Drill Program Commences At High-Grade Star Copper-Gold-Silver Project

VANCOUVER - Getchell Gold Corp. reported commencement of the maiden drill program at the Star project that comprises two main mineralized occurrences, the formerly producing Star Point copper mine and the Star South Cu-Au-Ag prospect, located in Pershing County, NV.

"Having successfully closed a non-brokered financing we can now fully focus on drill testing the copper targets at the Star project and further delineating the extensive gold zones at the advanced exploration stage Fondaway Canyon project." said, Mike Sieb, President. "The Getchell team is thrilled to have two active drill rigs on the ground at two different Nevada projects. We look forward to sharing exploration results through the end of this very active 2022."

The Star Copper-Gold-Silver property is situated in Pershing County, Nevada, approximately 65 kilometers to the North of the Company's flagship Fondaway Canyon gold project that has produced numerous discoveries over the last two years and continues to be advanced.

The Star Point Copper Mine is the site of a historic, near surface, high-grade copper oxide (tenorite) mine that operated from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s. The ore produced was shipped to a smelter in Utah for processing, but there is no record of shipped tonnage or grade.

The surface area is covered with various pits, portals, shafts, open cuts, and associated dumps. The underground development consists of several short shafts, winzes and tunnels of varying length leading to a series of stopes and drifts. The high-grade copper mineralization (i.e., malachite as the green and azurite as the blue copper carbonate hydroxide) is associated with quartz veins hosted within shear zones and the dumps contain numerous strongly mineralized specimens of this material.

The Star South prospect, located 2 kms south of the Star Point Mine, is comprised of a series of pits, artisanal adits and associated dumps. The adits appear to follow high-grade copper-gold-silver mineralization hosted within quartz veins that are associated with shears trending in several different orientations. As with Star Point, malachite and azurite mineralization is abundant and indicative of a high copper content, with Star South being additionally enriched in gold and silver.