General Copper Gold Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 5, 2022) - General Copper Gold Corp. (CSE: GGLD) (FSE: 7S5) (the "Company") announces that it has closed the non-brokered private placement (the "Financing"), previously announced on April 28, 2022, raising aggregate gross proceeds of up to $748,000 through the issuance of 3,740,000 units at a price of $0.20 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant is exercisable at a price of $0.40 for a period of 12 months from the date of issue. Proceeds from the financing are intended for exploration on the Company's Topley Richfield property and general working capital.

The securities issued under this financing are subject to a hold period and may not be traded until August 28, 2022.

About General Copper Gold Corp.

General Copper Gold Corp. is an independent mineral exploration company based in Vancouver, British Columbia that is engaged in the business of exploring for and evaluating mineral properties.

General Copper Gold is currently exploring the 770 hectare Clark's Brook gold property in central Newfoundland as well as the 2,313 hectare Topley Richfield copper-gold property in British Columbia. Topley Richfield is a historic mining area with previous work carried out in 2008, 2015 as well as geophysical surveys in 2021. There are significant historical drilling intercepts and the 2021 geophysics has highlighted further key highly prospective areas that have yet to be explored. Multiple drill targets have already been identified by the Company.

For further information, please contact:

General Copper Gold Corp.
Michelle Gahagan, President
T: (604) 639-4452
E: [email protected]

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