Gold-Silver Drill Program At Flagship Lawyers Project Recommences

EDMONTON - Benchmark Metals Inc. reported resumption of drilling to expand gold-silver zones. The program will continue from the 83,570 meters completed in 2021. The Company anticipates drilling 20,000 meters during the winter drill program to expand and define the existing resource areas and to advance the new discovery - Marmot Zone. Benchmark's flagship Lawyers Gold-Silver Project is located within a road accessible region of the prolific Golden Horseshoe area of north-central British Columbia, Canada.

John Williamson, CEO, said, "Benchmark is leveraging its road accessible project by drilling during the winter months to deliver more results in early 2022 and to expedite the project towards a mining a decision. The Company anticipates near-term results to be distributed from 2021 drilling with a focus on resource expansion areas."

Benchmark is planning to mobilize drill crews and its geological team to the Project in anticipation of a drill start during January 2021. Drilling will focus on multiple areas of near-surface gold and silver mineralization that remain open along-strike and at-depth, including:Cliff Creek Mid Deposit; Connector Zone; Dukes Ridge Deposit; and Marmot Zone.

The Cliff Creek Mid Deposit ]2021 infill drilling along a 50 meter strike-length intersected near-surface high-grade and bulk-tonnage mineralization in a portion of the Mid Zone that was thought to be weakly to modestly mineralized, based upon intermittently sampled historical drilling. These results have the potential to add significant, higher-grade gold and silver ounces in an updated mineral resource estimate. Connector Zone is located partially outside of and marginal to the existing resource, currently extending over ~300 meters in strike-length and ~130 meters vertical depth. The new results at the Connecto. The discovery of new high-grade material on surface, at the Dukes Ridge Deposit, generates flexibility and potential for higher-grade starter pits and provides significant rewards to potential future mine production schedules. Drilling in 2021 also showed the potential for Dukes Ridge expansion at depth as well as conversion of material previously modeled as waste in the resource model. The mineralizing system at Marmot continues to display similarities to the resource deposit areas on the property, with both bulk tonnage and high-grade mineralization intercepted in multiple drill holes. The drill results align with significant surface mineralization that delineates a mineralized footprint that currently extends an approximate 400 meters in strike-length. Continued drilling is designed to define at-surface material as well as identify structural controls of the system.