Mr. Alex McAulay reports

NEWPATH ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF JERRY BLACKWELL AS NEW STRATEGIC ADVISER

Newpath Resources Inc. has appointed Jerry Blackwell as a strategic adviser to the company effective immediately.

Mr. Blackwell is a self-employed consultant based in Vancouver with extensive greenfields and brownfields exploration experience throughout Canada, Western United States, Mexico and Latin America, with short assignments in parts of Africa, Europe, Greenland, Australia and Southeast Asia.

• He has worked in the exploration industry for over 50 years, including 13 years with Cominco Ltd. working on uranium exploration in Northern Canada, volcanogenic massive sulphide exploration in Tasmania and British Columbia, sedimentary exhalative deposit zinc exploration in the Yukon and southeastern B.C., and gold exploration in the coast ranges of northwestern B.C.
• Capitalizing on years of rock hounding throughout the Grenville in both Ontario and Quebec, Mr. Blackwell identified and evaluated pegmatites throughout Canada and worldwide, as well as unconventional sources of lithium and boron, for a number of clients during the 1980s and up until 2012.
• From 1988 to 1993, he was part of Prime Exploration's exploration team responsible for the discovery of the Eskay Creek gold deposit in B.C.'s Golden Triangle.
• From 1993 to 2012 he served as president and chief executive officer of Gitennes Exploration which focused on exploration in Canada and Peru. Gitennes successfully identified and acquired a number of opportunities, notably the Virgen (gold), Rio Blanco (copper) and Urumalqui (silver-gold) deposits in Peru.

Mr. Blackwell has many years of experience with listed companies in officer, director or advisory capacities for both Toronto and TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies and continues as an ad hoc adviser. A lifetime member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), specializing in early-stage and preproduction projects, good practice, disclosure, corporate governance, and is currently focused on new, evolving projects in the Americas. Although not currently a B.C. registered professional geoscientist, he brings to the role an education that was focused on ore deposits, and a management consulting background with over 50 years of mineral exploration related capacities in multiple countries. Mr. Blackwell currently serves in an advisory role with Chakana Copper Corp., Palamina Corp. and NewOrigin Gold Corp., all TSX-V-listed companies.

Jerry Blackwell, strategic adviser, states, "I'm pleased to be joining as a strategic adviser to Newpath Resources, which has a solid technical and management team, with a geographic and commodity focus, that presents an opportunity to work with a next-generation explorer."

Alex McAulay, chief executive officer, states: "We are very excited to be welcoming Jerry on as a key strategic adviser to the company as we initiate the first phase of exploration on our lithium projects. Jerry brings a broad range of practical knowledge and corporate experience to the table. Jerry is well connected in the exploration industry and combined with his experience and knowledge gained from evaluating pegmatites in Canada, he brings a specialized insight that will not only augment our in-house exploration capabilities, but also assist with new project identification and generation."

About Newpath Resources Inc.

Newpath Resources is a Canadian exploration company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under symbol PATH. The company wholly owns the Northshore gold project located in the Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt and its early-stage Orefield critical metal exploration project, which comprises three claim groups (Alpha/Bravo, Charlie and Delta) totalling 3,140 claim units covering 66,597 hectares (approximately 666 square kilometres) west and southwest of Lake Nipigon in Northern Ontario.