AuQ Gold Mining Inc. reported that it has acquired by map staking a 100-per-cent interest in 133 mining claims in three blocks (West Block, Central Block, and East Block), located several kilometers from one another and covering approximately 6,870 hectares (68.7 km2) in the James Bay Region of northern Quebec. Col ectively they are known as the Lac Bruce exploration project, with potential for the discovery of lithium, other strategic minerals, gold and base metals. The three blocks are located approximately 60 kilometers east-northeast of Wemindji, Quebec.

The project area is located within NTS map sheets 33E01 and 33F04. Very lit le exploration work has been car ied out in the Lac Bruce Project area, with AuQ's West Block located less than 600 meters north of, AuQ's Central Block located less than 1 km north of, and AuQ's East Block located less than 600 meters east of the Mia Lithium Project recently acquired by TSXV listed Queensland Gold Hil s Corp. (OZAU-TSXV, see Press release of November 28, 2022).

The East blocks lies within 5 km, and the West and Central blocks lie within 15 km of a major al -season road and hydropower line. The West Block is comprised of 61 claims covering approximately 3,150 hectares (31.5 km2) and is located less 8 km northwest of the historic lithium occur ences known as Mia-Li1 and Mia-Li2. The West Block was staked to cover a major northwest-southeast trending fault zone that also passes through the pegmatite-bearing Vieux Comptoir-3 granitic unit that hosts the Mia-Li1 and Mia-Li2 lithium occur ences.

The West block was also staked because it lies less than 4 kilometers west of a mapped exposure of the pegmatite-bearing Vieux Comptoir granitic unit.