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Bullion World | Volume 3 | Issue 4 | April 2023


           Carangas: A Silver-Gold System       and holes in the Central Valley
           Discovered in 2021                   area continuously hit gold    Silver strike: Historic Silver Mining
           •   6.25 km2 silver-gold-lead-zinc   underneath the silver horizon.  District to Be Drilled
              project at ~3,900 m elevation,   •   A 15,000 m drill program   •   44.55 km2 land package,
              located in Oruro Department,      planned in Q1 2023 to test        located 140 km southwest of La
              Bolivia                           the eastern extension of gold     Paz, Bolivia
           •   35 drill holes in 13,000 m       mineralization beneath the East   •   Rio Tinto drilled 8 diamond
              drilling completed in the         Dome and expand parts of the      holes and 12 RC holes in 1995
              second half of 2021               shallow silver horizon        •   Drill-ready targets:
           •   An additional 50,368 m of    •   Carangas inaugural Mineral    a.  Silver strike North: sandstone-
              drilling in 115 holes completed   Resource Estimate expected in    hosted, structurally controlled
              by 2022. Since June 2021, a       Q2 2023.                         silver mineralization, similar to
              total of 63,578 m in 150 holes                                     the setting at Silver Sand
              have been drilled             Silver strike Project- 200 m      b.  Silver strike Central:
           •   Drill results have shown an   thick near-surface oxidized gold    disseminated silver-lead-
              extensive, near-surface silver   zone discovered in 2022. Drilling   zinc and gold mineralization
              horizon of 1,000 m long by 800   Extensive mining dumps show 150   associated with rhyolitic volcanic
              m wide and up to 200 m thick,   to 200 g/t silver                  domes, like Carangas. +
              stacked above a thick gold    2022: drilling discovered 200 m
              zone                          interval @ ~1 g/t gold. Multiple   SOURCE- https://www.
           •   Every drill hole intercepted the   targets of Silver Sand and   newpacificmetals.com/investors/
              silver horizon near the surface,   Carangas types of mineralization.  corporate-presentation/

                                            Mineral Resource Estimate Key     Estimate, Major discoveries in 2020
                                            Highlights-                       and expansion of the new zones
                                            a.   Large ‘at surface Mineral    drilled through 2022. Nineteen
                                                Resource Estimate in a premier   (19) drill holes, totalling 6,973
                                                gold mining jurisdiction;     metres (22,877 feet) drilled by the
                                            b.   Inferred Mineral Resource    Company in 2020, 2021, and 2022,
                                                of 38.3 million tonnes at an   were considered in the current
                                                average grade of 1.23 g/t Au for  MRE and represented a significant
          About Getchell Gold Corp.             1,509,100 ounces of gold;     component of the expanded gold
          Getchell Gold is a resource       c.  Indicated Mineral Resource    mineralization.
          company committed to responsible      of 11.0 million tonnes at an
          exploration focused on gold           average grade of 1.56 g/t Au for   Nine (9) holes drilled in 2022,
          and copper in Nevada. The             an additional 550,800 ounces of  totalling 3,473 metres (11,394 feet),
          company was founded in 2000           gold;                         were completed subsequent to the
          and operates in Toronto, Ontario,   d.  Gold mineralization remains   cut-off for inclusion into the MRE.
          Canada. Getchell Gold is primarily    open for further expansion in all   The assay results from these nine
          directing its efforts on its most     contributing zones.           2022 holes will be incorporated
          advanced stage asset, Fondaway                                      into a future Mineral Resources
          Canyon, a past gold producer      The MRE represents a significant   Estimate.
          with a significant in-the-ground   expansion to a historic Mineral
          Mineral Resources Estimate.       Resources Estimate published the   SOURCE- https://cdn.
          Complementing Getchell’s asset    following:-                       getchellgold.com/wp-content/
          portfolio is the Star project, a past   Primarily modelling the Mineral   uploads/2023/03/16060817/GTCH-
          high-grade copper, gold, and      Resources as a bulk tonnage       Presentation-20230304-1-2.pdf
          small-scale silver producer; the   target with a conceptual open pit
          Dixie Comstock project, a past gold   mining scenario versus a solely
          producer with a historic resource;   underground extraction scenario;
          and one earlier stage exploration
          project, Hot Springs Peak (Au).    The addition of new assay results
          Getchell has the option to acquire   from 26 diamond drill holes (2017
          100% of the Fondaway Canyon       to 2022) that were completed
          and Dixie Comstock properties in   subsequent to the release of the
          Churchill County, Nevada.         historic 2017 Mineral Resources


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