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Iranian drone strikes forced Qatar to halt liquefied natural gas (LNG) production Monday, jolting global energy markets and raising fears about supply disruptions as Tehran increased its attacks on regional infrastructure.

QatarEnergy, the state-owned giant and one of the world’s largest LNG producers, suspended operations at two facilities after drones launched from Iran hit the sites, according to reports.

Qatar’s Ministry of Defense also said in a statement, that two drones hit facilities in the country, though no casualties were reported.

The attacks also targeted a water tank at a power plant in Mesaieed and a key energy installation in Ras Laffan.

Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex is the world’s largest LNG export facility, making it one of the most critical energy hubs in the world.

About 20% of global LNG trade transited the Strait of Hormuz in 2024, primarily from Qatar, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Markets reacted Monday with Europe’s benchmark natural gas futures surging by the largest margin since the 2022 energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, Bloomberg reported.

Bloomberg also reported Dutch TTF natural gas prices rose by 50% after news of the shutdown. Asian LNG prices also recorded gains as traders tried to assess the scale and length of the disruption.

‘The threat to security of supply is here and now,’ Simone Tagliapietra, an analyst at Bruegel, told Bloomberg. ‘The extent of it will depend on the duration of the shutdown, but we are now into a new scenario.’

In Saudi Arabia, another drone attack caused a fire at the kingdom’s Ras Tanura oil refinery, forcing a partial shutdown there as well.

Saudi authorities have not reported casualties, but the attack heightened fears of broader instability in the Gulf’s energy corridor, according to reports.

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President Donald Trump on Monday sent an official notification to Congress about the U.S. strikes against Iran, in which he attempted to justify the military action in the now expanding conflict in the Middle East.

In a letter obtained by FOX News, Trump told Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that ‘no U.S. ground forces were used in these strikes’ and that the mission ‘was planned and executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties, deter future attacks, and neutralize Iran’s malign activities.’

This comes after joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran on Saturday as part of Operation Epic Fury, triggering a response from Tehran and a wider conflict in the region. The strikes killed the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other military leaders.

Trump wrote that it is not yet possible to know the full scope of military operations against Iran and that U.S. forces are prepared to take potential further action.

‘Although the United States desires a quick and enduring peace, not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary,’ Trump wrote. ‘As such, United States forces remain postured to take further action, as necessary and appropriate, to address further threats and attacks upon the United States or its allies and partners, and ensure the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ceases being a threat to the United States, its allies, and the international community.’

‘I directed this military action consistent with my responsibility to protect Americans and United States interests both at home and abroad and in furtherance of United States national security and foreign policy interests,’ he added. ‘I acted pursuant to my constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive to conduct United States foreign relations.’

Trump said he was ‘providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution,’ as some Republican and Democrat lawmakers attempt to restrain the president’s military action, which they affirm is unconstitutional without congressional approval.

The president also accused Iran of being among the largest state sponsors of terrorism in the world and purported that the ‘Iranian regime continues to seek the means to possess and employ nuclear weapons,’ even after the White House said in June that precision strikes at the time ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.

‘As I previously communicated to the Congress, Iran remains one of the largest, if not the largest, state-sponsors of terrorism in the world,’ Trump said in the letter on Monday. ‘Despite the success of Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER, the Iranian regime continues to seek the means to possess and employ nuclear weapons. Its array of ballistic, cruise, anti-ship, and other missiles pose a direct threat to and are attacking United States forces, commercial vessels, and civilians, as well as those of our allies and partners.’

‘Despite my Administration’s repeated efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to Iran’s malign behavior, the threat to the United States and its allies and partners became untenable,’ he continued.

Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this report.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem heads to Capitol Hill Tuesday to face lawmakers demanding she resign, be fired or impeached.

Her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee comes as members of both parties criticize her handling of the Trump administration’s immigration operations throughout the country. Some Democrats have called for her to face impeachment.

Her testimony has been in the works for months. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, had been seeking her appearance to conduct routine oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

But it wasn’t until after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good during immigration operations in Minneapolis that Noem agreed to testify.

Last month, President Donald Trump dismissed the idea of firing Noem.

‘Why would I do that?’ Trump said. ‘We have the strongest border in the history of our country. We have the best crime numbers we’ve ever had, going back to the year 1900 — that’s 125 years.’

Still, she is expected to face tough questioning from Senate Democrats.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the top Democrat on the committee, said at the time the hearing was announced that Noem previously ‘refused to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year and now tells us that she will be available in five weeks — should she still be DHS Secretary at that time.’

‘With all of the violence and deaths involving DHS, the Secretary is apparently in no hurry to account for her mismanagement of this national crisis,’ Durbin said in a statement. ‘And she expects us to rubber stamp her record-breaking budget in the meantime.’

And there’s at least one Senate Republican on the panel, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who has emerged as one of her top critics.

In January, Tillis said he would place holds on DHS nominees coming through the committee until Noem agreed to testify — a move that would block Trump’s picks for the agency.

‘I’m not going to get into impeachment,’ Tillis said at the time. ‘I think it should be a management decision. She needs to go.’

Her testimony also comes as a partial government shutdown affecting only DHS enters its third week.

Some Republicans have expressed concern that the shutdown could hamper the agency’s ability to respond proactively to potential threats in the U.S., particularly following Trump’s weekend strikes in Iran, along with other security challenges that could arise during a prolonged closure.

The White House and Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have been negotiating for weeks, but neither side has reached a breakthrough.

The White House sent its latest offer to Democrats, which a White House official described as ‘serious’ in a statement to Fox News Digital. Still, no agreement has been reached, and the agency remains shuttered.

‘Democrats need to make a move to end the shutdown before more Americans are harmed by a lack of funding for critical services like disaster relief,’ the official said.

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Leftists in the U.S. are seriously confused. While Iranians around the world celebrate the death of the thuggish Ayatollah Khamanei, who ruled their country with an iron fist, liberals in the U.S. are condemning President Donald Trump’s war to liberate the Persian nation.  

Opposition to the U.S.-Israel joint attack on Iran was broad and swift, powered in part by Trump Derangement Syndrome — if he’s behind it, they’re reliably against it — and also tinged with antisemitism.  

The smoke had not yet cleared from the bombings in Iran before Democrats started shrieking their objections, with Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy, for instance, calling it ‘dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale,’ and denouncing the president as a ‘would-be dictator.’ Murphy has also called Israel’s policy in Gaza and in the West Bank ‘immoral’, and recently announced that he would not support additional military aid to Israel.

Anti-Israel Democrats in the House were especially strident, with ‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib from Michigan posting, ‘It’s clear that the genocidal govt of Israel doesn’t care about children + human life including our own loved ones in the military.’ She also posted, ‘The government of Israel is addicted to bombing hospitals, schools, refugee camps which are all war crimes.’ 

Democrats have been pulling away from their traditional backing of Israel for some time, and especially since the far left took hold of their party. Axios reported in December that the DNC’s still-secret ‘autopsy’ of why Vice President Kamala Harris was defeated by Trump in 2024 concluded that the former VP ‘lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza…’ 

Iran has brought nothing but bloodshed and destruction to Israel, the United States and the Middle East for decades.

That is, in sifting the ashes of the 2024 election for clues as to why an inarticulate candidate who admitted she couldn’t think of a thing she’d do differently from the wildly unpopular Joe Biden went down in flames, Democrat officials determined…it was Israel’s fault! Democrats are quick learners — their support of the Jewish state is dwindling fast.

It isn’t just Democrats piling on. Criticism also came from far-right conspiracy theorists, too.

We also heard criticism from the utterly worthless and anti-Israel U.N., with Secretary-General António Guterres condemning the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and demanding immediate negotiations ‘to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.’ 

Guterres has overseen a U.N. with ‘a glaring anti-Israel bias, advancing biased and one-sided efforts to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state’, reports the pro-Jewish group AIPAC. A bias AIPAC can document and which, astonishingly, has ‘escalated dramatically since Hamas’ October 7 attack.’

Spineless European leaders stood on the sidelines, initially distancing themselves from the U.S.-Israeli initiative. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at first declined to give the U.S. permission to use its air bases, thus forcing American jets to undertake a 20-plus hour flight to carry out their mission. He then relented, earning ridicule from all sides.   

Of course, witless students also weighed in, with Columbia University’s most renowned anti-Israel group, responsible for last year’s ‘encampment’ built to protest the Gaza conflict, posting    ‘death to America’ in Persian after the U.S. and Israel killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. That prompted Sen. Tex Cruz, R-Texas, to demand that foreign students sending out such anti-American messages be ‘deported immediately.’ He’s right.

One student protester told an interviewer that the U.S. ‘should align with Iranian regime instead of Israel because Iran ‘is not fascist.”

Zohran Mamdani, the newly installed Muslim mayor of New York, harshly condemned President Trump’s war with Iran, saying, ‘Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.’ He also said, ‘Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders.’ The mayor assured them, ‘You will be safe here.’ 

Mamdani misread the room, assuming that Iranians living in the U.S. would react as he had to the attack on the mullahs. Instead, joyful Iranians gathered in Times Square to celebrate the end of one of the most hated and savage regimes in history.

They apparently felt perfectly safe, as indeed they were.

There are certainly valid reasons to fear a military confrontation with Iran. The country hosts a huge arsenal of ballistic missiles, it has a well-trained and now vengeful military, and it can disrupt the world’s oil supply by mining the Straits of Hormuz. Also, it is a large country of 90 million people; Iran’s citizens may hate the mullahs but they have no weapons with which to bring down the theocracy.

But Iran has brought nothing but bloodshed and destruction to Israel, the United States and the Middle East for decades. There could be no peace or progress in the region while Iran continues to fund its terror proxies and doggedly pursues long-range missiles and a nuclear bomb. 

Democrats who mourn the scrapping of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, protesting that the JCPOA was preventing the regime from acquiring a nuke, surely know better. The deal was seriously flawed, it was unverifiable and from day one the mullahs prevented U.N. inspectors from carrying out agreed-upon certification of the pact.

President Trump has ended the mullahs’ reign of terror and united the region in a manner no one could have imagined.

This is a righteous endeavor. Let us hope that on the other side, a free Iran will become a trusted ally.

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Iranians celebrate worldwide after supreme leader is killed in Israeli strikes
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Vice President JD Vance confirmed Monday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program collapsed after U.S. officials concluded Tehran’s claims did not ‘pass the smell test,’ prompting President Donald Trump to authorize Operation Epic Fury.

Speaking on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime,’ Vance said U.S. envoys — including Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner — had conducted rounds of ‘deliberate’ talks in Geneva with the Iranian delegation.

The discussions were aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and averting a broader conflict, he said, but ultimately broke down.

‘But the Iranians would come back to us, and they’d say, ‘Well, you know, having enrichment for civilian purposes, for energy purposes, is a matter of national pride,’’ Vance said.

‘And so we would say, ‘OK, that’s interesting, but why are you building your enrichment facilities 70 feet underground? And why are you enriching to a level that’s way beyond civilian enrichment and is only useful if your goal is to build a nuclear bomb?’’ he said.

‘Nobody objects to the Iranians being able to build medical isotopes; the objection is these enrichment facilities that are only useful for building a nuclear weapon,’ Vance clarified.

‘It just doesn’t pass the smell test for you to say that you want enrichment for medical isotopes, while at the same time trying to build a facility 70 to 80 feet underground,’ he explained.

Vance spoke as Operation Epic Fury ended its third day. Launched on Feb. 28, U.S. and Israeli forces carried out coordinated precision strikes deep inside Iran aimed at crippling Tehran’s missile arsenal and nuclear infrastructure.

A key issue had been Iran enriching uranium to high levels, including material around 60% purity — a fraction of weapons-grade but far above limits set under the 2015 nuclear deal — keeping international alarm high over proliferation risks.

‘We destroyed Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon during President Trump’s term,’ Vance told Watters. ‘We set them back substantially. But I think the President was looking for the long haul,’ he said.

‘Trump was looking for Iran to make a significant long-term commitment that they would never build a nuclear weapon, that they would not pursue the ability to be on the brink of a nuclear weapon.’

‘He wanted to make sure that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon, and that would require fundamentally a change in mindset from the Iranian regime.’

‘The president is not going to rest until he accomplishes that all-important objective of ensuring that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon, not just for the next few years, not just because we obliterated Fordow or some other enrichment facility.’

‘There’s just no way that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no clear end in sight and no clear objective,’ Vance added while describing that the administration would prefer to see ‘a friendly regime in Iran, a stable country, a country that’s willing to work with the United States.’

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71.8 g/t Au over 31.95 m and 76.6 g/t Au over 16.00 m at Iceberg 51.3 g/t Au over 3.40 m and 11.8 g/t Au over 9.95 m at Keats

New Found Gold Corp. (TSXV: NFG) (NYSE American: NFGC) (‘New Found Gold’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce the final results of the Company’s 2025 grade control drill program on its 100%-owned Queensway Gold Project (‘Queensway’ or the ‘Project’) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, including results from the Keats zone (‘Keats’) and Iceberg zone (‘Iceberg’) excavations in the AFZ Core (‘AFZC’), completed as part of the Company’s 2025 drill program.

Iceberg excavation highlights include:

  • 71.8 g/t Au over 31.95 m from 37.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-069)[1]
  • 76.6 g/t Au over 16.00 m from 51.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-055)
  • 44.4 g/t Au over 21.55 m from 13.40 m (NFGC-25-GC-072)
  • 35.4 g/t Au over 21.20 m from 34.95 m (NFGC-25-GC-061)
  • 31.6 g/t Au over 18.65 m from 3.60 m (NFGC-25-GC-106)
  • 40.6 g/t Au over 12.70 m from 40.35 m (NFGC-25-GC-118)
  • 41.1 g/t Au over 11.40 m from 40.40 m (NFGC-25-GC-079)
  • 55.4 g/t Au over 8.30 m from 21.75 m (NFGC-25-GC-107)
  • 43.2 g/t Au over 19.85 m from 16.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-082)

 

Keats excavation highlights include:

  • 51.3 g/t Au over 3.40 m from 54.60 m (NFGC-25-GC-115)
  • 11.8 g/t Au over 9.95 m from 13.20 m (NFGC-25-GC-065)
  • 9.73 g/t Au over 11.30 m from 9.75 m (NFGC-25-GC-063)
  • 15.9 g/t Au over 5.85 m from 4.90 m (NFGC-25-GC-115)
  • 40.3 g/t Au over 2.25 m from 23.95 m (NFGC-25-GC-068)
  • 16.9 g/t Au over 3.90 m from 1.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-071)

 

Melissa Render, President of New Found Gold stated: ‘These final results from our highly successful 2025 grade control drill program at the Keats and Iceberg excavations continue to deliver consistently high gold grades over broad widths, returning some of the best intercepts we have drilled to date at Queensway. We continue to systematically de-risk Queensway, as demonstrated by the continuity of high-grade gold mineralization in these at-surface zones targeted for early open pit mining in our 2025 PEA Phase 1 mine plan.’

Work Summary

The results presented in this release include the final 907 m of drilling in 32 diamond drill holes (‘DDH‘) from the Keats excavation (‘KEGCDP‘) and the entirety of the 2,390 m of drilling in 40 DDH from the Iceberg excavation (‘IEGCDP‘) 2025 grade control drill program (Figures 1 to 4). The KEGCDP and IEGCDP were designed to improve confidence in the distribution of high-grade, near- to at-surface gold mineralization and support mine planning as outlined in the 2025 Preliminary Economic Assessment (‘PEA‘) Phase 1 open pits (see the New Found Gold press release dated July 21 2025). Drill highlights, along with detailed results for these 72 DDH, are provided in Tables 1 to 3 below.

The full KEGCDP comprises 2,773 m in 84 DDH; for the previously reported KEGCDP results see the New Found Gold press releases dated December 1, 2025 and February 2, 2026 and highlights below. The full IEGCDP comprises 2,390 m of drilling in 40 DDH and all results are reported in this press release.

The KEGCDP tested a volume that is approximately 65 m long by 30 m deep by 40 m wide and the IEGCDP a volume that is approximately 60 m long by 35 m deep by 40 m wide with a drill spacing of 5 m by 5 m and includes the near- to at-surface high-grade portions of Keats and Iceberg that were exposed as part of the Company’s excavation programs (see the New Found Gold press releases dated September 23, 2024, December 2, 2024, September 25, 2025, December 1, 2025 and February 2, 2026).

Results released to date correlate well with the initial mineral resource estimate (‘MRE‘) block model and indicate strong continuity of -high grade mineralized shoots at both Keats and Iceberg, providing improved definition of their geometry, with most intervals occurring at or within a few meters of surface. The detailed geostatistical data from this phase of work will further validate the resource models, specifically by increasing confidence in grade-capping and influence-limiting parameters applied to high-grade intersections in advance of a MRE update and subsequent mine planning.

The Keats and Iceberg zones are hosted within the Keats-Baseline Fault Zone (‘KBFZ‘), a high-grade gold-bearing structure that has been defined over a current strike length of 1.9 kilometres (‘km‘). This corridor consists of a broad mineralized fault zone with limited deep drill testing to date. Drilling completed in 2024 confirms that the system extends to vertical depths of up to 1.1 km (see the New Found Gold press releases dated July 11, 2024, October 31, 2024, and April 29, 2025).


Figure 1:
 Plan view map of the AFZC with location of Keats and Iceberg excavation grade control drill programs.

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  • Iceberg excavation grade control drill program (this press release):
    • 71.8 g/t Au over 31.95 m from 37.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-069)
    • 76.6 g/t Au over 16.00 m from 51.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-055)
    • 44.4 g/t Au over 21.55 m from 13.40 m (NFGC-25-GC-072)
    • 35.4 g/t Au over 21.20 m from 34.95 m (NFGC-25-GC-061)
    • 31.6 g/t Au over 18.65 m from 3.60 m (NFGC-25-GC-106)
    • 40.6 g/t Au over 12.70 m from 40.35 m (NFGC-25-GC-118)
    • 41.1 g/t Au over 11.40 m from 40.40 m (NFGC-25-GC-079)
    • 55.4 g/t Au over 8.30 m from 21.75 m (NFGC-25-GC-107)
    • 43.2 g/t Au over 19.85 m from 16.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-082)
    • 22.6 g/t Au over 17.55 m from 50.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-050)
    • 30.4 g/t Au over 12.90 m from 8.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-112)
    • 11.9 g/t Au over 27.55 m from 27.65 m (NFGC-25-GC-097)
    • 27.3 g/t Au over 11.70 m from 48.90 m (NFGC-25-GC-084)
    • 27.8 g/t Au over 11.45 m from 38.85 m (NFGC-25-GC-067)
    • 120 g/t Au over 2.60 m from 17.15 m (NFGC-25-GC-109)
    • 11.6 g/t Au over 26.15 m from 31.30 m (NFGC-25-GC-058)
    • 30.9 g/t Au over 9.00 m from 32.30 m (NFGC-25-GC-064)
    • 28.1 g/t Au over 9.15 m from 45.15 m (NFGC-25-GC-048)
    • 18.4 g/t Au over 12.85 m from 38.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-076)
    • 26.7 g/t Au over 8.05 m from 16.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-119)
    • 7.56 g/t Au over 23.85 m from 48.15 m (NFGC-25-GC-052)
    • 6.77 g/t Au over 20.05 m from 54.70 m (NFGC-25-GC-046)
    • 12.0 g/t Au over 11.05 m from 33.30 m (NFGC-25-GC-059)
    • 8.55 g/t Au over 15.40 m from 25.40 m (NFGC-25-GC-109)
    • 12.8 g/t Au over 10.10 m from 28.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-113)
    • 13.0 g/t Au over 9.90 m from 13.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-122)
    • 8.26 g/t Au over 12.55 m from 63.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-087)
    • 11.1 g/t Au over 9.05 m from 14.40 m (NFGC-25-GC-123)
    • 16.9 g/t Au over 4.15 m from 29.60 m (NFGC-25-GC-121)
    • 5.17 g/t Au over 12.40 m from 17.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-124)
    • 6.70 g/t Au over 9.20 m from 42.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-087)
    • 8.38 g/t Au over 6.85 m from 15.35 m (NFGC-25-GC-074)
    • 15.5 g/t Au over 3.65 m from 71.95 m (NFGC-25-GC-043)
    • 3.88 g/t Au over 13.10 m from 31.15 m (NFGC-25-GC-074)
    • 17.5 g/t Au over 2.80 m from 40.95 m (NFGC-25-GC-084)
    • 20.1 g/t Au over 2.35 m from 69.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-085)
    • 18.0 g/t Au over 2.30 m from 41.80 m (NFGC-25-GC-085)
    • 15.0 g/t Au over 2.70 m from 23.75 m (NFGC-25-GC-058)
    • 19.7 g/t Au over 2.05 m from 4.35 m (NFGC-25-GC-122)
    • 13.3 g/t Au over 2.85 m from 69.15 m (NFGC-25-GC-048)
    • 14.3 g/t Au over 2.60 m from 12.60 m (NFGC-25-GC-107)
    • 11.9 g/t Au over 2.80 m from 65.20 m (NFGC-25-GC-079)
    • 2.21 g/t Au over 11.55 m from 14.10 m (NFGC-25-GC-079)
    • 11.7 g/t Au over 2.20 m from 57.35 m (NFGC-25-GC-079)
  • Keats excavation grade control drill program (this press release):
    • 51.3 g/t Au over 3.40 m from 54.60 m (NFGC-25-GC-115)
    • 11.8 g/t Au over 9.95 m from 13.20 m (NFGC-25-GC-065)
    • 9.73 g/t Au over 11.30 m from 9.75 m (NFGC-25-GC-063)
    • 15.9 g/t Au over 5.85 m from 4.90 m (NFGC-25-GC-115)
    • 40.3 g/t Au over 2.25 m from 23.95 m (NFGC-25-GC-068)
    • 16.9 g/t Au over 3.90 m from 1.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-071)
    • 4.22 g/t Au over 10.35 m from 5.65 m (NFGC-25-GC-066)
    • 2.56 g/t Au over 15.95 m from 0.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-100)
    • 14.5 g/t Au over 2.45 m from 10.00 m (NFGC-25-GC-096)
    • 1.41 g/t Au over 20.25 m from 20.45 m (NFGC-25-GC-102)
    • 1.73 g/t Au over 15.45 m from 4.20 m (NFGC-25-GC-062)
    • 2.37 g/t Au over 10.60 m from 23.70 m (NFGC-25-GC-111)


Figure 2: 
Keats and Iceberg excavations with grade control drill hole highlights.

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Figure 3: 
Keats longitudinal section view of grade control drill hole traces (looking northwest, +/- 12.5 m).

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      Figure 4: 
      Iceberg longitudinal section view of grade control drill hole traces (looking northwest, +/- 12.5 m).

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      Looking Ahead

      The 2025 Queensway drill program included 74,377 m of drilling in 614 DDH, with approximately 75% of the drilling focused on the AFZC to support advancement of the Phase 1 mine plan as outlined in the PEA and 25% focused on exploration targets such as the Dropkick zone (‘Dropkick‘). To date, approximately 45% of the results from 2025 drilling remain outstanding, in addition to channel sampling results from the Lotto excavation. These results will be reported once available.

      The 2026 Queensway drill program is underway, with four drill rigs currently active (see the New Found Gold press release dated January 21, 2026). Initial 2026 infill drilling is planned to first target PEA Phase 2 open pit resource conversion, transitioning later in the year to PEA Phase 3 underground resource conversion.

      The Company plans to expand its grade control drilling beginning in Q2/26. The next phase of work will leverage results from the 2025 program to optimize drill hole spacing and program scope. This will include completing grade-control drilling at the Iceberg excavation, commencing grade-control drilling at the Lotto excavation and potentially expanding the grade-control drilling at the Keats and Iceberg excavations. The objective of this work is to improve confidence in the distribution of gold mineralization and support mine planning as outlined for the PEA Phase 1 open pits.

      Exploration drilling will focus on AFZC resource expansion including an initial grid-based program targeting the prospective corridor adjacent to the AFZ at Bullseye, continued step-outs at Dropkick, located 11 km north of the AFZC, and targeted segments of the AFZ at AFZ Peripheral. A regional drilling program testing advanced targets at Queensway South is in the planning phase and expected to commence in H2/26.

      The Company plans to file an updated Technical Report for Queensway, which will include an updated mineral resource estimate, in Q3/26

      Table 1: Drill Result Highlights.

      KEATS MAIN EXCAVATION
      Hole No. From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Au (g/t) True Width (%) Zone
      NFGC-25-GC-062 4.20 19.65 15.45 1.73 70-95 Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-063 9.75 21.05 11.30 9.73 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 14.50 15.50 1.00 92.27 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-065 13.20 23.15 9.95 11.81 55-85 Keats Excavation
      Including 13.20 14.10 0.90 111.64 55-85
      NFGC-25-GC-066 5.65 16.00 10.35 4.22 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 5.65 6.20 0.55 23.75 70-95
      Including 10.10 11.10 1.00 24.78 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-068 23.95 26.20 2.25 40.34 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 24.40 24.80 0.40 167.68 70-95
      Including 25.20 25.50 0.30 70.49 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-071 1.00 4.90 3.90 16.91 35-65 Keats Excavation
      Including 1.85 3.40 1.55 38.19 35-65
      NFGC-25-GC-096 10.00 12.45 2.45 14.45 65-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 11.40 11.75 0.35 91.40 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-100 0.00 15.95 15.95 2.56 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 9.40 9.85 0.45 20.86 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-102 20.45 40.70 20.25 1.41 30-60 Keats Excavation
      Including 29.65 30.30 0.65 14.98 30-60
      NFGC-25-GC-111 23.70 34.30 10.60 2.37 65-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 29.40 30.15 0.75 11.27 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-115 4.90 10.75 5.85 15.85 60-90 Keats Excavation
      Including 4.90 5.35 0.45 199.16 60-90
      And 54.60 58.00 3.40 51.30 70-95
      Including 54.60 55.20 0.60 31.18 70-95
      Including 55.55 56.10 0.55 278.07 70-95
       
      ICEBERG EXCAVATION
      Hole No. From (m) To (m) Interval (m)* Au (g/t) True Width (%) Zone
      NFGC-25-GC-043 71.95 75.60 3.65 15.51 25-55 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 73.85 75.60 1.75 28.81 25-55
      NFGC-25-GC-046 54.70 74.75 20.05 6.77 40-70 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 72.50 73.30 0.80 87.06 40-70
      Including 74.00 74.75 0.75 44.69 40-70
      NFGC-25-GC-048 45.15 54.30 9.15 28.07 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 50.70 53.20 2.50 97.72 70-95
      And 69.15 72.00 2.85 13.31 70-95
      Including 69.15 70.00 0.85 11.37 70-95
      Including 71.00 72.00 1.00 20.37 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-050 50.45 68.00 17.55 22.63 55-85 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 51.20 53.10 1.90 65.51 55-85
      Including 53.60 54.40 0.80 27.50 55-85
      Including 56.80 57.20 0.40 162.33 55-85
      Including 57.80 58.70 0.90 36.99 55-85
      Including 63.90 66.40 2.50 31.79 70-95
      Including 66.80 68.00 1.20 45.11 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-052 48.15 72.00 23.85 7.56 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 48.60 49.20 0.60 12.26 70-95
      Including 61.15 63.70 2.55 17.00 70-95
      Including 64.40 65.20 0.80 74.21 70-95
      Including 68.05 69.80 1.75 12.94 70-95
      Including 71.50 72.00 0.50 38.44 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-055 51.45 67.45 16.00 76.58 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 51.45 52.85 1.40 12.54 70-95
      Including 55.40 55.70 0.30 63.77 70-95
      Including 61.30 61.90 0.60 49.84 70-95
      Including 63.50 67.45 3.95 288.48 70-95
      And Including 63.50 64.25 0.75 656.59 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-058 23.75 26.45 2.70 14.99 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 24.40 25.35 0.95 43.11 70-95
      And 31.30 57.45 26.15 11.62 70-95
      Including 37.75 38.65 0.90 16.38 70-95
      Including 40.35 42.30 1.95 53.55 70-95
      Including 43.15 44.65 1.50 28.64 70-95
      Including 49.80 51.00 1.20 28.67 70-95
      Including 55.85 56.65 0.80 86.44 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-059 33.30 44.35 11.05 11.97 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 35.00 35.45 0.45 12.52 70-95
      Including 35.95 37.45 1.50 29.60 70-95
      Including 38.90 39.55 0.65 68.85 70-95
      Including 42.65 43.10 0.45 54.16 50-80
      NFGC-25-GC-061 34.95 56.15 21.20 35.41 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 37.80 38.25 0.45 65.62 70-95
      Including 42.70 44.00 1.30 77.08 70-95
      Including 45.10 46.15 1.05 67.24 70-95
      Including 48.95 49.75 0.80 76.23 70-95
      Including 50.65 51.35 0.70 107.85 60-90
      Including 52.35 55.60 3.25 118.45 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-064 32.30 41.30 9.00 30.85 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 32.30 32.75 0.45 61.96 70-95
      Including 33.30 34.10 0.80 223.22 70-95
      Including 38.90 40.45 1.55 30.62 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-067 38.85 50.30 11.45 27.84 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 39.85 40.80 0.95 16.17 70-95
      Including 41.60 42.85 1.25 38.25 70-95
      Including 45.20 46.55 1.35 125.72 70-95
      Including 49.70 50.30 0.60 119.07 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-069 37.80 69.75 31.95 71.81 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 39.10 42.65 3.55 80.55 70-95
      Including 47.95 48.90 0.95 28.97 70-95
      Including 51.35 53.45 2.10 154.03 70-95
      And Including 51.35 51.90 0.55 512.64 70-95
      Including 56.80 57.40 0.60 50.45 70-95
      Including 59.45 60.20 0.75 90.53 70-95
      Including 63.15 69.75 6.60 230.17 70-95
      And Including 66.20 67.80 1.60 595.58 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-072 13.40 34.95 21.55 44.44 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 13.40 14.10 0.70 75.07 65-95
      Including 22.60 23.10 0.50 116.62 70-95
      Including 24.20 25.85 1.65 22.27 70-95
      Including 27.70 28.50 0.80 14.00 70-95
      Including 29.35 31.40 2.05 215.32 70-95
      Including 32.35 32.90 0.55 632.87 55-85
      NFGC-25-GC-074 15.35 22.20 6.85 8.38 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 15.35 16.00 0.65 16.06 70-95
      Including 16.70 17.90 1.20 30.26 70-95
      And 31.15 44.25 13.10 3.88 70-95
      Including 35.60 37.10 1.50 22.24 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-076 38.45 51.30 12.85 18.43 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 39.30 39.75 0.45 10.23 70-95
      Including 48.40 48.85 0.45 81.00 40-70
      Including 50.50 51.30 0.80 199.19 40-70
      NFGC-25-GC-079 14.10 25.65 11.55 2.21 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 25.35 25.65 0.30 61.54 70-95
      And 40.40 51.80 11.40 41.12 70-95
      Including 40.40 40.70 0.30 10.76 70-95
      Including 41.35 42.35 1.00 37.25 70-95
      Including 43.00 43.70 0.70 14.36 70-95
      Including 47.90 48.40 0.50 629.44 70-95
      Including 48.70 50.30 1.60 55.71 50-80
      And 57.35 59.55 2.20 11.74 50-80
      Including 57.90 59.55 1.65 15.56 50-80
      And 65.20 68.00 2.80 11.87 25-55
      Including 65.20 66.80 1.60 18.64 25-55
      NFGC-25-GC-082 16.80 36.65 19.85 43.18 65-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 17.50 19.40 1.90 221.81 65-95
      Including 24.65 25.00 0.35 14.10 70-95
      Including 31.00 34.00 3.00 122.53 70-95
      Including 34.55 35.20 0.65 35.33 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-084 40.95 43.75 2.80 17.51 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 41.40 43.00 1.60 27.24 70-95
      And 48.90 60.60 11.70 27.31 70-95
      Including 48.90 51.65 2.75 77.18 70-95
      Including 57.90 60.60 2.70 38.29 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-085 41.80 44.10 2.30 17.99 65-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 42.55 42.90 0.35 114.28 65-95
      And 69.80 72.15 2.35 20.05 70-95
      Including 70.80 71.50 0.70 65.13 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-087 42.80 52.00 9.20 6.70 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 50.90 51.25 0.35 138.45 70-95
      And 63.00 75.55 12.55 8.26 70-95
      Including 63.80 65.20 1.40 19.78 70-95
      Including 66.05 67.75 1.70 36.86 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-097 27.65 55.20 27.55 11.88 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 31.35 33.90 2.55 27.91 70-95
      Including 34.45 35.95 1.50 36.04 70-95
      Including 43.40 43.80 0.40 20.09 70-95
      Including 54.75 55.20 0.45 321.59 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-101 40.00 53.90 13.90 1.53 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 41.15 41.55 0.40 12.16 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-106 3.60 22.25 18.65 31.61 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 3.60 4.55 0.95 239.28 60-90
      Including 10.25 10.90 0.65 15.83 70-95
      Including 14.30 15.05 0.75 44.82 70-95
      Including 17.60 22.25 4.65 65.59 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-107 12.60 15.20 2.60 14.30 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 12.60 14.35 1.75 17.81 70-95
      And 21.75 30.05 8.30 55.43 70-95
      Including 21.75 22.60 0.85 53.65 70-95
      Including 23.60 24.15 0.55 141.09 70-95
      Including 24.45 24.90 0.45 750.76 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-109 17.15 19.75 2.60 120.13 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 17.80 18.95 1.15 304.86 70-95
      And 25.40 40.80 15.40 8.55 70-95
      Including 25.40 25.75 0.35 22.77 70-95
      Including 27.45 28.00 0.55 13.75 70-95
      Including 31.35 32.30 0.95 88.66 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-112 8.00 20.90 12.90 30.43 65-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 8.00 10.55 2.55 18.90 70-95
      Including 15.60 16.10 0.50 27.20 65-95
      Including 16.40 17.90 1.50 118.75 65-95
      Including 19.40 20.50 1.10 133.35 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-113 28.80 38.90 10.10 12.82 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 28.80 29.30 0.50 18.48 70-95
      Including 30.25 31.30 1.05 25.09 70-95
      Including 31.80 32.70 0.90 83.17 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-118 40.35 53.05 12.70 40.56 40-70 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 50.35 53.05 2.70 186.54 40-70
      And Including 52.55 53.05 0.50 807.23 40-70
      NFGC-25-GC-119 16.45 24.50 8.05 26.71 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 17.90 19.90 2.00 97.22 70-95
      Including 20.90 21.80 0.90 12.15 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-121 29.60 33.75 4.15 16.92 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 32.35 33.25 0.90 74.82 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-122 4.35 6.40 2.05 19.72 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 4.70 6.40 1.70 23.64 70-95
      And 13.45 23.35 9.90 12.98 60-90
      Including 14.40 17.20 2.80 34.57 60-90
      Including 18.00 18.50 0.50 32.38 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-123 14.40 23.45 9.05 11.06 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 17.60 19.20 1.60 52.51 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-124 17.00 29.40 12.40 5.17 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 18.80 20.30 1.50 30.32 70-95

       

      Note that the host structures are interpreted to be moderately to steeply dipping. Infill veining in secondary structures with multiple orientations crosscutting the primary host structures are commonly observed in drill core which could result in additional uncertainty in true width. Composite intervals reported carry a minimum weighted average of 1 g/t Au diluted over a minimum core length of 2 m with a maximum of 4 m consecutive dilution when above 200 m vertical depth and 2 m consecutive dilution when below 200 m vertical depth. Included high-grade intercepts are reported as any consecutive interval with grades greater than 10 g/t Au. Grades have not been capped in the averaging and intervals are reported as drill thickness. Details of all drill holes reported in this press release are included in Table 2 and Table 3 below.

      Table 2: Summary of composite drill hole results reported in this press release for Keats and Iceberg.

      KEATS MAIN EXCAVATION
      Hole No. From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Au (g/t) True Width (%) Zone
      NFGC-25-GC-056 2.65 6.15 3.50 4.41 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 2.65 3.30 0.65 17.64 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-060 No Significant Values Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-062 4.20 19.65 15.45 1.73 70-95 Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-063 9.75 21.05 11.30 9.73 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 14.50 15.50 1.00 92.27 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-065 13.20 23.15 9.95 11.81 55-85 Keats Excavation
      Including 13.20 14.10 0.90 111.64 55-85
      NFGC-25-GC-066 5.65 16.00 10.35 4.22 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 5.65 6.20 0.55 23.75 70-95
      Including 10.10 11.10 1.00 24.78 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-068 23.95 26.20 2.25 40.34 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 24.40 24.80 0.40 167.68 70-95
      Including 25.20 25.50 0.30 70.49 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-070 No Significant Values Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-071 1.00 4.90 3.90 16.91 35-65 Keats Excavation
      Including 1.85 3.40 1.55 38.19 35-65
      And 10.65 13.55 2.90 1.42 35-65
      NFGC-25-GC-073 1.70 7.05 5.35 3.47 65-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 4.85 5.30 0.45 29.03 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-075 0.25 3.00 2.75 2.31 70-95 Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-078 7.95 14.15 6.20 3.82 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 9.85 10.45 0.60 11.66 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-080 0.00 2.25 2.25 1.65 70-95 Keats Excavation
      And 7.10 9.40 2.30 1.69 70-95
      And 17.60 23.05 5.45 3.72 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-081 1.90 4.65 2.75 8.37 45-75 Keats Excavation
      Including 2.90 3.90 1.00 19.70 45-75
      And 14.45 19.85 5.40 3.86 70-95
      Including 19.40 19.85 0.45 13.57 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-083 48.70 51.30 2.60 1.04 70-95 Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-086 15.60 19.00 3.40 1.01 15-45 Keats Excavation
      And 26.15 34.85 8.70 1.28 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-088 No Significant Values Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-089 No Significant Values Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-091 No Significant Values Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-092 0.00 2.20 2.20 1.97 65-95 Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-094 11.90 15.30 3.40 2.73 65-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 12.90 13.35 0.45 12.88 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-095 31.20 34.00 2.80 1.54 70-95 Keats Excavation
      And 37.00 39.15 2.15 4.87 70-95
      Including 38.15 38.60 0.45 18.78 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-096 10.00 12.45 2.45 14.45 65-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 11.40 11.75 0.35 91.40 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-098 18.40 28.00 9.60 2.35 60-90 Keats Excavation
      Including 26.40 27.10 0.70 12.97 60-90
      And 32.60 41.10 8.50 2.02 60-90
      Including 33.60 34.00 0.40 11.28 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-100 0.00 15.95 15.95 2.56 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 9.40 9.85 0.45 20.86 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-102 20.45 40.70 20.25 1.41 30-60 Keats Excavation
      Including 29.65 30.30 0.65 14.98 30-60
      NFGC-25-GC-103 1.25 10.85 9.60 2.17 70-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 10.15 10.85 0.70 11.95 70-95
      And 14.15 16.75 2.60 1.11 70-95
      And 25.40 28.05 2.65 1.04 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-105 0.00 2.30 2.30 3.85 Unknown Keats Excavation
      Including 0.00 0.40 0.40 21.96 Unknown
      And 16.15 18.50 2.35 1.50 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-108 8.15 14.25 6.10 1.72 70-95 Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-110 No Significant Values Keats Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-111 23.70 34.30 10.60 2.37 65-95 Keats Excavation
      Including 29.40 30.15 0.75 11.27 65-95
      And 37.80 40.70 2.90 6.29 50-80
      Including 40.25 40.70 0.45 32.18 50-80
      NFGC-25-GC-115 4.90 10.75 5.85 15.85 60-90 Keats Excavation
      Including 4.90 5.35 0.45 199.16 60-90
      And 42.60 45.35 2.75 1.55 70-95
      And 54.60 58.00 3.40 51.30 70-95
      Including 54.60 55.20 0.60 31.18 70-95
      Including 55.55 56.10 0.55 278.07 70-95
       
      ICEBERG EXCAVATION
      Hole No. From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Au (g/t) True Width (%) Zone
      NFGC-25-GC-043 58.70 62.60 3.90 2.44 55-85 Iceberg Excavation
      And 71.95 75.60 3.65 15.51 25-55
      Including 73.85 75.60 1.75 28.81 25-55
      NFGC-25-GC-046 54.70 74.75 20.05 6.77 40-70 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 72.50 73.30 0.80 87.06 40-70
      Including 74.00 74.75 0.75 44.69 40-70
      NFGC-25-GC-048 19.50 21.55 2.05 1.39 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 24.00 26.55 2.55 1.06 70-95
      And 45.15 54.30 9.15 28.07 70-95
      Including 50.70 53.20 2.50 97.72 70-95
      And 58.70 61.00 2.30 1.07 70-95
      And 69.15 72.00 2.85 13.31 70-95
      Including 69.15 70.00 0.85 11.37 70-95
      Including 71.00 72.00 1.00 20.37 70-95
      And 78.00 80.00 2.00 1.15 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-050 40.00 46.35 6.35 1.54 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 50.45 68.00 17.55 22.63 55-85
      Including 51.20 53.10 1.90 65.51 55-85
      Including 53.60 54.40 0.80 27.50 55-85
      Including 56.80 57.20 0.40 162.33 55-85
      Including 57.80 58.70 0.90 36.99 55-85
      Including 63.90 66.40 2.50 31.79 70-95
      Including 66.80 68.00 1.20 45.11 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-052 36.80 42.75 5.95 1.60 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 48.15 72.00 23.85 7.56 70-95
      Including 48.60 49.20 0.60 12.26 70-95
      Including 61.15 63.70 2.55 17.00 70-95
      Including 64.40 65.20 0.80 74.21 70-95
      Including 68.05 69.80 1.75 12.94 70-95
      Including 71.50 72.00 0.50 38.44 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-055 39.50 47.40 7.90 3.35 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 46.20 47.10 0.90 18.55 70-95
      And 51.45 67.45 16.00 76.58 70-95
      Including 51.45 52.85 1.40 12.54 70-95
      Including 55.40 55.70 0.30 63.77 70-95
      Including 61.30 61.90 0.60 49.84 70-95
      Including 63.50 67.45 3.95 288.48 70-95
      And Including 63.50 64.25 0.75 656.59 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-058 23.75 26.45 2.70 14.99 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 24.40 25.35 0.95 43.11 70-95
      And 31.30 57.45 26.15 11.62 70-95
      Including 37.75 38.65 0.90 16.38 70-95
      Including 40.35 42.30 1.95 53.55 70-95
      Including 43.15 44.65 1.50 28.64 70-95
      Including 49.80 51.00 1.20 28.67 70-95
      Including 55.85 56.65 0.80 86.44 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-059 18.70 26.10 7.40 1.96 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 33.30 44.35 11.05 11.97 70-95
      Including 35.00 35.45 0.45 12.52 70-95
      Including 35.95 37.45 1.50 29.60 70-95
      Including 38.90 39.55 0.65 68.85 70-95
      Including 42.65 43.10 0.45 54.16 50-80
      NFGC-25-GC-061 34.95 56.15 21.20 35.41 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 37.80 38.25 0.45 65.62 70-95
      Including 42.70 44.00 1.30 77.08 70-95
      Including 45.10 46.15 1.05 67.24 70-95
      Including 48.95 49.75 0.80 76.23 70-95
      Including 50.65 51.35 0.70 107.85 60-90
      Including 52.35 55.60 3.25 118.45 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-064 20.00 22.20 2.20 1.25 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 32.30 41.30 9.00 30.85 70-95
      Including 32.30 32.75 0.45 61.96 70-95
      Including 33.30 34.10 0.80 223.22 70-95
      Including 38.90 40.45 1.55 30.62 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-067 18.25 21.45 3.20 1.26 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 38.85 50.30 11.45 27.84 70-95
      Including 39.85 40.80 0.95 16.17 70-95
      Including 41.60 42.85 1.25 38.25 70-95
      Including 45.20 46.55 1.35 125.72 70-95
      Including 49.70 50.30 0.60 119.07 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-069 37.80 69.75 31.95 71.81 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 39.10 42.65 3.55 80.55 70-95
      Including 47.95 48.90 0.95 28.97 70-95
      Including 51.35 53.45 2.10 154.03 70-95
      And Including 51.35 51.90 0.55 512.64 70-95
      Including 56.80 57.40 0.60 50.45 70-95
      Including 59.45 60.20 0.75 90.53 70-95
      Including 63.15 69.75 6.60 230.17 70-95
      And Including 66.20 67.80 1.60 595.58 70-95
      And 79.00 81.15 2.15 2.69 Unknown
      Including 80.65 81.15 0.50 10.78 Unknown
      NFGC-25-GC-072 13.40 34.95 21.55 44.44 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 13.40 14.10 0.70 75.07 65-95
      Including 22.60 23.10 0.50 116.62 70-95
      Including 24.20 25.85 1.65 22.27 70-95
      Including 27.70 28.50 0.80 14.00 70-95
      Including 29.35 31.40 2.05 215.32 70-95
      Including 32.35 32.90 0.55 632.87 55-85
      NFGC-25-GC-074 15.35 22.20 6.85 8.38 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 15.35 16.00 0.65 16.06 70-95
      Including 16.70 17.90 1.20 30.26 70-95
      And 31.15 44.25 13.10 3.88 70-95
      Including 35.60 37.10 1.50 22.24 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-076 19.85 26.20 6.35 1.01 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 38.45 51.30 12.85 18.43 70-95
      Including 39.30 39.75 0.45 10.23 70-95
      Including 48.40 48.85 0.45 81.00 40-70
      Including 50.50 51.30 0.80 199.19 40-70
      NFGC-25-GC-079 14.10 25.65 11.55 2.21 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 25.35 25.65 0.30 61.54 70-95
      And 40.40 51.80 11.40 41.12 70-95
      Including 40.40 40.70 0.30 10.76 70-95
      Including 41.35 42.35 1.00 37.25 70-95
      Including 43.00 43.70 0.70 14.36 70-95
      Including 47.90 48.40 0.50 629.44 70-95
      Including 48.70 50.30 1.60 55.71 50-80
      And 57.35 59.55 2.20 11.74 50-80
      Including 57.90 59.55 1.65 15.56 50-80
      And 65.20 68.00 2.80 11.87 25-55
      Including 65.20 66.80 1.60 18.64 25-55
      NFGC-25-GC-082 16.80 36.65 19.85 43.18 65-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 17.50 19.40 1.90 221.81 65-95
      Including 24.65 25.00 0.35 14.10 70-95
      Including 31.00 34.00 3.00 122.53 70-95
      Including 34.55 35.20 0.65 35.33 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-084 16.80 19.75 2.95 5.23 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 40.95 43.75 2.80 17.51 70-95
      Including 41.40 43.00 1.60 27.24 70-95
      And 48.90 60.60 11.70 27.31 70-95
      Including 48.90 51.65 2.75 77.18 70-95
      Including 57.90 60.60 2.70 38.29 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-085 19.30 22.20 2.90 2.63 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 41.80 44.10 2.30 17.99 65-95
      Including 42.55 42.90 0.35 114.28 65-95
      And 57.65 62.60 4.95 8.16 70-95
      Including 62.15 62.60 0.45 51.19 70-95
      And 69.80 72.15 2.35 20.05 70-95
      Including 70.80 71.50 0.70 65.13 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-087 6.00 8.20 2.20 1.73 Unknown Iceberg Excavation
      And 18.15 20.70 2.55 1.78 70-95
      And 42.80 52.00 9.20 6.70 70-95
      Including 50.90 51.25 0.35 138.45 70-95
      And 63.00 75.55 12.55 8.26 70-95
      Including 63.80 65.20 1.40 19.78 70-95
      Including 66.05 67.75 1.70 36.86 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-090 58.00 66.55 8.55 2.48 65-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 61.50 62.00 0.50 11.23 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-093 56.35 62.40 6.05 6.74 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 57.00 58.00 1.00 15.35 70-95
      Including 60.70 61.70 1.00 17.92 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-097 21.30 24.15 2.85 1.07 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 27.65 55.20 27.55 11.88 70-95
      Including 31.35 33.90 2.55 27.91 70-95
      Including 34.45 35.95 1.50 36.04 70-95
      Including 43.40 43.80 0.40 20.09 70-95
      Including 54.75 55.20 0.45 321.59 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-099 2.00 4.10 2.10 1.02 Unknown Iceberg Excavation
      And 43.00 45.20 2.20 2.40 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-101 15.65 20.50 4.85 1.15 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 40.00 53.90 13.90 1.53 70-95
      Including 41.15 41.55 0.40 12.16 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-104 42.15 44.45 2.30 1.23 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      NFGC-25-GC-106 3.60 22.25 18.65 31.61 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 3.60 4.55 0.95 239.28 60-90
      Including 10.25 10.90 0.65 15.83 70-95
      Including 14.30 15.05 0.75 44.82 70-95
      Including 17.60 22.25 4.65 65.59 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-107 12.60 15.20 2.60 14.30 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 12.60 14.35 1.75 17.81 70-95
      And 21.75 30.05 8.30 55.43 70-95
      Including 21.75 22.60 0.85 53.65 70-95
      Including 23.60 24.15 0.55 141.09 70-95
      Including 24.45 24.90 0.45 750.76 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-109 11.00 13.00 2.00 2.31 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 17.15 19.75 2.60 120.13 70-95
      Including 17.80 18.95 1.15 304.86 70-95
      And 25.40 40.80 15.40 8.55 70-95
      Including 25.40 25.75 0.35 22.77 70-95
      Including 27.45 28.00 0.55 13.75 70-95
      Including 31.35 32.30 0.95 88.66 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-112 0.00 2.35 2.35 1.03 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 8.00 20.90 12.90 30.43 65-95
      Including 8.00 10.55 2.55 18.90 70-95
      Including 15.60 16.10 0.50 27.20 65-95
      Including 16.40 17.90 1.50 118.75 65-95
      Including 19.40 20.50 1.10 133.35 65-95
      NFGC-25-GC-113 28.80 38.90 10.10 12.82 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 28.80 29.30 0.50 18.48 70-95
      Including 30.25 31.30 1.05 25.09 70-95
      Including 31.80 32.70 0.90 83.17 70-95
      And 44.50 47.15 2.65 8.17 50-80
      Including 46.30 46.60 0.30 56.91 50-80
      NFGC-25-GC-116 8.00 11.70 3.70 1.10 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 28.40 38.30 9.90 3.74 70-95
      Including 28.85 30.05 1.20 23.28 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-117 24.30 29.50 5.20 5.24 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 24.30 25.70 1.40 16.38 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-118 3.75 9.15 5.40 1.16 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 27.40 34.25 6.85 4.43 70-95
      And 40.35 53.05 12.70 40.56 40-70
      Including 50.35 53.05 2.70 186.54 40-70
      And Including 52.55 53.05 0.50 807.23 40-70
      NFGC-25-GC-119 3.40 8.00 4.60 8.81 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 6.10 8.00 1.90 19.32 70-95
      And 16.45 24.50 8.05 26.71 70-95
      Including 17.90 19.90 2.00 97.22 70-95
      Including 20.90 21.80 0.90 12.15 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-120 21.70 24.20 2.50 1.09 60-90 Iceberg Excavation
      And 31.00 37.00 6.00 3.08 60-90
      Including 31.00 32.45 1.45 12.53 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-121 6.35 10.20 3.85 1.35 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 29.60 33.75 4.15 16.92 70-95
      Including 32.35 33.25 0.90 74.82 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-122 4.35 6.40 2.05 19.72 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 4.70 6.40 1.70 23.64 70-95
      And 13.45 23.35 9.90 12.98 60-90
      Including 14.40 17.20 2.80 34.57 60-90
      Including 18.00 18.50 0.50 32.38 60-90
      NFGC-25-GC-123 14.40 23.45 9.05 11.06 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      Including 17.60 19.20 1.60 52.51 70-95
      NFGC-25-GC-124 9.40 11.65 2.25 1.09 70-95 Iceberg Excavation
      And 17.00 29.40 12.40 5.17 70-95
      Including 18.80 20.30 1.50 30.32 70-95

       

      Note that the host structures are interpreted to be moderately to steeply dipping. Infill veining in secondary structures with multiple orientations crosscutting the primary host structures are commonly observed in drill core which could result in additional uncertainty in true width. Composite intervals reported carry a minimum weighted average of 1 g/t Au diluted over a minimum core length of 2 m with a maximum of 4 m consecutive dilution when above 200 m vertical depth and 2 m consecutive dilution when below 200 m vertical depth. Included high-grade intercepts are reported as any consecutive interval with grades greater than 10 g/t Au. Grades have not been capped in the averaging and intervals are reported as drill thickness.

      Table 3 Details of drill holes reported in this press release.

      Hole No. Azimuth (°) Dip (°) Length (m) UTM E UTM N Zone
      NFGC-25-GC-043 300 -45 108 658419 5427780 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-046 300 -45 99 658422 5427785 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-048 300 -45 84 658427 5427793 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-050 300 -45 76 658429 5427797 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-052 300 -45 76 658432 5427802 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-055 299 -45.2 75 658437 5427805 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-056 300 -45 13 658181 5427527 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-058 300 -45 63 658437 5427810 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-059 299 -45.5 51 658436 5427817 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-060 300 -45 11 658248 5427541 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-061 300 -45 61 658442 5427814 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-062 298 -45.2 21 658182 5427521 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-063 299 -45 26 658177 5427512 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-064 299 -45.5 59 658441 5427819 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-065 299 -45 36 658186 5427516 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-066 299 -45 21 658171 5427516 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-067 299 -45.5 67 658449 5427815 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-068 300 -45 34 658228 5427546 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-069 300 -45 83 658444 5427807 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-070 300 -45 18 658213 5427555 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-071 300 -45 23 658172 5427521 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-072 300 -45 42 658434 5427824 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-073 300 -45 15 658166 5427519 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-074 300 -45 67 658430 5427815 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-075 300 -45 13 658176 5427525 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-076 300 -45 63 658425 5427806 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-078 300 -45 21 658179 5427516 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-079 299 -45 84 658426 5427806 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-080 300 -45 31 658231 5427550 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-081 300 -45 27 658223 5427549 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-082 300 -45 42 658429 5427821 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-083 300 -45 54 658248 5427535 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-084 299 -45 85 658420 5427797 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-085 300 -45 79 658417 5427793 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-086 300 -45 39 658237 5427547 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-087 299 -45 78 658415 5427789 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-088 299 -45 19 658246 5427530 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-089 299 -45 25 658225 5427554 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-090 299 -45 71 658414 5427772 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-091 299 -45 15 658216 5427559 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-092 299 -45 16 658243 5427526 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-093 299 -45 69 658417 5427776 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-094 299 -45 21 658218 5427552 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-095 299 -45 52 658240 5427533 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-096 299 -45 23 658221 5427556 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-097 300 -45 60 658431 5427808 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-098 298 -45 48 658239 5427540 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-099 300 -45 58 658412 5427785 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-100 300 -45 23 658190 5427533 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-101 300 -45 58 658410 5427780 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-102 300 -45 47 658235 5427536 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-103 300 -45 31 658198 5427529 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-104 300 -45 61 658407 5427776 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-105 300 -45 26 658217 5427547 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-106 300 -45 28 658427 5427827 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-107 300 -45 38 658423 5427819 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-108 300 -45 24 658187 5427524 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-109 300 -45.5 48 658423 5427814 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-110 300 -45 24 658252 5427527 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-111 300 -45 48 658238 5427529 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-112 300 -45 27 658422 5427825 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-113 300 -45 50 658415 5427806 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-115 300 -45 59 658242 5427521 Keats
      NFGC-25-GC-116 300 -45 51 658411 5427802 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-117 300 -45 56 658408 5427798 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-118 300 -45 59 658406 5427794 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-119 300 -45 32 658413 5427817 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-120 300 -45 44 658401 5427785 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-121 300 -45 50 658399 5427781 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-122 300 -45 25 658414 5427824 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-123 300 -45 30 658408 5427816 Iceberg
      NFGC-25-GC-124 300 -45 37 658406 5427811 Iceberg

       

      Sampling, Sub-sampling, and Laboratory

      All drilling recovers HQ core. For deep holes, the core size may be reduced to NQ at depth. The drill core is split in half using a diamond saw or a hydraulic splitter for rare intersections with incompetent core.

      A geologist examines the drill core and marks out the intervals to be sampled and the cutting line. Sample lengths are mostly 1.0 meter and adjusted to respect lithological and/or mineralogical contacts and isolate narrow (<1.0m) veins or other structures that may yield higher grades.

      Technicians saw the core along the defined cutting line. One half of the core is kept as a witness sample and the other half is submitted for analysis. Individual sample bags are sealed and placed into totes, which are then sealed and marked with the contents.

      New Found Gold has submitted samples for gold determination by PhotonAssay to ALS Canada Ltd. (‘ALS‘) since February 2024. ALS operates under a commercial contract with New Found Gold.

      Drill core samples are shipped to ALS for sample preparation in Thunder Bay, Ontario. ALS does not currently have accreditation for the PhotonAssay method at their Thunder Bay, ON laboratory. They do however have ISO/IEC 17025 (2017) accreditation for gamma ray analysis of samples for gold at their Australian labs with this method, including the Canning Vale lab in Perth, WA.

      Samples submitted to ALS beginning in February 2024 received gold analysis by photon assay whereby the entire sample is crushed to approximately 70% passing 2 mm mesh. The sample is then riffle split and transferred into jars. For ‘routine’ samples that do not have VG identified and are not within a mineralized zone, one (300-500g) jar is analyzed by photon assay. If the jar assays greater than 0.8 g/t, the remaining crushed material is weighed into multiple jars and submitted for photon assay.

      For samples that have VG identified, the entire crushed sample is riffle split and weighed into multiple jars that are submitted for photon assay. The assays from all jars are combined on a weight-averaged basis.

      Select samples prepared at ALS are also analyzed for a multi-element ICP package (ALS method code ME-ICP61) at ALS Vancouver.

      Drill program design, Quality Assurance/Quality Control, and interpretation of results are performed by qualified persons employing a rigorous Quality Assurance/Quality Control program consistent with industry best practices. Standards and blanks account for a minimum of 10% of the samples in addition to the laboratory’s internal quality assurance programs.

      Quality Control data are evaluated on receipt from the laboratories for failures. Appropriate action is taken if assay results for standards and blanks fall outside allowed tolerances. All results stated have passed New Found Gold’s quality control protocols.

      New Found Gold’s quality control program also includes submission of the second half of the core for approximately 2% of the drilled intervals. In addition, approximately 1% of sample pulps for mineralized samples are submitted for re-analysis to a second ISO-accredited laboratory for check assays.

      The Company does not recognize any factors of drilling, sampling, or recovery that could materially affect the accuracy or reliability of the assay data disclosed.

      The assay data disclosed in this press release have been verified by the Company’s Qualified Person against the original assay certificates.

      Qualified Person

      The scientific and technical information disclosed in this press release was reviewed and approved by Melissa Render, P. Geo., President, and a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101. Ms. Render consents to the publication of this press release by New Found Gold. Ms. Render certifies that this press release fairly and accurately represents the scientific and technical information that forms the basis for this press release.

      About New Found Gold Corp.

      New Found Gold is an emerging Canadian gold producer with assets in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Company holds a 100% interest in Queensway and the Hammerdown Gold Project, which includes fully permitted milling and tailings facilities. The Company is currently focused on advancing its flagship Queensway to production and bringing the Hammerdown deposit into commercial gold production.

      In July 2025, the Company completed a PEA at Queensway (see New Found Gold press release dated July 21, 2025). Recent drilling continues to yield new discoveries along strike and down dip of known gold zones, pointing to the district-scale potential that covers a +110 km strike extent along two prospective fault zones at Queensway.

      Through 2025 New Found Gold built a new board of directors and management team and has a solid shareholder base which includes cornerstone investor Eric Sprott. The Company is focused on growth and value creation.

      Keith Boyle, P.Eng.
      Chief Executive Officer
      New Found Gold Corp.

      Contact

      For further information on New Found Gold, please visit the Company’s website at www.newfoundgold.ca, contact us through our investor inquiry form at https://newfoundgold.ca/contact/contact-us/ or contact:

      Fiona Childe, Ph.D., P.Geo.
      Vice President, Communications and Corporate Development
      Phone: +1 (416) 910-4653
      Email: contact@newfoundgold.ca

      Follow us on social media at
      https://www.linkedin.com/company/newfound-gold-corp
      https://x.com/newfoundgold

      Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. 

      Forward-Looking Statement Cautions

      This press release contains certain ‘forward-looking statements’ within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation, including relating to the Company’s 2025 drill program on its Queensway Gold Project in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and the timing, results, and interpretation and use of the results; planned reporting of the remaining results from 2025 drilling and channel sampling from the Lotto excavation; the excavation program and the timing and results thereof; future drill and excavation programs and the timing and focus thereof; exploration, drilling and mineralization at Queensway; the extent of mineralization and the continuity of high-grade gold mineralization; the potential conversion of mineral resources; the potential resource expansion; planned filing of an updated Technical Report for Queensway, including a mineral resource update, and the timing thereof; focus on growth and value creation; and the merits of Queensway. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts; they are generally, but not always, identified by the words ‘expects’, ‘plans’, ‘anticipates’, ‘believes’, ‘interpreted’, ‘intends’, ‘estimates’, ‘projects’, ‘aims’, ‘suggests’, ‘indicate’, ‘often’, ‘target’, ‘future’, ‘likely’, ‘pending’, ‘potential’, ‘encouraging’, ‘goal’, ‘objective’, ‘prospective’, ‘possibly’, ‘preliminary’, and similar expressions, or that events or conditions ‘will’, ‘would’, ‘may’, ‘can’, ‘could’ or ‘should’ occur, or are those statements, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions that forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of the Company’s management on the date the statements are made, and they involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Consequently, there can be no assurances that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Except to the extent required by applicable securities laws and the policies of the TSXV, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements if management’s beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change. Factors that could cause future results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements include risks associated with the Company’s ability to complete exploration and drilling programs as expected, possible accidents and other risks associated with mineral exploration operations, the risk that the Company will encounter unanticipated geological factors, risks associated with the interpretation of exploration results and the results of the metallurgical testing program, the possibility that the Company may not be able to secure permitting and other governmental clearances necessary to carry out the Company’s exploration plans, the risk that the Company will not be able to raise sufficient funds to carry out its business plans, and the risk of political uncertainties and regulatory or legal changes that might interfere with the Company’s business and prospects. The reader is urged to refer to the Company’s Annual Information Form and Management’s Discussion and Analysis, publicly available through the Canadian Securities Administrators’ System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR+) at www.sedarplus.ca for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects.

      1 g/t Au = grams of gold per tonne, m = metres.

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      Radisson Mining Resources Inc. (TSXV: RDS,OTC:RMRDF) (OTCQB: RMRDF) (‘Radisson’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to report an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (‘MRE’) at its 100%-owned O’Brien Gold Project (‘O’Brien’ or the ‘Project’) located in the Abitibi region of Québec. The Company is currently undertaking a fully-funded 140,000-metre step-out drill program at the Project with the objective of determining the scope of mineralization to a depth of 2 kilometres. This program commenced in 2025 and is expected to continue through the first half of 2027. Today’s updated MRE is an interim report that demonstrates the impact of recent drilling successes completed as of December 31, 2025. Highlights include:

      • 82% increase in Inferred Mineral Resources from step-out drilling intersecting new mineralization, with 1.69 million ounces (‘Moz’) in 10.37 million tonnes (‘Mt’) at 5.08 grams per tonne (‘g/t’) gold (‘Au’);

      • 8% increase in Indicated Mineral Resources with 0.63 Moz in 3.49 Mt at 5.59 g/t Au;

      • Estimated using US$2,500/oz Au and 2.2 g/t Au cut-off, with a refined geological model and capping strategy, establishing the go-forward basis for future, modern mine development.

      Matt Manson, President and CEO: ‘Today we report the first of several planned, step-by-step updates to the MRE at the O’Brien Gold Project, quantifying the impact of our recent drilling success and establishing a clear foundation for future, modern mine development. With just 25% of our 140,000 metre step-out drill program completed, the new vein mineralization delineated beneath the historic mine workings and the previous mineral resource volume (Radisson news release dated February 12, 2026) has resulted in an 82% increase in the quantity of Inferred Mineral Resources, now 1.69 Moz (10.37 Mt at 5.08 g/t Au). At the same time, we have refined the estimate of Indicated Mineral Resources, incorporating more tonnes at a lower average grade for an 8% increase in contained ounces, now 0.63 Moz (3.49 Mt at 5.59 g/t Au). Our estimates utilize a 2.2 g/t Au cut-off at a reasonable gold price assumption of US$2,500/oz.’

      ‘The former O’Brien Mine was known for high-grade ore-shoots mined in small volumes. Mining ended in 1957 with the gold price at US$35/oz. Significant volumes of mineralized vein material, below what we believe to have been a 7 g/t to 8 g/t Au cut-off, were left untouched. Now, we are presenting the Project as it should be viewed for future development: not as a bespoke deposit of extreme grade and limited scale, but as an extensive Abitibi vein deposit with a substantial inventory of mineralized material amenable to modern mechanized mining at higher throughput.’

      ‘Our step-out drill campaign at O’Brien is ongoing with up to eight rigs. We expect to complete 72,500 metres in 2026 and 32,500 metres in the first half of 2027. This is in addition to the meterage supporting today’s updated MRE. The vein mineralization system we have been intersecting is open at depth. In fact, since our step-out drilling began in the fall of 2024, we have been seeing an impressive 84% success rate in intercepting classic O’Brien quartz-sulphide-gold veins with grades and thicknesses consistent with today’s updated MRE. Looking to a 2-kilometre exploration floor, we believe an appropriate Exploration Target at O’Brien is another 5 Mt to 10 Mt at grades of between 4.0 g/t and 6.0 g/t Au containing 0.6 Moz to 2.0 Moz. We expect to complete further step-by-step updates to the MRE as our drilling progresses.’

      Cautionary statement: Readers are cautioned Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The estimate of mineral resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, socio-political, marketing, or other relevant issues including risks set forth in Radisson’s filings made with Canadian securities regulatory authorities. The potential quantity and grade of an Exploration Target is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.

      A video presentation of today’s news by Matt Manson can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZwSSYbO70.

      Mineral Resource Estimate (effective January 31, 2026)

      The MRE is based on 428,440 metres of drilling completed to the end of December 31, 2025, and has been authored by SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd. (‘SLR‘). The estimate utilizes a 2.2 g/t Au cut-off at US$2,500/oz and makes certain assumptions on mining and processing costs, currency exchange rate, and metallurgical recovery (Table 1 and Figure 1). A wireframe vein model prepared by Radisson and reviewed by SLR constrains the estimate and applies a minimum width of 1.2 metres. Individual assays are capped at 60 g/t Au prior to compositing to full width of the veins, and the block model utilizes 5 by 2 by 5 metre blocks consistent with recent mine design studies.

      Table 1: Mineral Resource Estimate, Effective January 31, 2026

      Category Tonnes (kt) Grade (g/t Au) Oz (koz Au)
      Indicated 3,493 5.59 628
      Inferred 10,368 5.08 1,692
      Notes:

      1. Prepared in accordance with the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Definition Standards (2014) and Best Practice Guidelines of Mineral Resources and Reserves (2019).
      2. Mineral resources are reported above a cut-off grade of 2.2 g/t Au based on a C$215/t operating cost, a long-term gold price of US$2,500/oz Au, a US$/C$ exchange rate of 1:1.33, and a metallurgical recovery of 90%.
      3. Wireframes were modelled at a minimum width of 1.2 m.
      4. Bulk density varies by deposit and lithology and ranges from 2.76 t/m³ to 2.87 t/m³.
      5. Individual assays were capped at 60 g/t Au prior to compositing to full vein width.
      6. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
      7. Numbers may not add due to rounding.

       

      An MRE for the Project was previously published in March 2023 (Radisson news release dated March 2, 2023) based on 325,509 metres of drilling completed to the end of 2022. Indicated Mineral Resources (effective March 2, 2023) were estimated at 0.50 Moz (1.52 Mt at 10.26 g/t Au) with additional Inferred Mineral Resources of 0.45 Moz (1.60 Mt at 8.66 g/t Au). The 2023 study applied a 4.5 g/t Au cut-off at US$1,600/oz Au.

      In July 2025, Radisson published a Preliminary Economic Assessment (‘PEA‘) for the Project that utilized the 2023 estimate re-blocked by SLR in the Z-direction from 10 metres to 5 metres to allow for more flexible underground mine design. A cut-off of 2.2 g/t Au at US$2,000/oz Au and an updated set of economic criteria were applied in the re-blocking exercise consistent with the parameters used for the optimization of the PEA’s underground mine schedule. No other changes were made. Indicated Mineral Resources (effective May 6, 2025) were estimated at 0.58 Moz (2.20 Mt at 8.22 g/t Au) with additional Inferred Mineral Resources of 0.93 Moz (6.67 Mt at 4.35 g/t Au).

      The updated MRE released today benefits from 66,387 metres of additional drilling in 122 drill holes conducted between 2023 and 2025, which is the most significant factor in the increase of Inferred Mineral Resources (Figure 2). Radisson has also validated an additional 36,544 meters of historic drilling. The updated MRE utilizes similar estimation parameters to previously, but a more restrictive approach to capping. In the March 2023 estimate, and as incorporated in the re-blocked May 2025

      Figure 1: Block Models for the Mineral Resource Estimates Effective May 6, 2025 (Top) with Recently Published Drill Results and the Updated MRE Effective January 31, 2026 (Bottom) 

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      estimate, capping at 40 g/t Au was applied to the full-length composites. In the updated MRE, capping has been applied at 60 g/t Au to the underlying assays prior to compositing. This has the effect of reducing the average grade by approximately 12%, and in the opinion of Radisson and SLR is an appropriate approach to a narrow high-grade vein deposit such as O’Brien.

      Figure 2: 3D View of Block Model by Resource Classification (Left) and Gold Grade (Right) Illustrating Volume Utilized in the Previous May 2025 MRE 

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      Compared to previous estimates, the aggregate impact on the Indicated Mineral Resources of the new drilling, the 2.2 g/t Au cut-off, and the updated capping strategy has been to add more tonnes at a lower average grade for an overall increase in contained ounces. The aggregate impact of these three factors on the Inferred Mineral Resources has been the addition of more tonnes at a higher average grade for an overall increase in contained ounces. Indicated Mineral Resources have increased by 8% to 0.63 Moz, based on an increase in tonnes of 58% to 3.49 Mt and a decrease in grade of 32% to 5.59 g/t Au. Inferred Mineral Resources have increased by 82% to 1.69 Moz, based on an increase in tonnage of 55% to 10.37 Mt and an increase in grade of 17% to 5.08 g/t Au.

      O’Brien’s system of Quartz-Sulphide-Gold vein mineralization remains open to depth across a broad front beneath the historic mine workings and the updated MRE. The potential continuation of this mineralization to a 2 kilometres depth defines an Exploration Target of an additional 5 Mt to 10 Mt at grades of between 4.0 g/t and 6.0 g/t Au containing 0.6 Moz to 2.0 Moz. The potential quantity and grade of an Exploration Target is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.

      Table 2: Sensitivities of the Mineral Resource Estimate Based on Cut-Off

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      A New Vision for the O’Brien Gold Project

      The historic O’Brien mine produced over half a million ounces of gold at an average grade exceeding 15 g/t Au. It is clear that the former mine was ‘high-graded’, with manual mining methods applied to the highest-grade veins and ore shoots at an estimated cut-off grade of 7 g/t to 8 g/t Au. Parallel but lower-grade mineralized zones, which would be well above an economic cut-off grade today, were left unmined.

      The updated MRE does not incorporate any mineral resources potentially remaining in the former mine. However, in applying the lower grade cut-off of 2.2 g/t Au based on a gold-price estimate of US$2,500, the new estimate captures the overall volume attributes of the O’Brien mineralizing system, with more tonnes and more ounces at a lower average grade. This has the benefit of improving the continuity of mineralization for future mine planning, with larger stopes and more development headings supporting a higher potential mining rate. The Project has existing mining infrastructure to support such a vision, such as a shaft in the former mine extending to a 1,000 metres depth and multiple mills in the region with significant future capacity.

      Table 2 illustrates sensitivities on Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources and the MRE block model based on cut-off grade. These are:

      • a) 8.0 g/t Au (US$700/oz) representing the former mine,

      • b) 4.5 g/t Au (US$1,250/oz) representing the MRE effective March 2, 2023,

      • c) 2.2 g/t Au (US$2,500/oz) representing the updated MRE, and

      • d) 1.5 g/t Au (US$3,800/oz) representing the recent long-term consensus price of gold.

      The comparison clearly indicates the relationship between volume and grade based on cut-off, the directionality of steeply-plunging grade shoots at O’Brien, and the increased continuity of mineralization achieved at progressively lower cut-offs.

      Gold Mineralization at O’Brien and Step-Out Drill Program

      Gold mineralization at O’Brien occurs within quartz-sulphide veins developed primarily within the interlayered mafic volcanic rocks, conglomerates, and porphyritic andesitic sills of the Piché Group occurring in contact with the regionally significant Larder Lake-Cadillac Break (‘LLCB’). Individual veins are generally narrow, ranging from several centimetres up to several metres in thickness, and are associated with mineralized alteration envelopes of up to several metres in thickness. Multiple veins occur sub-parallel to each other, as well as sub-parallel to the Piché lithologies and the LLCB. As mapped at the historic O’Brien mine, and now replicated in the modern drilling, individual veins have well-established lateral continuity, with steeply plunging grade shoots developed over significant lengths.

      Since the end of 2024, Radisson has been pursuing a program of broad step-out drilling at O’Brien with the objective of determining the overall scope of mineralization at the Project to a depth of 2 kilometres (Figure 1). The priority is the quantity and distribution of mineral resources with step-outs rather than in-filling to upgrade the classification of the existing mineral resources.

      This drilling is accomplished with pilot holes followed by wedges and directional drilling to maximize drill efficiency. In October 2025, Radisson announced the expansion of the program to 140,000 metres employing an eventual eight drill rigs (see Radisson news release dated October 16, 2025). An initial 35,000 metres of the program were completed in 2025, with 72,500 metres budgeted for 2026, and a further 32,500 metres scheduled for the first half of 2027.

      QP Disclosure

      Disclosure of a scientific or technical nature in this news release was prepared under the supervision of Mr. Richard Nieminen, P.Geo., (QC), a geological consultant for Radisson and a Qualified Person for purposes of NI 43-101. Mr. Luke Evans, M.Sc., P.Eng., ing., of SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd., is the Qualified Person responsible for the preparation of the MRE at O’Brien. Both Mr. Nieminen and Mr. Evans are independent of Radisson and the O’Brien Gold Project.

      About Radisson Mining

      Radisson is a gold exploration company focused on its 100% owned O’Brien Gold Project, located in the Bousquet-Cadillac mining camp along the world-renowned Larder-Lake-Cadillac Break in Abitibi, Québec. A July 2025 PEA described a low cost and high value project with an 11-year mine life and significant upside potential based on the use of existing regional infrastructure. Indicated Mineral Resources are estimated at 0.63 Moz (3.49 Mt at 5.59 g/t Au), with additional Inferred Mineral Resources estimated at 1.69 Moz (10.37 Mt at 5.08 g/t Au). Please see the NI 43-101 ‘O’Brien Gold Project Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment, Québec, Canada’ effective June 27, 2025, and other filings made with Canadian securities regulatory authorities available at www.sedarplus.ca for further details and assumptions relating to the O’Brien Gold Project. For more information on Radisson, visit our website at www.radissonmining.com or contact:

      Matt Manson
      President and CEO
      416.618.5885
      mmanson@radissonmining.com

      Kristina Pillon
      Manager, Investor Relations
      604.908.1695
      kpillon@radissonmining.com

      Forward-Looking Statements

      This news release contains ‘forward-looking information’ within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation that is based on expectations, estimates, projections, and interpretations as at the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements including, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the ability to execute the Company’s plans relating to the O’Brien Gold Project as set out in the Preliminary Economic Assessment; the Company’s ability to complete its planned exploration and development programs; the absence of adverse conditions at the O’Brien Gold Project; the absence of unforeseen operational delays; the absence of material delays in obtaining necessary permits; the price of gold remaining at levels that render the O’Brien Gold Project profitable; the Company’s ability to continue raising necessary capital to finance its operations; the ability to realize on the mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates; assumptions regarding present and future business strategies; local and global geopolitical and economic conditions and the environment in which the Company operates and will operate in the future; planned and ongoing drilling; the significance of drill results; the ability to continue drilling; the impact of drilling on the definition of any resource; and the ability to incorporate new drilling in an updated technical report and resource modelling; the Company’s ability to grow the O’Brien Gold Project; and the ability to convert inferred mineral resources to indicated mineral resources.

      Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, interpretations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as ‘expects’, or ‘does not expect’, ‘is expected’, ‘interpreted’, ‘management’s view’, ‘anticipates’ or ‘does not anticipate’, ‘plans’, ‘budget’, ‘scheduled’, ‘forecasts’, ‘estimates’, ‘believes’ or ‘intends’ or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results ‘may’ or ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘might’ or ‘will’ be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information and are intended to identify forward-looking information. Except for statements of historical fact relating to the Company, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements Forward-looking information is based on estimates of management of the Company, at the time it was made, involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the companies to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others; the risk that the O’Brien Gold Project will never reach the production stage (including due to a lack of financing); the Company’s capital requirements and access to funding; changes in legislation, regulations and accounting standards to which the Company is subject, including environmental, health and safety standards, and the impact of such legislation, regulations and standards on the Company’s activities; price volatility and availability of commodities; instability in the global financial system; the effects of high inflation, such as higher commodity prices; the risk of any future litigation against the Company; changes in project parameters and/or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; geological, mining and exploration technical problems; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing; risks relating to the drill results at O’Brien; the significance of drill results; and the ability of drill results to accurately predict mineralization. Although the forward-looking information contained in this news release is based upon what management believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the parties cannot assure shareholders and prospective purchasers of securities that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking information, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, and neither the Company nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any such forward-looking information. The Company believes that this forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this press release should not be unduly relied upon. The Company does not undertake, and assumes no obligation, to update or revise any such forward-looking statements or forward-looking information contained herein to reflect new events or circumstances, except as may be required by law. These statements speak only as of the date of this news release.

      Please refer to the ‘Risks and Uncertainties Related to Exploration’ and the ‘Risks Related to Financing and Development’ sections of the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis dated April 29, 2025 for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis dated November 26, 2025 for the three month period ended September 30, 2025, all of which are available electronically on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. All forward looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

      Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.

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      Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Friday (February 25) as of 1:30 p.m. UTC.

      Get the latest insights on Bitcoin, Ether and altcoins, along with a round-up of key cryptocurrency market news.

      Bitcoin (BTC) was priced at US$66,270.44, down by 0.4 percent over the last 24 hours.

      Bitcoin price performance, March 2, 2026.

      Chart via TradingView

      Ether (ETH) was priced at US$1,947.16, down by 1.8 percent over the last 24 hours.

      Altcoin price update

      • XRP (XRP) was priced at US$1.35, down by 1.8 percent over 24 hours.
      • Solana (SOL) was trading at US$83.41, down by 1.8 percent over 24 hours.

      Today’s crypto news to know

      Bitcoin slips under US$67,000 as Iran tensions continue

      Bitcoin drifted back below $67,000 late Sunday as uncertainty surrounding the Iran-Israel conflict continued to weigh on global risk assets.

      The token was down roughly 1 percent over 24 hours, after swinging sharply in response to US-Israel air strikes on Iran and retaliatory activity across the region. Prices had plunged to around US$63,255 early Saturday during the initial shock, only to rebound above US$68,000 later that day amid unconfirmed reports about Iran’s leadership.

      Meanwhile, Ether hovered near US$1,950 after tumbling roughly 10 percent in the immediate aftermath of the escalation.

      Bitcoin remains down about 23 percent year-to-date and nearly 50 percent off its October peak of US$126,000, with some Wall Street analysts warning a move toward US$50,000 is possible before any durable recovery takes hold.

      X lifts crypto ad ban

      Social media platform X has reversed course on its crypto advertising policy, removing digital assets and gambling from its list of prohibited industries for paid promotions.

      The change opens the door for influencers and key opinion leaders to monetize crypto content legally on the platform, provided they follow new disclosure rules. Under X’s updated Paid Partnership framework, posts created as part of a commercial arrangement must carry a clear “Paid Partnership” label.

      “Undisclosed promotions hurt the integrity of the product and lead people to distrust the content they read on X,” said Nikita Bier, the company’s head of product, adding that the update is meant to encourage transparency and regulatory compliance.

      Influencers remain responsible for adhering to applicable laws, including Federal Trade Commission guidelines on endorsements. While crypto is no longer banned from paid partnerships, the platform maintains distinctions between sponsored content and traditional advertising placements.

      UAE security alert prompts crypto firms to shift to remote work

      Major cryptocurrency exchanges in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have moved staff indoors after the country entered a heightened security posture, with authorities reporting missile interceptions and aerial defense activity across parts of the Gulf.

      Binance and Bybit instructed UAE-based employees to remain home and work remotely until further notice. Binance circulated a company-wide notice directing staff to avoid outdoor areas and stay clear of windows and open spaces.

      Securities Disclosure: I, Meagen Seatter, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.

      Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.

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      The Strait of Hormuz region became a flashpoint Sunday after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran under Operation Epic Fury triggered electronic warfare activity and multiple ‘attacks’ on vessels along one of the world’s most critical energy waterways, according to reports.

      The sudden escalation followed a Feb. 28 warning from U.S. maritime authorities urging commercial vessels to avoid strategic waterways if possible, including the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, citing heightened security risks.

      ‘It is recommended that vessels keep clear of this area if possible,’ the advisory warned.

      ‘The Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and adjacent waters are the most dangerous place right now for commercial shipping,’ Jakob P. Larsen, head of maritime security at BIMCO, told Fox News Digital.

      ‘Ships in the Persian Gulf are under threat from Iranian attacks,’ Larsen said.

      ‘To protect themselves, most ships stay as far away from Iran as they can,’ he added before describing how ships are ‘trying to depart from the Persian Gulf to get away from the threat.’

      The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and regional authorities reported multiple maritime incidents listed as ‘attacks’ Sunday.

      One vessel west of Sharjah, UAE, was rocked by an explosion from an unknown projectile that detonated close alongside, and another tanker north of Muscat, Oman, was struck above the waterline, sparking a fire that was later brought under control, according to data.

      A third vessel northwest of Mina Saqr, UAE, was also hit by a projectile that ignited a blaze aboard, the organization reported.

      Compounding the physical threats is a surge in electronic warfare with maritime intelligence firm Windward reporting widespread GPS and Automatic Identification System (AIS) interference, impacting 1,000-plus ships.

      Windward cited widespread navigation disruption near Iran’s Bandar Abbas port, with ships falsely appearing at airports, a nuclear power plant and inland locations.

      Several new AIS jamming clusters were also identified across Emirati, Qatari, Omani and Iranian waters, Windward said.

      Major shipping company Maersk announced it would reroute some services away from the region, citing crew and cargo safety.

      Roughly 20% of global oil and gas exports pass through the Strait, and traffic has already thinned, with some tankers reversing course or switching off AIS signals.

      Industry groups also warned of Houthi retaliation in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, while analysts cautioned that Iran could seize vessels tied to U.S. or Israeli interests.

      ‘The Houthis have threatened to resume attacks on ships in the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Gulf of Aden,’ Larsen explained.

      Ships with business connections to U.S. or Israeli interests are considered more likely targets, though others could be struck deliberately or in error, he said.

      Tanker owners’ association Intertanko also warned members that ‘the expectation is that the Houthis may respond and recommence attacks on shipping,’ although immediate intelligence remained unclear.

      ‘There are no signs of Iranian attempts to close the Strait with sea mines or naval mines, although this can change at short notice,’ Larsen added before confirming that GPS interference has ‘increased significantly following the initiation of hostilities.’

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      Historic US-Israel strikes on Iran underway as Tehran faces regime survival test
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      President Donald Trump vowed Sunday to ‘avenge’ the deaths of three U.S. service members killed in action as the conflict involving Iran deepens across the Middle East.

      ‘As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation,’ Trump said in a video statement posted on Truth Social. 

      ‘Even as we continue the righteous mission for which they gave their lives, we pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen.’

      The president struck a somber note, warning that ‘sadly, there will likely be more before it ends.’

      ‘America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war,’ Trump said. ‘Our resolve and likewise that of Israel has never been stronger.’

      Trump’s remarks, his first public statement since the U.S.-Israel strikes that led to the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior Iranian officials, signaled a potentially prolonged confrontation.

      ‘This wretched and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across many countries,’ Trump said.

      He said U.S. forces had struck ‘hundreds of targets’ inside Iran, including key Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems and naval assets. Trump said the U.S. ‘knocked out nine Iranian ships ‘in a matter of literally minutes.’ Military operations, he added, would continue ‘until all of our objectives are achieved.’

      He went on to issue a direct warning to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and military leadership, urging them to surrender in exchange for immunity or face ‘certain death.’ 

      Ahead of the strikes, the U.S. military amassed what Trump previously called an ‘armada’ in Iran’s backyard. Mapped out across the Persian Gulf and beyond, the deployment tells its own story, one of calculated pressure backed by credible capability.

      At the center of the U.S. presence are two aircraft carrier strike groups — the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford — each supported by guided-missile destroyers and cruisers and capable of sustained air and missile operations.

      More than a dozen additional U.S. warships are also operating in the region in support roles, according to defense officials.

      Meanwhile, Tehran has vowed retaliation for the strikes. 

      Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that avenging Khamenei’s killing is both a ‘legitimate duty and right,’ and added that Tehran ‘will forcefully crush the enemy’s bases.’

      The confrontation has already included missile and drone strikes launched by Iran against U.S. bases in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq, though U.S. Central Command has denied Tehran’s claims of successfully targeting American carriers.

      The unfolding conflict has ignited reactions far beyond the Middle East, including anti-war protests in U.S. cities and heightened diplomatic tensions near American embassies, underscoring how quickly the crisis has expanded beyond the region.

      In Austin, authorities are investigating a recent shooting as potentially an act of terrorism, further heightening concerns about spillover effects at home.

      Meanwhile, federal and local law enforcement have boosted security as a precaution, though officials say no specific, credible threats have been identified. 

       

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