Royal Road Minerals Limited has commenced diamond drilling at the Güíntar target, marking the start of a new campaign at the core of its Güíntar-Alemán-Margaritas gold-copper-silver project in Antioquia, Colombia.

Drilling is underway from Platform 20, where multiple holes are designed to follow the interpreted mineralized system down-plunge and beneath previous drilling limits. The program aims to test down-dip extensions of mineralization encountered in historical holes GUI-DD-013 and GUI-DD-028, the latter of which intersected 176 meters at 1.2 g/t gold equivalent—equivalent to 1.4% copper equivalent—and remained open at depth. Additional drilling from Platform 19 will test the width and continuity of mineralization across adjacent fault-bound structural blocks.

Royal Road originally acquired the core concessions for the project from a subsidiary of AngloGold Ashanti in 2019. Recent geological and structural work indicates that the Güíntar porphyry system has been locally offset by younger normal and transtensional faulting, providing an improved framework for targeting both the earlier porphyry system and a younger gold-bearing event.

Elsewhere across the project area, recent underground sampling at Algodona returned 36 meters at 2.14 g/t gold and 6.95 g/t silver. At Niverengo, reprocessing of historical geophysics has defined a previously untested coincident chargeability and magnetic target.

Recent selective resampling of 21 pyrrhotite-bearing veins from historical drill core at Güíntar and Niverengo returned gold grades ranging from 0.15 to 69.5 g/t, isolating materially higher-grade mineralized intervals compared to previous broader one-meter sample composites.

“Our objective at Güíntar is to advance the known system toward a maiden mineral resource while continuing to demonstrate the broader discovery potential of GAM,” said Dr. Tim Coughlin, Royal Road's President and CEO. “Beyond GAM, we are advancing exploration across our Northern Block and, importantly, working toward renewed access to our gold and copper portfolio in southern Colombia, which we believe is of exceptional quality.” — Dr. Tim Coughlin, President and CEO

Beyond the Güíntar-Alemán-Margaritas project, Royal Road controls approximately 1,840 square kilometers of mineral titles and applications across its broader Colombian portfolio. Regional reconnaissance is underway in the Northern Block, while stakeholder engagement continues in the Southern Block to regain access to prospective targets. Elsewhere in the surrounding district, Orosur Mining Inc. commenced its first-ever drilling campaign at the El Cedro prospect on September 2, 2026.

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