Mr. Mike Bandrowski reports

BIG RIDGE ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS AND MAILING OF MEETING MATERIALS

Big Ridge Gold Corp.'s annual and special meeting of shareholders will be held at the offices of Dentons Canada LLP, 77 King St. W, Suite 400, Toronto, Ont., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2026, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.

Record date and meeting materials

Shareholders of record at the close of business on Nov. 4, 2026, are entitled to receive notice of and vote at the meeting. As of the record date, 319,178,675 common shares of the company were issued and outstanding, each carrying one vote. The notice of meeting, management information circular and form of proxy or voting instruction form were mailed to shareholders on Nov. 13, 2026, and are available under the company's profile on SEDAR+ and on the company's website. Shareholders who have not received their meeting materials by Nov. 27, 2026, may contact the company at jkirke@bigridgegold.com.

Business of the meeting

At the meeting, shareholders will be asked to:

1. Fix the number of directors at six and elect the company's directors for the ensuing year; the nominees are Kristina Bates (chair of the board), Mike Bandrowski, Garett Macdonald, Richard Mazur, Paul Pint and Nick Tintor; five of the six nominees are independent; Mr. Macdonald, who was appointed to the board on Sept. 15, 2026, and chairs the board's technical and sustainability committee, stands for election by shareholders for the first time; he is a mining engineer with more than 25 years of experience in mine operations, project development and executive leadership, currently vice-president, operations, and general manager of Hemlo Mining Corp. and formerly president and chief executive officer of Maritime Resources Corp.;
2. Reappoint Davidson & Co. LLP, chartered professional accountants, as auditor of the company for the ensuing year and authorize the directors to fix the auditor's remuneration;
3. Approve, by ordinary resolution, the company's amended and restated share option plan, as amended; the plan is a rolling plan, under which the number of common shares reserved for issuance may not exceed 10 per cent of the company's issued and outstanding shares and, under the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, it must be approved by shareholders each year; the amendments being put to shareholders are housekeeping changes requested by the TSX-V in the course of its annual review of the plan and do not change the number of shares reserved under the plan or the pricing, term or vesting of options.

The board of directors has unanimously approved each of these matters and recommends that shareholders vote for them. Full details are set out in the management information circular.

How to vote

Registered shareholders may vote by proxy by Internet, telephone or mail following the instructions on the form of proxy or in person at the meeting. Proxies must be received by Computershare Investor Services Inc. no later than 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2026. Shareholders who hold their shares through a broker or other intermediary should follow the voting instructions provided with their voting instruction forms and, if they wish to attend and vote in person, may appoint themselves as proxyholder in the manner described in the circular. The board encourages all shareholders to vote in advance of the meeting.

Adjustment to director option awards

On July 1, 2026, the company granted 2.25 million stock options to its non-employee directors, exercisable at 45 cents per share until July 1, 2031, as announced on July 2, 2026. The company subsequently determined that the grant-date value of these awards exceeded the annual limit on option awards to non-employee directors under the plan. To bring the awards within that limit, on Oct. 20, 2026, the non-employee directors surrendered for cancellation a total of 1,101,918 of these options, leaving 1,148,082 options from the July 1, 2026, grant outstanding. The cancelled options have been returned to the pool available for future grants under the plan, and no other terms of the options were changed. Further information is set out in the company's management information circular dated Nov. 4, 2026, available under the company's profile on SEDAR+.

About Big Ridge Gold Corp.

Big Ridge Gold is an exploration and development company managed by a disciplined and experienced team of officers and directors. The company is committed to the development of advanced-stage mining projects using industry best practices combined with strong social licence from its local communities. Big Ridge owns a 100-per-cent interest in its flagship Hope Brook gold project, located in Newfoundland and Labrador. Big Ridge also owns a 100-per-cent interest in the highly prospective Oxford gold project, located in Manitoba, and the Destiny gold project in Quebec.

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