Artemis Gold Inc. provides an update on progress toward obtaining its BC Mines Act Permit and advancing site works for the Company's Blackwater project ("Blackwater" or the "Project") in central British Columbia. Site works currently underway include, but are not limited to, the following activities: Logging, clearing and grubbing of the plant site area, and commencement of bulk earthworks, Installation of physical environmental controls, such as rapid infiltration basins and plant site permitter drainage channels; Advancement of the construction camp accommodations, which will expand capacity to support up to 475 on-site personnel; and Prioritized upgrades to selected infrastructure. In the process plant area, tree clearing activities, as well as other clearing and grubbing activities have been completed over the entire 23-hectare plant site footprint.

A new contractor laydown area has been stripped, levelled, and graded with cut and fill earthworks well advanced throughout. Earthworks continues on the sediment and erosion control pond. This scope of work is well advanced and on track to be completed before the commencement of major works construction activities.

Site levelling, pad preparation and bulk earthworks for the construction camp was completed as planned in Fourth Quarter 2022. Kitchen facilities have been placed with work well advanced. Accommodation module buildings, arctic corridors and gym facilities were all completed prior to end of Fourth Quarter 2022.

The construction camp is on-track to be completed prior to the commencement of major works construction activities. The Company is also advancing required upgrades to site which include running buried and surface pipelines from selected water wells, and upgrades to its sewage infrastructure in order to accommodate planned head count capacity at site for major works construction activities. The Company has also completed upgrades to fire suppression, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and associated electrical facilities at site.