Thor Mining reports anomalous gold and copper values

Project highlights:

• Drilling has returned anomalous gold and copper values associated with felsic and dacitic porphyry intrusions into the Euro Basalt at the Kelly’s Prospect, Ragged Range.
• Best intercepts to date:
  • 8 m @ 1.31% Cu and 0.1g/t Au from 4 m (22RRRC056), including 3 m @ 2.9% Cu and 0.17g/t Au.
  • 1 m @ 0.91 g/t Au from 40 m (22RRRC049).
  • 4 m @ 0.1g/t Au, 0.3% Cu, 0.9% Pb, 0.2% Zn from 133 m (22RRRC058).
• QAQC Error: On 12 December 2022, the Bureau Veritas Kalgoorlie laboratory reported to Thor that the 12.2g/t Au sample from drillhole 22RRC052, as previously announced to the market, was an erroneous result based on the laboratory making a sample swap with an internal standard. The assay has subsequently reported <0.01g/t Au.

Nicole Galloway Warland, Managing Director of Thor Mining, commented:

“Disappointingly, due to a testing error at the Bureau Veritas laboratory, the high-grade gold result announced in November was erroneous. Thor is undertaking an investigation into the laboratory error to ensure that the highest standard of procedure and reporting is provided going forward.

“These latest drill results are encouraging; however, further work is required to fully explain why the high-grade gold and copper in surface rock chips is not repeated in very shallow drill intersections.”

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