Drilling Update On The Illinois Creek District

VANCOUVER - Western Alaska Minerals Corp. reported on the Illinois Creek District, in Alaska.  The 2021 drill program confirmed wide intervals of high-grade Ag-Zn-Pb CRD sulphide mineralization, (1,949 AgEq over 8.1 m true thickness at 540g/t Ag, 23.5% Zn and 16.1% Pb) below a historically drilled near-surface Ag-oxide deposit. The mineralization is open to expansion at depth and will be a major focus of future exploration. The CRD environment at Illinois Creek has the hallmarks of a large-scale system, and systematically exploring and advancing the project.

The District contains multiple deposits, originally discovered by Anaconda Minerals in the 1980s, and was consolidated by Western Alaska's management team over the past 10 years. The portfolio of five high-grade mineral deposits contains gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc at varying stages of exploration and deposit styles, including a silver-rich Carbonate Replacement Deposit (CRD) and an NI 43-101-compliant oxide gold resource at the Illinois Creek deposit.