Kintavar Exploration Inc. announced the recent completion of the summer drilling program on the MLI corridor and additional results from its surface exploration program on the Wabash project. MLI Corridor: A 1,502m, 12 holes drill program has been successfully completed on the 1.5km long MLI corridor. The objective of the program was to target the high grade mineralized horizon that was observed in hole WAB-21-21 (1.01% Cu & 19.3 g/t Ag over 16.8m, see March 24, 2022 press release for details) and to better understand the stratigraphic sequence along this corridor.

The majority of the drillholes successfully intersected the same stratigraphic sequence that includes several marble horizons, up to 20m in thickness, and diopside gneiss (both mineralized and non mineralized) surrounded by barren and massive gneiss units. This fertile sequence can reach thicknesses of up to 70m as observed in some drillholes . Low-grade copper and polymetallic horizons are observed more to the east of the MLI corridor and followed by high grade copper and polymetallic horizons to the west, similar to the sequence observed in hole WAB-21-21.

Boudinage and folding of the mineralized marble horizons and diopside gneiss is observed within the corridor. The disseminated mineralization is present in the form of bornite, chalcocite and chalcopyrite with galena and sphalerite present in the polymetallic units. The drilling program followed up on the success of the early summer trenching program.

Lara West and Lara South trenches exposed the high-grade units on surface with a channel intersection of 12.7m with 0.71% Cu, 30.1 g/t Ag, 0.23% Pb and 0.16% Zn on Lara West. This included an interval of 1.12% Cu, 42.0 g/t Ag and 0.19% Pb over 6.65m. Other high grade grab samples from both trenches included up to 2.9% Cu, 170 g/t Ag, 1.78% Pb, 0.33% Zn and 0.11 g/t Au.

A small regional exploration program on the Wabash project continued throughout the summer. The team mostly focused on the large soil anomaly to the South-East of the MLI corridor and it successfully identified both mineralized outcrops and boulders. Some of the best results gave up to 4.79% Cu, 13.4 g/t Ag, 0.29 g/t Au and 0.12 g/t Co (Tr-GC007) while some assays are still pending.

Other regional targeting programs are continuing throughout the summer and fall to try to identify other corridors similar to MLI. Grab samples are selected samples and not necessarily representative of the mineralization hosted on the property. All samples have been sent and prepared (PREP-31) by ALS Global laboratory in Val-d'Or.

Gold is analysed in Val d'Or using fire assay method (AU-AA25) with gravimetric finish (Au-GRA21) for samples higher than 0.5 ppm Au. For base metals and silver, the pulp was sent to ALS Global laboratory in Vancouver for multi-elemental analysis by four acid digestion (ME-ICP61) with ICP-AES finish. Samples with assays higher than 10,000 ppm Cu, Zn or Pb, or 100 ppm Ag were reanalyzed with over limits methods (CU-OG62, ZN-OG62, PB-OG62, or AG-OG62) at the ALS Global Vancouver laboratory.

Quality controls include systematic addition of blank samples and certified copper standards to each batch of samples sent to the laboratory.