Targa Exploration Corp. announced the start of its 2023 exploration programs on the Company's Quebec projects. A field crew has mobilized at its Musquaro lithium exploration project in southeast Quebec ("Musquaro") to conduct a phase one mapping, sampling and traversing program across the project.

Targa has contracted GroundTruth Exploration ("GroundTruth") to help plan and execute the phase one exploration program at Musquaro. GroundTruth is providing a team of 15 geologists and prospectors, equipped with the latest in field exploration equipment, to conduct the phase one work, which is expected to take approximately seven days to complete. Phase 1 Field Program.

Mobilizing out of the town of Natashquan, the GroundTruth team will access Musquaro via helicopter. Crews are conducting traverses across the three claim blocks that make up the Musquaro project to provide a more detailed geological map of the area and potentially identify new pegmatite occurrences. Geology teams will also be investigating the 96 known pegmatite occurrences at Musquaro, of which none have been previously sampled for their Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum ("LCT") potential.

The GroundTruth team is equipped with a drone for detailed aerial imagery and a laser induced breakdown spectrometry ("LIBS") portable analyzer for collecting onsite real-time data, capable of identifying the presence of lighter elements such as lithium. The LIBS will be used on samples from the known and any new pegmatites discovered during the program to help the geology team identify the presence of minerals common to LCT rare-metal pegmatites. Samples taken during the field program will be sent to SGS Laboratories for full element analysis.