Carolina Rush Corporation reported assay results from two exploration trenches that were constructed on Rush's Sawyer Gold Mine property ("Sawyer") in Randolph County, North Carolina. The Sawyer property contains at least four parallel zones of gold mineralization that were mined at various times dating back to 1820. The area contains 7 vertical shafts with evidence of prospecting extending along a 2,500-meter trend with extensive pits, dumps, and trenches.

Exploration during the late 1900s included extensive near surface drilling that was used to produce a historic gold mineral resource estimate in 2021. The historic gold resource at Sawyer contains the following based on a 0.4 g/t Au cutoff grade. Measured & Indicated: 2.9 Mt @ 1.1 g/t Au containing 102.1 koz Au, Inferred: 1.0 Mt @ 1.0 g/t Au containing 32.4 koz Au.

Two trenches were planned to sample and verify gold mineralization within the historic resource area and were located about 50 meters apart, excavated perpendicular to the trend of mineralization. Trench ST23 - 01 was excavated with a track hoe along a northwest azimuth, perpendicular to the trend of mineralization for a distance of 36.0 meters. Chip-channel samples were collected on 1.5 meter continuous intervals and contained gold values up to 10.3 g/t. Trench ST23 - 02 was excavated along a similar northwest azimuth, located about 50 m northeast of ST23-01.

Continuous chip-channel samples were collected on 2.0 meter interval and contained gold values up to 2.2 g/t. Sawyer Mine Gold Mineralization: Gold mineralization occurs within a northeast-trending shear zone hosted mainly in sericite-pyrite altered felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. Gold is localized within steeply dipping, folded zones which are the subject of ongoing exploration. Gold distribution in the trenches is similar to historic gold values reported from trenches and drill holes.

Importantly, the trenches demonstrate that gold mineralization is present in the intermediary rocks located between historic high- grade lodes that were mined by underground and surface methods. Sawyer Trend: The Sawyer and New Sawyer gold mine properties occur within the Carolina Slate Belt metallogenic province and are associated with an axial-planar regional shear zone named the Sawyer-Keystone Trend. An alignment of gold deposits within this structural zone has been traced for more than 20 kilometers.

The Sawyer Mine property is located 4.0 km southwest of Rush's New Sawyer Mine Property. At both properties, mineralization crops out at surface where it is deeply weathered and oxidized and remains open for expansion in several areas. Previously reported verification trench sampling at New Sawyer has produced similar results.

Future Programs: The Company remains focused on its Brewer Gold Mine exploration program, focused on delineating breccia-hosted gold-copper mineralization and the discovery of a potential copper - gold porphyry system beneath the historic Brewer Gold Mine. Future programs at the Sawyer Trend will evaluate historic data and expand the near surface gold mineralization areas and evaluate the regional structural controls on the Sawyer Trend.