Mr. Rory Quinn reports

YUKON METALS ANNOUNCES 2025 BIRCH PROPERTY DRILLING CAMPAIGN AND EXPLORATION PLANS

Yukon Metals Corp. has released the details of its coming exploration program on its 7,000-hectare Birch property, located 65 kilometres northeast of Burwash Landing, Yukon, and 200 km northwest of Whitehorse. The plans include a focused drilling campaign along with a comprehensive regional exploration program designed to advance copper-gold targets.

Highlights of the 2025 planned exploration:

• 3,000-metre diamond drilling campaign designed to test compelling high-grade copper-gold skarn targets identified from multiple rock-chip samples grading up to 14.1 grams per tonne gold and 2.42 per cent copper;
• Regional soil sampling and alteration mapping to test northern and eastern extensions of the 2024 anomalies, which featured gold in soil of up to 0.99 g/t across 1,400 metres, as well as a strong molybdenum-in-soil anomaly identified to the south, and to further evaluate the broader porphyry potential across the property;
• Local Yukon and first nations contractors engaged to perform majority of work.

Rory Quinn, president and chief executive officer, stated: "We're excited to announce our drilling plans for the 2025 field season at Birch. Our collaboration with local contractors, including New Age Drilling, Vision Quest and Kagani, underscores Yukon Metals' continued commitment to responsible exploration and to building meaningful partnerships within the local community. This next phase of drilling and regional mapping builds on the strong momentum generated by the highly encouraging results from our most recent exploration efforts, and we look forward to sharing our progress as the 2025 exploration season unfolds."

The 2025 exploration program builds on successful geophysical surveys, soil sampling and geological mapping conducted in 2024. Drilling will focus on testing induced polarization and airborne magnetic geophysical anomalies associated with surface soil anomalies identified in 2024 (up to 0.99 g/t gold and 0.24 per cent copper) along a 1,400-metre strike length (Yukon Metals news release dated Sept. 3, 2024). Additionally, rock-chip samples from the targeted skarn horizons in 2024 returned grades up to 2.42 per cent copper and 14.1 g/t gold, highlighting substantial exploration potential.

Concurrent regional mapping, soil sampling and detailed alteration mapping initiatives are designed to define additional targets and better understand the geological controls on mineralization within the significantly expanded claim block. Additionally, the southeastern portion of the recently staked area will be a focus of alteration mapping and prospecting, where a soil molybdenum anomaly coincides with a low potassium/thorium radiometric signature, potentially indicating a porphyry-style target and possible extensions of known mineralization trends. Soil samples will be conducted with a battery-powered permafrost soil drill, in line with the 2024 program, to ensure high-quality samples below boulders and frozen ground are collected.

Diamond drilling will be completed by New Age Drilling Solutions, a Yukon-based contractor, in partnership with Vision Quest Drilling, a Kluane First Nations citizen-owned company. Camp support services for the exploration activities will be provided by Kagani, a Kluane First Nations citizen-owned enterprise in partnership with long-standing Yukon-based exploration contractor, Archer Cathro.

Further details will be provided as the 2025 exploration program progresses.

About the Birch project

Yukon Metals owns 100 per cent of the helicopter-accessed Birch project located 65 kilometres northeast of the community of Burwash Landing. The Birch project area is dominated by frost-heaved boulders in unglaciated terrain, with outcrop present on steeper ridges. The project lies predominantly within the Finlayson assemblage of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, consisting of variably carbonaceous schist and quartzite, marble, garnet amphibolite, and rare meta plutonic rocks.

The Yukon-Tanana terrane structurally overlies the Ruby Range batholith, which is regionally mapped in the northeastern portion of the property occurring as Ruby Range quartz-feldspar porphyry and Rhyolite Creek porphyry and intermediate and felsic volcanic rock (Israel et al., 2011). Project-level mapping indicates the geology of the area is composed of schists and marble units, moderately to strongly oxidised felsic intrusive, and patchy oxidized porphyritic rhyolite dikes.

Copper, zinc and molybdenum mineralization was first identified in the area in the early 1970s as part of a small exploration campaign which uncovered several skarn horizons in the northern project area, as well as molybdenite in quartz veins and stringers in granodiorite float on the southeastern side of the property (Minfile 115G 077). Gold was not assayed for until interest renewed in the early 2010s with soil and mapping exploration work over the area uncovering several high soil anomalies ranging from 0.02 to 15 g/t Au.

Rock samples taken while prospecting referenced in this release are selective in nature and collected to determine the presence or absence of mineralization, and may not be representative of the mineralization hosted on the project.

Qualified person

The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Helena Kuikka, PGeo, vice-president, exploration, for Yukon Metals, a qualified person (as defined by National Instrument 43-101).

About Yukon Metals Corp.

Yukon Metals is well financed and represents a property portfolio built on over 30 years of prospecting by the Berdahl family, the prospecting team behind Snowline Gold's portfolio of primary gold assets. The Yukon Metals portfolio consists primarily of copper-gold and silver-lead-zinc assets, with a substantial gold and silver component. The company is led by an experienced management team and board of directors across technical, financial, environmental and social disciplines.

Yukon Metals is focused on fostering sustainable growth and prosperity within Yukon's local communities, while simultaneously enhancing shareholder value. Its strategy centres around inclusiveness and shared prosperity, offering both community members and investors the chance to contribute to, and benefit from, its ventures.

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