Mr. Mac Balkam reports

ESKAY CONTINUES TO BUILD ITS EXPLORATION TEAM FOR THE 2026 SEASON

Eskay Mining Corp. has added three industry-wide renowned experts to the Eskay team.

Ken Konkin, PGeo, has agreed to become a technical adviser to the Eskay exploration team. He will be joined by Steve Cook, PGeo, and Todd Ballantyne, PGeo, as consultants to the company.

Mr. Konkin was instrumental in the discovery of Eskay's neighbouring Valley of the Kings eight-million-ounce gold deposit now owned by Newmont. He has over 40 years of geological experience throughout North America, South America as well as Russia. Mr. Konkin worked for Silver Standard for 19 years and managed advanced exploration programs at Manantial Espejo (Argentina), San Luis and Berenguela (Peru), as well as Snowfields (Canada) in the Golden Triangle in British Columbia. Mr. Konkin is a co-recipient of the prestigious H.H. (Spud) Huestis Award for excellence in prospecting and mineral exploration in British Columbia and/or Yukon.

Currently, Mr. Konkin is the senior vice-president, exploration, for Tudor Gold Corp. At Treaty Creek, within the heart of the Golden Triangle, Mr. Konkin also led the exploration team to the discovery of one of the world's largest gold-copper deposits in the past 30 years. He is also the president and chief executive officer of Goldstorm Metals Corp., a spinoff from Tudor Gold. Goldstorm Metals is the 100-per-cent owner of the adjacent property on trend south of Seabridge Gold's KSM project and Newmont's Brucejack mine.

Mr. Konkin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor of science in geology. He is a professional geologist in mineral exploration registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

Mac Balkam, president and chief executive officer of Eskay, explained, "Having Ken on the team at this important stage of exploration at the Vermillion-TM trend will be a game changer."

Clinton Smyth, chief geologist for Eskay, further commented: "I am very excited to work closely with Ken, a world-class geologist, on Eskay's world-class property. Leveraging on Ken's deep knowledge of our area will be invaluable to Eskay." He went on to say, "Importantly, Steve Cook and Todd Ballantyne, two additional experts from the field of geochemistry and geophysics have joined our team."

Mr. Cook will provide his deep geochemistry expertise to the Eskay team as a consultant. Mr. Cook was formally chief geochemist at Teck Resources and, previous to that, held technical roles at Anglo America Exploration Canada and the British Columbia Geological Survey. Mr. Cook holds an MSc from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Ballantyne, a consulting geophysicist with 38 years of global experience, will also join as a consultant. Mr. Ballantyne holds a BSc in geophysics from the University of British Columbia and he will work alongside Tom Weis, PGeo, company director and previous chief geophysicist at Newmont Mining (worldwide) to capitalize on the abundance of geophysics data that has been collected across the property over the past 30 years.

Qualified person

Clinton Smyth, PGeo, chief geologist for the company, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this news release.

About Eskay Mining Corp.

Eskay Mining is a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company, headquartered in Toronto, Ont. Eskay is an exploration company focused on the exploration and development of precious and base metals along the Eskay rift in a highly prolific region of northwestern British Columbia known as the Golden Triangle, 70 kilometres northwest of Stewart, B.C. The company currently holds mineral tenures in this area comprising 177 claims (52,600 hectares).

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