Mr. Joseph Kizis reports

EQUITY METALS ANNOUNCES INCREASE TO PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NON-BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT; TO EXTEND CLOSING

Subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval, Equity Metals Corp. will extend the closing date of its previously announced private placement by 30 days from the date of this news release and will increase the previously announced non-brokered private placement of securities. The company is now issuing a total of 13.76 million charity/premium flow-through units at a price of 29.5 cents per FT unit for gross proceeds of $4,059,200. Each FT unit will comprise one flow-through common share and one-half of one non-flow-through warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one non-flow-through common share for a period of three years at a price of 29.5 cents.

The proceeds received from the sale of the FT units will be focused on the initial delineation of two new target areas located to the northeast of, and not included in, the 2022 updated mineral resource estimate on the Silver Queen gold/silver project in British Columbia. A 6,000-plus-metre drill program is currently under way and these additional funds allow for drilling to continue well into summer on the Cole and George Lake veins systems, which have been partially tested by historical and Equity drilling. In the current program, five core holes have been completed on the George Lake target, with assays pending and anticipated over the coming weeks. A portion of the funds will be used to further advance new targets that are being developed to the drill stage elsewhere in the property.

The company may pay finders' fees comprising cash and non-transferable warrants in connection with the offering, subject to compliance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. All securities issued and sold under the offering will be subject to a hold period expiring four months and one day from closing. Completion of the offering and the payment of any finders' fees remain subject to the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

About Silver Queen project

The Silver Queen project is a premier gold-silver property with over 100 years of historic exploration and development and is located adjacent to power, roads and rail with significant mining infrastructure that was developed under previous operators Bradina JV (Bralorne Mines) and Houston Metals Corp. (a Hunt Brothers company). The property contains a historic decline into the No. 3 vein, the George Lake vein, camp infrastructure and a maintained tailings facility.

The Silver Queen property consists of 45 mineral claims, 17 Crown grants and two surface Crown grants totalling 18,852 hectares with no underlying royalties. Mineralization is hosted by a series of epithermal veins distributed over a six-square-kilometre area. An updated National Instrument 43-101 mineral resource estimate with effective date Dec. 1, 2022, was detailed in a news release issued on Jan. 16, 2023. The full technical report can be found on SEDAR+ and the company's website.

More than 20 different veins have been identified on the property, forming an extensive network of zoned Cretaceous- to Tertiary-age epithermal veins. The property remains largely underexplored.

About Equity Metals Corp.

Equity Metals is a Malaspina-Manex group company. The company owns a 100-per-cent interest, with no underlying royalty, in the Silver Queen project, located along the Skeena Arch in the Omineca mining division, British Columbia. The property hosts high-grade, precious and base metal veins related to a buried porphyry system, which has been only partially delineated. The company also has a controlling joint venture interest (57.49 per cent) in the Monument diamond project, Northwest Territories, strategically located in the Lac De Gras district within 40 km of both the Ekati and Diavik diamond mines. The company also has royalty and working interests in other Canadian properties, which are being evaluated further to determine their value to the company.

Robert Macdonald, MSc, PGeo, is vice-president, exploration, of Equity Metals and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. He is responsible for the supervision of the exploration on the Silver Queen project and for the preparation of the technical information in this disclosure.

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