Rackla Metals Inc. announced that it has increased the size of the Astro property with the staking of claims that cover 822 hectares. This new claim block connects the Company's land holdings between the Hit and the Astro border intrusive centres, where strong stream geochemistry and geophysics indicate a relationship between these two exposed intrusive bodies. The new claim block covers the area to the west of the gold-in-soil anomaly, where scattered sampling previously completed indicates an extension of the gold anomaly.

The Company's 2023 exploration program will extend the soil grid to cover this area between the Astro and the Hit properties. The Company is fully permitted to drill in the Northwest Territories and drilling will commence there early in the summer program. An application has been made for a Class 1 permit to allow for drilling across the border in the Yukon Territory, as well.