ArcWest Exploration Inc. provided an update on partner funded exploration activities. Drilling has commenced at its Teeta Creek porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold project, funded by partner Teck Resources Ltd. Exploration commitments for 2021 include partner funded drilling at its Todd Creek, Oxide Peak and Eagle porphyry copper-gold projects, with potential for partner funded drilling at its NVI project. Drilling has commenced at ArcWest's 100% owned Teeta Creek porphyry Cu-Mo-Au project in northern Vancouver Island, funded and operated by partner Teck Resources Limited. This first phase program will comprise an estimated 1,000 metres of drilling from two platforms in order to satisfy a minimum $500,000 work commitment. The program is designed to test a previously undrilled portion of the Teeta Creek porphyry copper- molybdenum-gold system. The two drill platforms are separated by 320 m, and are situated 200 m to 350 m above, and 600 m north of historical drill holes located in the valley bottom that intercepted copper mineralization over a broad area. The Teeta Creek porphyry Cu-Mo-Au and epithermal Au-Ag system has a footprint of approximately 3 by 2 kilometers and is open to the north and south. Vertically, the system extends from strongly Cu-Au mineralized porphyritic intrusions and associated breccias exposed in the valley floor to similarly mineralized but undrilled porphyritic intrusions and breccias exposed alongside logging roads at elevation. Sampling of these higher elevation roadside porphyry copper occurrences by ArcWest returned assays up to 0.47% Cu and 0.031% Mo. A zone of intense clay-pyrite alteration and associated epithermal Au-Ag mineralization overprints the porphyry system at high elevations in the system. Sampling of this area in 2019 returned assays up to up to 21.1 g/t Au. Multiple historical drill holes in the valley floor returned significant copper intercepts, including assays up to 0.35% Cu over 67.1 meters in S75-1. The 2021 NVI exploration program, funded by partner Teck, will include additional mapping, sampling and a potential geophysical and drill program to explore this newly discovered porphyry copper system ocated approximately 16 km northeast of Teeta Creek. The 2020 NVI exploration program included mapping, sampling and geophysical modeling, and a report from Teck summarizing results of the 2020 program is pending. The 2021 Todd Creek exploration program, funded and operated by partner P2 Gold Inc., will include drilling, geological mapping and sampling, and additional geophysical surveys in order to satisfy an estimated $2.1 million minimum work commitment. The Todd Creek project contains one of BC's largest underexplored porphyry Cu-Au systems and is located 35 km southeast of Pretium Resources Inc.'s high grade Brucejack gold-silver mine and 45 km southeast of the giant KSM-Iron Cap porphyry copper-gold deposits, owned by Seabridge Gold Inc. The west side of the Todd Creek valley is underlain by a 12 km N-S highly gossanous corridor comprising strongly altered volcanic rocks, high level variably altered porphyritic intrusive rocks of KSM- Iron Cap age, associated breccias, and widespread, abundant Cu-Au occurrences. This large corridor is prospective for multiple porphyry Cu-Au centres, including preliminary targets in the Yellow Bowl, Ice Creek/Fall Creek and Orange Mountain areas. The Yellow Bowl porphyry Cu-Au system will form the initial focus of the 2021 program, in addition to the largely untested VMS Zone, which is located 5 km southeast of Yellow Bowl on the east side of the Todd Creek valley. Three drill holes totaling 1,027 m were drilled at Todd Creek in 2020 by partner P2 Gold, which was also operator for the program. Two of these holes were drilled at Yellow Bowl. Hole 2 at Yellow Bowl intercepted multiple quartz-sulfide veins which returned assays up to 3.03% copper, 0.20 g/t gold and 7.15 g/t silver over 3.3 m. Intense, texturally destructive quartz-sericite-pyrite (QSP)/clay-pyrite alteration including local QSP altered porphyritic dikes were intercepted over broad intervals at the bottom of both holes, suggesting increasing proximity to a potential porphyry Cu-Au system. This also suggests that the large conductive body underlying the Yellow Bowl system might represent the QSP halo to a porphyry Cu-Au system, and that steeper drill holes will be required to test beneath the conductor for a potential Cu-Au mineralized potassic core. QSP related resistivity lows overlie some of the world's largest porphyry copper-gold deposits, including the giant Resolution deposit in Arizona. A single shallow hole was drilled at VMS Zone. The hole intercepted locally barite mineralized variably altered volcanic rocks in addition to local, massive sulfide clast bearing tuff breccias. The presence of massive sulfide clasts suggests proximity to a nearby VMS lens. Similar massive sulfide clast bearing tuff breccias and massive sulfide occurrences with significant polymetallic grades are present 500 m to the northeast of the drill hole, demonstrating the presence of a VMS system on the east side of Todd Creek valley of significant size. Additional porphyry Cu-Au targets for follow up include multiple large areas of coincident colour, geophysical and hyperspectral anomalies delineated in the 2020 program. Many of these prospective zones exceed 500 m by 500 m in area, and have never been traversed or sampled, demonstrating that vast prospective tracts of the Todd Creek property remain completely unexplored. Several zones of interest are proximal to the Orange Mountain gossan, a large area of QSP/clay-pyrite altered volcanic and porphyritic intrusive rocks. Previous explorers completed two shallow inclined drill holes at Orange Mountain which intercepted local quartz-magnetite-chalcopyrite veining hosted in strongly QSP/clay-pyrite altered lithologies, similar to other known porphyry deposits in the Golden Triangle. These veins are interpreted to be "leakage veins" from an underlying porphyry Cu- Au system. The 2021 Oxide peak exploration program will include drilling, geological mapping, sampling and potential geophysical surveys.