Thirty-One Diamond Drill Holes Completed At Iceberg

VANCOUVER - New Found Gold Corp. reported on 31 diamond drill holes that were completed as part of a follow-up drill program at the new Iceberg and Iceberg East discoveries, a high-grade zone located 300m northeast of Keats Main along the highly prospective Appleton Fault Zone (AFZ). New Found’s 1Queensway project comprises a 1,662 km2 area, accessible via the Trans-Canada Highway, 15km west of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Note that the host structures are interpreted to be steeply dipping and true widths are generally estimated to be 170% to 95%, 240% to 70%, and 310% to 40% of reported intervals. Infill veining in secondary structures with multiple orientations crosscutting the primary host structures are commonly observed in drill core which could result in additional uncertainty in true width. Composite intervals reported carry a minimum weighted average of 1 g/t Au diluted over a minimum core length of 2m with a maximum of 4m consecutive dilution when above 200m vertical depth and 2m consecutive dilution when below 200m vertical depth. Included high-grade intercepts are reported as any consecutive interval with grades greater than 10 g/t Au. Grades have not been capped in the averaging and intervals are reported as drill thickness.

46.8 g/t Au over 10.55m in NFGC-23-1541, 115 g/t Au over 4.10m in NFGC-23-1570, 4.28 g/t Au over 30.55m in NFGC-23-1475, 4.51 g/t Au over 12.80m in NFGC-23-1491 and 3.68 g/t Au over 15.70m in NFGC-23-1466 were drilled at Iceberg East and were designed to extend the high-grade segment of Iceberg-Iceberg East along strike and to surface within the host Keats-Baseline Fault Zone (“KBFZ”). The intervals add to a rapidly growing high-grade segment of Iceberg-Iceberg East that now spans 570m of near-surface strike that, when combined with the already impressive 400m high-grade segment of Keats Main, outlines a high-grade corridor covering nearly 1km of strike. This occurs within the overall KBFZ hosted Keats-Iceberg-Iceberg East corridor, which has been drill defined over 1.9km of strike, where it remains open. Mineralization at Iceberg and Iceberg East is shallowly located with today’s highlight intervals all occurring between 15-100m vertical depth. The Company is actively focused on tracing mineralization to depth at Iceberg, where minimal exploration has taken place below 200m. High-grade mineralization within the more heavily explored Keats Main is known to extend beyond 350m vertical depth, where it remains open. The broad interval of 1.34 g/t Au over 44.10m in NFGC-23-1331 is located at Iceberg 55m down-dip of previously reported 105 g/t Au over 27.05m in NFGC-23-1210 (June 5, 2023). This extends the broad mineralized domain at Iceberg down-dip to 105m while high-grade mineralization at Iceberg has been intersected at depths of up to 170m vertical to date.

Melissa Render, VP of Exploration, said, “These are the first batch of results from our targeted follow-up program at Iceberg East which was designed to further define the orientations of the structures and veins at play and get a better sense for the continuity and trend of high-grade gold mineralization. Seeing this intensity of high-grade is exactly what we had hoped for and these results have aided in understanding the controls on mineralization for future targeting. We are very pleased to have defined continuous near-surface high-grade mineralization over a strike length of 570m, and we are excited to take our drilling deeper, where mineralization remains untested and open for expansion.”