New Found Gold Corp. announced the results from 61 diamond drill holes that were completed as part of a program designed to infill gaps, extend high-grade to surface, and test opposing vein orientations to the main east-northeast striking orientation of the Keats-Baseline Fault Zone at Iceberg-Iceberg East, a high-grade zone located 300m northeast of Keats along the highly prospective Appleton Fault Zone (?AFZ?). New Found?s 100%-owned Queensway project comprises a 1,662 km2 area, accessible via the Trans-Canada Highway, 15km west of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.

36.2 g/t Au over 16.70m in NFGC-23-1820 and 33.7 g/t Au over 14.70m in NFGC-23-1827 are located approximately 45m apart within the high-grade domain of Iceberg where a confluence of high-grade gold veins and associated structures intersect. These holes were drilled from the west to the east to better test this secondary set of gold veins that are partly controlling the high-grade mineralization in this segment of the Keats-Baseline Fault Zone (?KBFZ?) and to gain a better understanding of their orientations and true widths. 40.5 g/t Au over 5.85m in NFGC-23-1838 and 13.9 g/t Au over 12.80m in NFGC-23-1914 are located at a vertical depth of just 20m and were designed to extend high-grade gold mineralization to surface at Iceberg.

These holes are located 50m to the south and 150m to the north of NFGC-23-1820, respectively. Other notable intercepts from today?s release include 12.6 g/t Au over 16.70m in NFGC-23-1323 and 42.8 g/t Au over 7.35m in NFGC-23-1746, located 25m and 80m along strike to the north of NFGC-23-1820. The intercept of 24.9 g/t Au over 2.25m in NFGC-23-1613 is located a further 530m to the east at the far eastern extent of Iceberg East.

The near-surface Iceberg-Iceberg East high-grade segment of the KBFZ has a strike length of 655m. When combined with the 400m high-grade segment of Keats Main, this near-surface, high-grade corridor covers over 1km of strike. This domain of high-grade occurs within the overall KBFZ, a gold mineralized damage zone that is drill-defined over 1.9km of strike, where it remains open.

The Company is currently undertaking a 650,000m drill program at Queensway and approximately 4,500m of core is currently pending assay results. All drilling recovers HQ core. Drill core is split in half using a diamond saw or a hydraulic splitter for rare intersections with incompetent core.

A geologist examines the drill core and marks out the intervals to be sampled and the cutting line. Sample lengths are mostly 1.0 meter and adjusted to respect lithological and/or mineralogical contacts and isolate narrow (<1.0m) veins or other structures that may yield higher grades. Technicians saw the core along the defined cutting line.

One-half of the core is kept as a witness sample and the other half is submitted for analysis. Individual sample bags are sealed and placed into totes, which are then sealed and marked with the contents. New Found has submitted samples for gold determination by fire assay to ALS Canada Ltd. (?ALS?) and by photon assay to MSALABS (?MSA?) since June 2022.

ALS and MSA operate under a commercial contract with New Found. Drill core samples are shipped to ALS for sample preparation in Sudbury, Ontario, Thunder Bay, Ontario, or Moncton, New Brunswick. ALS is an ISO-17025 accredited laboratory for the fire assay method.

Drill core samples are also submitted to MSA in Val-d?Or, Quebec. MSA operates numerous laboratories worldwide and maintains ISO-17025 accreditation for many metal determination methods. MSA is an ISO-17025 accredited laboratory for the photon assay method.

At ALS, the entire sample is crushed to approximately 70% passing 2mm. A 3,000-g split is pulverized. ?Routine?

samples do not have visible gold (VG) identified and are not within a mineralized zone. Routine samples are assayed for gold by 30-g fire assay with an inductively-couple plasma spectrometry (ICP) finish. If the initial 30-g fire assay gold result is over 1 g/t, the remainder of the 3,000-g split is screened at 106 microns for screened metallics assay.

For the screened metallics assay, the entire coarse fraction (sized greater than 106 microns) is fire assayed and two splits of the fine fraction (sized less than 106 microns) are fire assayed. The three assays are combined on a weight-averaged basis. Samples that have VG identified or fall within a mineralized interval are automatically submitted for screened metallic assay for gold.

At MSA, the entire sample is crushed to approximately 70% passing 2mm. For ?routine? samples that do not have VG identified and are not within a mineralized zone, the samples are riffle split to fill one 450g jar for photon assay.

If the jar assays greater than 1 g/t, the remaining crushed material is weighed into multiple jars and are submitted for photon assay. For samples that have VG identified or are within a mineralized zone, the entire crushed sample is weighed into multiple jars and are submitted for photon assay. The assays from all jars are combined on a weight-averaged basis.

All samples prepared at ALS or MSA are also analyzed for a multi-element ICP package (ALS method code ME-ICP61) at ALS Vancouver. Drill program design, Quality Assurance/Quality Control and interpretation of results are performed by qualified persons employing a rigorous Quality Assurance/Quality Control program consistent with industry best practices. Standards and blanks account for a minimum of 10% of the samples in addition to the laboratory?s internal quality assurance programs. Quality Control data are evaluated on receipt from the laboratories for failures.

Appropriate action is taken if assay results for standards and blanks fall outside allowed tolerances.