QMX Gold Corporation announced that it is increasing its drilling plans to more than 45,000 metres, from 35,000m, by year end, and provided an update on its current exploration activities. QMX continues to be extremely active with four drill rigs on three different projects located on its nearly 200 km2 Val d’Or Camp property located east of the city of Val d’Or in the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Belt in Québec. Following on very successful results throughout 2020, QMX is increasing its drilling plans for the year to over 45,000m, from 35,000m. Focus will remain on growing the Bonnefond deposit on the eastern side of the property and drilling the River and Poulmaque targets on the Bourlamaque Zone. Early in 2020, all drilling efforts were focused on QMX’s most advanced project, the Bonnefond deposit, in order to expand and upgrade the initial 2019 resource. Once the infill drilling campaign within the intrusive was completed, 2 drill rigs were mobilized to test Bonnefond’s extent in all directions. To date this effort indicates that Bonnefond extends to the South, West and East and also at depth. A 10,000m exploration program was recently completed to the north of the intrusive and is awaiting assay results. Currently one of the two drill rigs has commenced a 9,000m exploration program to the south of Bonnefond testing the western extension of the New Louvre target. The other drill rig is on the Bonnefond intrusive following up on the deposit’s depth potential. At the end of the summer exploration campaign, QMX completed a 1,200m hole through the Bonnefond intrusive to test its potential at depth. Based on the success of DDH 121, QMX’s exploration team designed a 4,000m follow up drilling program focusing on deep exploration in the Bonnefond intrusive. This program is ongoing and expected to becompletedlater this fall. The Bonnefond resource update is progressing and is expected to be available shortly. River Target – Follow up drilling: In 2019, QMX drilled a 1,100m reconnaissance program on the River Target to evaluate the geometry and potential of the mineralized zone. Based on the success of the initial program, a 5,500m broader second phase exploration program was initially developed. Drilling commenced during the summer and assays are pending. The River Targetprogram was recently expanded to 8,500m and is expected to completedthis fall. Poulmaque Area – Reconnaissance program: A 3,000m reconnaissance drilling program began mid-September on the Poulmaque area. The objective of the program is to identify potentially mineralized structures on the eastern side of the Bourlamaque Batholith. Poulmaque is a prospective target area extending on a 3.5km north-south strike in the south eastern part of the Bourlamaque batholith. The Poulmaque target area is located 3km west of Probe Metals “Courvan gold trend” and 5km from the “Pascalis gold trend”. The northern end of the target hosts the F-Zone and the southern end the Callahan deposit on QMX Gold’s Beacon property. The F-Zone is located in the eastern end of the Ferderber shear and has returned 10.93g/t Au over 1.4m and 28.45g/t Au over 1.6m according to the MERN Sigeom database. The Callahan deposit was drilled by QMX in 2017 and DDH 17319-17-005 intersected quartz veins grading 32.6g/t Au over 1.0m and 7.6g/t Au over 3.0m. 2021 Winter drilling program – Bevcon intrusive: The QMX exploration team is currently planning the 2021 winter drilling campaign. The campaign will focus primarily on areas accessible only during the winter months, which include the Bevcon Intrusive area and the eastern part of the Bonnefond project. QMX currently plans to utilize seven drill rigs for a total of 35,000m over the winter months. The additional rigs have already been sourced and will be provided by the company's current supplier Orbit and G4 Drilling.