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• Preliminary discovery to graduation of a Preliminary Financial Evaluation(” PEA“) in underneath two years
  • The Antelope deposit, comprised of the Springbok Zone, the Oryx Zone, and a attainable third construction, Impala, topic to confirmatory drilling, was found in 2022 following deep drill testing by B2Gold exploration personnel on three-dimensional fashions of airborne magnetic knowledge
  • Over 36,000 meters (“m”) have been drilled into the Springbok Zone up to now, with 33 holes totaling 16,950 m accomplished in 2024, to determine the 50 x 50 m spacing that informs this preliminary Inferred Mineral Useful resource Estimate

• Preliminary Inferred Mineral Useful resource Estimate of 390,000 gold ounces meets the B2Gold threshold to provoke PEA-level research of growth by underground mining strategies, just like the Wolfshag deposit
  • The Mineral Useful resource estimate on the Springbok Zone that may type the idea for a possible PEA consists of Inferred Mineral Sources of 1.75 million tonnes grading 6.91 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold for a complete of 390,000 ounces of gold
  • Ongoing exploration drilling on the Oryx Zone, which seems to characterize a second shoot northeast of and stacked stratigraphically above the Springbok Zone, has returned high-grade intervals that exhibit the potential to extend the Mineral Useful resource estimate

• Topic to receipt of a constructive PEA research and allow, mining of the Springbok Zone, coupled with the exploration potential of the better Antelope deposit, might start to contribute to gold manufacturing at Otjikoto in 2026
  • Potential to complement the processing of low-grade stockpiles on the Otjikoto Mine by means of 2031, with the aim of accelerating gold manufacturing ranges to over 100,000 ounces per 12 months from 2026 by means of 2031

• Latest drilling on the Springbok Zone stays open southward, indicating extra exploration potential past the at the moment outlined useful resource
  • Drill gap GH24-097 intersected 13.68 g/t gold over 6.10 m from 470.63 m, and drill gap GH24-104 intersected 21.64 g/t gold over 5.88 m from 502.37 m

Determine 1. Otjikoto Mine and Antelope Deposit Location Overview

Springbok Zone June 2024 Mineral Useful resource Estimate

Notes:

1. The Certified Particular person as outlined underneath Nationwide Instrument 43-101 for the Springbok Zone June 2024 Mineral Useful resource estimate is Andrew Brown, P.Geo., B2Gold’s Vice President, Exploration.
2. Mineral Sources have been labeled utilizing the 2014 CIM Definition Requirements. Mineral Sources that aren’t Mineral Reserves wouldn’t have demonstrated financial viability. There is no such thing as a assure that every one or any a part of the Mineral Useful resource will likely be transformed right into a Mineral Reserve. Inferred Sources are thought-about too geologically speculative to have mining and financial concerns utilized to them that will allow them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves.
3. The Springbok Zone June 2024 Mineral Useful resource Estimate has an efficient date of June 14, 2024.
4. Mineral Sources are reported on a 100% foundation.
5. The Springbok Zone June 2024 Mineral Useful resource Estimate assumes an underground mining technique. Mineral assets are reported inside optimized stopes that have been created utilizing a 3 g/t Au cut-off and minimal thickness of 4 m.
6. “Different” useful resource ounces are adjoining to the principle Springbok Zone and are inside the 50 x 50 m drill spacing that defines the inferred mineral useful resource.
7. All tonnage, grade and contained metallic content material estimates have been rounded; rounding might lead to obvious summation variations between tonnes, grade, and contained metallic content material.

Useful resource Mannequin Methodology

The preliminary Springbok Mineral Useful resource mannequin was ready in-house by B2Gold personnel. Drilling accomplished in assist of the June 2024 Mineral Useful resource Estimate consists of 60 diamond drillholes (32,249 m of drilling).

Excessive-grade mineralization on the Springbok Zone kinds shallowly plunging shoots inside gently dipping stratigraphy. Excessive-grade and low-grade mineralization domains have been modeled alongside these traits in three-dimensions and used to manage the estimation of gold grades.

All assets on the Springbok Zone are hosted inside recent rock.

Outlier assays have been capped at 4 g/t gold within the low-grade area and 35 g/t gold within the high-grade area. Gold grades have been capped previous to compositing to 1 m. Grades have been estimated into the block mannequin utilizing Inverse Distance Cubed (ID3) interpolation with searches dynamically managed alongside mineralized zone traits.

A complete of 4,382 bulk density measurements have been made at web site on drill core samples utilizing the Archimedes water-displacement technique. The common density is 3.11 tonnes per cubic meter (“t/m ³ “) within the low-grade area and three.37 t/m ³ within the high-grade area.

Nominal drill gap spacing for Inferred Mineral Sources is 50 x 50 m.

2024 Otjikoto Exploration Drilling Program

The 2024 exploration finances for Namibia is $9 million, funding the most important drill program on the Otjikoto Mine because the definition of the Wolfshag discovery in 2012. A complete of 39,000 m of drilling have been budgeted for 2024 and 5 rigs are at the moment energetic on the drill program.

General, the Antelope deposit mineralization has been intersected by drilling over a mixed strike size of roughly 1,500 m. Over two km of potential stratigraphy stay comparatively untested between the Oryx Zone and the southernmost recognized mineralization in Section 5 of the Otjikoto Mine open pit. Drilling over this zone is deliberate for the second half of 2024.

The preliminary Inferred Mineral Useful resource for the Springbok Zone is a major milestone, following the 2022 discovery of the Antelope deposit, a blind goal, in that mineralization doesn’t outcrop on the Otjikoto mining license. Mineralization within the Springbok Zone is characterised by quartz-pyrrhotite-magnetite veins and regionally, seen gold. Mineralization has been overprinted by deformation centered alongside two major marble beds, that function main stratigraphic markers within the Otjikoto Mine stratigraphy.

Excessive-grade gold mineralization reveals continuity alongside a shoot-like geometry plunging shallowly north-northeast. This means a delicate inflection within the stratigraphy that hosts the Otjikoto deposit, the place the mineralized zones plunge shallowly south-southwest. Of the 16,950 m of drilling accomplished on the Springbok Zone in 2024, drill holes reminiscent of GH24-104 (21.64 g/t gold over 5.88 m from 502.37 m) and GH24-097 (13.68 g/t gold over 6.10 m from 470.63 m) spotlight a number of the high-grade width intervals current inside the Springbok Zone. One of the latest drill holes, GH24-117, intersected 7.13 g/t gold over 6.56 m from 416.72 m, together with a higher-grade interval of 11.13 g/t gold over 3.81 m, and is the southernmost intersection of the Springbok Zone, indicating that mineralization stays open-ended to the southeast. As beforehand reported, the deep mineralization within the Antelope deposit, together with the Springbok Zone, is doubtlessly amenable to underground mining primarily based on comparable inputs from the underground mining of the Wolfshag deposit.

Highlights from the 2024 infill drill program on the Springbok Zone embrace:

Observe:

1. All composites reported are above a 3.5 g/t gold cutoff, making use of a most inner dilution of two m. Outcomes are uncapped. Core lengths approximate true width of mineralized intervals.

With the 50 x 50 m infill drill program of the Springbok Zone accomplished, three rigs will likely be deployed to the Oryx Zone. Beforehand introduced drill holes reminiscent of GH23-056, which intersected 9.86 g/t gold over 7.48 m from 517.55 m, point out that useful resource potential is open to the northeast alongside strike from the Springbok Zone.

Determine 2. Springbok Zone 2024 Infill Drilling Outcomes

High quality Assurance/High quality Management on Pattern Assortment and Assaying

LeachWell evaluation on the Otjikoto Mine Lab has been the first technique of study of half core (NQ) samples from the Antelope deposit. Assay composites introduced herein are derived from 1-kilogram samples. Tails from mineralized zones are fireplace assayed to find out the gold recoveries, which averages ~95%. Quarterly submission of coarse reject materials is shipped to a licensed exterior laboratory for Display screen Fireplace Assay examine evaluation. In-house research by B2Gold point out that LeachWell outcomes examine favorably to fireplace assay accomplished by ALS Johannesburg.

High quality assurance and high quality management procedures embrace the systematic insertion of blanks, LeachWell licensed requirements and duplicates within the drill core pattern sequence. The outcomes of the management samples are evaluated frequently with partial batches re-analyzed and/or resubmitted on exploration samples, as wanted. All outcomes said on this announcement have been accepted based on B2Gold’s high quality assurance and high quality management protocols.

About B2Gold

B2Gold is a low-cost worldwide senior gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Based in 2007, in the present day, B2Gold has working gold mines in Mali, Namibia and the Philippines, the Goose Challenge underneath building in northern Canada and quite a few growth and exploration tasks in varied nations together with Mali, Colombia and Finland.

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