Mr. Kerem Usenmez reports

VOLTA ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF OVERSUBSCRIBED AND UPSIZED PRIVATE PLACEMENT AND INITIATES DRILLING PROGRAM AT ITS SPRINGER RARE EARTH AND GALLIUM DEPOSIT

Volta Metals Ltd. has closed an oversubscribed non-brokered private placement for gross proceeds of $1,545,300. The offering was comprised of the issuance of: (i) 8,441,250 units of the company at a subscription price of eight cents per unit for proceeds of $675,300, and (ii) 8.7 million flow-through units of the company (each, an FT unit) at a subscription price of 10 cents per FT unit for proceeds of $870,000.

Each unit comprised one common share of the company and one common share purchase warrant of the company, with each warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase an additional share of the company at an exercise price of 15 cents per warrant share for 24 months from the closing of the offering.

Each FT unit comprised one common share of the company (each, an FT share) and one warrant. The FT shares will qualify as flow-through shares (within the meaning of Subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).

The company will use the gross proceeds from the sale of the FT units to incur eligible Canadian exploration expenses that will qualify as flow-through critical mineral mining expenditures as such terms are defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada) on or before Dec. 31, 2026. The company plans to initiate a drill program to further explore its recently acquired Springer advanced rare-earth and Gallium deposit and explore its Aki critical minerals project. All qualifying expenditures will be renounced in favour of the subscribers of the FT units with an effective date not later than Dec. 31, 2025. The net proceeds from the sale of the units will be used for exploration at the company's mineral properties and general corporate and working capital purposes.

As in every financing the company has completed to date, certain directors and officers of the company (the insiders) have participated in the offering, increasing insider holdings. An aggregate of 2.35 million FT units were acquired by insiders. Such participation in the offering by the insiders constitutes a related party transaction within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 -- Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (MI 61-101). The company relied on an exemption from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements provided under MI 61-101 pursuant to Section 5.5(a) and Section 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101, on the basis that the participation in the offering by the insiders does not exceed 25 per cent of the fair market value of the company's market capitalization.

In connection with the closing of the offering, the company paid commissions to certain finders of an aggregate of $74,466 in cash and 822,325 finder warrants. Each finder warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one common share at an exercise price of 15 cents per finder warrant share for a period of 24 months from the closing of the offering. The securities issued and issuable under the offering are subject to a statutory hold period in Canada of four months and one day from the closing date of the offering in accordance with applicable Canadian securities laws. The closing of the offering is subject to the receipt of all required regulatory approvals, including the approval of the Canadian Securities Exchange (the CSE).

Exploration program

The company is mobilizing a drill rig to its Springer REE and Ga deposit to further test the rare earth and gallium zones. The new drilling will aid in updating the resource and potentially establish a gallium resource. The project consists of 5,000 hectares of patented and non-patented claims and contains a historic National Instrument 43-101 mineral resource for total rare-earth oxides (TREO) of 4,167,000 tonnes (mt) at 1.073 per cent TREO indicated and 12.73 mt at 1.119 per cent TREO in the inferred resource category at a cut-off grade of 0.9 per cent TREO. Mineralization starts at surface and the deposit remains open for expansion with large portions of the property underexplored for REE-Ga mineralization.

Previous drilling resulted in multiple wide, shallow intercepts of plus 100 m at greater than 1 per cent TREO, including one of the final drill holes finishing in 12 m at 4.96 per cent TREO with no subsequent follow-up drilling (see company's press release dated June 10, 2025). There were consistent elevated gallium intercepts ranging from 57 to 120 grams per tonne (g/t) over thick intervals, including 87.5 metres at 76.4 grams per tonne and 88 m at 62 g/t gallium, which was never modelled in the resource. The newly designed drill program will expand from these results and provide sufficient data for an updated resource estimate, which is scheduled to be completed in Q4 of 2025.

Qualified person

The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Andrew Tims, PGeo, who is an independent qualified person (QP) as defined in National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The QP and the company have not completed sufficient work to verify the historical information on the project.

About Volta Metals Ltd.

Volta Metals is a mineral exploration company based in Toronto, Ont., focused on rare earths, gallium, lithium, cesium and tantalum. It owns, has optioned and is currently exploring a critical minerals portfolio of rare earths, gallium, lithium, cesium and tantalum projects in Ontario, one of the world's most prolific, emerging hard-rock critical mineral districts.

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