Harfang Exploration Inc. announced exploration plans for its portfolio of wholly-owned gold and critical and strategic minerals (?CSM?) assets in Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec. The summer 2024 exploration program will follow up on the successful 2023 exploration activities when the Company discovered spodumene in pegmatite dykes, known as the Améliane showing. The Company reported assay results with highlights including: 4.56% Li2O, and 0.82% Li2O over 20.0 metres, (incl.

1.46% Li2O over 6.0 metres), in a grab and channel sample, respectively. The Summer 2024 program will focus on additional prospecting around known lithium targets and investigating new lithium targets identified in the recent joint targeting study. In addition, the main gold discoveries on the central-western portion of the property will be revisited to gain more geological insights.

These include the Stu Zone (6.06 g/t Au over 7.55 metres) and the Goldhawk Zone (2.69 g/t Au over 11.98 metres). The overall goal of the Summer 2024 exploration program at Serpent-Radisson is to advance the geological understanding for both lithium and gold systems, and to identify potential drill targets. The summer 2024 exploration program will follow up on the winter 2023 drilling program that confirmed broad gold intervals in a highly altered and brecciated monzonite that are open at depth in the Pierre and Pierre Ouest zones (Figure 3 [3]).

The Company reported assay results with highlights including: 1.15 g/t Au over 47.0 metres (incl. 3.75 g/t Au over 7.0 metres), 1.75 g/t Au over 21.0 metres (incl. 2.49 g/t Au over 14.1 metres), and 0.54 g/t Au over 75.0 metres.  The Summer 2024 program includes selective sampling across key alteration zones that were identified in the 2000 and 2023 drill programs. This comprehensive geochemical characterization will enhance the understanding of the alteration domains controlling the gold distribution, a critical exercise in refining the exploration model and identifying potential drill targets. In addition, several promising zones will be prospected, including the Timiskaming-type conglomerate and its associated IP anomalies, the Greco gold showing (1.04 g/t Au over 24.9 m in a channel sample), the Oswald gold showing (17.3 g/t Au in a grab sample), and the gold Ankerite zone.  Summer 2024 will mark Harfang?s first exploration program at Menarik Est.

The Company has been conducting a comprehensive historical data review, looking at geophysical surveys and data from more than 200 drill holes totalling approximately 36,000 metres of drilling. The Menarik Est Zone hosts a non-NI 43-101 compliant resource of 6.34 Mt grading 7.73% Cr2O3, 398 ppb Pd and 105 ppb Pt. The Summer 2024 exploration program is designed to verify the historical Ni-Cr-Cu-PGE occurrences and investigate several high-priority areas within the ultramafic Menarik complex.

The Company is planning a lithium targeted surface exploration program at La Passe, Ewart and Sakami. This program is the logical sequence to the ongoing geoscience data review which also includes a pegmatite delineation exercise using newly acquired satellite images.