General Metals Corporation completed 5 of its planned 44 holes in the current reverse circulation (RC) fill-in drilling program on the Hill Zone at its Independence Gold - Silver Mine last week. The drilling is being sampled in five (5) foot intervals, in keeping with industry accepted 'best practices.' The first batch of samples were accepted by American Assay Laboratories. This drilling is undertaken to allow the Company to prepare the definitive advanced pit design and mine plan as well as improve the overall contained ounces in the Company's CNI 43-101 compliant resource calculation. The permitting process proceeds on schedule. Dyer Engineering continues on the fastest track possible to bring the project to near term production as soon as permitting and financing allow.

General Metals Corporation has started its planned 15,000 foot reverse circulation (RC) fill-in drilling program for its Independence Gold-Silver Mine. The initial resource calculations by its Independent Qualified Person showed tonnages similar to the General Metals in-house estimate, but of lower overall grade (0.014 opt Au vs 0.019 opt Au). The reason for the difference is attributed to the nominal drill spacing of 100' along section and 200' between sections. This density is adequate to accurately outline the low grade gold envelope but it is insufficient to provide the confidence required to project the higher grade structurally controlled gold silver mineralization between sections. This drilling is specifically planned to establish sufficient drill hole and sample density to improve the variography of the higher grade gold zones, identify and quantify zones of higher grade gold-silver mineralization, increase gold resource ounces in the +0.03 opt Au shell, increase overall deposit grade to 0.02 opt gold and to provide detail for mine plan and pit design. This will advance Inferred class resources within the Hill Zone into Measured and Indicated resource categories under CIM guidelines.

General Metals Corporation announced that it has recently received the independent resource estimate to be included in the technical report for the company's Independence Project. This estimate identifies a resource of 1,069,279 ounces of gold and 3,858,471ounces of silver in Measured, Indicated and Inferred resource categories. This 1,069,279-ounce gold resource is distributed between the Independence Shallow and Independence Deep zones. To date, the company has drilled approximately 60% of the indicated strike length of the Surface mineralization, where geochemistry, with multiple large gold in soil anomalies greater than 500 ppb gold, indicates additional undrilled targets exist. Management is confident future drilling will develop additional resources and increase the quantity of resource included in the Measured and Indicated categories. With mine planning, design, metallurgical and other work, Measured and Indicated resource categories are expected to be upgraded to Proven and Probable reserves as part of a Feasibility Study in the near future.