BeMetals Corp. announced commencement of the 2023 field season with a new 2,000 metre diamond drilling program at the wholly owned Kato Gold Project in Hokkaido, Japan. This year's drilling campaign will focus on further extending the Seta and Kamitake vein zones of gold mineralization by testing their grade continuity along strike and at depth, towards the southeast of the Property.

The Company's field team has completed snow clearing, re-established access, and have commenced the 2023 drilling ahead of schedule. Based on the success of the 2022 drilling campaign, BeMetals has budgeted to drill an initial 2,000 metre phase of work by approximately mid-2023 for the Kato Project and assay results will be released as they become available. Additionally, an initial 1,000 metres of drilling is planned for the Todoroki Gold-Silver Project and this should commence by mid-year.

These mineralized veins are trending towards an area where significant-grade outcrop rock chip samples were taken in the Seta River valley. The objective for this year's Kato campaign is to scope out the potential for a mineral resource by yearend. With two rigs operational by mid-year, BeMetals will ramp-up its drilling, resulting in increased news flow from the ongoing programs. At the Todoroki Gold-Silver Project, phases of rock chip and cut channel sampling along with geological mapping were completed in 2022.

This data has been integrated with data from the historical Todoroki Gold-Silver Mine and has generated some robust targets for drill testing from mid-2023. The primary objective for this year's drilling a Todoroki is to test for extensions to the extensive vein swarm. At the Tashiro Project in Kyushu, the Company contracted Pioneer Exploration Consultants who recently completed a high resolution airborne drone magnetic survey of the area.

This data will be processed and combined with existing geological data to generate drill targets.