Westward Gold Inc. announced that the Company's inaugural drill campaign at its flagship Toiyabe Project in Lander County, Nevada was successfully completed on July 19th. Demobilization and site clean-up activities have also now been completed, and the Company is currently conducting its initial post-campaign analyses prior to receiving assay results. Those results from ALS Ltd. Are expected to be received in batches, beginning before the end of August and through into September.

Drill Campaign – Overview; In total, the Company completed ~3,850 meters of reverse-circulation drilling across 13 holes and 4 target zones, all of which were outside of the footprint of the historical resource estimate at Toiyabe (~173 koz at 1.2 g Au/t)(1). Drillhole depths ranged from a minimum of 244 meters to a maximum of 349 meters, with an average depth of 296 meters; for comparison, only 16% of all holes identified from previous operators' campaigns(2) reached a depth of +180 meters. Drill Campaign - Primary Goals & New Theses Tested; The main goals of the Company's first drill campaign at Toiyabe were threefold: Prove out the lateral extent of mineralization at Toiyabe outside of the Historical Estimate footprint, as step towards potential future resource expansion; Test a major deformation zone /blind thrust fault (the "SSD Zone"), identified through relogging of previous drillholes, 3D modeling, and hyperspectral core imaging.

Drilling was also designed to test the Company's thesis that the SSD Zone dips to the northeast from its surface expression at the past-producing Toiyabe-Saddle open pits (contrary to legacy modeling). Test a newly-discovered and previously-undrilled target, the Toiyabe Hills Fault (the "TH Fault"); this important structural feature /fluid pathway may have played a key role in mineral deposition in the area (including at the Toiyabe-Saddle Mine immediately south along the fault trace). SSD Zone: The deformation zone was encountered at a depth which suggests the Company's thesis was correct; preliminary modeling shows that the interpreted dip angle (to the northeast) lines up with the few legacy holes drilled deep enough to reach the SSD Zone underneath the Historical Estimate (those intersections were +25 meters wide with grades of +1 g Au/t(2)).

This target area also included the deepest hole in Westward's campaign (T2211 - 349 meters;, with the technical team making the decision to go deeper than anticipated with holes T2211 and T2210 based on favourable real-time observations; large sections of oxidation, decalcification and intrusive rocks were encountered throughout the length of the holes. TH Fault: Drilling confirmed the presence of this previously-unknown structural feature, as well as several other structures encountered across the holes in the target zone. Broad zones of decalcification (+15 meters) and intrusive rocks were observed throughout the drilling; surface mapping and drill cuttings confirmed that the TH Fault was a fluid conduit based on the alteration and intrusive rocks.