April 28, 2022  – Vancouver, B.C. – Edgemont Gold Corp. (CSE: EDGM, FRA: EG8) (“Edgemont”) is pleased to announce that the Phase II drill program is now underway at the Dungate copper-gold porphyry project.  The Dungate project is located 6 km southeast of the town of Houston in the Omineca Mining Division of B.C.

This Phase II drill program is budgeted for up to 3,000 metres of drilling and will follow up on widespread anomalous copper and gold  mineralization identified during Phase I drilling.  The first drill hole of this program (“DG22 -08”) will test a hidden intrusive, much larger in size, identified by magnetic surveys under overburden to the north of the Quartz Feldspar Porphyry (“QFP”) tested during Phase I drilling.   This area has never been drilled and will be tested to a vertical depth of 500 metres to follow up on porphyry mineralization intercepted at the bottom of hole DG21-004 during the Phase 1 drill program. The target is a strong magnetic anomaly with a pronounced central u-shaped depleted magnetic signal. The hole is designed to cross the depleted magnetic signal and pass into the adjacent high magnetic anomaly.  A map indicating the location of this drill hole DG22-08 is below:

Phase II drilling will also include drilling to follow up on holes drilled in 2021 that intercepted widespread anomalous gold forming a shell along the edges of the QFP and into the contact host rocks (see our news release of March 28, 2022).  A detailed map showing the location and drill trace of these holes will be provided in due course.

The technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Joseph Campbell, P. Geo, a Director of Edgemont, who is a Qualified Person as defined in “National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.”

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Edgemont is actively exploring the Dungate copper/gold porphyry project located just 6 km southeast of Houston, B.C., in a region with a history of successful mining projects including the Equity Silver Mine, Imperial Metals’ Huckleberry Mine, and the more recent gold-silver discovery at Sun Summit Minerals’ Buck Project which sits just 7 km to the south. 

Having acquired an interest in its initial claims at Dungate in 2018, the Company now holds five mineral tenures covering 1,582.2 hectares that can be explored year-round by all-season roads. For more information, please visit our website at www.edgemontgold.com.

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