Optimum Ventures Ltd. reported the start of exploration on the Harry property located in the prolific Golden Triangle, 30 km northwest of Stewart, BC. Building on the success of last year's drilling, Optimum has begun surface exploration work on the Harry Project. A Shaw Portable core drill is shallow drilling to test and sample known zones to delineate potential new drill targets.

IP Geophysical Survey is currently underway, in addition to talus fines and rock geochemical surveys along grid lines. To date 400 samples have been sent to MSA Labs in Terrace, B.C. Additionally, the 22 samples collected in 2021 from the discovery boulders on the Swan range in value from 0.76 to 286.2 g/t Au, 246 to 2202 g/t Ag, 21.5 to 57.33 % Pb, 0.07 to 2.87 % Cu and 0.41 to 32.11 % Zn. The 2022 sampling is designed to extend and define the limits of this high-grade gold mineralization.

The property consists of 3 contiguous claims covering approximately 1,333 hectares. The majority of the property including the Outlander claim lies along the NW portion of a geological corridor prospective for gold-silver mineralization that is up to 3 km wide and 15 km long extending from south end of the Premier Mine, possibly in the US, north to the Scottie Gold Mine and beyond. Situated within the Skeena Mining Division, the Harry property lies in a prospective corridor running north-northwest from the Premier, Silver Coin, Big Missouri and Dilworth gold deposits presently being developed by Ascot Resources.

To the west and north of the Harry property is the past producing Scottie Gold mine and immediately adjacent to Newcrest Mining on the northeast boundary. The property is located along volcanic rocks on the south boundary area of the Summit Lake stock, part of the Texas Creek Plutonic suite in the Stewart Area. This suite of rocks is related to alteration and mineralization at the former producing Premier mine (produced 2,000,000 oz gold) 15 km south of the property and the KSM copper-gold porphyries and Brucejack Lake gold deposits.

(Valley of the Kings deposit has reported 6.4 million ounces in the proven and probable categories).