Sama Resources Inc. announced assay results from four additional drill holes from the 2021-22 drilling campaign at the Grata nickel-copper prospect. Sama drilled a total of 85 drill holes totalling 26,787 metres (‘m') at the Ivory Coast project in 2021-22, including 45 drill holes totalling 14,893 m at the Grata prospect and 21 holes for 5,643 m at the Samapleu deposit. The assay results for holes GR-29, GR-31, GR-32 and GR-35 at Grata are summarized in this release.

Assays results for ten holes drilled at the Grata deposit are pending. Sama's Ivorian project is comprised of five exploration permits for 850 square kilometers. More than twenty targets were outlined from geophysical surveys, out of which only three zones have been explored.

In September 2021, Sama announced the Grata discovery located 5 kilometres east of the Samapleu deposit. The discovery hole, GR-03, drilled in June 2021, returned a 310 m sequence of pyroxenite and gabbro containing a 147 m interval of disseminated sulphides and several intersections of semi-massive sulphide mineralisation. The second hole, GR-04, confirmed the width of the mineralised zone with a 141 m mineralised intersection, including 6.4 m grading 1.05% nickel (‘Ni'), 1.28% copper (‘Cu') and 0.48 grams per tonne (‘gpt') palladium (‘Pd') and 6.6 m grading 0.73% Ni, 0.38% Cu and 0.30gpt Pd.

Previous intersections included hole GR-21 with a combined 191.70 m of mineralised material, including 11.85 m grading 0.82% Ni, 0.68% Cu and 0.99gpt of Pd and 108.20 m at 0.32% Ni, 0.38% Cu and 0.50gpt Pd. This release discloses results for holes GR-32 and GR-35 which intersected 138 m and 132 m of combined mineralised zones respectively. Hole GR-35 included 12.40 m grading 0.39% Ni, 0.53% Cu and 0.44gpt Pd and 78.50 m grading 0.27% Ni, 0.42% Cu and 0.25gpt Pd.

These two holes confirm the extension of mineralisation toward the north-east. Shows a cross-section with holes GR-29 and GR-31, in which hole GR-29 intersecting a total of 140 m of mineralisation including 50.55 m grading 0.45% Ni, 0.37% Cu and 0.42gpt Pd including an interval of 2.55 m grading 2.60% Ni, 1.53% Cu and 2.22gpt Pd. Hole GR-31 drilled 50 m south-east of GR-29 returned 172 m of combined mineralised zones including 72.60 m grading 0.36% Ni and 0.34% Cu.

Assay results for GR-27 and GR-33 are pending. The mineralisation at Grata is similar in composition to the Samapleu deposit (‘Samapleu') but shows a higher proportion of chalcopyrite. Metallurgical studies are ongoing using Grata and Samapleu material.

Sama's goal is to increase mineral resources at Samapleu and Grata as well as to search for massive sulphide veins and lenses that could have accumulated at depth in traps and embayments along the feeder system of the Yacouba UM Intrusive Complex.