Joshua Gold conducting sample program at Tecumseh Property NE of Sudbury

Joshua Gold Resources Inc announces that its geologic team has returned from a re-introductory sampling program at its Tecumseh Property in Davis Township in northern Ontario, north-east of Sudbury. 34 samples consisting of rock and soil were collected over 3 days during the July 2024 program and sent for laboratory analysis. JSHG is eagerly awaiting these results and will share the findings when they become available. Along with the compilation of historic exploration records, the pending sample results will help guide the company's exploration strategy at the Tecumseh property. The analysis of the most recent samples could pave the way for exciting new opportunities for JSHG and will help to provide a foundation for future trenching and drilling programs at the site.

The roughly 217 acre, four-cell Tecumseh site is a long-held property within the JSHG portfolio. It is located approximately 26 miles east-northeast of Sudbury, Ontario (or about 51 miles by easily accessible road). The site has attracted the interest of numerous operators since the 1920s, while its mineral potential remains overwhelmingly unrealized (in part due to the limitations of the exploration methods used at the time). Following its most recent sampling program, JSHG is enthusiastic about the opportunity to leverage the cutting-edge analytical techniques available and use modern exploration methods to unlock the full potential of this historically promising site.

Historic Highlights:

• Compilation of all previously reported surface quartz vein grab samples at the property from 2011 to 2020 averaged 14.1 g/t Au (uncut, n = 52, g/t = grams per tonne) or 0.41 oz/t Au, with 54% of samples returning greater than 1 g/t Au (0.03 oz/t), and 23% of samples greater than 10 g/t Au (0.23 oz/t), with a maximum value of 209 g/t Au (6.10 oz/t).

• Eight large composite grab samples (roughly 9 to 10 pounds each) collected from the trenches by local prospector R. Cyr in 1996 averaged 39.7 g/t Au (1.16 oz/t).

More About the JSHG Tecumseh Property:

The Tecumseh property is primarily underlain by Precambrian rocks consisting of Huronian sediments. These were intruded by Nipissing gabbro sills and dikes. The Grenville Front lies just south of the property, however, the numerous documented gold occurrences in the district (including the historical Au-Cu-Co Scadding Mine) may be genetically related to the older Yavapai Orogeny.

Structurally, the site sits between two prominent northwest-trending faults: the Washagami Lake Fault and the McLaren Lake Fault. Both of these are secondary splays from the main east-west trending Ess Lake Fault. The property features an array of auriferous quartz-carbonate-hematite-mica-sulphide veins occurring over an area of approximately 800 feet by 2,300 feet. These strike northwest-southeast (120-140 degrees), and are hosted in a shallowly dipping gabbro sill.

Exploratory History:

Gold was first reported on the property during the 1920s to 1930s, during which time several shafts or pits were emplaced, however no historical records exist. The property appears to have been left idle until 1959 when Black Crow Mines undertook a self-potential geophysical survey and completed 4 shallow drill holes.

Work resumed intermittently from 1975 to 1988 by various operators. It consisted of geological and geophysical surveys, extensive surface trenching and sampling, and thirty shallow, small-diameter diamond drill holes (BQ at maximum = 1 7/16” core diameter). During this time the currently known system of auriferous veins were delineated, principally by trenching, along seven main trends (termed then from "A" to "G"), with individual veins attaining widths of a couple of inches to as much as 8 feet (approximately). Notably, some vein trends host as many as eight parallel sub-veins. The veins host accessory sulphide from trace amounts to locally semi-massive vugs of pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Historical operators judged the veins to be overly "nuggety" for gold, which hampered surficial trench sampling. This may also help explain why many of the narrow-diameter historical drill holes did not encounter high-grade gold at shallow depths.

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