New Pacific Metals Corp. announced the commencement of drilling at Jisas prospect, a satellite concession located in the north block, approximately 3 kilometres north of the Silver Sand Project. The Company owns 100% interest in the Jisas prospect.

As the infill and step-out drilling at the Silver Sand Project for mineral resource update to be incorporated into the Preliminary Economic Assessment (the "PEA") due by the end of 2022 has been concluded in mid-May, 2022, the Company has now deployed one rig to carry out an initial 2,000 metre ("m") exploration drilling program at the Jisas prospect. The Jisas prospect has undergone small scale underground mining prior to acquisition by the Company. Silver mineralization in bleached sandstones is similar to that at Silver Sand.

Chip samples from surface outcrops and underground workings as well as grab samples from mining dumps taken by the Company returned silver grades ranging from tens of grams up to nine hundreds of grams per tonne.