Mr. Robert Brown reports

FINLAY MINERALS COMPLETES THE 2025 EXPLORATION PROGRAMS ON THE PIL AND ATTY TOODOGGONE PROJECTS

Finlay Minerals Ltd. has completed the 2025 exploration programs at the Pil and Atty projects, located in the Toodoggone region of north-central British Columbia. The exploration activities at both the Pil and the Atty projects included geological and alteration mapping, soil sampling, induced polarization surveys, and airborne magnetic surveys. The primary objective of these exploration programs was to develop drill targets for 2026 while also assessing other targets for subsequent fieldwork and geophysical surveys. Results are still being received, and will be released once they have been compiled and integrated into the existing data sets.

Both programs were fully financed through earn-in agreements with Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. Under these agreements, Freeport can earn an up-to-80-per-cent interest in each property by investing a total of $35-million in exploration expenditures and making cash payments of $4.1-million over six years, with Finlay acting as the operator for both projects and earning an operator's fee.

The Pil project is located in the heart of the Toodoggone region and includes several porphyry copper-gold targets, along with associated epithermal gold-silver mineralization. To date, 18 porphyry copper plus or minus molybdenum plus or minus gold and related low- and high-sulphidation epithermal gold-silver occurrences have been identified on the Pil property. The property is adjacent to Freeport and Amarc Resources' Joy project, as well as TDG Gold Corp.'s GSN (Shasta/Baker) and Sofia properties. It is also situated approximately 25 kilometres northwest of Centerra Gold's former Kemess South mine and 15 km east of Thesis Gold's Lawyers-Ranch project.

The Atty property covers 3,875 hectares of subalpine terrain in the southern Toodoggone region, an area known for significant porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au-Ag deposits. It is located between Centerra Gold's Kemess project and the Joy project, held by Freeport and Amarc Resources. The Kem target on the Atty property resembles the Kemess North trend, which is home to the Kemess underground and Kemess East deposits. Exploration focused on the Wrich target, located near the copper geochemical anomaly at the Swt target on the Joy property. This anomaly extends over two kilometres and continues onto the Atty for an additional 1.2 km to the southeast.

Qualified person

Wade Barnes, PGeo, vice-president, exploration, for Finlay Minerals, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has approved the technical content of this news release.

About Finlay Minerals Ltd.

Finlay is a TSX Venture Exchange company focused on exploration for base and precious metal deposits through the advancement of its Atty, Pil, Jjb, Say and Silver Hope properties. These properties host Cu-Au porphyry and Au-Ag epithermal targets within different porphyry districts of Northern and central British Columbia. Each property is located in areas of recent development and porphyry discoveries with the advantage of hosting the potential for new discoveries.

Finlay trades under the symbol FYL on the TSX Venture Exchange and under the symbol FYMNF on the OTCQB.

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