Mr. Serafino Iacono reports

DENARIUS METALS ANNOUNCES 2025 PRODUCTION RESULTS FOR ITS ZANCUDO PROJECT; EXPIRING 2026 WARRANTS STARTING TO BE EXERCISED

Denarius Metals Corp. has provided the details of the production results achieved in 2025 during the early production phase at its Zancudo project in Colombia.

Serafino Iacono, executive chairman of Denarius Metals, commented: "Two thousand twenty-five marked the beginning of operations at Colombia's newest gold mine, our 100-per-cent-owned Zancudo project, located in the Cauca belt, approximately 30 kilometres southwest of Medellin. From our first shipment of 64 tonnes of crushed material in June, we increased our shipments to 814 tonnes in the third quarter and 1,215 tonnes in the fourth quarter. Head grades averaged eight grams per tonne for gold and 224.8 g/t for silver, resulting in total revenue for 2025 of approximately $1.7-million (U.S.). As development opens up new fronts in 2026 and we transition to producing high-grade gold-silver concentrates in the second half of 2026, we expect this to be a transformational year for Denarius Metals."

Denarius Metals commenced mining operations at its Zancudo project in the second quarter of 2025. The current early production phase encompasses artisanal mining in accessible areas of the Zancudo project and is expected to run through the first half of 2026 as mine development progresses to open new fronts that are being developed for long-term conventional, semi-mechanized mining operations. In parallel, construction of the company's new 1,000-tonne-per-day processing plant is advancing with commissioning expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year. During this early production phase, mined material is being crushed on site and then shipped to a local port for sale to Trafigura Pte. Ltd. under the company's long-term offtake agreement.

The first shipment from Zancudo was completed in June, 2025, and, through the end of December, 2025, the company delivered a total of 2,093 tonnes of crushed material to Trafigura. With grades averaging eight g/t gold and 224.8 g/t silver, these shipments contained approximately 538 ounces of gold and 15,129 ounces of silver. During the current early production phase, Trafigura's payability rates range from 30 per cent to 70 per cent for gold and 20 per cent to 40 per cent for silver, depending on the grades of the material. For these shipments through the end of December, 2025, the company received payment for 340 ounces of gold and 5,770 ounces of silver. Trafigura's payability rates in the early production phase reflect the additional costs it will have to incur to bring the material to a saleable condition. When the company begins shipping concentrates to Trafigura, payability rates will increase to 86 per cent to 90 per cent for gold and 35 per cent to 45 per cent for silver, depending on the grades in the concentrates.

Update on exercises of warrants and stock options

Denarius Metals also provided an update today on its capital structure. Since late December, 2025, the company has issued a total of 1,640,255 common shares resulting from the exercises of warrants expiring March 2, 2026, and April 4, 2026, at an exercise price of 60 cents per share and 418,000 common shares from the exercises of warrants expiring June 20, 2030, at an exercise price of 66 cents per share. The company has a total of 37,732,046 warrants issued and outstanding that expire on March 2, 2026, and April 4, 2026, and expects additional proceeds to be received from further exercises completed prior to the expiration dates. In addition, a total of 300,000 stock options at an exercise price of 52 cents per share were exercised at the end of December, 2025, by a departing manager. The company received total gross proceeds of approximately $1.4-million from the exercises of these warrants and stock options. As of the market close on Jan. 19, 2026, the company had a total of 153,786,093 common shares issued and outstanding with a market capitalization of approximately $107.7-million.

About Denarius Metals Corp.

Denarius Metals is a Canadian junior company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and eventual operation of precious metals and polymetallic mining projects in high-grade districts in Colombia and Spain. Denarius Metals is listed on Cboe Canada, where it trades under the symbol DMET. The company also trades on the OTCQX market in the United States under the symbol DNRSF.

In Colombia, Denarius Metals commenced mining operations in the second quarter of 2025 at its 100-per-cent-owned Zancudo project, a high-grade gold-silver deposit, which includes the historic producing Independencia mine, located in the Cauca belt, about 30 kilometres southwest of Medellin.

In Spain, Denarius Metals has interests in three projects focused on in-demand critical minerals. The company owns a 22.1-per-cent interest in Rio Narcea Recursos SL and is the operator of its Aguablanca project, which has been recognized by the European Union as a strategic project. The Aguablanca project comprises a turnkey 5,000-tonne-per-day processing plant and the rights to exploit the historic producing Aguablanca nickel-copper mine, located in Monesterio, Extremadura. Denarius Metals also owns a 100-per-cent interest in the Lomero project, a polymetallic deposit located on the Spanish side of the prolific copper-rich Iberian pyrite belt, approximately 88 kilometres southwest of the Aguablanca project, and a 100-per-cent interest in the Toral project, a high-grade zinc-lead-silver deposit located in the Leon province, northern Spain.

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