Vancouver - New Found Gold Corp. ('New Found' or the 'Company') (TSX-V: NFG, NYSE-A: NFGC) is pleased to announce the results from 16 diamond drill holes that were completed as part of a drill program designed to test the newly discovered Honeypot Zone located 230m north of Jackpot on the east side of the highly prospective Appleton Fault Zone ('AFZ').

New Found's 100%-owned Queensway project comprises a 1,662km2 area, accessible via the Trans-Canada Highway, 15km west of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Honeypot Highlights:

26.4 g/t Au over 7.65m in NFGC-23-1810, intersected at a vertical depth of 91m, and 23.1 g/t Au over 5.25m in NFGC-23-1931, located a further 100m down-dip, are part of a new discovery called Honeypot that was found along the east side of the AFZ, 230m north of Jackpot and 1.3km north of Lotto. This discovery was made as a result of a follow-up drill program testing a mineralized fault that was initially identified by grid drilling.

Gold found at Honeypot is hosted within a primary fault that has been drill-defined over a strike length of 280m and to a depth of 190m. The high-grade domain shows good continuity and appears to strengthen at depth.

Honeypot has a similar east-northeast striking and steeply dipping orientation to the neighbouring Jackpot Zone and ongoing drilling is targeting its expansion along strike and to depth.

Melissa Render, VP of Exploration of New Found, stated: 'Our first pass grid drilling reconnaissance program working north of Jackpot intersected a near-surface, brittle fault with characteristics similar to the other epizonal high-grade gold-bearing faults found along this segment of the AFZ. In following this structure to depth, we are finding that Honeypot is delivering encouraging high-grade results over significant widths. There is limited drilling in this area and we are eager to expand upon these high-grade results as we kick off our 2024 drill program.'

Queensway 650,000m Drill Program Update

The Company is currently undertaking a 650,000m drill program at Queensway and approximately 10,000m of core is currently pending assay results.

Sampling, Sub-sampling, and Laboratory

All drilling recovers HQ core. Drill core is split in half using a diamond saw or a hydraulic splitter for rare intersections with incompetent core.

A geologist examines the drill core and marks out the intervals to be sampled and the cutting line. Sample lengths are mostly 1.0 metre and adjusted to respect lithological and/or mineralogical contacts and isolate narrow (

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