Aurion Resources Ltd. announced results from drilling on the Aamurusko Discovery at its wholly owned Risti property located in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt in northern Finland. Aurion has completed Phase 1 of the 2021 diamond core drilling program at the Aamurusko prospect. The program was designed to test the extensions and orientations of gold bearing structures at the Aamurusko Main area and to provide information on an over 1,000 m long section of a potential parallel structure located to the north of previously drill tested areas. Phase 1 of the drill program commenced in late March 2021, was limited to 12 holes totaling 2,921.10 m, and was the first opportunity to return to drilling at Aamurusko since the COVID pandemic forced the Company to suspend drilling there in early 2020. 10 holes reached the target depth, and two holes were terminated in a wide zone of saprolite before reaching the targeted depth. A snow road was constructed to enable access for a track mounted drill rig to drill sites located in the mid and top parts of the hill. Lower than normal snowfall and mild weather prohibited access to certain drill sites, which are planned to be tested during the latter half of 2022. The ability to use track mounted drill rigs increases the efficiency and decreases costs compared to helicopter supported drilling. All completed holes intersected zones of gold mineralization. Drill holes AM21169-AM21173 targeted the Aamurusko Main zone with an aim to test the continuations of the sheared contact between gabbro and clastic sediments, and to provide information on the orientation of the gold bearing structures. The holes were collared in the mid part of the hill and drilled towards south. All holes intersected the targeted sheared contact between gabbro and clastic sediments at expected locations. All holes also intersected significant zones of quartz veining with gold values exceeding 1.0 g/t. Visible gold grains were observed in three (AM21171, AM21172 and AM21173) of the five holes. Gold mineralization was encountered at the sheared and quartz-veined gabbro-sediment contact and within quartz veins in clastic sediments. AM21173 intersected 29.06 g/t Au over 1.25 m from 68.15 m including 88.90 g/t Au over 0.40 m within a quartz vein adjacent to the gabbro-sediment contact. AM21169 intersected 4.51 g/t Au over 2.00 m from 29.80 m within quartz veined clastic sediment. The drill holes provided new orientation data for the gold-bearing structures and quartz veins, as well as confirmed the continuity of the mineralization at the gabbro-sediment contact. To date, drilling has identified a panel of minimum size of 200 m strike length by 200 m depth of gold prospective structures at Aamurusko with the mineralization open at most orientations. Drill holes AM21175, AM21176 and AM21179 were collared 150 to 350 m north of the previously drill tested area at Aamurusko Main. The drill holes were designed to test the stratigraphy and the potential existence of parallel structures north of Aamurusko Main. AM21175 was terminated at 135.80 m within a zone of saprolite before reaching the target depth. The presence of saprolite may indicate the presence of a structure and/or lithological contact. AM21176 and AM21179 were successful in identifying the repetition of the stratigraphy, compared to the Aamurusko Main area, including clastic sediments and gabbro with shearing and veining within the lithologies and along their contacts. The zones with shearing and quartz veining returned elevated gold values up to 0.40 g/t. The repetition and shearing of the lithologies may have been caused by thrust/reverse faults and/or folding during the compressional deformation stage which was followed by an extensional deformation phase that created pathways for gold-bearing fluids. These observations indicate that there is potential for parallel gold bearing structures along the sediment-volcanic domain boundary that extends several kilometers to the east and west from Aamurusko. The second phase of the 2021 drilling program is underway at the Launi East property with an aim to test several target areas including the Hinge Zone Prospect, which was discovered in 2020. Following the completion of phase 2 at Launi East, the drilling will resume at Aamurusko with an aim to test the extensions of the mineralized zones at Gap Zone and Aamurusko NW targets and follow up drilling of identified gold-bearing zones within gabbro. In addition, a regional base of till sampling program is ongoing and targeting previously unexplored areas with the potential of the existence of mafic-ultramafic hosted gold mineralizations such as Rupert Resources' Ikkari discovery.