Fortitude Gold Corp. announced additional wide, high-grade County Line gold intervals. Intercepts include 6.10 meters grading 3.11 grams per tonne gold (g/t) within 16.76 meters grading 1.60 g/t gold, and 3.05 meters grading 3.29 g/t gold within 19.81 meters grading 1.38 g/t gold.

Fortitude Gold is a gold producer, developer, and explorer with operations in Nevada, U.S.A. offering investors exposure to both gold production and dividend yield. The recent drill program completed during the fourth quarter of 2022 focused on the historic County Line open pit floor and periphery. These sixteen holes build on the August and November 2022 County Line drill results which intercepts included 15.24 meters grading 7.66 g/t gold and 7.62 meters grading 10.71 g/t gold.County Line is located approximately 26 kilometers northwest of the Company's operating flagship Isabella Pearl gold mine via paved Nevada State Route 361.

The Company targets delineation of sufficient mineralization to justify potential ore feed for its Isabella Pearl operation. The proximity of the two properties could enable trucking ore from the County Line property to the Isabella Pearl Project's heap leach pad for gold processing. The County Line property land package is 2,401 acres consisting of 116 unpatented lode mining claims and 6 unpatented placer mining claims located in Mineral and Nye counties, Nevada.

The property is part of the Paradise Peak collection cluster of high sulfidation epithermal deposits. The district historically produced a total of 1.5 million ounces of gold and 38.9 million ounces of silver. The County Line open pit historically produced a total of 81,000 ounces of gold and 760,000 ounces silver.

The Porphyry (East) Pit, located approximately 762 meters (2,500 feet) southeast of the County Line pit, produced approximately 7,400 ounces of gold and 8,000 ounces silver. In addition to the County Line and Porphyry (East) pit targets, other targets include "Newman Ridge" and the "Jackpot Zone".