Mr. Lewis Lawrick reports

MAGNA TERRA ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF NON-BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT

Magna Terra Minerals Inc. has closed its non-brokered private placement (see news releases dated Sept. 22, 2023, Oct. 5, 2023, and Nov. 9, 2023) of gross proceeds totalling $324,869. The company has issued 10,828,980 common shares at a price of three cents per share.

The gross proceeds of the offering will be used to incur expenditures on the company's properties. Below is a summary of the major categories applied to the gross proceeds as required by the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, in addition to working capital requirements:

• 25 per cent -- geophysical surveys;
• 15 per cent -- geological and geochemical surveys;
• 13 per cent -- mineral resource update;
• Not more than 10 per cent -- investor relations and strategic advisory work;
• The balance will be applied to working capital and other project expenses.

Insiders of the company participated in the offering by acquiring an aggregate of 7,178,980 common shares for aggregate proceeds of $215,369. More specifically:

1. Signal Gold Inc. has subscribed for 2,542,313 common shares at a price of three cents per common share.
2. Lew Lawrick, the chief executive officer and a director of the company, has subscribed for 2.8 million common shares at a price of three cents per common share.
3. Bill Francis, the chief financial officer of the company, has subscribed for 1,666,667 common shares at a price of three cents per common share.
4. Gernot Wober, a director of the company, has subscribed for 170,000 common shares at a price of three cents per common share.

Immediately after the closing of the offering:

1. Signal Gold shall hold, directly and indirectly, 15,035,795 common shares of the company (representing 18.7 per cent of the outstanding common shares of the company).
2. Mr. Lawrick shall hold, directly and indirectly, or exercise control over 10,286,309 common shares (representing 12.8 per cent of the outstanding common shares of the company), 1.3 million common share purchase warrants and 1,071,429 stock options of the company.
3. Mr. Francis shall hold, directly and indirectly, or exercise control over 2,206,667 common shares (representing 2.7 per cent of the outstanding common shares of the company), 250,000 common share purchase warrants and 600,000 stock options of the company.
4. Mr. Wober shall hold, directly and indirectly, or exercise control over 395,000 common shares (representing 0.5 per cent of the outstanding common shares of the company) and 400,000 stock options of the company.

Mr. Lawrick and Mr. Wober, who directors of the company, have disclosed their interests to the board of the directors of the company pursuant to Section 120 of the Canada Business Corporations Act to the effect that they may participate in the private placement and subscribe to the common shares. The terms of the offering and the agreements relating thereto were submitted to and unanimously approved by way of a resolution adopted by all the directors of the company other than Mr. Lawrick and Mr. Wober. Mr. Lawrick and Mr. Wober did not vote on the resolution to approve the private placement and the agreements relating thereto. The remaining directors determined that the private placement was in the best interest of the company.

Each of the insiders is considered a related party and an insider of the company for the purposes of applicable securities laws and stock exchange rules. The subscription and issuance of common shares to each of the insiders constitute a related party transaction, but is exempt from the formal valuation and minority approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101, Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions, as: (i) the company's securities are not listed on any stock exchange identified in Section 5.7(b) of MI 61-101; (ii) neither the fair market value of the common shares to be distributed in the offering, nor the consideration to be received by the company for the common shares, insofar as insider participation is concerned, exceeds $2.5-million; and (iii) the company has received the approval of the offering from at least two-thirds of its independent directors in respect of the offering.

All securities issued pursuant to the offering are subject to a regulatory four-month-and-one-day hold period. The private placement is subject to approval by the TSX Venture Exchange.

About Magna Terra Minerals Inc.

Magna Terra is a precious metals focused exploration company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Magna Terra owns two district-scale, resource-stage gold exploration projects in the top-tier mining jurisdictions of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador. Further, the company maintains a significant exploration portfolio in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, which includes its precious metals discovery on its Luna Roja project, as well as an extensive portfolio of district-scale drill-ready projects available for option or joint venture.

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