C:CC - Contact gold Recaps Very Successful 2022 Drill Program At Green Springs Gold Project Cortez Trend Nevada

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Vancouver, B.C. - TheNewswire - September 13 , 2022 – Contact GoldCorp. (the “Company” or “Contact Gold”) (TSXV:C ) ; ( OTC:CGOLF) is pleasedto recap the results from the 2022 step-out drill program at the GreenSprings oxide gold project, located on Nevada’s Cortez Trend ofCarlin-type gold deposits; 20 km southeast of the Pan Mine operated byCalibre Mining (TSX: CXB) and 7 km immediately east of their Gold RockProject. Gold mineralization at Green Springs is hosted within thesame Chainman Shale and Pilot Shale units hosting Gold Rock and Pan.

Drilling at Green Springs wrapped up in late June with23 holes completed for 2,123 metres, and was dedicated to growing thehigh-grade Tango, X-Ray, and B-C Gap oxide gold discoveries made by Contact Gold in 2021.

The Company believes that ongoing surface explorationat Green Springs will be successful in identifying additionalprospective areas and developing further compelling drill targets,especially in the underexplored Pilot Shale, the host horizon to theTango, X-Ray, and BC Gap discoveries.

In addition to the recent discoveries, Green Springscontains the Mine Trend, a 3 km long zone of shallow oxidized goldmineralization hosted within the Chainman Shale, highlighted by thehigh-grade Echo Zone, which remains wide-open for expansion to thesouth, with permits expected to be in hand in early 2023 to do justthat.

X-Ray Zone

• Average depth of completed drill holes at X-Ray was86.8 metres

• Five holes were drilled at the outcropping X-Ray Zone,offsetting and stepping out from the high-grade oxide discovery madein the 2021 program

• The X-Ray target area is open for expansion to thesouth and west, and the north to some degree

• Gold mineralization at X-Ray is hosted at the lowerPilot Shale contact with the underlying Guilmette limestone.  X-Rayis near-surface, well oxidized, with exceptional grades andthicknesses.

• Drill highlights:

  • 1.66 g/t Au over 28.96metres , from a depth of 9.14 metres, in drillhole GS22-01

    • Including: 2.66g/t Au over 15.24 metres

  • 0.82 g/t Au over 35.05metres , from a depth of 9.14 metres, in drillhole GS22-02

    • Including: 1.32g/t Au over 16.76 metres

  • 1.95 g/t Au over 41.15metres , from a depth of 15.24 metres, in drillhole GS22-04

    • Including: 3.71g/t Au over 15.24 metres

Tango Zone

• Average depth of completed drill holes at Tango in 2022is 74 metres

• Tango is located in the northern portion of theproject, one km NE of the high-grade X-Ray Zone

• Tango is characterized by a partially exposed zone ofoxidized gold mineralization that dips beneath the barren Joanalimestone in a westerly direction, and currently measures 250 x 500metres.

• There are significant expanses of untested Pilot Shaleto the west of the current drill pattern.

• Drill highlights:

  • 0.51 g/t Au over 30.48metres , from a depth of 4.57 metres, in drillhole GS22-09

    • Including: 1.02g/t Au over 3.05 metres

  • 0.70 g/t Au over 16.76metres , from a depth of 3.05 metres, in drillhole GS22-08

  • 0.45 g/t Au over 24.38 metres, from a depth of 19.81 metres, in drill holeGS22-11

“I could not be more pleased with these mostexcellent drill results from our Green Springs project.  We continueto deliver exceptional results on par or better than our Nevadapeers.” said Matt Lennox-King, President and CEO of Contact Gold. “The Tango and X-Ray Zones discoveries demonstrate that with theconviction to build roads into these undrilled areas in steeptopography, we can deliver brand new discoveries on Nevada’s oldgold trends, we can grow them rapidly, and pave the way for ameaningful resource at Green Springs.”

For a location map of the Green Springs project, pleaseclick:

http://www.contactgold.com/_resources/news/nr-20220913-Contact-Gold-Project-location-map.jpg

For a property map of Green Springs showing zones andtarget areas, please click:

http://www.contactgold.com/_resources/news/nr-20220913-Green-Springs-map-Sept-2022.jpg

For a plan map of the X-Ray and Tango discoveries anddrill traces, please click:

http://www.contactgold.com/_resources/news/nr-20220913-Xray-Tango-Map-Sept-2022.pdf

For a table of all 2022 drill results from GreenSprings, please click:

http://www.contactgold.com/_resources/news/nr-20220913-Green-Springs-Drill-Intercepts.pdf

About the Green SpringsProject:

Green Springs is located near the southern end of theCortez Trend of Carlin-type gold deposits in White Pine County,Nevada, 20 km southeast of Calibre Mining’s Pan Mine and 7 kmimmediately east of their Gold Rock Project, and south of Waterton'sMount Hamilton deposit. The Green Springs property is 18.36km 2 encompassing 3 shallow past producing open pits and numerous targetsthat were not mined.  Gold mineralization at Green Springs is hostedwithin the same Chainman Shale and Pilot Shale units hosting Gold Rockand Pan. The Green Springs project produced high-grade oxide gold fromtwo open pits in the 1980’s, and is host to multiple, near-surfaceCarlin Type gold zones and exploration targets.

Contact Gold signed a purchase option agreement withEly Gold Royalties (now a subsidiary of Gold Royalty Corp.) to acquirean undivided 100% interest in Green Springs in July 2019.  GreenSprings is an early-stage exploration property and does not containany mineral resource estimates as defined by National Instrument43-101, Standards ofDisclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI43-101”). There has been insufficient exploration to define amineral resource estimate at Green Springs. Additional informationabout Green Springs is summarized in the NI 43-101 Technical Reportentitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Green Springs Project,White Pine County, Nevada, USA” prepared for Contact Gold, with aneffective date of June 12, 2020, and dated August 5, 2020, as preparedby John J. Read, C.P.G; an independent consultant and qualified personunder NI 43-101, and can be viewed under Contact Gold’s issuerprofile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com .

The scientific and technical information contained inthis news release has been reviewed and approved by Vance Spalding,CPG, VP Exploration, Contact Gold, who is a “qualified person”within the meaning of NI 43-101.  Drill intercepts were calculatedusing a minimum thickness of 3.05 metres averaging 0.14 ppm gold andallowing inclusion of up to 4.57 metres of material averaging lessthan 0.14 ppm gold for low grade intervals and higher-grade intervalswere calculated using a minimum thickness of 3.05 metres averaging1.00 ppm gold and allowing inclusion of up to 4.57 metres of assaysaveraging less than 1.00 ppm gold.  Gravimetric assays are used forall Fire Assays above 4.00 ppm gold. Cyanide solubility assays arecompleted on all Fire Assays greater than 0.1 g/t. True width ofdrilled mineralization is unknown but owing to the apparent flat lyingnature of mineralization, is estimated to generally be at least 70% ofdrilled thickness in most cases. The Cyanide recovery percentages areequally averaged by interval and are not weighted by gold content perinterval.  Quality Assurance / Quality Control consists of regularinsertion of certified reference standards, blanks, and duplicates.All failures are followed up and resolved whenever possible withadditional investigation whenever such an event occurs. All assays arecompleted at Paragon; an ISO 17025:2005 accredited lab.  Check assaysare completed at a second, reputable assay lab after the program iscomplete.

About Contact Gold Corp.

Contact Gold is an exploration company focused onmaking district scale gold discoveries in Nevada.  Contact Gold’sextensive land holdings are on the prolific Carlin and Cortez goldtrends which host numerous gold deposits and mines. Contact Gold’sland position comprises approximately 144 km 2 of target richmineral tenure hosting numerous known gold occurrences, ranging fromearly- to advanced-exploration and current gold resources.

Additional information about the Company is availableat www.contactgold.com .

For more information, please contact: +1 (604)449-3361

Matthew Lennox-King – President & CEO

E-mail: info@ContactGold.com

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Cautionary Note RegardingForward-Looking Information

This news release contains"forward-looking information" and "forward-lookingstatements" (collectively, "forward-lookingstatements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadiansecurities legislation. All statements, other than statements ofhistorical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based onexpectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this newsrelease. Any statement that involves discussions with respect topredictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives,assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always usingphrases such as "expects", or "does not expect","is expected", "anticipates" or "does notanticipate", "plans", "budget","scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates","believes" or "intends" or variations of suchwords and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results"may" or "could", "would","might" or "will" be taken to occur or beachieved) are not statements of historical fact and may beforward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-lookingstatements relate, among other things, to the anticipated explorationactivities of the Company at the Green Springs property.

These forward-looking statements arebased on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of theCompany at the time such statements were made. Actual future resultsmay differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known andunknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause theactual results, performance or achievements of the Company tomaterially differ from any future results, performance or achievementsexpressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors,among other things, include: impacts arising from the globaldisruption by the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak; fluctuations ingeneral macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets;fluctuations in spot and forward prices of gold, silver, base metalsor certain other commodities; fluctuations in currency markets (suchas the Canadian dollar to United States dollar exchange rate); changein national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls,regulations and political or economic developments; risks and hazardsassociated with the business of mineral exploration, development andmining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusualor unexpected formations pressures, cave-ins and flooding); inabilityto obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; the presenceof laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining;employee relations; relationships with and claims by local communitiesand indigenous populations; availability of increasing costsassociated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature ofmineral exploration and development (including the risks of obtainingnecessary licenses, permits and approvals from governmentauthorities); and title to properties. Although the forward-lookingstatements contained in this news release are based upon whatmanagement of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to bereasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders thatactual results will be consistent with such forward-lookingstatements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to beas anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place unduereliance on the forward-looking statements and information containedin this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update theforward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or otherfactors, should they change, except as required by law.

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