iMetal Resources Inc. announced it has completed a field review of the 2021 excavator trenching program to correlate the assay results with the exposed geology, ground and airborne geophysics and 2019 drilling at its Gowganda West Gold Property, in the Shining Tree District of northern Ontario. The technical team is now firming up the geological model in advance of a First Quarter 2022 drill program. The trenching /stripping program concentrated at Zone 1,300 metres to the south of the boundary with Aris Gold's Juby Deposit. Trenching extended the mineralization and alteration over a distance of 300 metres, open in both directions, exposing semi- continuous quartz veining within north-south shearing enveloped by 15 to 20 metres of fuchsite (green alteration) and sericite that locally grades into distal epidote. Mineralization consists predominantly of pyrite (1-2%) with traces of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite within veins that range from several centimeters to about 70cm. Channel sampling in 2018 returned values of 5.1 g/t gold over 0.80m and 8.7 g/t gold over 0.30m. Trenching highlights in 2021 included: 3.29 g/t gold over 1.8m, 10.85 g/t gold over 0.35m and 2.93 g/t gold over 2m. The higher grades appear to be associated with the quartz veins and fuchsite. Equally import, the vein envelopes typically show quartz carbonate veining and sericite alteration that often returns significant (0.2 to 2 g/t) gold values. Initial drilling in 2019 returned drill intersections including: 2.95 g/t gold over 2.5 metres, 1.43 g/t gold over 4.6 metres and longer intervals of 0.37 g/t gold over 29.4 metres and 0.32 g/t gold over 30.25 metres. The shear zone hosting Zone 1 is a large secondary north-south structure that appears to be traced 6 kilometres to Zone 3, related to the Rideout-Tyrell Fault which strikes at roughly 110 degrees. At the Juby Deposit 800m to the north of `Zone 1 North' the Rideout-Tyrell Fault forms a prominent boundary to the Archean-aged volcanic and Indian Lake Group classic sediments part of the Porcupine Assemblage. The Rideout-Tyrell Fault that forms the southern boundary to the Juby deposit trends eastward through the northern portion of the Gowganda West property and has seen minimal exploration as efforts by iMetals has been focused on the clear-cut, easily accessible areas in the Zone 1 - Zone 3 corridor. At Gowganda, the host rock Indian Lake conglomerates contain peculiar, bright red to maroon jasper grit, granules, pebbles and boulders that share similarities with the slightly younger Timiskamining Assemblage found in the Kirkland Lake and Timmins gold camps. These jasper hosting conglomerates have been mapped on surface and encountered in the limited drilling at Gowganda West. Next Step: Drill permits and First Nations agreements are currently in place to allow first quarter, 2022 drilling at Zone 1. The focus of the drilling will be locating gold mineralization at depth at the Zone 1 South and along the 300m section between Zone 1 South and Zone 1 North, where surface sampling and trenching has returned positive results. Surface exploration in 2022 will focus in two areas: the Zone 1 - Zone 3 shear corridor and the strike extension of the Rideout-Tyrell Fault onto the Gowganda West property.