Pretium Resources Inc. announced a new high-grade gold exploration discovery at the Golden Marmot Zone on its Brucejack Property in Northern British Columbia. The Golden Marmot Zone is located 3.5 kilometers north of the Valley of the Kings deposit. To date, assays have been received for the first nine drill holes of which eight drill holes intersected gold. A highlight was drill hole SU-786, which intersected four bands of high-grade gold mineralization over 53.5 meters. Selected highlights include: SU-786 intersected 72.5 grams per tonne gold over 53.5 meters, including 6,700 grams per tonne gold and 3,990 grams per tonne silver over 0.5 meters and including 787 grams per tonne gold over 0.5 meters. SU-778 intersected 46.1 grams per tonne gold over 5.8 meters, including 208 grams per tonne gold over 1.0 meter. SU-772 intersected 22.8 grams per tonne gold over 38.0 meters, including 268 grams per tonne gold over 1.0 meter and including 188.4 grams per tonne gold over 2.13 meters. The Golden Marmot Zone is accessible via an exploration trail from the Brucejack camp and is marked by a prominent gossan on the hill side. Mineralization occurs as coarse-grained electrum hosted within silicified and quartz-sericite-pyrite altered conglomerates and sandstones, which is the same as the Valley of the Kings deposit. The 2021 Golden Marmot drill target was defined by prospecting during the 2019 and 2020 field programs, with grab samples assaying up to 8.73 grams per tonne gold. To compliment this field work and aid in target selection, a prospectivity mapping and target ranking initiative was initiated with GoldSpot Discoveries Corp. earlier this year. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms were applied to synthesize the geochemical, geophysical and hyperspectral data available from the Brucejack Property. This program identified 65 targets on the Brucejack Property, with Golden Marmot ranking as a high priority drill target for quartz vein hosted gold mineralization.