Mr. Gord Neal reports

DOMESTIC METALS 2025 YEAR END UPDATE GRANTS STOCK OPTIONS

Domestic Metals Corp. is providing a 2025 year-end update.

Gord Neal, chief executive officer of Domestic Metals Corp., says: "Two thousand twenty-five was a year of team organization and readying Domestic for a major porphyry discovery program at the Smart Creek copper porphyry project in Montana. I can't tell you how excited I am that we are one step closer to drill success. I see 2026 as a pivotal and transformational year for Domestic Metals and thank our shareholders for their support in closing two placements in 2025 allowing us to further the project by running a targeted geophysics program followed by a diamond drill program in Q1, 2026."

Domestic metals review and update

The Smart Creek copper porphyry project, acquired in August, 2024, is a joint venture with Rio Tinto, where Rio will retain 40 per cent of the asset. Rio drilled around 26 of the 40 permitted sites over 2.5 years as they vector toward the centre of the porphyry and at the Smart Creek target returned 109.73 metres at 0.75 per cent Cu, which included 89 metres of 0.97 per cent Copper (SMCR0022; see news release dated Aug. 20, 2024).

Following the acquisition of the Smart Creek project, initial fieldwork by Domestic included approximately 40 days of mapping, sampling and prospecting focused on the Smart Creek, Sunrise mine and Radio Tower targets (see the map of the Smart Creek land position on the company's website).

With results pending, field level observations (mapping) have significantly enhanced all three targets and is allowing Domestic Metals to identify targets for followup diamond drilling scheduled for late Q1, 2026.

Significant advancement at the Sunrise mine target

Previous mapping and sampling at Sunrise identified a quarts vein stockwork in a quartz-sericite-pyrite altered intrusion approximately one kilometre east of the Sunrise mine that returned 4.26 g/t gold (see news release of Sept. 11, 2025 and map). This altered and mineralized intrusion is significant because it provides a porphyry linkage to historically mined mineralization at Sunrise confirming Domestic's interpretation that there is a previously unrecognized, high-priority porphyry target related to this mineralization and has advanced the Sunrise mine target to the drill testing phase. Additional geochemistry results (pending) and proposed geophysics (scheduled for early Q1, 2026) will be used to plan drilling for this target.

Opportunity to meet with management

The company appreciate meeting with its supporters and shareholders in person. See you at booth No. 1101 at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver (VRIC) on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26, 2026, and booth No. 3139 at the Investors Exchange at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), March 1 through March 4, 2026, in Toronto.

Stock options granted

Pursuant to the company's omnibus incentive plan approved by shareholders at the annual general and special meeting held on Oct. 3, 2025, the company has granted incentive stock options to directors, officers and consultants of the company, to purchase up to an aggregate 2.7 million common shares in the capital stock of the company. The options are exercisable on or before Dec. 27, 2030, at an exercise price of 25 cents per share.

About Domestic Metals Corp.

Domestic Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large-scale, copper and gold deposits in exceptional, historical mining project areas in the Americas. The company aims to discover new economic mineral deposits in historical mining districts that have seen exploration in geologically attractive mining jurisdictions, where economically favourable grades have been indicated by historic drilling and outcrop sampling.

Qualified person

All scientific and technical information in this news release has been prepared by, or approved by Daniel MacNeil, MSc, PGeo, technical adviser of the company. Mr. MacNeil is a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The QP has not verified the historical data but verification of these data will be done through the company's planned exploration activities.

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