Labrador Gold Exercises Option to Acquire 100% of the Hopedale Property

District Scale Project with Significant Gold, Copper and Nickel Potential

TORONTO, Nov. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Labrador Gold Corp. (TSX.V:LAB | OTCQX:NKOSF | FNR: 2N6) (“LabGold” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has fulfilled the requirements of the Hopedale option agreement dated December 7, 2020 and has exercised its option to acquire 100% of the four licenses covering 695 claims comprising the Hopedale property. The Hopedale Project remains subject to a 2% net smelter return royalty.

The district scale Hopedale property covers a 43km strike length of the Florence Lake greenstone belt. The belt is typical of greenstone belts around the world but has been underexplored by comparison. Work to date by LabGold has resulted in the discovery of three gold occurrences, which together with the previously known Thurber Dog occurrence, stretch over a 3-kilometre section of the northern portion of the greenstone belt. The four gold occurrences show significant gold assays including:
Thurber North up to 3.8 g/t Au; TD500 up to 21.59 g/t Au; Thurber Dog up to 11.4 g/t Au; Thurber South up to 4.1 g/t Au. Additional gold anomalies in rock and soil indicate potential for further discovery of gold occurrences along this trend.

Channel sampling of the TD500 showing during 2022 resulted in 48 samples assaying greater than 100ppb (0.1g/t) Au that included 19 samples greater than 1 g/t Au. Highlights of the channel samples include 2.91 g/t Au over 5.17m including 14.02 g/t over 0.61m, 2.35 g/t Au over 6.88m and 4.23 g/t over 5.04m (see news release dated January 19, 2023).

There is also significant potential for the critical metals copper and nickel associated with mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks along the belt. LabGold identified the Kaapak copper occurrence in 2021 with grab samples grading between 131 ppm to 10.2% Cu. The showing was channel sampled in 2022 with assay highlights of 3.31% Cu over 0.76m, 2.4% Cu over 0.6m and 1.55% Cu over 1m (see news release dated January 19, 2023).

Nickel mineralization previously identified by LabGold occurs over a 1.2km strike length of altered ultramafic rocks in the southern portion of the greenstone belt with rock samples assaying up to 3,375ppm (0.34%) nickel, 4,198ppm (0.42%) copper and 134ppm cobalt. Soil samples over the same area, called Rusty Ridge, show values up to 1,529ppm nickel and 152ppm cobalt.