Mr. Kenneth MacLeod reports

SONORO GOLD ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF OVERSUBSCRIBED $3.1 MILLION PRIVATE PLACEMENT

Sonoro Gold Corp. has closed its oversubscribed non-brokered private placement of 17,283,586 units, at 18 cents per unit, for total gross proceeds of $3,111,045. The private placement was initially announced on March 29, 2021, for $2-million (11,111,111 units); was increased, as announced on April 9, 2021, to $2.6-million (14,444,444 units); and was increased again, as announced on April 13, 2021, to $3-million (16,666,667 units).

Each unit consists of one Sonoro common share and one share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one additional Sonoro common share for a period of two years from the closing date at an exercise price of 30 cents per share. All securities issued and issuable in connection with the offering will be subject to a four-month hold period ending Aug. 21, 2021. The offering has received conditional acceptance from the TSX Venture Exchange but remains subject to receipt of final approval from the TSX-V.

In connection with the offering, the company entered into finders' fee agreements with Haywood Securities Inc., Echelon Wealth Partners Inc., Couloir Capital Securities Ltd., Canaccord Genuity Corp. and National Securities Corp., pursuant to which the company paid to each finder:

• At the election of the finder, either a cash finder's fee or units equal to a maximum 7 per cent of the gross proceeds raised from subscribers introduced to the company by the finder;
• Non-transferable finder warrants equal in number to 7 per cent of the gross proceeds raised from subscribers introduced to the company by the finder; each finder warrant entitles the finder to purchase one common share in the capital of the company at a price of 30 cents for a period of two years following the closing of the offering.

In total, the company paid $80,110 in finders' fees and issued 9,722 finder units and 167,922 in non-transferable finder warrants.

Directors and officers of the company participated in the offering by subscribing for 2,449,999 units, constituting a related party transaction pursuant to TSX-V Policy 5.9 and Multilateral Instrument 61-101, Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions. The company relied on Section 5.5(a) of MI 61-101 for an exemption from the formal valuation requirement and Section 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 for an exemption from the minority shareholder approval requirement of MI 61-101 as the fair market value of the transaction did not exceed 25 per cent of the company's market capitalization.

The net proceeds from the offering will be used principally to finance Sonoro's continuing development plans at its Cerro Caliche gold project located in Sonora, Mexico, including completion of metallurgical testing, preparation of a National Instrument 43-101 resource update, a preliminary economic assessment, in addition to property maintenance payments, and secondarily for corporate and general administrative expenses.

Sonoro's president and chief executive officer, Kenneth MacLeod, stated: "In light of the determination of Sonoro's management to maintain a strong percentage ownership in the company, we are pleased to report that members of the senior executive team contributed to 14 per cent of the private placement financing. In addition, all members of the technical and management teams have demonstrated their commitment to the company's exploration and development plans for the Cerro Caliche project."

Sonoro's chairman, John Darch, added: "Since the completion of our $8-million financing in September, 2020, exceptional drilling results support the company's conceptual plan to develop a heap leach mining operation (HLMO) having a capacity of between 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes per day. The reception to this current financing, which continued to be oversubscribed despite being increased in size twice, reflects investors' confidence in the company's plans. We expect that the funds raised will sustain our operations beyond the completion of a [National Instrument] 43-101 resource update and a preliminary economic assessment, both expected by this July. On behalf of the Sonoro executive team, I would like to emphasize our confidence that these independent reports will reflect both a material increase and upgrade in our current inferred resource, together with robust economics for the conceptual heap leach mining operation, which we anticipate will enable us to raise debt financing to construct the HLMO with the objective to commence production in early 2022."

Readers are cautioned that, until the preliminary economic assessment's completion, no definitive conclusions can be made as to the technical or economic viability of the proposed HLMO.

About Sonoro Gold Corp.

Sonoro Gold is a publicly listed exploration and development company with a portfolio of exploration-stage precious metal properties in Sonora state, Mexico. The company has highly experienced operational and management teams with proven records for the discovery and development of natural resource deposits.

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