Mr. Mac Balkam reports

ESKAY MINING CORP. RETAINS INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED STRUCTURAL GEOLOGIST BRETT DAVIS TO ADVANCE EXPLORATION TARGETS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE

Eskay Mining Corp. has contracted the services of Brett Davis, PhD, a world-leading structural geologist, to provide expert analysis and interpretation of the complex structural geology elements on its 459-square-kilometre land package in British Columbia's prolifically mineralized Golden Triangle. Dr. Davis, known for his ability to use multiscale structural geological analysis to bridge the gap between ground-level data capture and 3-D structural modelling, will play a pivotal role in refining exploration targets across the company's large property.

The Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia is a region with a protracted tectonic-intrusive-mineralization history. Eskay's property is characterized by intense Cretaceous-aged compression that created complex structural regimes, including northerly trending components like the Eskay anticline.

The importance of high-level structural analysis in this area is demonstrated by Eskay's neighbouring mineral deposits. The KSM (Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell) deposits, located just east of Eskay's property, are super giant copper/gold porphyry systems whose geometries were profoundly influenced by faulting. At the Mitchell deposit, structural modification during Cretaceous transpression resulted in significant offsets, such as the Mitchell thrust fault, which displaced mineralization by approximately 1,600 metres.

Further afield, Goliath Gold's structurally complex Surebet layered gold veins discovery in the south of the Golden Triangle provides an exploration model for gold in the company's Vermillion target area where one vein sample in 2025 yielded 217 grams per tonne Au (gold) and 0.44 per cent Cu (copper) (see Nov. 7, 2025, news release).

At Surebet, Goliath Gold highlighted the success of detailed structural mapping of gold-bearing shear zones.

Emulating Goliath's reliance on detailed mapping to track known mineralization, Eskay will apply Dr. Davis's skills to review the potential occurrence of Surebet-style structural controls and shear zone geometries that may exist at Vermillion.

Along with broadening its focus to include porphyry, epithermal and layered gold-bearing vein deposits, Eskay continues to explore its property for high-grade volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits.

Dr. Davis has been at the forefront of research suggesting that many world-class VMS deposits may actually be epigenetic replacement deposits rather than syngenetic sea floor accumulations -- the latter belief having guided Eskay's VMS exploration to date. Dr. Davis's ability to identify whether VMS mineralization already discovered at a number of locations on the company's property postdate, or are synchronous with, host sediments and volcanics could significantly change how Eskay explores around and away from these centres of mineralization this year and in 2027. Regardless of the mode of deposit genesis, an understanding of the structural evolution and current state of these deposits is critical to formulating informed discovery models.

"We are thrilled to welcome Brett Davis to our geologic advisory team," said Mac Balkam, chief executive officer of Eskay. "Structural geology is the key to unlocking the next major discovery in the Golden Triangle. By applying Brett's methods -- proven at world-class deposits globally -- we expect to increase our confidence in expanding existing discoveries and in identifying new, structurally controlled mineral deposits that exploration relying only in geochemistry and geophysics might overlook."

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 northwest 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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