Desert Gold Ventures Inc. announced preliminary metallurgical results from the first RC/core holes by the Company at its Mogoyafara South, Linnguekoto West and new Gourbassi West North Zones. Mineralized intervals of fresh rock, generally from a single lens (except at Mogoyafara South where two lenses were sampled) from each of these zones were subjected to 72-hour bottle roll analysis. The Company carries out this routine metallurgical analysis as soon as fresh rock samples are available from any potential or existing mineral resource targets.

Composite samples are created by combining assay rejects from a mineralized interval. These rejects are then ground to 80% passing 75um with approximately 1.5 kg of sample mixed with a CN-bearing solution held at a PH of approximately 10 with timed extraction of the assay liquor at 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 hours. The samples and CN-bearing fluids are slowly rolled to ensure continuous mixing of sample pulps and CN-bearing solutions.

Fire assays of the pulped composite sample are taken both at the beginning and the end of the 72-hour time bottle roll leach period. Samples from Mogoyafara South, returned good, best, fresh rock recoveries of 86% and 88%. Two samples from Gourbassi West North and one from Linngukoto West returned poor bottle-roll leach recoveries ranging from 22% to 25%.

Additional metallurgical tests comprising finer grinding and the addition of reagents will be carried out on all of the samples to determine if first pass metallurgical recoveries can be easily improved. As well, metallurgical samples from other mineralized lenses and the oxide portions of these zones will be subjected to first pass metallurgical testing. Initial and final assay's variability are expected to be related to variability within a sample pulp verses the result of variability due to coarse gold.

Previous Metallurgical Test work: Preliminary metallurgical test work was completed for Barani East (gold recoveries of 93.8% for oxides and 83% to 98.7% for fresh rock), Gourbassi West (gold recoveries of 93.6% for oxides and 95.2% for fresh rock) and Gourbassi East (87.6% for fresh rock) (source NI 43-101 report filed on SEDAR March 3, 2022). Next Steps: The Company is proposing a 35,000-metre drill program including 10,000 metres of contingency drilling. Contingency holes will have a sole purpose of developing mineral resources.

Drill holes are designed to follow-up and extend known gold zones with an initial focus at Mogoyafara South and Gourbassi West North Zones and Zones area which are deemed to be the large gold systems discovered on the property to date. Auger and additional AC holes to the north and east of the Gourbassi West North Zone, as well as follow-up to 2021 drill and auger results, which were not completed during the recent program, still need to be drilled. A highlight summary of the 2021 high priority targets requiring follow-up include the following: Sola - 2.04 g/t gold over 30 metres; Kamana ­ 1.80 g/t gold over 17 metres; Manakoto ­ 1.65 g/t gold over 21 metres; Sorokoto South ­ 2.68 g/t gold over 6 metres; Frikidi ­ gold in auger values of 8,650, 3,100, 2.370, 462 and 440 ppb gold.