Sun Metals Provides Update on Stardust Exploration Program

Press Release

Vancouver, B.C. – Sun Metals Corp. (“Sun Metals” or the “Company”) (TSXV: SUNM) reports on progress from the current exploration program at its 100% owned Stardust project in northcentral British Columbia. The 2019 program consists of diamond drilling, along with surface electromagnetic (EM) and borehole electromagnetic geophysical surveys (BHEM) and continued geological studies with a budget of $5.4 million.

Diamond drilling was initiated in late May with two drills. To date, the drills have completed 3,671 metres over nine drill holes in four pilot holes, and drill holes ten and eleven are in progress. The primary focus of the diamond drill program is to explore around the mineralization identified in drill hole DDH18-SD-421 (see press release at https://sunmetals.ca/news/2018/) which returned a 100.00 metre interval of 2.51% copper, 3.03 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, and 52.5 g/t silver for a 4.99% copper equivalent(1,2). Diamond drilling to date has tested areas on section with DDH18-SD-421 and areas to the south where a BHEM survey completed at the end of the 2018 program identified an EM conductor.

Directional diamond drilling has been used in all of the 2019 drilling at Stardust to increase the precision and accuracy of drilling step-outs. Another benefit of this style of drilling is the use of pilot holes which has resulted in a 35% reduction in metres drilled. The Stardust team is also using oriented core to assist Sun Metals’ geologists in advancing their knowledge of the structural characteristics of the local rocks.

A total of 1,527 samples have been selected from the nine completed holes and 1,264 samples have been shipped to the Bureau Veritas laboratory in Richmond, BC. A full suite of QA/QC samples are included in the sampling process, including standards, blanks, field duplicated and laboratory duplicates. Bureau Veritas is a fully certified and internationally recognized facility.

In conjunction with the diamond drilling, large loop ground EM surveys are being conducted along strike of the phyllite/carbonate contact in the Canyon Creek skarn zone. A large loop grid has been completed over the Canyon Creek skarn zone with 25.3 line km of surveying completed and the crew is now working in the area to the south. BHEM surveys have also been conducted on five holes in this program.

Technical aspects of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Ian Neill P.Geo., Vice President Exploration of Sun Metals, who is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

For more information, please contact Susie Bell, Investor Relations for Sun Metals at sbell@sunmetals.ca, 604-697-4953, or Steve Robertson, President and CEO of Sun Metals, at srobertson@sunmetals.ca, (604) 697-4952.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors of
SUN METALS CORP.
Steve Robertson
Chief Executive Officer

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