White Gold Corp. Encounters Gold in Encouraging Host Rocks of Altered and Mineralized Intrusives in Surface Rock Sampling over 1.25km on the Newly Discovered 2.2km Chris Creek Target on the QV Property

TORONTO, Sept. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTCQX: WHGOF, FRA: 29W) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that surface rock sampling has encountered gold with associated anomalous silver and tellurium in altered and mineralized intrusive rocks over a 1.25 km section of the 2.2 km Chris Creek target, a recently discovered gold-in-soil anomaly on its QV property. The Chris Creek target is located approximately 9 km northwest of the VG deposit and appears to be similar in character to the VG and Golden Saddle deposits which form part of the Company’s flagship White Gold Project (Figure 1). The White Gold Project is located in west-central Yukon, Canada, and comprises 16 million tonnes averaging 2.23 g/t Au for 1,152,900 ounces of gold in the Indicated Resource category and 19 million tonnes averaging 1.54 g/t Au for 942,400 ounces of gold in the Inferred Resource category ⁽¹⁾. These new results form part of the Company’s 2024 exploration program on its extensive and underexplored land package in the emerging White Gold District, Yukon, supported by strategic partners including Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC).