Westhaven Drills 24.95 Metres of 14.66 g/t Gold and 35.52 g/t Silver, Including 0.66 Metres of 280 g/t Gold And 222 g/t Silver at Shovelnose - Seite 3

Gareth Thomas, Westhaven's President & CEO, stated, “The South Zone benefits from wide widths of steeply dipping high-grade mineralization (+ 5 g/t gold), with continuity over hundreds of metres of strike length. These attributes are potentially positive from an underground mining perspective. Management’s original plan was to complete a revised mineral resource estimate, however, based on currently available information, we have decided to move directly to a PEA level study based on an underground mining scenario. The PEA will not include any existing discoveries made outside of the South Zone resource estimate area, as management’s view is that a South Zone PEA will demonstrate significant value for the property on a stand-alone basis.”

Skoonka North Work Program

Westhaven’s 2023 spring field program at Skoonka North has been completed with the collection of 210 soils, 136 stream silts and 103 rocks. Soil and silt sampling targeted previously unsampled areas, and specific areas of interest identified from past programs. Rock samples were collected during the geochemical work but do not represent a focused prospecting program, although both veining (quartz and calcite) and alteration were encountered and sampled. Results received for an early submission of 63 soil samples have returned elevated gold responses (up to 54ppb) in a previously unsampled area. Historic exploration efforts within the current claim boundaries suggest that soil sample values over about 20ppb warrant follow-up. No other analytical results are currently available, and some samples have not yet been submitted to the analytical facility.

The Skoonka North gold property consists of 3 contiguous mineral claims comprising 6,167 hectares. The Property is situated northwest of the community of Spences Bridge in south-central British Columbia, within the Kamloops Mining Division. The Skoonka North claims have some of the highest gold silt samples on the Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB), including 594 parts per billion (ppb) Au, 383.7 ppb Au, and 131.3 ppb Au. The claims have seen limited exploration work and have yet to be drill tested.
  
On behalf of the Board of Directors
WESTHAVEN GOLD CORP.

"Gareth Thomas”

Gareth Thomas, President, CEO & Director

QA/QC

Core samples were prepared using the PREP-31 package in ALS’s Kamloops facility. Each core sample is crushed to better than 70 % passing a 2 mm (Tyler 9 mesh, US Std. No.10) screen. A split of 250 g is taken and pulverized to better than 85 % passing a 75-micron (Tyler 200 mesh, US Std. No. 200) screen. 0.75g of this pulverized split is digested by Four Acid and analyzed via ICP-MS (method code ME-MS61m (+Hg)), which reports a 49-element suite of elements. All samples are analyzed by Fire Assay with an AES finish, method code Au-ICP21 (30g sample size). Additional Au screening is performed using ALS’s Au-SCR24 method, select samples are dry screened to 100 microns. A duplicate 50g fire assay is conducted on the undersized fraction as well as an assay on the entire oversize fraction. Total Au content, individual assays and weight fractions are reported. All analytical and assay procedures are conducted in ALS’s North Vancouver facility. A QA/QC program included laboratory and field standards inserted every 25 samples. At least one field blank is inserted in every batch of 25 samples, with additional blanks inserted following samples with visible gold. Westhaven’s ongoing Quality Assurance and Quality Control programs include auditing of all exploration data. Any significant changes will be reported when available.