Nicola Mining Inc. to provide a 2021 exploration outline at its wholly-owned New Craigmont Copper Project, located near Merritt, BC, and 33 km south of the Highland Valley Copper porphyry district. In 2020, the Company filed for a multi-year area-based ("MYAB") exploration permit that would allow it to move forward on a five-year exploration plan. Additional to the MYAB application, the Company continues to actively integrate historic data into its geological models. The ongoing desktop work is expected to improve the quality and accuracy of the "target development" and "target confirmation" stages of its exploration pipeline approach. The 2021 program ("2021 Program") includes up to 21 drill holes (8520 metres1), five new trenches and the reactivation of 6 historic trenches. Diamond drilling will focus on testing the contact aureole between the Guichon Creek Batholith and the Nicola Group along an extensive alteration corridor in areas displaying an anomalous magnetic response, interpreted to be semi-massive magnetite-chalcopyrite mineralization. The 2021 season will comprise of two phases of drilling, with the second phase contingent on the results of phase one. A trenching program is aimed at developing three target areas where copper occurrences have been observed but not drill tested. Favorable results these trenches may be followed up by a small drill program to test the depth extent of mineralization encountered at surface. The first phase of drilling is designed to test four target areas (Figure 1), with the best results being followed up in phase two. Target "A": A magnetic anomaly along strike to the east of the Craigmont Open Pit. Semi-massive magnetite-chalcopyrite skarn outcrops east of the Open Pit; The target is located at a depth of 200m, adjacent to historic underground mine workings; Two 200 m long diamond drill holes will test this magnetic bulb near a diorite plug. Target "B": Magnetic Vector Inversion modelling of airborne magnetic data suggests a magnetic body with approximate dimensions of 700 m west, 50 m north, and is located 300 m below surface; Holes THU-002 (85.92m @ 1.11% Cu) and NC-2018-03 (100.6m @ 1.33% Cu) drilled by Nicola intersected a magnetic anomaly that warrants additional testing; These show strong correlation with the magnetic vector inversions2, the magnetic susceptibility, and the occurrence of magnetite-chalcopyrite-actinolite-epidote skarn; This area is interpreted to be the right-lateral (i.e., northward) displacement of the Craigmont Skarn (toward the Embayment zone); Three 500m diamond drill holes aim to test this magnetic zone eastward, toward the Craigmont Open Pit. Target "C": A 700 m long diamond drill hole will test magnetic anomaly interpreted as a pipe-like body connected to a deeper magnetic body hosted in Nicola Group near the Guichon Lake Batholith contact. Target "D": A series of short 100m diamond drill holes are will test beneath the "CAS" showing, a magnetite-chalcopyrite breccia hosted by diorite identified during the 2017 geological mapping campaign; This target lies on the southeast trending corridor of high magnetic intensity with the "MARB" showing on the northwestern margin.