Mr. Kevin Keough reports

EVERGOLD - FIRST DRILL ASSAYS FROM DEM PORPHYRY PROSPECT, B.C., RETURN BROAD INTERCEPTS, LOCAL HIGH GRADES OF PRECIOUS AND STRATEGIC METALS INCLUDING GOLD, SILVER, COBALT, MOLYBDENUM AND TUNGSTEN

Evergold Corp. has released assays for initial batches of core from a small reconnaissance drill program (947 metres in three holes) completed in late fall 2023 at the large new DEM prospect in central British Columbia. Assays show broad intercepts of precious metals (gold, silver) encompassing, locally, narrow intercepts of high-grade precious and, notably, high-grade/high-value strategic metals (molybdenum, cobalt, tungsten), from two drill pads spaced approximately 400 metres apart. Additional assays are pending for all three holes.

The high-grade intercepts include a first porphyry-hosted intercept: high-grade (0.82 per cent Mo) molybdenum with associated gold (1.2 grams per tonne), rhenium (3.7 g/t) and silver-enriched (eight g/t) sulphides from veining within high-K porphyry intrusive from 299 to 301 metres in hole DEM23-02. This, along with ubiquitous pyrrhotite hornfels and skarn-style assemblages, the high density of porphyritic dikes in the lower third of DEM23-03, as well as induced polarization (IP) data, point to high potential for underlying and/or nearby bodies of porphyry-style mineralization. The broad gold and silver predominant intercepts are accompanied throughout the holes by strongly elevated gold pathfinder element geochemistry, particularly arsenic, antimony, bismuth and locally elevated tellurium, indicating the presence of a richly mineralized precious metals system that is considered likely to produce both broad and/or high-grade intercepts with higher-density drilling now in planning for the 2024 field season.

Reported below are partial assays for intervals in diamond core holes DEM23-01, 02 and 03. Sampling of the remainder of the holes is continuing. Arsenic values have been determined to be the key indicator of system presence.

Highlights

DEM23-03: Partially delineated system envelope: 48.2 metres of 0.58 g/t Au, 11 g/t Ag and 3,696 parts per million As from 303 to 351.2 metres -- open in all directions. Assays of remainder of hole pending.

• Including high-grade gold: 11.98 g/t Au, 24 g/t Ag and 71,293 ppm As from 339 to 340.5 metres;
• Including high-grade cobalt: 0.11 per cent Co, 29.5 g/t Au, 0.19 per cent Cu, 42 ppm Te and 35,800 As from 340 to 340.5 metres.

DEM23-01: Partially delineated system envelope: 135 metres of 0.12 g/t Au, two g/t Ag and 901 ppm As from surface -- six to 141 metres -- open to depth. Assays of remainder of hole pending.

• Including high-grade tungsten and high-grade silver: 0.32 per cent W, 155 g/t Ag, five ppm Te, 11,850 As from 131 to 132 metres.

DEM23-02: First intercept of high-grade porphyry intrusive: high-grade molybdenum (0.82 per cent), with associated gold (1.2 g/t), silver (eight g/t), rhenium (3.7 g/t) and arsenic (2,340 ppm), from 299 to 300 metres. Assays of remainder of hole pending.

"These are very encouraging results for a first-pass program, with results to date suggesting we are on the fringes of a large, and somewhat unusual, intrusion-related system," said Kevin Keough, president and chief executive officer. "We are genuinely excited about following up. From a very small initial program on a generally poorly exposed and barely tested target we appear to have discovered a rich new system with many of the metals that the world is eager for these days. We've seen an impressive array of sulphide minerals throughout our first drill holes, high grades (locally) and broad system widths, coupled with a rather unique array of high-value elements, including gold and silver, and narrow but high-grade intercepts of molybdenite with associated rhenium, as well as cobalt and tungsten, plus lesser copper, lead, zinc and locally elevated tellurium. All of this bodes well for better to come as we work this year to advance the DEM project."

Discussion of drill results

Two holes (DEM23-01 and 02) were drilled due east from a first pad, and a single hole (DEM23-03) was drilled due west from a second almost 400 metres southeast. The holes were targeted on one prominent magnetic high. Each of the three holes intercepted a broad sulphide vein system, hosted within variably calcareous fine-grained sedimentary rocks cut locally by metre-scale porphyritic dikes, with the host rocks, and locally the dikes, strongly infused over significant core lengths of up to 20 metres by crosscutting sulphide-bearing veinlets and veins, locally of semi-massive to massive character, along with associated disseminated sulphides. These intervals are encompassed by broader halos of lower-intensity disseminated and sulphide-bearing veinlets and veins. Sulphide minerals observed in core include abundant disseminated and vein-hosted arsenopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite, with lesser but significant sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite and molybdenite. Sulphosalts are also commonly observed. High-grade precious metals, cobalt and tungsten values are localized to the best developed parts of the vein system, particularly the massive sulphide sections, whereas the molybdenum, although present at elevated levels generally throughout the vein system, achieves high grades within a single narrow porphyritic intrusive (dike) intercepted from 299 to 301 metres in DEM23-02, where it is accompanied by elevated rhenium, gold and silver and the suite of elements characterizing other parts of the DEM mineralizing system. Intriguingly, this dike may represent an apophysis (projecting finger) off a larger body of porphyry-style mineralization nearby.

Geophysical interpretation and exploration implications

Magnetic susceptibility readings taken of core and observations of core mineralogy suggest that the positive magnetic response generated over some areas of the DEM target area by an aeromagnetic survey flown in 2017 is likely largely due to the magnetic properties of pyrrhotite, a common sulphide constituent of the core. Magnetic susceptibility readings taken systematically of the core down the holes also clearly demonstrate that the magnetic response has been largely destroyed in the most intensely developed, silica-rich and generally highest-grade part of the vein system as observed, for example, from 303 to 351 metres in DEM23-03.

In 2021, a small, 2.6-line-kilometre induced polarization (IP) survey consisting of two east-west-oriented lines separated by 200 metres was run over the general area of the recent drilling.

Importantly, both the 2017 airborne magnetometer survey and the 2021 IP survey were optimized for exploration reconnaissance -- not drill targeting. It is anticipated that new, detailed surveys of both will be carried out for drill targeting purposes, infilling between existing lines, looking more deeply and broadening coverage to areas not yet surveyed.

About the DEM project

The 10,451-hectare DEM property, located in moderate terrain only 40 km northwest of Fort St. James in central B.C., lies toward the south end of the Nation Lakes porphyry camp and within the Quesnel terrane, the latter of which hosts large deposits and long-life mines, including the nearby Mount Milligan (50 km to the northeast of DEM) mine, and Lorraine deposit, and, farther south, the Mt. Polley, Afton, Copper Mountain, Brenda mines, and the Highland Valley mines and deposits. Located central to the DEM property is the DEM Halo prospect, a roughly four square km target area defined by alteration and mineralogy suggestive of the presence of a porphyry system, by a multielement soil geochemical signature, including soil highs to 2.1 ppm Au, 160 ppm Ag, greater than 10,000 ppm As and 651 ppm Cu, by compelling high-relief magnetic and IP-chargeability anomalies, and by the presence of nearby regional-scale structures. Extensive logging in the area and associated forest service roads provide drive-on access directly to the DEM prospect. All of these factors, when combined, indicate excellent discovery potential for a gold-silver-copper porphyry and related vein systems. Further details on the DEM prospect may be found on the company's website and in a National Instrument 43-101 technical report entitled "Technical Report on the DEM Property" dated Aug. 30, 2023, posted thereon and on the company's issuer profile at SEDAR+.

Qualified person

Charles J. Greig, MSc, PGeo, the company's chief exploration officer and a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.

Quality assurance/quality control

The company has a robust quality assurance/quality control program that includes the insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates. Samples of drill core are cut by a diamond-blade rock saw, with half of the cut core placed in individually sealed polyurethane bags and half placed back in the original core box for permanent storage. With the rare exception, sample lengths generally vary from a minimum 0.5-metre interval to a maximum two-metre interval, with an average of 0.5 to one metre in heavily mineralized sections of core, where precise identification of the mineralogical source of metal values is important. Drill core samples are shipped by truck in sealed woven plastic bags to the ALS sample preparation facility in Langley, B.C., and thereafter taken by ALS to its North Vancouver analytical laboratory. ALS operates according to the guidelines set out in International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Guide 25. Gold is determined by fire assay fusion of a 50-gram subsample with atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Samples that return values greater than 10 parts per million gold from fire assay and AAS (atomic absorption spectroscopy) are determined by using fire assay and a gravimetric finish. Various metals including silver, gold, copper, lead and zinc are analyzed by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy, following multiacid digestion. The elements copper, lead and zinc are determined by ore-grade assay for samples that return values greater than 10,000 ppm by ICP analysis. Silver is determined by ore-grade assay for samples that return greater than 100 ppm.

About Evergold Corp.

Evergold is a TSX Venture Exchange-listed mineral exploration company with projects in B.C. and Nevada. The Evergold team has a record of success in the junior mining space, most recently the establishment of GT Gold Corp. in 2016 and the discovery of the Saddle South epithermal vein and Saddle North porphyry copper-gold deposits near Iskut, B.C., sold to Newmont in 2021 for a fully diluted value of $456-million, representing a 1,136-per-cent (12.4 times) return on exploration outlays of $36.9-million.

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