Mr. Saf Dhillon reports

IMETAL RESOURCES ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT

iMetal Resources Inc. has closed its non-brokered private placement and has issued 10,720,999 units at a price of 10.5 cents per unit for gross proceeds of $1,125,705.

Each unit consists of one common share in the capital of the company and one transferable share purchase warrant of the company. Each warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one additional share of the company at a price of 20 cents until Aug. 29, 2027, provided that, in the event the volume-weighted average closing price of the shares on the TSX Venture Exchange exceeds 50 cents for at least 10 consecutive trading days, the company will have the right to accelerate the expiry of the warrants.

The company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering toward further exploration of the company's properties and potential new acquisitions as well as for general working capital. In connection with completion of the offering, the company has paid finders' fees of $46,606 and issued 483,770 non-transferable share purchase warrants to certain arm's-length third parties who assisted in introducing subscribers. Each finder warrant is exercisable on the same terms as the warrants. All securities issued in the offering are subject to a statutory hold period until Dec. 30, 2025, in accordance with applicable Canadian securities laws.

Incentive stock option grant

The company also announces that it has granted one million incentive stock options to certain directors, officers and consultants of the company in accordance with its omnibus incentive plan. The options vest immediately and are exercisable at a price of 22 cents until Sept. 4, 2030.

About iMetal Resources Inc.

iMetal is a Canadian-based junior exploration company focused on the exploration and development of its portfolio of resource properties in Ontario and Quebec. The flagship property, Gowganda West, is an exploration-stage gold project with a recent discovery hole of 48.5 metres at 0.85 gram per tonne gold that borders the Juby deposit and is located within the Shining Tree camp area in the southern part of the Abitibi greenstone gold belt about 100 kilometres south-southeast of the Timmins gold camp. The 220-hectare Ghost Mountain property, 42 kilometres northeast of Kirkland Lake, lies five kilometres west of Agnico Eagle's Holt and Holloway mine. Carheil is an exploration-stage project with multimetal potential and previous graphite results. The project is about 170 kilometres north of Rouyn-Noranda in the Northern Abitibi greenstone belt.

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