Drilling Campaign At The Campfire Target Complex

VANCOUVER – Westward Gold Inc. announced an update on its ongoing 2025 drilling campaign – including results for two reverse-circulation (RC) drill holes (CF25-01 and CF25-02) – at its flagship Toiyabe Hills Property in Lander County, Nevada. Westward initially set out to test its high-priority Campfire Target Complex (“Campfire”) with approximately 5,000 metres (~16,500 feet) of RC drilling, however based on productivity and costs to date the Company expects to meaningfully exceed that metreage. To date, 4,506m of RC drilling has been completed across seven drill holes. Samples are being analyzed for gold and multi-element analysis.  
The Phase 1 framework drilling program, with holes located at 500-700m collar spacings, was designed to characterize large-scale gold system patterns and answer key geological questions by: 1) determining the third-dimension architecture of the favourable lower-plate carbonate rocks; 2) identifying vertically-extensive Carlin-type alteration in lower-plate carbonate rocks – namely decalcification – over a large area; 3) confirming a Carlin-type gold and trace-element signature associated with the hydrothermal system; and 4) confirming the down-dip expression of an igneous dike-filled fault corridor within the Campfire Anticline.
Kelly Cluer, Director, said, “The drill chips we have logged so far, and the initial geochemical data released herein, indicate that success has been achieved. Ultimately, Phase I drilling was designed to set us up smartly, in a large new undrilled Carlin system, for a future Phase II grade-hunting campaign. It’s still early days and we expect forthcoming results to contribute greatly to our vectoring efforts.”