Mr. Cor Coe reports

SITKA GOLD PREPARES MOBILIZATION FOR A WINTER DIAMOND DRILLING PROGRAM AT ITS RC GOLD PROJECT, YUKON

Sitka Gold Corp. has secured a drilling contractor to complete winter and summer diamond drilling programs at its RC gold project located in the prolific Tombstone gold belt in the Yukon. Preparation of crew and equipment is currently under way and mobilization for the winter drilling program is anticipated to begin next month.

Kluane Drilling Ltd., a highly experienced drilling company based in Whitehorse, Yukon, with over 30 years of experience diamond drilling in the Yukon and around the world, has been contracted to complete up to 15,000 metres of drilling at the company's flagship RC gold project. Kluane Drilling is dedicated to providing quality drilling services based on technical innovation and human talent, and specializes in achieving high drilling production in various drilling environments. Kluane Drilling has proven to be an exceptional contractor and Sitka looks forward to continuing working with them as the company continues to advance RC gold in 2024.

The 2024 winter drilling program at RC gold will follow up on hole DDRCCC-23-047 (see news release dated Sept. 26, 2023) which was the highest-grade intersection at the project to date at the current southern extent of the Blackjack zone, returning 219 metres of 1.34 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au), including 124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold and 55 m of 3.11 g/t gold.

Cor Coe, director and chief executive officer of Sitka, comments: "We are very pleased to have secured the services of Kluane Drilling Ltd. for our 2024 drilling programs. Kluane provided Sitka with exceptional drilling services in both our winter and summer drilling programs at RC gold in 2023, and we look forward to continuing to work with Kluane. We are excited to begin our 2024 drilling program at the southern extent of the Blackjack zone where we encountered the best intersection on the project to date in hole 47. The 2023 drilling at RC gold provided many highlights and we look forward to beginning our exploration season early in the year thanks to the year-round road accessibility of the project."

2023 RC gold highlights:

• Announced initial pit-constrained inferred mineral resource estimate of 1.34 million ounces of gold comprising the Blackjack deposit (900,000 ounces of gold grading 0.83 g/t gold) and the Eiger deposit (440,000 ounces of gold grading 0.50 g/t gold -- see news release dated Jan. 19, 2023).
• Completed a 16-hole, 6,515-metre resource expansion drill program that significantly expanded the known gold mineralization at the Blackjack deposit area, with the deposit still remaining open in all directions.
• Drilled the best intersection to date at the property which expands the known gold mineralization from the southern extent of the current Blackjack deposit, returning 219 m of 1.34 g/t gold, including 124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold and 55 m of 3.11 g/t gold in hole DDRCCC-23-047 (see news release dated Sept. 26, 2023), along with 4.3 m of 33.10 g/t gold, including 1.2 m of 108 g/t gold in hole DDRCCC-23-46 (see news dated Sept. 11, 2023), demonstrating the exceptional grades that exist within this intrusion-related gold system.
• DDRCCC-23-54, located in the Saddle zone, 450 metres east of the Blackjack resource boundary, returned the best drill result to date with 84 m of 1.21 g/t gold beginning at surface (see news release dated Oct. 30, 2023). With only four drill holes completed, the Saddle zone remains open in all directions and is underlain by both the largest and the highest-grade gold-in-soil anomaly on the property, highlighting the potential for building additional resources at the project.
• First-ever drilling confirmed significant gold-bearing mineralization within the Josephine intrusion.
• Reconnaissance field exploration work and data compilation (historical and recent) have identified five additional drill-ready intrusion-related drill targets within the district-scale RC gold property, as well as other prospective target areas that have potential for undiscovered intrusions to follow up on.
• Completed all requirements to obtain 100-per-cent ownership of the Clear Creek property which encompasses the northern portion of the Clear Creek intrusive complex, including the Blackjack and Eiger deposits.

About the RC gold project

The RC gold project consists of a 386-square-kilometre contiguous district-scale land package located in the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone gold belt. The project is located approximately 100 kilometres east of Dawson City and is accessed via a secondary gravel road from the Klondike Highway which is usable year-round and is an approximate two-hour drive from Dawson. It is the largest consolidated land package strategically positioned midway between Victoria Gold's Eagle gold mine -- Yukon's newest gold mine which reached commercial production in the summer of 2020 -- and Victoria Gold's Brewery Creek gold mine. The RC gold project land package comprises five underlying properties, namely, the RC, Bee Bop, Mahtin, Clear Creek and Barney Ridge properties. Sitka currently owns 100 per cent of the Clear Creek, Mahtin and other independently staked claims which comprise 86 per cent of the total 386-square-kilometre land package that comprises the RC gold project. The company has an option to earn a 100-per-cent interest in the Barney Creek, Bee Bop and RC properties which comprise the remaining 14 per cent of the RC gold project.

On Jan. 19, 2023, Sitka Gold announced an initial mineral resource estimate prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 guidelines for the RC gold property of 1.34 million ounces of gold. The road-accessible, pit-constrained mineral resource is classified as inferred and is contained in two near-/on-surface zones: the Blackjack and Eiger deposits. The mineral resource estimate is presented in the attached table at a base case cut-off grade of 0.25 g/t Au.

The initial mineral resource estimate of 1.34 million ounces of gold at the RC gold project comprises two deposits: the Blackjack deposit containing 900,000 ounces of gold at a grade of 0.83 g/t gold and the Eiger deposit containing 440,000 ounces of gold at a grade of 0.50 g/t gold (see news release dated Jan. 19, 2023). Both of these deposits are at/near surface, are potentially open-pit minable and amenable to heap leaching, with initial bottle roll tests indicating that the gold is not refractory and has high gold recoveries of up to 94 per cent with minimal sodium cyanide consumption (see news release July 13, 2022).

The Blackjack and Eiger deposits are in close proximity to highway and power infrastructure, are road accessible year-round, remain open in all directions, and are located within the Clear Creek intrusive complex. The deposits are located within a large, three-kilometre-by-five-kilometre intrusion-related gold system that was recently identified at the northern extent of the Clear Creek intrusive complex. To date, 54 diamond drill holes have been drilled into this system for a total of approximately 18,877 metres with results of up to 219 m of 1.34 g/t gold, including 124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold and 55 m of 3.11 g/t gold in drill hole DDRCCC-23-047 at Blackjack (see news release dated Sept. 26, 2023).

Several high-priority intrusion-related gold targets exist at RC with nine outcropped intrusions identified to date over the 386 square km property; however, Sitka's main focus at the RC gold project has been on the underlying Clear Creek property where a large 500-metre-by-2,000-metre extensional corridor hosting an intrusion-related gold system covering the area over the Blackjack, Saddle and Eiger zones was identified. Additional surface work has since extended the gold corridor an additional 3,000 metres east and now encompasses the Josephine intrusion. Prior to the onset of the 2023 winter drilling program, the company had drilled 38 diamond drill holes into this system for a total of approximately 13,000 metres. This drilling culminated in the discovery of the Blackjack and Eiger deposits with an initial inferred mineral resource estimate of 1.34 million gold ounces.

Sitka Gold inherited a wealth of historical and current data from these properties from work spanning the last 40 years. Recent exploration work and the compilation of historical data have defined several mineralized zones with both bulk-tonnage, intrusion-related gold deposit targets and high-grade, vein- and breccia-hosted gold targets. The RC gold project also has a common border with Victoria Gold's Clear Creek property at its western boundary and Florin Resources' Florin gold property at its northern boundary.

For more detailed information on the underlying properties please visit the company's website.

Deposit model

Exploration on the property has mainly focused on identifying an intrusion-related gold system (IRGS). The property is part of the Tombstone gold belt which is the prominent host to IRGS deposits within the Tintina gold province in Yukon and Alaska. Notable deposits from the belt include: Fort Knox mine in Alaska with current proven and probable reserves of 230 million tonnes at 0.3 g/t Au (2,471,000 ounces); Eagle gold mine with current measured and indicated resources of 233 million tonnes at a grade of 0.57 g/t Au at the Eagle Main zone (4,303,000 ounces); the Brewery Creek deposit with current indicated mineral resource of 22.2 million tonnes at a gold grade of 1.11 g/t (789,000 ounces); the Florin gold deposit, located adjacent to Sitka's RC gold project, with a current inferred mineral resource of 170.99 million tonnes grading 0.45 g/t (2.47 million ounces); and the AurMac project with an inferred mineral resource of 312.90 million tonnes grading 0.61 gram per tonne gold (6.18 million ounces).

Stock option grant

Sitka Gold has granted an aggregate of four million incentive stock options to officers, directors and consultants of the company. The options are exercisable at 20 cents per share for a period of three years from the date of grant and are subject to the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange.

Upcoming events

Sitka Gold will be attending and/or presenting at the following events:

• AME Roundup -- Jan. 22 to Jan. 25, 2024;
• Tombstone Gold Belt Breakfast -- Fireside Chat -- Vancouver, Jan. 22, 2024;
• VRIC -- Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 21 to Jan. 22, 2024;
• PDAC -- Toronto, Ont., March 3 to March 6, 2024;
• Swiss Mining Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, March 20 to March 21, 2024.

All events are subject to change.

About Sitka Gold Corp.

Sitka Gold is a well-financed mineral exploration company headquartered in Canada with approximately $8-million in the treasury and no debt. The company is managed by a team of experienced industry professionals and is focused on exploring for economically viable mineral deposits with its primary emphasis on gold, silver and copper mineral properties of merit. Sitka currently has an option to acquire a 100-per-cent interest in the RC, Bee Bop, Barney Ridge and OGI properties in Yukon and the Burro Creek gold and silver property in Arizona. Sitka owns a 100-per-cent interest in its Clear Creek and Mahtin properties in Yukon, the Alpha gold property in Nevada, and the Coppermine River project in Nunavut.

The company recently announced a National Instrument 43-101-compliant initial inferred mineral resource estimate of 1.34 million ounces of gold beginning at surface and grading 0.68 g/t at its RC gold project in Yukon (see news release dated Jan. 19, 2023). A total of 6,515 metres of additional diamond drilling within 16 drill holes have been completed at RC gold since the announcement of the mineral resource estimate.

The scientific and technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Coe, PGeo, director and chief executive officer of the company, and a qualified person (QP) as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

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