Artemis Gold Inc. (TSX-V: ARTG) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced equity financing of $175 million, via the issuance of an aggregate of 38,890,000 common shares at a price of $4.50 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of $175,005,000.

National Bank Financial, as sole bookrunner and lead underwriter, together with RBC Capital Markets and Stifel GMP as co-lead underwriters, on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (which included BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., Scotia Capital Inc., Haywood Securities Inc., PI Financial Corp., Cormark Securities Inc., and Paradigm Capital Inc. purchased on a bought deal basis 19,112,000 Common Shares at the Offering Price for gross proceeds of $86,004,000 .

In addition to the Bought Deal Offering, certain management, insiders and shareholders, purchased, pursuant to a separate non-brokered offering, 19,778,000 Common Shares at the Offering Price for gross proceeds of $89,001,000.

The Common Shares issued under the Bought Deal Offering and the Non-Brokered Offering were offered pursuant to two separate prospectus supplements each dated October 7, 2022 to the Company’s base shelf prospectus dated January 12, 2021. The terms of the Bought Deal Offering and the Non-Brokered Offering were described in the Supplements which were filed with the securities regulators in each of the provinces and territories of Canada pursuant to the Supplement, and in the United States by way of a private placement.

The net proceeds of the Offering will be used to fund permitting and development costs for the Company’s Blackwater Gold Project and for general corporate purposes.

The Common Shares offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the Common Shares in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.