C3 Metals Inc. announced that two drill rigs have been mobilized to Jamaica to commence follow up drilling at the Company's highly prospective Bellas Gate copper-gold project in Jamaica. C3 Metals holds a 100% interest in the Bellas Gate, Arthurs Seat and Main Ridge licenses that cover an extensively mineralized porphyry/epithermal copper-gold district along the Crawle River-Rio Minho fault zone (?CRFZ?). BC Diamond Drilling (?BCDD?) have been contracted for a minimum of 6,000 metres of diamond drilling using a drill rig with a depth capacity of greater than 1,000 metres, and C3 Metals has purchased a man- portable rig to drill an initial 2,500 metres testing near surface porphyry and epithermal prospects to a nominal vertical depth of approximately 400 metres.

Program Highlights CRFZ is an emerging, new porphyry and epithermal district that extends for over 30km with 16 porphyry and 40 epithermal prospects identified to date from Bellas Gate to Main Ridge. The Bellas Gate project is transected by two district-scale structural features, referred to as the Camel and Connors Belts. Previous drilling by C3 Metals and others has confirmed near surface copper-gold mineralization at multiple porphyry centres along these belts, including: Connors 309.0m at 0.44% Cu, 0.33g/t Au (from 15m) in hole CON9325-001.

Camel Hill 178.5m at 0.37% Cu, 0.16g/t Au (from 10m) in hole CMH8400-001. Provost 292.0m at 0.30% Cu, 0.14g/t Au (from 29m) in hole PVT-16-0021. Geo Hill 158.2m at 0.32% Cu, 0.15g/t Au (from 3m) in hole GE092-011.

Historical drilling is shallow, with an average hole depth of less than 225 metres for porphyry prospects and less than 200 metres for epithermal prospects. The BCDD rig enables C3 Metals to evaluate the depth and grade potential of multiple porphyries where over 40% of previous drilling terminated in strong copper-gold mineralization. 2023 Drilling Program: Historical drilling at Bellas Gate is generally shallow, with an average hole depth of less than 225m for porphyry prospects and less 200m for epithermal vein prospects.

Over the past six months the Company's exploration team undertook detailed mapping across the entire Bellas Gate project. Mapping and structural data was compiled and incorporated into a 3D geology block model, which shows two district-scale structural features referred to as the Connors and Camel belts. Clusters of high-level, copper-gold porphyries occur along each belt, with widespread intermediate-sulfidation epithermal vein style copper, gold and silver mineralization distal to the porphyries.

All known porphyries at Bellas Gate are gold-rich, with chalcopyrite-pyrite mineralization dominantly hosted in volcanic andesite rocks and less commonly in diorite porphyry dykes and stocks. Previous drilling confirms copper-gold mineralization is open at depth and along strike. The current drill program will target higher-grade, bornite-rich mineralization that is typically associated with the core of these systems. An initial 6,000-metres of deeper drilling (6-8 holes X 700m-1100m in depth) and 2,500-metres of shallow drilling (10 holes X 100m-500m in depth) is planned at Bellas Gate.

The objective of planned drilling is two-fold: Demonstrate continuity of copper-gold mineralization below 400 meters vertical depth at multiple porphyry prospects and test for increased copper-gold grades in the bornite-rich potassic altered cores typical of porphyry systems. Evaluate and expand the strike extent of the known near-surface porphyry mineralization and test new priority porphyry and epithermal-vein prospects.