Norra Metals Receives Approval of 2022 Exploration Plans at Bleikvassli Project, Norway

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – September 15, 2022 – Norra Metals Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX-V: NORA) (Frankfurt: 1KO) (OTC: NRRMF) is pleased to announce the successful approval of the submitted planned exploration field work at Bleikvassli Project (Norway) from Direktoratet for Mineralforvaltning (“Dirmin”), the national Norwegian Institution that oversees all the exploration activities in the country.

As a consequence of the Direktoratet for Mineralforvaltning (“Dirmin”) assessment to the submitted 2022 work program, Norra has obtained the complete approval for all exploration activities proposed. Soil sampling and ground geophysics has been approved with notification to landowners and residents a minimum of a week prior to the beginning of the work. The proposed drilling (phase I) has also been accepted and allows Norra to start anytime after 28th of June with appropriate notifications to those affected with, in general, two months in advance, up to 31st of December 2022. This time frame can be extended at Norra’s convenience if needed.

The permit application process for Bleikvassli area was prepared by Transition-Elements AS under the supervision of Norra’s VP Exploration, and was submitted to Dirmin according to the Norwegian Minerals Act – section 18. The exploration work plan for 2022 was outlined based on the target selection for the area after an extensive and comprehensive review of the available historical data which will consist of the phase I exploration program.

The work program granted includes permits to investigate several high-priority targets at Bleikvassli area.

The work plan and objectives can be summarized as follows:

• Diamond drilling at the down dip extension of Bleikvassli mine (Figure 1):
  It consists of the investigation of the central part of the down dip extension of the Bleikvassli mineralization right below the old mine stopes, approximately 400m along strike and 120m down dip. This surface drilling campaign aims at the confirmation of historical relevant mineralized intercepts with non-compliant grades of 18.2m with 6.57% Zn, 0.25% Cu, 2.38% Pb, 21.26g/t Ag (drill hole DH19-97); 5.3m with 5.80% Zn, 0.26% Cu, 3.24% Pb, 21.98g/t Ag, 0.13g/t Au (drill hole DH10-96). It is anticipated to commence a NI 43-101 compliant technical report after completing a resource estimation based on the new drill results obtained from this phase I of drilling and progressively upgrade it as the drilling progresses to other parts of the mineralization that remains insufficiently tested or untested (Figure 1).

Figure 1 – Bleikvassli mine long section with indication of the area planned for drilling investigation over the down dip extension of the old mine. Indication of historical drill intercepts and mined out stopes

• Geophysical surveys over Bleikvassli mine south extension, Rapliasen target, Kongsfjellet and Brunnesbeken mineralization (Figure 2):
  The aim for this survey is to define drill locations at several high-priority targets. It consists of an extensive survey of Induced Polarization / Resistivity techniques that is highly effective to detect this type of semi-massive mineralization and has never been tried in the past on the property.This survey will be located right at the south extension of Bleikvassli mine, along the same geological horizon of the mine (“Bleikvassli South target”), and up to 1800m distance from it. It will also cover the same geological horizon to northeast extension (“Rapliasen target”) where it has been historically identified geophysical conductors coincident with Zn±Cu±Pb soil anomalies, both untested by drilling.The Brunnesbeken and Kongsfjellet mineralization will  also be investigated. Apparently, they correspond to a different stratigraphic horizon from the mine and correspond to two different areas:
  • “Brunnesbeken target” was investigated by limited drilling revealing significant mineralization intercepts with non-compliant grades of 4.2m with 1.22% Cu; 1.17% Zn; 0.14% Pb (drill hole BR1-97) located at the contact of two different geological units. It is expected the planned geophysical survey will investigate this contact at a wider extension of the previous historical drilling and also to investigate the contact to a deeper level where the Cu-ratio distribution suggests a more proximal character of mineralization and strongly copper enriched in comparison of Bleikvassli mine ore.
  • “Kongsfjellet target”, the same type of survey is planned with the objective to investigate the continuity at depth of the mineralization detected at surface which consists of surface in-situ bedrock sampling with strongly anomalous grades that include, up to >9.99% Zn; 3.93% Cu; 1.78% Pb; 80.6 g/t Ag and 744ppb Au scattered along the same stratigraphic horizon, and not properly understood.

• Geochemistry sampling (soils and rocks) over Bleikvassli South, Rapliasen and Kjokkenbukta areas (Figure 2):An extensive soil geochemistry survey is planned over the same targets to corroborate the geophysical methods and to confirm some historical sampling. At the same time, it is considered the implementation of a whole-rock geochemical survey for conceptual targeting for Bleikvassli property. The main objectives are the identification of the geochemical signature of the mineralized altered rock at the district and acquiring high-grade results from selected samples. This data can then be combined with other layers of information such as geology and geophysics, to generate informed targets that will aid in the exploration process.

Figure 2 – Geology map of Bleikvassli property with location of the planned work plan for phase I exploration program.

Qualified Person
Mr. Paulo Nuno De Sa Caessa, EurGeol., VP Exploration, who is the Qualified Person for Norra Metals Corp. and responsible for the review and preparation of the scientific and technical information contained in this news release.

Norra Metals Corp. has not performed sufficient work to verify the published drill data shown in this document as reported by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) not compliant with NI43-101 standards. Norra is not aware of any key assumptions, parameters or methods, including data verification techniques used by NGU to achieve the presented results. Likewise, bedrock and dump numbers are reported as published and have not been confirmed. These results should not be relied upon until they can be confirmed however the sources of these results are considered relevant.

About Norra Metals
Norra Metals Corp. (TSX-V: NORA) (FSE: 1KO) (OTC: NRRMF) is a Canadian-based precious and base metals exploration company. The Company’s Norwegian assets include the past-producing Bleikvassli polymetallic, zinc-copper-lead-silver underground mine project and the high-grade Meråker copper-zinc- gold exploration project. The Company also holds a 100% interest in the Pyramid copper-gold porphyry project located in Northwest British Columbia. For more information, please visit www.norrametals.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF NORRA METALS CORP.

Per: “Minaz Devji”
Minaz Devji, CEO and Director

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