Desert Gold Ventures Inc. announced results from 13 RC holes and 78 AC holes drilled to test the depth, strike extent and continuity of the Gourbassi West North Zone at the Company's SMSZ Project in Western Mali. All RC holes intersected significant amounts of gold mineralization with a highlight intercept of 1.91 g/t gold over 32 metres. The Gourbassi West Zone has been traced for 1,600 metres along strike and to 175 metres depth.

Up to five lenses of gold mineralization have been modelled with the GWN-A Lens the most continuous and best developed. Highlight drill results from this part of the program include the following: RC-049 - 1.91 g/t gold over 32.0 metres- A Lens; AC-172 - 1.02 g/t gold over 49 metres - A Lens; RC-050 - 1.02 g/t gold over 44 metres - A Lens; RC-052 - 0.79 g/t gold over 47 metres - A Lens; RC-048 - 0.68 g/t gold over 51 metres- A Lens; RC-049 - 0.60 g/t gold over 48 metres - C Lens; AC-171 - 0.97 g/t gold over 29 metres - Lens B; AC-138 - 0.69 g/t gold over 33 metres (hole ended in mineralization) - Lens A; RC-042 - 0.95 g/t gold over 22 metres - A Lens; RC-050 - 0.93 g/t gold over 22 metres - Lens C; AC-136 - 0.56 g/t gold over 35 metres (hole ended in mineralization) - A Lens; RC-053 - 0.54 g/t gold over 34 metres - A Lens; AC-170 - 0.82 g/t gold over 21 metres - B Lens; RC-043 - 0.74 g/t gold over 20 metres - A Lens; RC-054 - 0.56 g/t gold over 25 metres-- A Lens; AC-070 - 0.50 g/t gold over 26 metres (hole ended in mineralization) - A Lens; RC-053 - 0.41 g/t gold over 29 metres - B Lens and AC-069 - 0.59 g/t golf over 19 metres - A Lens. The Gourbassi West North (GWN) Zone, which was discovered in July 2021, lies near the west side of the SMSZ property package.

Drilling has identified up to five lenses of gold mineralization with one lens GWN-A, having the best continuity along a 1,600 metre strike. Lenses D and E are not well defined and more drilling is required to determine their extent. In 2022, a total of 94 holes totaling 4,372.5 metres of drilling have been completed over the GWN Zone including 3 core holes totaling 605.5 metres, 14 RC holes totaling 1,854 metres and 78 AC holes totaling 2,066 metres.

These holes were designed to test the extent of the GWN Zone for 1,800 metres along strike to a depth of 175 metres. The widest gold zones occur proximal to the west side of a rotated portion of a fault zone and silicified hydrothermal breccia. Mineralization generally dips steeply to the west, but hole FR-DD-22-009 suggests that locally the mineralization may also dip to the east.

Individual assays range up to 8.68 g/t Au over 0.4 metres in the strongest part of the GWN-A lens. A long section of the GWN-A Lens displays an approximate 350-metre-long, higher grade and width portion of the lens with extensions to the north and south. Results to date show that AC holes have closed off the zone to the north, but the zone is still open to the south towards the Gourbassi West Deposit.

Overall, the system, especially the GWN-A Lens, is still open to depth below the deepest intercept at 175 metres vertical from surface.