Mr. Mario Pezzente reports

GERMANIUM MINING CORP. COMPLETES REMOTE SENSING WORK ON ITS LAC DU KM 35 PROPERTY IN CHIBOUGAMAU AREA, QUEBEC

Germanium Mining Corp. has completed remote sensing work on its Lac Du Km 35 property, located in the Chibougamau area in Quebec.

Description of the Lac du Km 35 property regional setting

The property comprises the prominent Faribault shear zone (FSZ), oriented east-southeast and located toward the eastern part of the property. The FSZ dips to the south-southwest and ends to the Grenville Front, which extends southwest-northeast for several hundreds of kilometres. The FSZ is a key structural feature that may connect with other permeable zones at depth, acting as a preferential conduit for hydrothermal fluids.

Discovered by government geologists in 1998 and never followed up, the Laganiere germanium showing consists of a peridotite outcrop within the Laganiere gneissic complex that comprises amphibolites and hornblende and biotite gneisses. The Laganiere showing returned a value of 0.02 per cent (186 parts per million) germanium and is currently the highest germanium value ever reported from an outcrop in the province of Quebec.

The Laganiere germanium showing lies beside the main lumber road and immediately adjacent to the south to a cluster of electromagnetic anomalies of roughly 400 metres by 400 metres in size that were never tested. The Laganiere germanium showing is also 450 metres northeast of the FSZ, 800 metres from the southern margin of the Duberger felsic pluton and approximately two kilometres to the west of the Grenville Front. The area between the FSZ and the Laganiere germanium showing, including the never-tested cluster of electromagnetic anomalies, will be the main focus of Germanium Mining.

Satellite imagery study

The remote sensing work allowed the identification of new structural and circular features that may be associated to germanium mineralization.

The satellite imagery study used ESA (European Space Agency) PNEO (Pleiades Neo) satellites constellation with panchromatic data of 30 centimetres in resolution, acquired in September, 2023.

A pan-sharpened image was acquired with visible and infrared bands. The image was acquired in September, 2023, and is of high quality.

Algorithms were applied on these images in order to pinpoint relevant structural bodies, including potential intrusions, variably dipping dikes and lenticular-shaped elements as well as outlining potential outcrops.

Major structures and circular features have been identified on the property with main trends being northeast, east-west, north-northeast and northwest. Many structures coincide with the Quebec government's structural maps and new major structures have also been identified.

The Laganiere germanium showing area is correlated with a circular feature having a diameter of approximately 300 metres; the exact nature of this circular feature is still unknown and will be investigated. The Laganiere showing area is also crosscut by a set of three major northeast structures. Finally, the important Faribeault shear zone, roughly 450 metres southwest of the Laganiere germanium showing, has been clearly mapped from the image.

In addition, the remote sensing work allowed the outline of several outcropping areas nearby the Laganiere germanium showing. It is expected that between 15 to 20 potential outcrops per line kilometre would be mapped and sampled in the coming program in the summer of 2026.

The information will be transferred to a GIS (geographic information system) and a series of maps at scale 1:5,000 will be generated. Precise satellite image interpreted structural features will help with optimizing the field campaign and logistics.

About germanium

Germanium is a hard, greyish and brittle metalloid. Germanium has many growing applications in electronics and solar, fibre optics, and infrared optics for civil and military uses. Germanium is in the list of critical metals in Canada, the United States and the European Union.

Since Dec. 3, 2024, China, the largest producer of refined germanium, has banned germanium exports to the United States. Germanium is not an openly traded commodity and recent spot prices have germanium over $5,000 (U.S.) per kilogram.

The company cautions that the geological information provided in this news release is of a historical nature and mineralization may not be representative of mineralization on the Lac du Km 35 property.

Benoit Moreau, PEng, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and vice-president of exploration for Germanium Mining, is responsible for the technical information contained in this news release.

About Germanium Mining Corp.

Germanium Mining is a publicly traded exploration company focused on the development of highly prospective, discovery-stage mineral properties located in some of Canada's top mining jurisdictions. The company's properties are in the Allison Lake batholith of Northwestern Ontario and the Chapais-Chibougamau, Abitibi, Upper Laurentides and James Bay regions of Quebec as well as in Nevada, United States.

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