Rupert Resources Ltd. provides an exploration update and reports new drill results from its ongoing exploration programme at Area 1, a 5km long highly prospective section of a regional domain- bounding structure, 20km of which is contained within Rupert's 100% owned Pahtavaara Project in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt, Finland. Since commencing exploration activities at Area 1 in January 2019, Rupert Resources has identified and drilled six new gold occurrences, including the significant scale Ikkari discovery. Base of till ("BoT") sampling is continuing to identify further new gold anomalies that will be drill-tested in the months ahead. This release highlights several significant intercepts drilled at the end of 2020 as part of the continuing regional exploration program. The exploration plan for the 2021 calendar year includes up to 60,000m of diamond drilling across the Pahtavaara Project including Ikkari, existing and new Area 1 targets and at the mine. Hole 120114 intersected 57.9m grading 1.2g/t gold ("Au") and 0.3% copper ("Cu") from 127m (99m vertical) including 11.8g/t Au and 0.2% Cu over 3m which includes 26.4g/t Au and 0.2% Cu over 1m at the Heinä Central target. Hole 120116 intersected 20m grading 1.0g/t Au and 1.3% Cu from 225m downhole (166m vertical) at Heinä Central demonstrating the potential for significant copper mineralisation. Hole 120105 at Island North (located 2km to the northeast of Ikkari) intersected 2.2g/t Au over 15m, from 124m (95m vertical) including 4.9g/t Au over 5m. This hole is part of a program following up on high grade vein hosted mineralisation (249g/t Au over 0.5m) identified in early 2020. Hit Rate - 75% of drillholes assayed to date from Area 1 have yielded gold grades greater than a 0.4g/t Au nominal cut-off. Since work commenced in January 2019, 7,823 BoT samples have been taken with all six gold occurrences at Area 1 discovered beneath coincident BoT anomalies and structural targets identified from geophysics. Exploration update: Winter drilling conditions now allow access to all parts of Area 1. At Ikkari, drilling continues to progress, targeting depth extensions and systematically stepping out along the predicted strike, with the mineralised envelope still open to the east and west. Drilling will also recommence at Heinä South (located approximately 500m north west of Ikkari) where high- grade gold mineralisation was drilled at the end of the winter drilling season in 2020. Heinä South has several untested BoT anomalies and the sampling coverage will be expanded to the south and west during the next two months. To date 39,078 metres have now been drilled at Area 1 in 169 holes including 19,645 metres at Ikkari in 62 holes, with results reported for 45 holes. Further results will be released as assays are completed.