WESTERN GOLD EXPLORATION LTD. announced the commencement of a new exploration drilling program at the Gossan Burn Copper prospect within its Knapdale Project, located in Argyll, Scotland. Gossan Burn is a new outcropping copper discovery along a trend of old copper workings from the 1860's located south of the Stronchullin orogenic gold vein system, where Western Gold carried out exploration drilling in 2021. The Company has identified the potential for Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) mineralization of the Besshi style epitomized by the giant Windy Craggy deposit in British Columbia, Canada.

These deposits are typically copper rich and occur in sedimentary turbidite sequences associated with mafic volcanics in similar geotectonic environments to the copper showings in the area. Soil anomalies using both deep overburden and ionic leach techniques have highlighted a base metal anomaly 1km in length. Outcrop is limited to the banks of the small streams in the area and copper staining is noted in places, supergene chalcocite mineralization outcrops in the vicinity of the Gossan Burn fault.

Channel sampling across the zone yielded 10m @ 5% Copper including 2.5m @ 17.5 % Copper. The drill rig is a special helicopter portable light rig mounted on a rubber tracked Moorooka to minimize ground disturbance. The proposed plan for the drilling programme will be 6 diamond drill holes of 180-200m depth each, for aggregate drilling of up to 1200m, which will be used to evaluate the economic potential of the Gossan Burn prospect.

Drilling will target the base metal geochemical anomalies and some deeper geophysical targets. The E-W fault at Gossan Burn will also be drill tested with the aim of investigating potential secondary remobilisation of mineralisation along this structure. The Company has engaged Priority Drilling as drilling contractors, having undertaken the drilling program at Stronchullin in 2021.

Priority Drilling have consistently delivered greater than 95% core recoveries. Required planning consents have been granted and as part of the Company's enhanced health and safety guidelines, strict regulations are being applied across the site to continue to ensure full Covid compliance, including routine testing of all personnel. The Company estimates that this drilling programme will commence at the end of May with assay results due in the third quarter of 2022.

Further details can be found in the Company's "NI 43-101 Technical Report, Geological Introduction to Knapdale Gold-Silver Project, Scotland" with an effective date of 12 June, 2020, which can be found on the Company's website or under the Company's SEDAR profile.