Westmount Minerals Corp. announced the start of the 2022 exploration field season on the Douay East Gold Project (the “Project”). A field crew consisting of geological and exploration technicians has been mobilized to the Project and has begun the collection of soil samples.

Westmount has planned a Soil Gas Hydrocarbon (“SGH”) program over the Project which includes the collection and analysis of approximately 1,100 soil samples covering 3 separate targets on the property. The targets are structures and structural complexities inferred from the interpretation of a high resolution airborne magnetic survey completed in 2021 and which are assumed to be gold bearing based on historical drilling on the property as well as regional geological compilation. Up to four hundred samples will be collected in each of the target areas along 100-meter spaced grid lines.

The target area grids range in size from approximately 1 to 2 square kilometers. SGH is a deep penetrating geochemical exploration technique that has been researched, developed, and applied over the last 26 years in the exploration for sub-cropping mineral deposits ideally buried below one meter or greater depths of overburden. It is appropriately applied in the exploration of glacial till covered properties common in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Quebec and Ontario.