Variscan Mines Limited announced that the Government of Cantabria's Department of Mines has granted approval for the Company's planned surface drilling program over the Buenahora license area within the Novales-Udias Project in northern Spain. The award of this drilling permit from the Government of Cantabria is a key milestone in the ongoing exploration of Variscan's flagship zinc project in northern Spain. The Company is now closely engaged with the local authorities to secure the required municipal approvals. It is expected that the local municipal approvals will be granted on or around the end of November. Surface drilling to test regional targets is anticipated to commence over the coming two months. It will run concurrently with the current underground drilling now underway at the San Jose Mine. The Udias area in the southwest of the Buenahora license area has multiple, highly prospective, yet untested, drill targets including Magdalena, Sinforosa, Motilos and Pepita. These are situated on strong geochemical anomalies and along trend to former mine small-scale workings or high-grade historical drilling intersections. Variscan has currently defined 21 exploration target zones across the Udias area via examination of historical data and fieldwork conducted by the Company. Soil sampling of these drill targets conducted in Third Quarter 2020, returned a peak soil result of 16.33% Zn with 30% of soil samples +1% Zn and 18% of soil samples +2% Zn.