Mr. Stephen Stares reports

VINLAND LITHIUM INC. COMPLETES FALL GROUND EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR LITHIUM-CESIUM-TUNGSTEN TARGETS

Vinland Lithium Inc. has completed a fall exploration program, aimed at expanding its lithium, cesium, tantalum, tungsten and gold targets for future follow-up work, including drill testing. The company completed a successful regional helicopter-supported program, and collected 228 rock samples and 18 soil samples from multiple high-priority targets from its extensive sampling database. Several areas of anomalous critical metals were the subject of further extensive sampling in hopes of delineating new critical metal discoveries. This includes the area where previous tungsten sampling graded up to 0.87 per cent W03 near the Burgeo highway. This occurrence is hosted in quartz-tourmaline veins in metasedimentary rocks similar to those extending along strike to the southwest, where Vinland has generated anomalous tungsten values from regional sampling.

In addition, the company has discovered two areas where quartz veining up to six metres (m) wide and 300 m in strike length contains visible chalcopyrite, pyrite and magnetite/hematite. The company is looking forward to receiving results and completing further follow-up exploration on all areas of interest.

Vinland's Killick project sits along the key structural corridor of the Appalachian-Caledonian orogen, which hosts the Piedmont tin-tungsten-spodumene belt and the Ireland Leinster spodumene belt. To date, the Killick lithium project is Newfoundland's only known lithium-spodumene and pollucite-cesium pegmatite discovery and covers approximately 48 kilometres (km) of favourable host geology.

Vinland is also pleased to report that it has continued with the partnership with the critical minerals research initiative between St. Francis Xavier University, Memorial University and the Newfoundland Geological Survey in researching the lithium pegmatites in southwestern Newfoundland, where a total of $1.3-million over four years is being directed toward detailed research on the property.

Newfoundland and Labrador junior exploration assistance

Vinland would like to acknowledge financial support it received from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador's junior exploration assistance program related to completion of its 2023, 2024 and 2025 programs, and any support it may receive for its 2026 exploration program.

About Vinland Lithium Inc.

Vinland is a mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol VLD. Vinland holds a 100-per-cent interest in the Killick lithium project in southwestern Newfoundland, subject only to a 2-per-cent net smelter return (NSR) royalty (1 per cent each to Benton Resources and Pirate Gold).

Vinland is focused on advancing the recently-discovered Killick lithium project, which covers 30 kilometres of highly prospective geological terrane in proximity to the Baie d'Est fault. The project boasts multiple spodumene-pegmatites within the Kraken pegmatite field and high-grade cesium-tantalum-lithium hosted in the Hydra pegmatite. Further potential for discovery is excellent given the extensive number of untested geochemical and geophysical targets present.

All initial drilling phases at the Killick lithium project to date have returned impressive results from multiple pegmatites, including: 8.4 m of 0.95 per cent Li2O in GH-22-01 at the Kraken dike, 16.2 m of 0.43 per cent Li2O in GH-22-05 at the Kraken North dike, 20.82 m of 0.60 per cent Li2O, including 5.5 m of 1.16 per cent Li2O, in GH-22-15, and 8.37 m of 0.91 per cent Li2O in GH-22-08 at the East dike, and 15.23 m of 1.04 peer cent Li2O in GH-22-27 and 13.37 m of 1.22 per cent Li2O in GH-22-45 at the Killick dike. At the Hydra cesium dike, initial channel sample results to 8.75 per cent Cs2O, 0.41 per cent Li2O, 0.025 per cent Ta2O5 and 0.33 per cent Rb2O over 1.2 metres, including 13.57 per cent Cs20 and 0.32 per cent Li20 over 0.4m. Reported intervals range from 60 per cent to 95 per cent of true thickness.

QA/QC (quality assurance/quality control) protocols

The 2026 rock and soil samples were submitted to Eastern Analytical Ltd., in Springdale, Nfld., for gold by 30-gram (g) fire assay, multielement ICP-34 method that delivers a 34-element package utilizing a 200-milligram subsample totally dissolved in four acids and analyzed by ICP-OES (inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy) analytical technique, as well as Li (lithium), Ta (tantalum), Sn (tin) and Nb (niobium) analyses by four-acid digestion, analyzed by ICP-OES. Some historic rock samples were analyzed using Eastern's Au (gold) 30 g fire assay, ICP-34 by ICP-OES and Li-Ta-Sn-Nb by ICP-OES as above. Any anomalous samples for W (tungsten) will be sent to SGS for further assay.

Rock and core samples from 2022 to 2025 were submitted to SGS Canada Inc. in Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld., for preparation and then sent to the SGS Canada Inc. analytical laboratory in Burnaby, B.C., for analysis. All samples were acquired by hand (rocks) or sawcut (channels/drill core) and delivered, by Vinland personnel, in sealed bags, to the Grand Falls-Windsor prep lab of SGS, which is an accredited assay lab that conforms to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025. Samples are analyzed using SGS's GS_IMS91A50 method that delivers a 56-element package utilizing sodium peroxide fusion, ICP-AES (inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy) and ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) analytical techniques. All reported assays are uncut. Soil samples were collected by Vinland personnel utilizing a standard Dutch-auger, collecting B-horizon soil, where possible. Where B-horizon soil was not present, the soil horizon or type was noted. Soil samples were sent to Eastern Analytical, in Springdale, Nfld., for Li, Ta, Sn and Nb analyses by four-acid digestion, analyzed by ICP-OES. Some historic rock samples were analyzed using Eastern's Au (fire assay) at 30 g plus ICP-34 method that delivers a 34-element package utilizing a 200 mg subsample totally dissolved in four acids and analyzed by ICP-OES analytical technique. Eastern Analytical achieved ISO 17025 accreditation in February, 2014. Till samples were collected by Vinland personnel utilizing conventional shovel dug holes and screened to minus 10 millimetres in the field. Samples were shipped to Overburden Drilling Management (ODM) in Nepean, Ont., for analysis using its standard lithium indicator mineral package. Grab samples are selective in nature and may not represent the average mineralization of a bedrock exposure.

QP (qualified person)

Barry Sparkes, PGeo, vice-president of exploration for Vinland Lithium, the qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has approved the scientific and technical disclosure in this news release and prepared or supervised its preparation.

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