive from Dawson. It is the

largest consolidated land package strategically positioned mid-way between Victoria Gold's

Eagle Gold Mine - Yukon’s newest gold mine which reached commercial production in the

summer of 2020 - and Victoria Gold’s Brewery Creek Gold Mine. The RC Gold Project land

package comprises five underlying properties, namely, the RC, Bee Bop, Mahtin, Clear Creek,

and Barney Ridge properties. Sitka currently owns 100% of the Clear Creek, Mahtin and other

independently staked claims which comprise 86% of the total 386 square kilometre land

package that comprises the RC Gold Project. The Company has an option to earn a 100%

interest in the Barney Creek, Bee Bop and RC properties which comprise the remaining 14% of

the RC Gold Project.*

On January 19, 2023 Sitka Gold announced an Initial Mineral Resource Estimate prepared in

accordance with National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) guidelines for the RC Gold Property

of 1,340,000 ‎ounces of gold(1). The road accessible, pit constrained Mineral Resource is

classified as inferred and is contained in two near/on-surface zones: The Blackjack and Eiger

deposits. The Mineral Resource estimate is presented in the following table at a base case

cut-off grade of 0.25 g/t Au:

RC Gold Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate

COG g/t Au

0.20

0.25

0.30

0.35

0.40

Blackjack Zone

Tonnes

0z Au

Au g/t

000's

000's

35,798

0.80

921

33,743

0.83

900

31,282

0.88

885

29,065

0.92

860

26,975

0.96

833

Eiger Zone

Tonnes

000's

32,523

27,362

22,253

17,817

14,506

Au g/t

0.45

0.50

0.55

0.60

0.66

Combined

0z Au

000's

471

440

393

344

308

Tonnes

000's

68,321

61,105

53,535

46,882

41,481

Au g/t

0.63

0.68

0.74

0.80

0.86

0z Au

000's

1,391

1,340

1,279

1,203

1,140

Notes

1. Mineral resource estimate prepared by Ronald G. Simpson of GeoSim Services Inc. with an effective date of January 19,

2023. Mineral Resources are classified using the 2014 CIM Definition Standards.

2. The cut-off grade of 0.25 g/t Au is believed to provide a reasonable margin over operating and sustaining costs for open-pit

mining and processing

3. Mineral resources are constrained by an optimised pit shell using the following assumptions: US$1800/oz Au price; a 45°

pit slope; assumed metallurgical recovery of 85%; mining costs of US$2.00 per tonne; processing costs of US$8.00 per

tonne; G&A of US$1.50/t.

4. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.

5. Totals may not sum due to rounding.

The Initial Mineral Resource Estimate of 1,340,000 ounces of gold at the RC Gold Project is

comprised of two deposits: the Blackjack deposit containing 900,000 ounces of gold at a

grade of 0.83 g/t gold and the Eiger deposit containing 440,000 ounces of gold at a grade of

0.50 g/t gold (see news release dated January 19, 2023). Both of these deposits are at/near

surface, are potentially open pit minable and amenable to heap leaching, with initial bottle roll

tests indicating that the gold is not refractory and has high gold recoveries of up to 94% with

minimal NaCN consumption (see News Release July 13, 2022).

The Blackjack and Eiger deposits are in close proximity to highway and power infrastructure,

are road accessible year-round, remain open in all directions and are located within the Clear

Creek Intrusive Complex. The deposits are located within a large, 3 kilometre by 5 kilometre

intrusion related gold system that was recently identified at the Northern Extent of the Clear

Creek Intrusive Complex. To date, 54 diamond drill holes have been drilled into this system for a

total of approximately 18,877 metres with results of up to 219.0 m of 1.34 g/t gold including

124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold and 55.0 m of 3.11 g/t gold in drill hole DDRCCC-23-047 at Blackjack

(see news release dated September 26, 2023).

Several high priority intrusion related gold targets exist at RC Gold with nine outcropped

intrusions identified to date over the 386 sq km property, however Sitka’s main focus at the

RC Gold Project has been on the underlying Clear Creek Property where a large 500 metre by

2000 metre extensional corridor hosting an intrusion related gold system covering the area over

the Blackjack, Saddle and Eiger zones was identified. Additional surface work has since

extended the gold corridor an additional 3000 metres east and now encompasses the

Josephine intrusion. Prior to the onset of the 2023 winter drilling program, the Company had

drilled 38 diamond drill holes into this system for a total of approximately 13,000 metres. This

drilling culminated in the discovery of the Blackjack and Eiger deposits with an initial inferred

mineral resource estimate of 1,340,000 gold ounces(1).

Sitka Gold inherited a wealth of historical and current data from these properties from work

spanning the last 40 years. Recent exploration work and the compilation of historical data have

defined several mineralized zones with both bulk tonnage, intrusion-related gold deposit targets

and high-grade, vein- and breccia-hosted gold targets. The RC Gold Project also has a common

border with Victoria Gold’s Clear Creek property at its western boundary and Florin Resources’

Florin Gold property at its northern boundary.

(1) Simpson, R. January 19, 2023. Clear Creek Property, RC Gold Project, NI 43-101 Technical Report, Dawson Mining District,

Yukon Territory.

*For more detailed information

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Deposit Model

Exploration on the Property has mainly focused on identifying an intrusion-related gold system

(“IRGS”). The property is part of the Tombstone Gold Belt which is the prominent host to IRGS

deposits within the Tintina Gold Province in Yukon and Alaska. Notable deposits from the belt

include: Fort Knox Mine in Alaska with current Proven and Probable Reserves of 230 million

tonnes at 0.3 g/t Au (2.471 million ounces; Sims 2018)(1); Eagle Gold Mine with current

Measured and Indicated Resources of 233 million tonnes at a grade of 0.57 g/t Au at the Eagle

Main Zone (4.303 million ounces; Harvey et al, 2022)(2); the Brewery Creek deposit with current

Indicated Mineral Resource of 22.2 million tonnes at a gold grade of 1.11 g/t (0.789 million

ounces; Hulse et al. 2020)(3); the Florin Gold deposit, located adjacent to Sitka’s RC Gold

project, with a current Inferred Mineral Resource of 170.99 million tonnes grading 0.45 g/t (2.47

million ounces; Simpson 2021)(4) and the AurMac Project with an Inferred Mineral Resource of

312.90 million tonnes grading 0.61 gram per tonne gold (6.18 million ounces; Jutras 2023)(5).

(1) Sims J. Fort Knox Mine Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USA National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report.

June 11, 2018. https://s2.q4cdn.com/496390694/files/doc_downloads/2018/Fort-Knox-June-2018-Technical-Report.pdf

(2) Harvey N., Gray P., Winterton J., Jutras M., Levy M.,Technical Report for the Eagle Gold Mine, Yukon Territory,

Canada. Victoria Gold Corp. December 31, 2022.

https://vgcx.com/site/assets/files/6534/vgcx_-_2023_eagle_mine_technical_report_final.pdf

(3) Hulse D, Emanuel C, Cook C. NI43-101 Technical Report on Mineral Resources. Gustavson Associates. May 31,

2020.

https://www.goldenpredator.com/_resources/Brewery-Creek_NI-43-101-05OCT2020-File.pdf

(4) Simpson R. Florin Gold Project NI43-101 Technical Report. Geosim Services Inc. April 21, 2021.

https://sedar.com/GetFile.do?lang=EN&docClass=24&issuerNo=00005795&issuerType=03&projectNo=03236138&do

cI d=4984158

(5) Banyan Gold News Release Dated May 24, 2023 (Technical Report to be filed within 45 days of news release)

https://banyangold.com/news-releases/2023/banyan-announces-6.2-million-ounce-gold-resource-estimate-for-the-aur

mac-property-yukon-canada/

About Sitka Gold Corp.

Sitka Gold Corp. is a well-funded mineral exploration company headquartered in Canada with

approximately $8 million in the treasury and no debt. The Company is managed by a team of

experienced industry professionals and is focused on exploring for economically viable mineral

deposits with its primary emphasis on gold, silver and copper mineral properties of merit. Sitka

currently has an option to acquire a 100% interest in the RC, Bee Bop, Barney Ridge, and OGI

properties in the Yukon and the Burro Creek Gold and Silver property in Arizona. Sitka owns a

100% interest in its Clear Creek and Mahtin properties in Yukon, the Alpha Gold property in

Nevada, and the Coppermine River project in Nunavut.

The Company recently announced an NI 43-101 compliant initial inferred Mineral Resource

Estimate of 1,340,000 ounces of gold(1) beginning at surface and grading 0.68 g/t at its RC

Gold Project in Yukon (see news release dated January 19, 2023). A total of 6515 metres of

additional diamond drilling within 16 drill holes has been completed at RC Gold since the

announcement of the Mineral Resource Estimate.

(1)

Simpson, R. January 19, 2023. Clear Creek Property, RC Gold Project, NI 43-101 Technical Report, Dawson Mining

District, Yukon Territory

Upcoming Events

Sitka Gold will be attending and/or presenting at the following events:

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●

AME Roundup January 22 - 25, 2024

Tombstone Gold Belt Breakfast - Fireside Chat - Vancouver, January 22, 2024

VRIC, Vancouver, BC: January 21 - 22, 2024

PDAC, Toronto, ON: March 3 - 6, 2024

Swiss Mining Institute, Zurich, Switzerland: March 20-21, 2024

All events are subject to change.

The scientific and technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by

Cor Coe, P.Geo., Director and CEO of the Company, and a Qualified Person (QP) as defined by

National Instrument 43-101.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF

SITKA GOLD CORP.

“Donald Penner”

President and Director

For more information contact:

Donald Penner

President & Director

778-212-1950

[email protected]

or

Cor Coe

CEO & Director

604-817-4753

[email protected]

Cautionary and Forward-Looking Statements

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is

defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the

adequacy or accuracy of this release.

This release includes certain statements and information that may constitute forward-looking

information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking

statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs

of management of the Company regarding future events. Generally, forward-looking statements

and information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “intends” or

“anticipates”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events

or results “may”, “could”, “should”, “would” or “occur”. This information and these statements,

referred to herein as "forward‐looking statements", are not historical facts, are made as of the

date of this news release and include without limitation, statements regarding discussions of

future plans, estimates and forecasts and statements as to management's expectations and

intentions with respect to, among other things, the use of the proceeds raised under the Offering

and the Company’s anticipated work programs.

In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied

several material assumptions, including without limitation, that the Company will complete its

anticipated work programs and use the proceeds of the Offering as currently anticipated.

These forward‐looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and actual results

might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. These risks

and uncertainties include, among other things, market uncertainty, the results of the Company’s

anticipated work programs and that the Company will not use the proceeds of the Offering as

currently anticipated.

Although management of the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could

cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or

forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as

anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove

to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated

in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking

statements and forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such

information may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company does not undertake to

update any forward-looking statement, forward-looking information or financial out-look that are

incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. We seek

safe harbor.