Drill Holes Completed During Winter Campaign  

VANCOUVER - Maple Gold Mines Ltd. reported on the first five (5) drill holes completed during the 10,000-metre (m) 2025 winter drill campaign at its Douay Gold Project located along the Casa Berardi-Douay Gold Trend in Québec, Canada. Reported assay results include one (1) hole completed in the Nika Zone, three (3) holes completed in the Porphyry East Zone, and one (1) hole completed in the Central Zone.

In the Nika Zone, drill hole DO-25-338 intersected 2.05 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au) over 108.6 m (from 537.4 m downhole, or 490 m vertical depth), including 3.05 g/t Au over 55.8 m, and including 4.93 g/t Au over 17 m. This result was within a broader envelope of mineralization that returned 1.43 g/t Au over 169.5 m. DO-25-338 is a significant (300-m) down-plunge step-out from the nearest drilling in the Nika Zone and is located well below the defined mineralization and conceptual pit shell in the current Douay mineral resource estimate ("MRE"). These drill results define a new high-grade, bulk tonnage target that is open at depth and along strike. DO-25-338 returned the best intercept drilled to date in the Nika Zone and the 5th best intercept ever reported at Douay based on gold accumulation (grade x thickness). The Company is planning immediate follow-up drill holes to DO-25-338 during this Program.?In the Porphyry East Zone, drill hole DO-25-334 intersected 15.50 g/t Au over 1.0 m, drill hole DO-25-335 intersected 3.15 g/t Au over 9.0 m, including 14.30 g/t Au over 1.0 m, and drill hole DO-25-336 intersected 0.98 g/t Au over 35.0 m, including 2.31 g/t Au over 9.0 m.

"The Company's ambitious 2025 exploration program is already yielding exciting results," stated Kiran Patankar, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We have only begun to test Douay's resource expansion potential at depth using our improved geological and targeting models. Hole DO-25-338 was a planned 300-m step-out that intersected exceptional grades and widths, including the best intercept drilled to date in the Nika Zone and one of the best grade-thickness intercepts ever encountered at Douay, within the syenite that hosts the existing mineral resource. Today's result builds on the consistent gold mineralization previously identified at shallower depths in the Nika Zone and defines a new high-grade, bulk tonnage target at Douay that remains open in multiple directions."