Confirmations Of Significant Extensions Of High Grade Zones At Douay Gold Project

VANCOUVER – Maple Gold Mines Ltd. reported on the sixteen (16) additional drill holes completed during the 12,240-metre (m) 2025 winter drill campaign at its Douay Gold Project located along the Casa Berardi-Douay Gold Trend in Québec, Canada. Step-out drilling in the 531 Zone and the Nika Zone continues to confirm significant extensions of high-grade gold zones well below the current Douay mineral resource estimate (MRE) conceptual pit shells, demonstrating the potential for bulk tonnage underground gold mineralization at depth.

In the 531 Zone, all five (5) step-out drill holes returned zones of high-grade gold mineralization starting from 200 m below the defined mineralization and conceptual pit shell in the current Douay MRE, including: 1) Drill hole DO-25-351, which intersected 4.87 grams per tonne gold (“g/t Au”) over 15.0 m (from 393 m), including 11.25 g/t Au over 5.0 m 2) Drill hole DO-25-352, which intersected 3.66 g/t Au over 11.4 m (from 593.7 m), including 11.04 g/t Au over 2.85 m, within a broader mineralized envelope that returned 1.41 g/t Au over 49.5 m. 3) Drill hole DO-25-349, which intersected 3.00 g/t Au over 10.8 m (from 639.2 m), including 4.51 g/t Au over 5 m.

In the Nika Zone, five (5) drill holes were completed to follow-up on drill hole DO-25-338, which intersected 2.10 g/t Au over 108.6 m (from 537.4 m), including 3.15 g/t Au over 55.8 m, and including 5.16 g/t Au over 17 m in a significant (300-m) down-plunge step-out from the nearest drilling in the Nika Zone and well below the defined mineralization and conceptual pit shell in the current Douay MRE including: 1) Drill hole DO-25-54Ext, an extension of drill hole DO-11-54, which intersected 2.21 g/t Au over 31 m (from 697 m), including 2.93 g/t Au over 20 m, and including 5.54 g/t Au over 7 m, within a broader mineralized envelope that returned 1.26 g/t Au over 60 m. 2) Four (4) additional step-out drill holes all confirmed a broad alteration corridor that hosts gold mineralization to a depth of 600 m below the Douay MRE conceptual pit shell.

The 531 Zone and Nika Zone extensions represent two new high-priority targets for the Company and both targets remain open in multiple directions.

“The Company’s inaugural drill program under new leadership has delivered exciting results and achieved all our stated objectives,” stated Kiran Patankar, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Step-out drilling success in multiple zones points to the significant potential for high-grade extensions of the existing Douay deposit. It also validates our improved geological and targeting models and supports further resource growth and new discovery potential, all of which are key drivers of shareholder value. With our summer exploration season well underway and plans for additional drilling and an updated MRE later this year, H2 2025 is expected to be a busy news flow period with several important questions being answered.”