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About New Found Gold Corp.

New Found Gold is advancing its 100%-owned Queensway gold project, spanning 1,756 km2 along the Trans-Canada Highway near Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. Since its first discovery in 2019, the Project has uncovered over 20 high-grade gold zones along the prolific Appleton Fault Zone (AFZ). These discoveries, including the Keats, Iceberg, Keats West, Lotto, Iceberg, and K2 Zones, add to the growing list of zones comprising the AFZ Mineralized Envelope. The 4.1km long mineralized strike area, which extends up to 500m from the AFZ, showcases the Project's exceptional potential.

2023: A Year of Exploration Breakthroughs

In 2023, New Found Gold achieved several project milestones, reinforcing its reputation as a leader in the Canadian exploration sector. The Company conducted a 3D seismic survey at Queensway North, offering unprecedented insights into subsurface geological structures and guiding future deep drilling efforts. Surface trenching programs at the Keats Zone exposed mineralized areas with remarkable detail, uncovering new high-grade veins and allowing geologists to refine structural models.

Phase I of New Found's metallurgical program demonstrated 90–96% gold extraction rates across Keats, Lotto, and Golden Joint Zones. These findings laid a solid foundation for the Project's continued technical development and future economic studies.

These milestones were in lock-step with the discovery of six additional high-grade zones, including Iceberg, Iceberg East, and K2.

Strategic Growth in 2024

In 2024, New Found Gold strategically expanded its portfolio by acquiring the neighbouring Kingsway Project. This move not only increased the length of accessible strike along the AFZ to over 20 km but also validated the Company’s growth strategy. Early exploration at the expanded Queensway property has led to the discovery of the Pistachio Zone and the expansion of other known gold zones in the area, including Big Vein while work continues to step out into new untested target areas along the AFZ corridor.

Innovative programs, including ongoing deep drilling utilizing directional drilling technology and seismic data, continue to identify significant high-grade discoveries at depth, such as the Golden Dome and Keats South Deep zones. Surface trenching at Iceberg has further enhanced understanding of the Project's geology, allowing for detailed analysis and validation of the geological and structural models currently defined through drilling alone.

Phase II metallurgical testing focused on Iceberg and Iceberg East, with demonstrated gold extraction rates of 96.9%. Additional metallurgical testing will focus on Keats West, with results expected in early 2025.

Looking Ahead

New Found Gold is on track to deliver a maiden resource estimate by Q2 2025, to be followed by a preliminary economic assessment in late 2025. These studies will define the Project's mineral inventory, economic potential, and potential future development scenarios. Additionally, environmental baseline studies and hydrogeological assessments will continue to ensure sustainable project advancement.

Through cutting-edge exploration techniques, a commitment to responsible mineral exploration, and strong community partnerships, New Found Gold is poised to shape the future of gold discovery in Newfoundland.

For more information on the Queensway project, please see our corporate presentation.

~$23 million in cash and marketable securities*

*As of February 2025.

New Found is well funded to pursue its
exploration programs.

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Board of Directors

Paul Huet Independent Chairman

Paul Huet is the CEO of Americas Gold and Silver. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Karora Resources Inc. (2019–2024) and President, CEO, and Director of Klondex Mines (2012–2018), leading both companies through major acquisitions. A graduate of Haileybury School of Mines and the Stanford Executive Program, Mr. Huet has extensive experience in mining operations, engineering, and capital markets. He is an Accredited Director and member of OACETT.

Keith Boyle CEO

Keith Boyle, P.Eng., has 40 years of experience in mining and exploration. He spent the last 17 years as Chief Operating Officer for various senior and junior companies, including Reunion Gold Corporation, where he led the development of the Oko West Project until its acquisition for $870 million. He has extensive international experience in both open pit and underground operations, with expertise in project development, stakeholder relations, operational optimization, and cost control.

Melissa Render President

Melissa Render has served as V.P. of Exploration for New Found Gold since 2021. She is an exploration geologist with 15+ years of experience focused on orogenic gold. Melissa managed exploration projects worldwide from grassroots to advanced stages in greenstone belts, including the Abitibi, Eastern Goldfields, Hope Bay, Central Lapland and Banfora for Kinross Gold, AngloGold Ashanti, and TMAC Resources. She spent 3 years as a consultant specializing in target generation, 3D modelling, data management, and exploration program design.

William Hayden Independent Director

A geologist with over 38 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry, much of it in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Has worked in a management capacity with several exploration and mining companies internationally since 1986. Involved with the Ivanhoe Group of companies since 1994, including Ivanhoe Australia, Ivanhoe Philippines and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. Presently has directorships with publicly listed companies, including Trilogy Metals Inc. and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

Collin Kettell Director

Mr. Kettell is a co-founder of New Found Gold Corp. (2016) and of Palisades Goldcorp Ltd. (2013), a Canadian resource investment company. Mr. Kettell has been the driving force behind the inception of Palisades, leading to its current stature as a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment company, while incubating and developing several companies under the Palisades umbrella, including New Found Gold Corp. Mr. Kettell is an active participant in the resource sector as an investor and company builder, focused on discovery of mineral deposits both in Canada and the United States. Mr. Kettell is also founder and CEO of Nevada King Gold Corp.

Vijay Mehta Independent Director

Vijay is a co-founder of Arkview Capital, a private equity fund backed by the Ziff family that invests in diversity-oriented companies. Vijay is involved with several diversity initiatives, serving as a member of Genesis Bank’s DEI Committee, Board member of Clean Sea Transport, and Vice Chair of the New York Minority Supplier Development Council MBE Input Committee.
Prior to founding Arkview, Vijay was a Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee at Ziff Brothers Investments with broad responsibilities across the investment portfolio. Previously, Vijay worked at private equity fund, Texas Pacific Group and investment bank, Morgan Stanley.
Vijay graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.

Key People and Advisors

Ron Hampton Chief Development Officer

Ron brings over 25 years of project and engineering leadership experience to the role including extensive experience through the study, construction, and operational phases of project development. This includes Project Director for Centerra Gold, Project Director leading feasibility study and pre-execution planning for the $1.2-billion Minesa greenfield underground gold mine in Columbia, Project Controls and Services group leader for Vale’s Voisey’s Bay $1-billion Nickel Development in Newfoundland, and Project Controls and Commercial Services group leader for the $1-billion Diavik Diamond Mines Development for Rio Tinto.

Greg Matheson, P.Geo. Chief Operating Officer

A professional geologist with over 14 years experience managing grass roots exploration through to advanced exploration projects; former exploration manager of Northern Gold Mining, senior project manager for Oban Mining and Osisko Mining. Responsible for the discovery and delineation of the >2.0M oz. Garrison Gold project in NE Ontario from early stage exploration through trial production mining.

Michael Kanevsky, CPA, CA Chief Financial Officer

Chartered Professional Accountant with expertise in corporate reporting, financial processes and risk management.

Currently Chief Financial Officer of New Found Gold Corp. (TSX-V:NFG) and Golden Planet Mining Corp.

Committees

Audit
Committee

William Hayden (Chair)

Paul Huet

Vijay Mehta

Compensation
Committee

Collin Kettell (Chair)

Vijay Mehta

William Hayden

Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee

Vijay Mehta (Chair)

Collin Kettell

William Hayden

Technical
Committee

Melissa Render (Chair)

Paul Huet

William Hayden

Governance

The Board of Directors and Management believe that good corporate governance is vital to New Found Gold’s long-term success and the protection of our stakeholders’ interest. Our directors commit to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance according to evolving best practices and regulatory guidance.

New Found Gold’s Corporate Governance practices comply with those set out by the Canadian Securities Administrators, including National Policy 58-201 – Corporate Governance Guidelines and National Instrument 58-101 – Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices.

Business Ethics and Policies

New Found Gold and the Board of Directors approved corporate governance guidelines to help us effectively manage our affairs and perform our responsibilities to the highest legal and ethical standards.

A Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applies to all employees, contractors, consultants, officers and directors and promotes honest, respectful, accountable and ethical conduct.

We have a ZERO tolerance approach to the act of bribery and corruption by any employees, officers, directors, agents, consultants and contractors as set out in our Anti-bribery and Anti-corruption Policy.

A Whistleblower Policy is in place for our employees, consultants, contractors, directors of officers to communicate concerns, confidentially and anonymously, about possible improprieties, illegal or unethical activities and ensures that measures are in place for an impartial investigation.

Note host structures are estimated fall into one of four categories depending on the zone in which the interval is located: 170% to 95%, 240% to 70%, 310% to 40%, or 4true widths are presently unknown. Infill veining in secondary structures with multiple orientations crosscutting the primary host structures are commonly observed in drill core which could result in additional uncertainty in true width. Composite intervals reported carry a minimum weighted average of 1 g/t Au diluted over a minimum core length of 2m with a maximum of 4m consecutive dilution. Included high-grade intercepts are reported as any consecutive interval with grades greater than 10 g/t Au. Grades have not been capped in the averaging and intervals are reported as drill thickness. Assay data has been verified by the Company’s Qualified Person against the original assay certificates and the Company does not recognize any factors of drilling, sampling or recovery that could materially affect the accuracy or reliability of this assay data.

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