ArcWest Exploration Inc. announced the results of the recently completed 3D induced polarization ("IP") survey at its 100% owned Teeta Creek Project, northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The 2023 program, using Dias Geophysical's distributed array deep IP ("DCIP") survey system, has identified an areally extensive (approximately 1 km2), greater than 40 mV/V chargeability anomaly at depth underlying Teeta Creek valley and its north and south slopes; the anomaly remains nearly untested by drilling. The IP anomaly is open to the north and south, with two prominent lobes situated at depth beneath the Teeta Creek porphyry Copper (Cu)-molybdenum (Mo)-gold (Au) system on the north and south slopes of Teeta Creek valley.

The lobes are connected by a roughly N-S striking, greater than 40 mV/V chargeability corridor, the top of which lies approximately 300 m beneath recently recognized, undrilled Cu-Mo-Au mineralized stockwork of the Gap zone. The Gap zone stockwork, situated at the lowest elevations on the property in normally submerged creek bed outcrops, is located within an approximately 400 m wide undrilled gap between the two best historical drill holes on the property. Rock samples from the stockwork zone collected during low water levels in August 2022 returned assays ranging up to 0.53% Cu, 164 parts per million ("ppm") Mo, 0.353 grams per tonne ("g/t") Au and 3.6 g/t silver (Ag).

The Gap zone is hosted by intensely quartz-sericite-pyrite altered quartz-feldspar-biotite porphyritic intrusions. Potential therefore exists beneath the Gap zone for the discovery of a higher grade, Cu-Mo-Au Mineralized potassic core. As such, the newly identified chargeability anomaly underlying Teeta Creek valley and the Gap zone stockwork represents a compelling target for a significant porphyry Cu-Mo-Au system.