Golden Ridge Resources Ltd. announced new assay results from the 2023 Phase II drilling campaign at the Williams Gold Property within the Appleton and Dog Bay Fault Corridors. Golden Ridge has continued to generate encouraging results at the Williams Gold Property with recent assays outlining large gram meter intercepts up to 70.75 meters grading 1.05 g/t Au. The Property is surrounded by New Found Gold Corp.

(NFGC)'s Queensway Gold Property where NFGC is currently undertaking a 650,000 meter drill program. Phase II drilling at the Williams Project was focused on the five mineralized zones as identified by earlier prospecting, soil and drilling programs. These mineralized zones (Figure 3) are know known as the: Cabin Zone (CZ), Cabin Zone Extension (CZX), EQ Zone (EQZ), Gray Jay Zone (GJZ) and the Blue Jay Zone (BJZ) all of which are open along strike and down-dip. The second target of Phase II drilling, following up on results obtained from the CZX (November 30, 2023 - News Release), was the Gray Jay Zone a 1-kilometer-long gold-in-soil anomaly first tested by the 2022 maiden drilling program.

Phase II focused on WIL-22-21, which intersected a complex system of veins and veinlets grading 14.40 meters at 1.51 g/t Au. In total, 13 drillholes WIL-23-36 through WIL-23-48 (totalling 1,759 meters) were drilled at the Gray Jay Zone. All drill holes were successful in intersecting a broad alteration halo and associated system of vein and veinlets first observed in Phase I drilling.

Broad mineralization is exemplified by WIL-23-37 (a 25-meter step- out from WIL-22-21) intersecting a 22.35-meter section grading 1.45 g/t Au including a 6.50-meter section which yielded 2.61 g/t Au. Additionally, WIL-23-42 (same collar but opposite azimuth as WIL-22-21) intersected a 70.75- meter section grading 1.05 g/t Au including a 16.45-meter section which yielded 2.38 g/t Au. Drilling at the Gray Jay Zone also identified several fault/rubble zones most commonly along the eastern margin of the mineralized system and are often associated with graphite.

The fault/rubble zones locally contain vein fragments which indicate syn- mineralization to post-mineralization movement along these structures. Mineralization at the Gray Jay Zone is open along strike and down dip and additional drilling will be required to further delineate the nature of gold mineralization. Forty-one holes were drilled in the Phase II diamond drill program consisting of 5,982 meters.

Golden Ridge has now completed 70 holes for 10,182 meters of drilling over Phase I and II programs. The balance of assay results from the 2023 program have yet to be received. Drill holes were predominantly in the 100m to 200m range focusing on testing soil, bedrock, and drilling anomalies previously identified by earlier exploration programs. Highlights of the previous field programs completed by Golden Ridge Resources from 2020 - 2022 include float samples assaying up to 281 g/t Au and soil samples up to 1,503 ppb Au. Mineralization in Phase II was broader in nature consisting of a complex system of vein, veinlets, and vein breccia, up to 1.5-meters in size.

Gold-bearing veins are often associated with weak to locally intense sericitic and chloritic alteration. Additionally, sulphide mineralization appears to be more pervasive in core obtained from Phase II drillholes. The host rock often contains disseminated pyrite crystals, blebs, and stringers throughout and acicular crystals and blebs of arsenopyrite near mineralized zones.

Trace pyrrhotite has also been observed in the host rock but this is commonly restricted to areas of intense veining. Gold-bearing veins contain primarily pyrite and are often associated with arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and galena with trace amounts of stibnite, molybdenite and sphalerite. Golden Ridge has noted that the most reliable pathfinder for the presence of high-grade gold is increasing concentrations of arsenopyrite.

Golden Ridge is continuing to model the structural controls of the transportation and deposition of gold bearing fluids on the Williams Property. Vein systems suggest the presence of both brittle and ductile features indicating a transitionary tectonic environment. Fracture filling appears to be the most prevalent style of vein deposition representing a trans-tensional environment.

The presence of sigma clasts, gouge in faults, and folding in quartz veins are indicative of a more ductile environment. Vein systems associated with sericitic-chloritic alteration and arsenopyrite are often used to distinguish gold-bearing veins from other generations of quartz veins observed throughout the Property.