BeMetals Corp. announced commencement of its 2021 exploration program at the Pangeni Copper Project (Pangeni’ or the ‘Project’ or the ‘Property’), located on the western extension of the Central African Copperbelt in Zambia. This year's primary objective is to expand and vector into higher-grade areas of the two priority copper prospects discovered during the 2019 and 2020 exploration programs, and to test other priority targets on the Property. The 2021 exploration program will comprise of an airborne electromagnetic (‘AEM’) survey to enhance stratigraphic and structural geological mapping under the sand cover and the completion of approximately 4,000 metres of aircore drilling. (See Figure 1 for planned aircore line drilling locations). The positions of the aircore lines are subject to adjustment as interpretation of the AEM is received. Resultant targets will be tested with approximately 1,500 metres of core drilling in some 6 to 8 core holes. The aircore holes will be spaced at various distances along the lines from 400-metre, to 200-metre and 100-metre infill centres based upon field results and geological observations of the drill cuttings. The program will run from late May and initial aircore results will determine targets for core drill testing to be completed before yearend. At the D Prospect this year, drilling will follow-up on extensions and test for potential higher-grade areas proximal to copper mineralization discovered during the 2019 and 2020 drill seasons where core hole D3-C1 intersected intervals of 3.98 metres at 0.39% copper and 3.70 metres at 0.37% copper. These two shallow copper intersections occur some 850 metres along the same interpreted strike of mineralized zones intersected in holes D2-C1 and D2-C2 during the 2019 field season where D2-C1 intersected 5.50 metres grading 0.53% copper, and D2-C2 intersected 5.56 metres grading 0.47% copper. Aircore drilling will infill test between holes D3-C1 and D2-C1/D2-C2 to determine the continuity of mineralization between those areas. Two additional aircore lines will step out to the northeast of hole D3-C1 and another line to the southwest of holes D2-C1/D2-C2 to test the extent of mineralization along the interpreted strike. At the SW Prospect, a number of significant copper intersections have been returned in the core drilling, including hole E2-C2 which intersected 4.5 metres grading 0.39% copper during the 2019 drilling program. Due to rainy season logistical conditions at the end of 2020, BeMetals decided not to aircore drill at this target last year. Now at the start of the field season, five additional lines of aircore drilling are planned to test for extensions and higher-grade areas of copper mineralization at this prospect. The core drilled intersections to date indicate that a number of anomalous zones of predominantly copper sulphide mineralization are present at both the D and SW prospects. This mineralization is related to broader zones of anomalous copper, all of which are associated with the same alteration minerals known to occur at various copper deposits and large scale mines within the Zambian Copperbelt. The mineralized zones relate to chalcopyrite and minor amounts of bornite copper sulphides, and are associated with kyanite, an alteration mineral, which has important associations with the mineralization found at other significant copper mines in Zambia.