Independence Gold Corp. announced assay results from the Johnny Vein System discovered during the recent 4,000 metre ("m") drill program, at its 100% owned 3Ts Project, located approximately 185 kilometres ("km") southwest of Prince George, British Columbia and situated 16 km southwest of Artemis Gold Inc.'s Blackwater Project. The Johnny Vein System is located approximately 575m west of the Tommy Vein System and 335m west of the newly discovered Ian Vein System. This is the second new vein system to be discovered during the 2023 drilling campaign and represents a significant step out to the west from the Tommy Vein System. Anomalous quartz vein samples collected in 1996 yielded grades up to 10.2 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold and 28.2 g/t silver but no further exploration has been undertaken in this area since then. During the 2023 drill campaign, two drill holes were designed to explore the extent of the Johnny Vein based on these historical results. Hole 3TS-23-31 was drilled 45m west of the vein
sample and intersected the new Johnny Vein cutting 16.08m grading 2.54 g/t gold and 17.54 g/t silver. The second hole, 3TS-23-30, was drilled 25m to the southeast and intersected highly altered country rock at 89.0m depth before terminating at 98.0m. The Johnny Vein is the widest vein discovered to date in comparison to other known veins within the 3Ts Project and remains open at depth and along strike. Multiple gold and silver quartz-bearing veins within an area greater than 1.1 km east-west and 1.1 km north-south have been discovered. Winter Drill Program: All drill holes completed in the 4,000 m winter drill program have been sent to SGS lab in Vancouver for sample preparation and analysis. Robotic sample preparation is used to ensure reproducibility; samples are pulverized to greater than 85% passing 75 microns. All samples are submitted for four acid digest with an
ICP finish. Gold grades are obtained by fire assay with AAS finish. Samples which return greater than 10 parts per million gold and 100 parts per million silver are resubmitted for fire assay with a gravimetric finish. The 3Ts Project is comprised of fifteen mineral claims covering approximately 5,200 hectares in the Nechako Plateau region of central British Columbia. The 3Ts Project covers a low-sulphidation epithermal quartz- carbonate vein system within which more than a dozen individual mineralized veins, ranging from 50 m to more than 1,075 m and true widths up to 25 m, have been identified.