American West Metals Limited announced the completion of diamond drill holes WD22-04 and WD22-05 at the West Desert Project in Utah (West Desert or the Project). WD22-04 - EXPANDING THE COPPER ZONES: WD22-04 is the fifth drill hole of American West's drill program, and was designed to extend the strong copper mineralisation located on the porphyry/skarn contact further out to east. Historical drill holes in this location have intersected high-grade semi-massive chalcopyrite (including 13.4m @ 2.7% Cu from in drill hole CC-39) and a number of these zones remain open.

WD22-04 was drilled oblique to the main trend of drilling to utilize a fully permitted drill pad that was located on private land (100% owned by AW1). The hole was drilled to a depth of 754.8m and encountered over 400m metres of visual mineralisation. Intersections are expressed as downhole widths and are interpreted to be close to true widths.

Drill hole WD22-04 has confirmed the continuation of copper mineralisation along the prospective porphyry/sediment contact. Numerous thick zones of chalcopyrite rich mineralisation were encountered within the main porphyry stock (disseminated and vein hosted) and the contact related magnetite skarn. Strong sphalerite was also present in the more massive magnetite skarns.

Significantly, the drill hole also intersected approximately 137m of disseminated and vein hosted molybdenite at depth (from 618m downhole). The molybdenite is present as disseminations within the quartz monzonite porphyry stock, and with quartz + pyrite in late-stage veins that cut across other forms of mineralisation (including the West Desert Deposit). This mineralisation further highlights the outstanding growth potential and emerging porphyry related mineral system.

WD22-05 - CONTINUITY OF STRONG MINERALISATION: Drill hole WD22-05 was designed to test further continuity of the higher-grade zones within the Main and Deep Zones of West Desert Deposit. The drill hole has successful encountered broad intervals of mineralisation that are interpreted to represent key sections of the West Desert orebody, and is the first drill hole by American West that has intersected the central portion of the Deep Zone. WD22-05 drilled to a depth of 739.7m has intersected approximately 230m of visual mineralisation mostly hosted within magnetite rich skarn and carbonate replacement style deposits (CRD).

The intersections herein are expressed as downhole widths and are interpreted to be close to true widths, and approximately 80- 90% within the CRD mineralisation. The upper drill hole intervals are interpreted to form part of the Main Zone of the deposit and are comprised of three main sphalerite rich magnetite rich skarns hosted within dolomite and limestone. Particularly strong intervals were encountered between 180 and 225m (45m) downhole, and 294 and 350m (56m) downhole.

The lower skarn (between 294 and 350m downhole) also contains variable amounts of chalcopyrite within the entire interval, with strong silica alteration and potential coarse gold logged at approximately 304m. A more copper-rich magnetite skarn with bornite is present directly below the above interval between 350 and 365m downhole. A broad zone of semi-weathered, sooty sulphide rich skarn is present between 237 and 269m, and this may represent another structure parallel to the Juab Fault.

The lower intervals within WD22-05 show visual similarities to typical mineralisation in the Deep Zone, where stratiform magnetite rich skarn and CRD is hosted within steeply dipping carbonate sediments of variable thickness. Three, >20m thick intervals were encountered at depth and are interpreted to form part of the Deep Zone of the West Desert Deposit. The lower zone contains semi-massive sphalerite within localized thickenings of CRD style mineralisation.

EXPLORATION DRILLING AT WEST DESERT: With the completion of WD22-04 and WD22-05, the company moved into the exploration phase of the drilling program. The seventh drill hole has commenced and is targeting a high priority exploration target approximately 300m to the west of the West Desert Deposit. This drill hole is targeting a strong magnetic anomaly that is interpreted to represent further magnetite skarn mineralisation, which is the dominant host of zinc and copper mineralisation at West Desert.

There is no historical drilling in this location. DRILL HOLE DETAILS: Six diamond drill holes have been completed by American West Metals to date for a total of 3,846.86m. Descriptions of the amounts of metal observed and logged in the drill core are qualitative, visual estimates made by geologists on site and should not be considered a substitute for laboratory analysis, which are required to determine grade and widths for geological reporting.

Assays are pending for the completed drill holes and are expected in the coming weeks.