Kirkland Lake Discoveries Corp. announced that the Summer 2023 drill campaign at the Kirkland Lake Project has commenced. The 10,000-m drill program is planned over three phases and has been initiated at the Goodfish-Kirana Property to follow up on the Fall 2021 program that intersected visible gold and returned an assay of 72.10 g/t Au over 0.5 m. The 10,000- m drill program will be divided into three phases: Phase 1, approximately 3,000 m on the Goodfish-KirANA Property; Phase 2, approximately 4,000 m on the Lucky Strike Property; Phase 3, approximately 3,000 m to follow up on phase 1 and 2 drilling.

The focus of this first phase of drilling will be to follow up on previous successes at the Jo Zone and to test new targets defined by key structural intersections that have recently been identified from geophysical surveys, corresponding structural interpretation, and geological analysis. In addition to a downdip step out of the Jo Zone, new targets to be tested include: The Sutton Break, a large (500+ m strike length) area that remains untested along the Kirana Break structure, which is now recognized to coincide with the intersection of prominent NW-trending structures and a strong chargeability high at depth. Early 2023 fieldwork identified a strongly silicified and pyritized mafic volcanic unit, the samples of which returned elevated gold assays.

The Kirana Break Extension is targeting a large zone of de-magnetization that correlates to a strong Induced Polarization (IP) response. New structural interpretation suggests a major NW-trending structure, associated with the Jo Zone, that extends to the SE and intersects the regional Kirana Break structure. The Eastern IP target is an untested strong IP response at depth within a folded volcanic sequence.

The Chorzepa target drill holes are planned to undercut historical trenches that returned up to 14.75 g/t Au. A previous IP geophysical survey indicates the presence of a broad chargeability anomaly at depth hosted within an intermediate volcanic unit. As Phase 1 diamond drilling gets underway, additional structural interpretation has begun on the recently completed M-Pass high-resolution airborne magnetic survey data from the Lucky Strike Property.

A field crew is currently mapping and prospecting on the Lucky Strike Property to better define targets for the Phase 2 diamond drill program.