Mr. Mike Sieb reports

GETCHELL GOLD CORP. FILES ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIM REGARDING MINING CLAIMS TITLE, FONDAWAY CANYON, NV

Getchell Gold Corp. has provided an update on legal proceedings in relation to claim staking conducted by NV Minerals Corp., a private Nevada registered corporation, on land coincident with and overlapping certain of the company's existing claims at the Fondaway Canyon gold project in Nevada.

Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the company, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary Getchell Gold Nevada Inc., removed the lawsuit filed by NV Minerals to the U.S. Federal District Court, District of Nevada, and filed its verified answer and counterclaims. Getchell is asserting counterclaims for quiet title and declaratory relief.

Getchell's filing is in response to the complaint filed against Getchell by NV Minerals (refer to Getchell Gold's news dated Feb. 23 and April 6, 2026). NV Minerals' complaint alleges claims for quiet title and declaratory relief related to mining claims based on a purported long-ago forfeiture of claims.

In Getchell's opinion, the NV Minerals complaint is without merit. The mineral claims tenure at Fondaway has been continuously held and maintained by Getchell (and predecessors) in an uninterrupted manner since the mid-1950s as is presently reflected in the claims' good and active standing in the records of both the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Churchill County. Therefore, it is Getchell's position the NV Minerals claims are junior in time and right to the Getchell claims and purport to cover lands that were not open to mineral location at the time of their purported location.

Getchell will continue to develop the project as originally planned and is moving ahead in 2026 to:

• Complete an updated mineral resource estimate;
• Complete an updated preliminary economic assessment;
• File a comprehensive plan of operations with the relevant regulatory authorities to accelerate development at Fondaway (see Getchell Gold's news release dated March 19, 2026).

About Getchell Gold Corp.

The company is a Nevada-focused gold exploration company trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange (symbol: GTCH), the OTCQB (symbol: GGLDF) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (symbol: GGA1). Getchell Gold is primarily directing its efforts on its most advanced-stage asset, Fondaway Canyon, a past gold producer with a large mineral resource estimate and recently published preliminary economic assessment.

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