Maple Gold Mines Ltd. provided an update regarding property-wide volcanogenic massive sulfide targeting and plans for a summer field program at the Douay and Joutel Gold Projects located in Qubec, Canada, which are held by a 50/50 joint venture between the Company and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited. The Company is also planning VMS exploration work at its 100%-owned Morris Project ("Morris") located approximately 30 kilometres ("km") east of the town of Matagami in Morris Township, Qubec. The JV's primary focus remains on testing resource expansion targets at Douay and testing prospective near-mine extension targets in the Telbel mine area at Joutel. However, the Douay and J outel projects each have demonstrated potential for gold and base metals VMS mineralization, as is illustrated by a series of targets previously defined by field mapping and geophysical surveying across the combined 400 km property package. Under the terms of the JV agreement, the partners agreed to jointly fund CAD 500,000 in exploration on VMS targets on the western portion of Douay. The Douay-Joutel property straddles the Casa Berardi Deformation Zone, which is geologically underlain, from south to north, by predominantly intermediate to felsic tuffs of the Joutel-Raymond Grp, the basinal sediments of the Harricana Grp and the predominantly mafic volcanic sequence forming the Cartwright Hills Grp, followed by further basinal sediments of the Taïbi Grp. Although the geological model for Eagle-Telbel is still evolving, gold mineralization was associated with mixed sedimentary and pyroclastic horizons hosting abundant iron carbonate and semi-massive sulfide (pyrite) at the top of the volcanic package that hosts the past-producing Joutel/Poirier VMS mining camp. The main VMS target horizons
occur laterally along the Eagle-Telbel Mine Horizon, as well as along multiple interflow horizons
within The Cartwright Hills Grp, which include the interpreted eastern extension of the Estrades horizons. The Joutel Targets include several EM anomalies within 2-5 km of the historical Eagle, Telbel and Eagle West deposits that have very limited drilling. These deposits are associated with the Harricana and Joutel Deformation Zones and appear as discrete conductive zones aligned along a well-defined northwest trend. The Mag-EM survey indicates possible similar structures extending more than 9 km further to the east in this area where
historical drilling intersected anomalous gold ("Au") and zinc ("Zn") in several holes. Hole M- 94-078 (also known as McClure 93-2 showing) intersected 0.81% Zn over 0.6 metres ("m"); hole JO-12-05 intersected 6.1 g/t Au over 1.5 m, as well as 0.55% Zn over 4 m further
downhole, including 0.88% Zn over 1m. Planned work to advance VMS targets at Douay and Joutel is expected to include compilation of existing data, including review of historical drill logs, followed by field work including lithogeochemistry and initial follow-up ground EM surveys to support bringing highest priority VMS target areas towards a drill ready stage. Separately, planned work at Morris is expected to include detailed lithogeochemical sampling to establish the full extent of strong VMS related hydrothermal alteration identified in 2021 and identify promising portions of the 3 km long conductor identified by ground geophysics in 2022 and 2023. Morris is located approximately 30 km east of the Matagami VMS mining camp and hosts the Watson Lake rhyolite unit which forms the footwall of all the VMS mines at Matagami.