Finlay Minerals Ltd. announced that its PIL Property partner, Cascadia Minerals Ltd. (Cascadia), is planning a summer 2023 exploration program on the PIL Property. Finlay's field crew has recently completed a phase 1 field program on its 100% Silver Hope Property which surrounds Newmont's past-producing Equity Silver Mine. The phase 1 field program included mercury soil vapour testing, biogeochemical sampling and a regional LiDAR survey. Orientation surveys for the mercury vapor and biogeochemical sampling were conducted over the Main Trend and Cu-Mo West Horizon to test the results over the known mineralization. Further mercury vapor and biogeochemical sampling were also conducted over the East Horizon, Equity East, Allin Zone and Sam Zone. The biogeochemical samples are currently at ALS Global for analysis and results will be released when assays are received and reviewed. The LiDAR survey covered 180 square kilometers of the property and will be used to increase understanding of the glacial cover environment and possible ice flow directions and distances. This will assist in pinpointing the possible origins of the various soil geochemical anomalies present on the property. The Main Trend includes the Gaul, Superstition and Hope Zones which are a 2km long Cu+Ag+Au mineralized zone on trend from the past-producing Equity Silver Mine. The Main Trend is open to the south and at depth. The West Horizon is a Cu-Mo mineralized porphyry that has been drill tested over 1km in length and is open at depth. The East Horizon, Equity East and Allin Zones are highly
prospective zones with multi-element soil geochemical anomalies and geophysical anomalies with limited drilling. Only 38 km southeast of Houston, situated in British Columbia's Nechako Plateau, the strategically located Silver Hope Property is in an area with numerous past-producing deposits including Equity Silver, Silver Queen, Bell-Granisle, Huckleberry, and Endako and offers significant potential for new discoveries. Finlay's drilling has successfully focused on drilling low-sulphidation Cu-Ag ± Au mineralization along the Main Trend towards the south of the Equity Main Zone. Through this targeted drilling at the Hope, Superstition, and Gaul Zones, the Company has identified a west-dipping mineralized trend that extends for 2 km along strike.