Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 25, 2024) - Provenance Gold Corp. (CSE: PAU) (OTCQB: PVGDF) (the "Company" or "Provenance") is pleased to provide an update on its ongoing core drilling program at its Eldorado project in Malheur County, Eastern Oregon.

Drilling of the first core hole (EC-01: orientated N10W at - 68⁰ dip, with a planned depth of 300 m) is ongoing. At the time of this update, the hole was at a depth of 207 m in highly altered and mineralized granodiorite with visible gold located at multiple horizons (30m, 108m, and 158m). The hole was designed to test the down dip extent of Provenance's 2023 reverse circulation hole ED-07 which averaged 3.085 g/t gold over its entire length of 114 meters and terminated while still in strong mineralization (See Press Release dated July 31, 2023). In addition, EC-01 crosscuts the projected northeast trend of the high-grade mineralization in this part of the Eldorado gold system and the presence of visible gold in the mineralization continues to expand the known mineralization along strike and to depth. Logging and core processing is ongoing and additional results will be released once available.

Figure 1 - Down dip visible gold locations in EC-01.

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Provenance Gold's Chairman, Rauno Perttu, stated, "The first core hole has already demonstrated the gold mineralization extends much deeper than the depth of approximately 120 meters we went to on holes ED-07 and ED-11 during our RC drilling program last summer. Furthermore, our field work has identified additional mineralized zones well beyond the current and historic drilling. Even though we have 242 historic holes and EC-01 is our 12^th new hole, the gold system remains wide open for expansion with multiple visible gold occurrences over several intervals. We are very pleased with what we are seeing in the core at this early stage. This is an exciting time for our company."

Core hole EC-01 has already provided important and positive information about the gold system on three key fronts:

• The high-grade portion of the gold system is not controlled by or limited to a breccia zone, as had been previously postulated. The core to date is dominated by altered granodiorite with disseminated sulphides (predominantly pyrite) with multiple visible gold grains across multiple zones.

• At the current drilling depth of 207 meters, the mineralization extends deeper than previously recognized and additionally supports the presence of Provenance's postulated deeper high-grade zone.

• The core is not strongly silicified, confirming that the mineralization is a late-stage or even separate lower temperature mineralizing event which is consistent with the excellent gold recoveries experienced by Provenance and by historic laboratory testing (See Press Release dated February 07, 2024).