Midland Exploration Inc. reported that drilling will resume on the Vortex zone, located in the west part of the Casault property held in joint venture (50/50) with SOQUEM INC. The Vortex zone is a new 'syenite-associated disseminated gold' discovery located along the Sunday Lake Fault, about 40 kilometres east of the Detour Lake mine. This open pit mine hosts mineral reserves estimated at 14.1 million ounces of gold ('Moz Au') consisting in proven reserves of 87.7 million tonnes grading 1.27 g/t Au for 3.58 Moz Au, and probable reserves of 353.8 million tonnes grading 0.92 g/t Au for 10.49 Moz Au. (Midland cautions that the mineralization at the Detour Lake Mine may not be indicative of the mineralization that may be identified on the Casault property and Vortex Zone). The Casault gold project consists of 315 claims (173 square kilometres) that cover the Sunday Lake Fault over more than 20 kilometres strike length. This new drilling program will consist in a minimum of nine (9) drill holes totaling approximately 3,500 metres and its main objective will be to test the strike extensions of the Vortex zone at a 100-metre spacing to the east, and a 200-metre spacing to the west. The program will also test the continuity of the Vortex zone at a vertical depth of 250 metres, below drill holes CAS-17-93, CAS-17-95 and CAS-17-96. Subsequent to this campaign, which is scheduled to begin in mid-February, the Vortex zone will have been tested over a strike length of more than 800 metres and to vertical depths ranging from the surface to approximately 250 metres. This campaign is also expected to result in the identification of new vectors to locate the core of this major gold system. The Vortex zone includes four (4) parallel gold-bearing zones named 475, 450, 435 and 425, and was discovered in the fall of 2017, at the junction between the Sunday Lake Fault and the western end of a Timiskaming-type conglomerate basin. The gold system has been traced in drill hole over a strike length of at least 500 metres and remains open in all directions.