BeMetals Corp. announced results from its 2021 core drilling program at the Pangeni Copper Exploration Project, located on the western extension of the Central African Copperbelt in Zambia. This program comprised six drill holes to test aircore copper anomalies at the DProspect and the Q and F targets.

The Pangeni Project is located in an area where prospective extensions to the prolific Zambian Copperbelt are covered by a thin veneer of Kalahari sand units. In 2021 the Company completed 1,382 metres of core drilling in six holes, 4,353 metres of shallow aircore, and a helicopterborne electromagnetic survey over the Project. The interpretation of the EM survey data was integrated with previous geophysical and geological interpretations of the Property.

The EM data improved exploration target selection and mapping of the Kalahari sand cover units. Four priority targets were identified from the aircore program for testing with core drilling. These were related to both the DProspect and two standalone new exploration targets, namely the Q and F targets .

The core drilling program was completed in early December and the analytical results were recently received. QTARGET; The intersection of 4.14 metres grading 0.62% Cu (from 92.36 metres drilled depth) is of specific interest as this zone of observed copper oxide mineralization in drill hole Q3C1 is hosted within siltstones interpreted to be part of the Katanga Supergroup. These siltstones have been intersected in relatively close proximity to what is currently interpreted to be basement hosted copper mineralization at the SWProspect.

Many of the world class, sedimenthosted, copper deposits and mines of the Central African Copperbelt occur in this type of geological setting when coupled with favourable structural feeders for the copper mineralization. DPROSPECT; The Company first discovered copper mineralization at the DProspect near the end of 2019 and this area remains an important target area for further exploration. Table 1 provides details of the mineralized zones intersected in drill holes D7C1, D7C2 and D3C2.

These drill holes returned meaningful and multiple copper intersections ranging from 6.0 to 0.5 metres in width and 0.58% Cu to 0.32% Cu in grade (0.3% Cu cutoff grade). Significant copper mineralization has now been intersected in five of the six core drill holes completed at the DProspect. The copper grades in many of the 2021 (D7C1 & D7C2) and previous drill holes are similar to those for operating largescale copper mines in the Domes Region of the Zambian Copperbelt (Examples: First Quantum Minerals' Sentinel Mine Reserves: 792.4 million tonnes grading 0.46% Cu(1) and Barrick Gold's Lumwana Mine Reserves: 538.8 million tonnes grading 0.56% Cu(2)).