NRED Intelligent Mining Inc. has commenced its 2026 field program at the Wilmac Copper-Gold Project in British Columbia, deploying field crews to extend soil sampling coverage across Lamont Ridge.

The company holds the 16,078-hectare copper-gold property under option within British Columbia's Quesnel porphyry belt, situated approximately 10 kilometres west of Hudbay Minerals Inc.'s producing Copper Mountain Mine.

Porter work involves collecting outcrop rock samples to document local geochemistry, alteration, and mineralization. Field teams are also sampling the extensive forestry road network in the North Lamont area and across the Plume grid, where two large iron carbonate-silica alteration zones have been mapped previously. Road samples overlying the Lamont grid are being re-analyzed using a near-total four acid digestion to replace earlier Aqua Regia data and establish a consistent geochemical dataset across the tenure.

Soil samples undergo portable X-ray fluorescence analysis, with select material submitted for quantitative laboratory testing including gold assays. Elevated pathfinder element values will guide the selection of samples for quantitative laboratory gold analysis.

NRED Intelligent Mining is advancing the acquisition of a drill permit for the project to support an initial drill program planned for the fall of 2026.

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