Mr. Herb Duerr reports

ST-GEORGES CONFIRMS THE PRESENCE OF NIOBIUM AT NOTRE-DAME

St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp. has received preliminary results from surface sampling and early-stage mineralogical analysis on its Notre-Dame critical minerals project, located within the Nitassinan, the traditional and ancestral territory of the Innu First Nation of Mashteuiatsh in Quebec. The results have confirmed the presence of niobium, tantalum, gallium and rare earths in multiple samples collected from a channel at surface and select drill intervals.

These results support the company's initial exploration hypothesis and reinforce the project's growing potential to host valuable technology and energy transition metals. The discovery stems from detailed earlier geochemical assays conducted over the past several months. The past and recent sampling reveal consistent anomalous values of niobium, tantalum, gallium and other rare earth minerals occur in multiple targets throughout the Notre-Dame project. This new data confirm the presence of these critical elements in concentrations that warrant further investigation and support expanding exploration activities in the upcoming field season.

"These initial findings validate our ongoing efforts on the Notre-Dame project and underscore the potential significance of this underexplored region," said Herb Duerr, chief executive officer of St-Georges Eco-Mining. "[ ... ] it is particularly encouraging to identify a carbonatite body that appears to extend at least 75 metres in length and up to 20 metres in width, based on limited early drilling. Even more significant is the surface mineralization, which can be traced consistently to depths ranging from 16 to 36 metres. Notably, every drill hole targeting the lens observed at surface successfully intersected the expected geological structure and encountered niobium mineralization at depth, with several intercepts over meaningful widths. Drilling has outlined 75 metres of strike along a shallow-dipping system that remains open at depth and begins virtually at surface [ ... ]."

The company will initiate additional fieldwork this spring, including trenching, detailed mapping and expanded sampling, to delineate mineralized zones and better understand the geological controls behind these critical metal occurrences. Further metallurgical testing will also be undertaken to assess the extractability of niobium, tantalum, gallium and the suite of rare earth minerals under the company's eco-friendly approach.

The mapping, drilling and sampling works carried out at the Notre-Dame project in 2024 confirmed the presence of a carbonatite dike measuring 75 metres by 20 metres that is open in several directions and at depth, inside which anomalous REE (rare earth element) and Nb-Ta (niobium and tantalum) elements were found. Some analysis triggered the analysis overlimit threshold and will be sent to the labs for further analysis. The company is providing the available preliminary results in an attached table.

The company's surface sampling, taken from one channel of eight metres at surface, yielded the following results with the lower number considered as a background value on the project:

• Niobium (Nb) -- from 100 to 2,360 parts per million (ppm) (143 ppm to 3,376 ppm or 0.3376 per cent of niobium pentoxide (Nb2O5);
• Tantalum (Ta) -- from 10 to 60 ppm;
• Gallium (Ga) -- from 15 to 48 ppm;
• Total rare earth (TREEs) -- from 200 to 4,000 ppm.

The exploration drilling campaign yielded the following results in an attached table on one of the targeted zones adjacent to the project access road. These values contained intervals of Nb that exceeded the assay detections limit of 2,500 ppm (in excess of 3,578 ppm or 0.3578 per cent of niobium pentoxide or Nb2O5)

Quality control

An eight-metre surface channel was cut directly above the mineralized carbonatite intersected in drilling. The channel was sampled at one-metre intervals, with cuts 20 centimetres (cm) deep and two cm wide. Each sample was georeferenced, described, tagged, sealed and placed in identified transport bags. These were securely shipped to Magnor Exploration Inc.'s warehouse in Saguenay, Que., and then forwarded to ALS Laboratories for analysis. No company-inserted standards, blanks or duplicates were included. Instead, ALS Laboratories added certified reference materials (OREAS L11, OREAS 232b and OREAS 243), blanks and duplicates upon receipt. Results were verified by an ALS geochemist.

All recovered drill core was stored in NQ-sized boxes, labelled, sealed and securely stored before shipment to Magnor's facility. The core was logged, measured and geologically characterized. Selected intervals were tagged, split in half, sealed and sent via secure transport to ALS Laboratories in Val d'Or, Que. Samples were crushed to 70 per cent passing less than two millimetres (mm), split by riffle splitter, then pulverized to 85 per cent passing less than 75 microns. Geochemical assays were performed for 36 trace elements (including REEs) by lithium borate fusion with ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) (ME-MS81). A separate analysis using four-acid digestion with ICP-MS was conducted for 60 trace elements, including lithium.

The technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed by Jean-Paul Barrette, Geo/PGeo, an independent project geologist and consultant. Mr. Barrette is a member of the Ordre des Geologues du Quebec (OGQ No. 619). Mr. Barrette has sufficient experience (40 years) relevant to the style of mineralization and the type of deposit under study, and the activity undertaken to qualify as a competent person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Barrette carried out several geological reconnaissance works in the Notre-Dame sector and recently made a of compilation of historical works.

About St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp.

St-Georges develops new technologies and holds a diversified portfolio of assets and patent-pending intellectual property within several highly prospective subsidiaries, including: EVSX, a leading North American advanced battery processing and recycling initiative; St Georges Metallurgy, with metallurgical R&D (research and development) and related IP (intellectual property), including processing and recovering high-grade lithium from spodumene; Iceland Resources, with high-grade gold exploration projects, including the flagship Thor project; H2SX, developing technology to convert methane into solid carbon and turquoise hydrogen; and Quebec exploration projects, including the Manicouagan and Julie (CSM) projects on Quebec's North hore, and Notre-Dame niobium project in Lac St Jean.