Tempest Minerals Ltd. (TEM) announced the completion of drilling for 2022 at the Meleya Project. Phase 1, which commenced in September, utilised multiple drill rigs and drilling methods and resulted in a total of 2,202 metres of Aircore, 4,069m of RC, and 1,065m of diamond completed for a total of 7,336m in this campaign. The program had a combined purpose of testing the Master target, testing the Clover target and a broad, shallow pattern across the central Meleya Project area.

Multiple zones of strong alteration and weak mineralisation were encountered in numerous holes throughout the drill campaign. Assay results are expected in first quarter 2023. The company announced in September 2022, the commencement of a planned drilling campaign aimed at testing two coincident anomalous geochemistry and geophysical (magnetic) targets (Master and Clover respectively).

Master Drilling: The company previously announced the completion of 1 diamond drillhole for 427.1m at the Master target which encountered minor sulphides and strong alteration throughout the drillhole. WARDH74 has also provided important stratigraphic context at the southern end of the project relative to drilling done at Orion. Clover Drilling: The Clover Target is a magnetic low stratigraphic sequence 2.5km to the southeast of the Orion target.

1 diamond hole (WARDH75) for 637.1m was completed into the Clover target. This was complemented with a number of RC holes as part of the regional program. The Clover drilling also provided stratigraphic information emanating out of the Meleya Belt.

Thick sequences of highly altered mafic geology and minor sulphides were observed throughout the diamond hole which may represent a previously unrecognised geological sequence within the mineralised Meleya Belt or potentially a strongly altered and `demagnetised' dyke. Zones of strong alteration and minor sulphides were detected at various locations downhole. Regional Drilling: The conducted regional drilling aims to collect shallow geochemical data to augment the existing soil sampling or test areas where surface sampling is more challenging or inappropriate.

The regional program also provides the opportunity to correlate geology from surface mapping and deep diamond holes across large distances and provide targets for follow-up drilling. Drilling was conducted on nominal 500m x 500m spacing and the campaign in Fourth Quarter 2022 - an area of some 4km x 4km of the central Meleya Belt and consisted of some 6,269 metres of aircore and reverse circulation drilling. This represents a small fraction of the Meleya Project and phase 1 of a number of possible campaigns.

Sulphide and visible mineralised intervals were logged across all drill lines, the most prominent zone on the most northern line showed a unit remarkably similar to the ~20m Zn enhanced unit stratigraphically correlated between Orion Holes WARDH72 and WARDH73. This zone encompassed an interval from 68 to 77 metres downhole of WARDH156 (proximal to 2 ERP survey points) and noted to contain an average of 1% pyrite with a pervasive silica and chlorite halo. Trace grains of sphaelerite were identified.