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High Grade GOLD in Nevada

Western Exploration is focused on advancing the 100% owned Aura gold‐silver project, located near the city of Elko, Nevada. The project hosts 1.32M gold equivalent ounces in a N.I. 43-101 compliant resource across three unique gold and silver deposits: Doby George, Gravel Creek, and Wood Gulch. 2024 drilling at Gravel Creek is currently underway and will target the area of high-grade gold-silver veins discovered in 2023.

The project has well established infrastructure including year-round access by highway and county-maintained road and nearby access to water and electricity.

The company is backed by an experienced team of precious metals experts that aims to lead Western Exploration to becoming a premiere gold and silver development company in North America.

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Aura Project

Western Exploration is focused on Gold and Silver Discoveries in Northern Nevada.

The Aura Project has a N.I. 43-101 compliant resource across 3 mineralized areas within a total project area of 61.6 square kilometers. The resource consists of 607k Gold ozs and 3.17M Silver ozs in the Indicated category (14.2Mt at 1.33 g/t Au and 75.0 g/t Ag) and 578k Gold ozs and 5.307M Silver ozs in the Inferred category (12.1Mt at 1.48 g/t Au and 15.74 g/t Ag).

Doby George 407k ozs @ 0.98 g/t Gold (Indicated)
118k ozs @ 0.73 g/t Gold (Inferred)
Gravel Creek 245k ozs @ 5.81 g/t Gold Equivalent (Indicated)
442k ozs @ 5.02 g/t Gold Equivalent (Inferred)
Wood Gulch 105k ozs @ 0.74 g/t Gold Equivalent (Inferred)
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Gravel Creek
Doby George
Wood Gulch
Gravel Creek

A new gold-silver discovery in Northern Nevada.

Doby George

Near surface, pit constrained oxide deposit with average Gold grade of ~0.9 g/t

Wood Gulch

Past producer, open pit heap leach with a current inferred resource of 93,000 gold ounces (4.355 Mt at 0.66 g/t)

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Project Development

Experienced
Management Team
Advancing Aura
Growing Gold,
652K AuEq Indicated
665K AuEq Inferred +8 Expansion Drill Targets
Gravel Creek +2X potential
Doby George Near Term Production
NEVADA,
a leading mining
jurisdiction (1)
Strong Foundation

(1) Ranked most attractive region for mining in the Fraser Institute Report, 2019

"Western Exploration has been putting our money in the ground at Aura Project since 1997. A history of proven ore finders are delivering on the exploration at Gravel Creek, Doby George and Wood Gulch"

Darcy Marud, CEO of Western Exploration