Argent Minerals Limited (ASX: ARD) ('Argent' or 'the Company') is pleased to announce the progress on the RC drilling program at the Company's 100% owned historic Pine Ridge Gold Mine Project.

During the program 16 RC drillholes were completed for a total of 1,918m. The Company has received all of RC down hole assays results from Nagrom Laboratories in Perth.

The remaining 5 drill holes will be drilled in September and October 2021.

Argent Minerals Limited Managing Director Mr Karageorge commented: 'We are very pleased and excited to have received another batch of significant gold assay results from the second phase of drilling over Pine Ridge'.

'Pine Ridge gold mineralization is open at depth and in most directions whilst the grade increases as we drill west, northwest and extend drilling at depth'. 'High grade gold has been intersected in drill holes such as APRC048 with 6-meter interval of 10.5 gram gold from 60 meters and drillhole APRC040 a further 7- metre interval of 3.1 gram gold from 70m'.

'Pine Ridge continues to prove itself as an exciting exploration target. We are confident the project will deliver more gold mineralisation with the view of commencing the first independent Maidan JORC Resource estimation on the remaining drilling program is completed in September

Pine Ridge Prospect 100% Argent

The Pine Ridge Exploration License (EL) 8213 is 100% owned and operated by Argent Pty Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of Argent Minerals Limited. The Pine Ridge Exploration Licence (EL) 8213, located in an undulating region of the Central Tablelands in New South Wales (NSW), approximately 65 kilometres south of the township of Bathurst and 10 km south-west of Trunkey. Alluvial gold was discovered within the area of EL 8213 in 1851 on the Abercrombie River and its tributaries. After the initial gold rush of the early 1850's, small scale alluvial and deep-lead prospecting and mining continued until the Second World War. The Pine Ridge Gold Mine commenced mining in 1877 and continued sporadically until 1948, producing a total of 6,864t ore with variable gold grades.

Mining was originally conducted by open cut workings and then subsequently by underground workings which consisted of 2 shafts up to 20m deep, small open cut pits, an adit and underground drives in a zone that extended over 300m. The mineralisation has been described as two zones of highly weathered porphyrite separated by phyllite up to 75m wide that contained gold bearing quartz veins. The drilling programs conducted by Rimfire in the late 1990's and the Company in 2019 has revealed some potential similarities with the McPhillamy's gold deposit which host over 2.31Moz of Gold. The McPhillamys gold deposit lies along one of series of north-south trending splays/horsetail structures that occur at the inflection of the Godolphin-Copperhania Fault Zone where the orientation changes from NNWSEE to SSW-NNE. The splay is defined by strong shearing and faulting and continue to the south over 6 km. Gold mineralisation is associated with strongly sheared volcaniclastics and strong quartz-carbonatesericite-pyrite alteration.

The gold mineralisation trends roughly N-S over a strike distance of 900m and dips steeply at 70 o to 80o to the east.

An Exploration Target is a statement or estimate of the exploration potential of a mineral deposit in a defined geological setting where the statement or estimate, quoted as a range of tonnes and a range of grade, relates to mineralisation for which there has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource. The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to estimate an additional Mineral Resource and it uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of an additional Mineral Resource.

Contact:

George Karageorge

Tel: +61 8 9481 0389

Email: George.karageorge@argentminerals.com.au

About Argent Minerals Ltd

Argent Minerals Limited is an ASX listed public company focused on creating shareholder wealth through the discovery, extraction, and marketing of precious and base metals. A key goal of the Company is to become a leading Australian polymetallic producer, mining 1.5 million tonnes per annum with a mine life of the order of 20 years. The Company's project assets are situated in the Lachlan Orogen in New South Wales, Australia, a richly mineralised geological terrane extending from northern NSW through Victoria and into Tasmania. Argent Minerals' three projects, in each of which the Company owns a controlling interest, is strategically positioned within a compelling neighbourhood that is home to Australia's first discovery of gold, and today hosts world class deposits including one of the largest underground copper-gold mines in the southern hemisphere, Newcrest's Cadia Valley Operation

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Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: risks related to changes in commodity prices; sources and cost of power and water for the Project; the estimation of initial capital requirements; the lack of historical operations; the estimation of labour costs; general global markets and economic conditions; risks associated with exploration of mineral deposits; the estimation of initial targeted mineral resource tonnage and grade for the project; risks associated with uninsurable risks arising during the course of exploration; risks associated with currency fluctuations; environmental risks; competition faced in securing experienced personnel; access to adequate infrastructure to support exploration activities; risks associated with changes in the mining regulatory regime governing the Company and the Project; completion of the environmental assessment process; risks related to regulatory and permitting delays; risks related to potential conflicts of interest; the reliance on key personnel; financing, capitalisation and liquidity risks including the risk that the financing necessary to fund continued exploration and development activities at the project may not be available on satisfactory terms, or at all; the risk of potential dilution through the issuance of additional common shares of the Company; the risk of litigation.

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