Surge Copper Corp. announced that drilling has resumed at the Company's 100% owned Ootsa project in British Columbia after a planned holiday break, and a minimum 5,000 metres of additional drilling has been added to the winter program for a total of at least 15,000 metres. Surge remains well funded with approximately $6.3 million in the treasury. Ootsa Exploration Program Update: There are currently two drills operating at the Ootsa project focused on expanding the large copper-gold-molybdenum-silver resource at the West Seel deposit and testing exploration targets along the Seel Trend. The current drill program commenced in October 2020, and to date 7,750 metres of core has been drilled with eight holes completed and two additional holes in progress. All drill core has been logged, sampled, and sent for assay. Assay results for the top of hole S20-218 and the entire hole S20-219 have been received and released. The results for all other holes are pending. Key results received to date: Hole S20-218 was drilled at the East Seel deposit and returned 176.1 metres grading 0.72% copper equivalent (0.35% copper, 0.4 g/t gold, 1.7 g/t silver). Hole S20-219 was drilled at the West Seel deposit and returned 422 metres grading 0.60% copper equivalent (0.25% copper, 0.20 g/t gold, 0.042% molybdenum, 3.3 g/t silver) within 1,013 metres grading 0.42% copper equivalent (0.20% copper, 0.13 g/t gold, 0.025% molybdenum, 2.9 g/t silver). Based on the strong drilling results to date the Company has expanded the original 10,000 metre drill program at Ootsa to a minimum of 15,000 metres to allow the Company to drill through the winter and conduct sufficient drilling to define the extent of the large West Seel deposit. The budget for the additional 5,000 metres is expected to be less than $1 million. Berg Project Update: The Company is preparing reports and seeking final permissions to allow rehabilitation of the historic access road to the Berg deposit area. Pending approval, work on the road is anticipated to begin in July followed by a drilling program focused on defining and expanding the high-grade, near-surface copper zones at Berg. Additional geophysics may be planned after further review of historical information and could be integrated with a regional program covering both Ootsa and Berg.