Core Drilling Program In The Jarbidge Rhyolite Discovery

VANCOUVER - Western Exploration Inc. reported on the 2024 core drilling program in the high-grade Jarbidge rhyolite discovery immediately adjacent the Gravel Creek resource at the Company's wholly-owned Aura gold-silver project. Gravel Creek is a new high-grade, Miocene aged, epithermal discovery in the northern Great Basin of Nevada, with assays in 2024 drilling of up to 75.3 g/t Au (WGC459) and 4,630.0 g/t Ag (WGC461). The new high-grade area, located less than 200 meters east of the current Gravel Creek mineral resource, which contains 245k Aueq indicated ounces at 5.81 g/t Aueq and 443k Aueq inferred ounces at 5.02 g/t Aueq has been tested by only 19 drill holes to date and is open in all directions. It is one of multiple high-grade targets in the Wood Gulch/Gravel Creek area that offers excellent near-term resource expansion potential on the Aura Project.

CEO, Darcy Marud, said, "The 2024 drill program intersected multiple high-grade gold-silver intercepts in all five core holes completed. We are very excited with the results as they met and even exceeded our expectations both in terms of grade and extension of mineralization. Every drill hole to date has returned high-grade results and the two step out holes to the south and north, drill holes WGC458 and WGC462, intersected the Discovery Trend as anticipated and showed the continuation of high-grade precious metals mineralization.

The 2024 drill results support Western Exploration's confidence that the Jarbidge rhyolite and greater Gravel Creek-Wood Gulch area hold significant resource expansion potential in high-grade gold-silver bearing epithermal veins and breccia zones analogous to other Miocene epithermal systems in the northern Great Basin of Nevada."