Orford Mining Corporation announced exploration results from the 2022 summer program on the high-grade Ni-Cu-PGE West Raglan property in Nunavik, Quebec. The program was Wyloo Metals Pty Ltd.'s second year of spending on the project towards their earn in, with Orford operating. In July and August 2022, 2,589m of diamond drilling was completed in 9 holes at three zones (Frontier, Beverly and Boomerang) over a distance of 35 km along the Raglan Trend.

The program also included surface work involving the collection of 939 frost boil samples, 102 grab samples and mapping data at over 1,000 stations. Four of the nine drill holes reported nickel (Ni)-copper (Cu) mineralization intercepts up to 1.56% Ni, 0.27% Cu, 0.71 g/t palladium (Pd) and 0.32 g/t platinum (Pt) (WR-22-201, Table 1). Grab samples reported up to 2.7 % Ni.

Historically, much of the drilling on the West Raglan property had been completed at the Frontier Zone which covers 2 kilometres of the Raglan trend, where nickel sulphide intercepts have yielded intersections of up to 28.3 metres grading 3.2% Ni, 1.32% Cu, 2.4 g/t Pd, and 0.7 g/t Pt1. The focus of the 2022 drill program was to test geophysical targets defined in 2021 in order to extend the Frontier mineralization westward and to make new discoveries along the 50 kilometre strike of the underexplored Raglan Trend on the West Raglan property. Drilling was completed at three zones (Frontier, Beverly and Boomerang) over a distance of 35 km along the Raglan Trend.

Hole WR-22-195 was drilled in the Boomerang area of the West Raglan Property (Figure 1) and reported 4.2 metres grading 0.60% Ni, 0.16% Cu, 0.44 g/t Pd, 0.18 g/t Pt, Including 2 metres grading 0.95% Ni, 0.25% Cu 0.72 g/t Pd, 0.29 g/t Pd, from 178.8 to 180.8 metres. This is the most significant intercept outside of the Frontier Zone on the West Raglan Property. Limited drill testing has occurred outside the Frontier Zone.

Nickel rich sulfides in this environment typically occur as lens clusters, discovering one, such as the intercept in WR-22-195 may lead to the discovery of additional proximal lenses. In addition to this intercept, several new high grade grab samples which reported up to 1.3% Ni and 0.35% Cu along the Boomerang trend renders this area highly prospective for additional lens clusters. Both the drill hole intercept and grab samples reported Ni:Cu ratios of 4:1 which is extremely encouraging.

Future work will focus on reviewing at available geophysical products to look for follow up targets in the Boomerang area. Hole WR-22-201 and WR-22-202 were drilled at the Western edge of the Frontier Zone where limited exploration had been conducted. The intercepts reported up to 13.5 metres grading 0.53% Ni, 0.19% Cu, 0.29 g/t Pd and 0.06 g/t Pt including 0.45 metres grading 1.56% Ni, 0.27% Cu, 0.71 g/t Pd and 0.32 g/t Pt extended the West Pipe Nickel Sulfide lens down-dip and westward by 30m and intercepted higher-grade Ni-Cu than the easterly part of the known lens.

The nickel sulfide ratios in these intercepts are approximately 3:1 (S:Ni) consistent with the Nickel rich sulfide minerals encountered at Raglan. WR-22-203 was drilled at Frontier Central, where there was historically limited drill testing and a large volume of ultramafic is present. Two intervals of interest were intercepted 4.35 metres grading 0.45% Ni, 0.04% Cu, 0.39 g/t Pd and 0.11 g/t Pt from 147.25 to 159.85 (Table 1), including 0.5m of 0.83% Ni, 0.06% Cu, 1.67 g/t Pd and 0.46 g/t Pt) One anomalous gold value reported 3.21g/t Au over 1m from 178 to 179m.

23.75m of nickel sulphides where intercepted, reporting 0.31% Ni, 0.1% Cu from 261.5 to 285.25. During the 2022 Field Season, field teams focused on the lesser explored southern part of the West Raglan property, the highlight is the discovery of a new high-grade Ni-S outcrop (Big Potato) which reported grades up to 2.71% Ni and 0.24% Cu. This type of mineralization on the south trend is extremely encouraging given the Ni:Cu ratios of over 4:1 are much higher than the expected 1:1 ratios observed in the eastern cape smith belt, south trend deposits.