Mr. Randy Turner reports

INDEPENDENCE GOLD COMPLETES DRILL PROGRAM AT 3TS PROJECT, BC

Independence Gold Corp. has successfully completed its 2024/2025 drill program at the 3Ts project. Located approximately 185 kilometres southwest of Prince George, B.C., the 3Ts project comprises 31 mineral claims covering approximately 35,486 hectares in the Nechako plateau region of central British Columbia. The project is situated 16 kilometres southwest of Artemis Gold Inc.'s Blackwater mine and covers a low-sulphidation epithermal quartz-carbonate vein district within which 19 individual mineralized veins, ranging from 50 metres to more than 1,100 metres in strike length and with true widths up to 32 metres having been identified.

Highlights from 2024/2025 drill program

A total of 12,480 metres of drilling completed and included:

• Infill and expansion drilling on the Ted-Mint and Tommy vein systems for a coming mineral resource update;
• Exploration and detailed drilling on the recently discovered Johnny, Larry and Ian veins, also to be included in the updated mineral resource;
• Exploratory drilling on the Ootsa copper-silver target.

Randy Turner, president and chief executive officer of the company, commented: "We are very pleased with the results to date from the winter/spring drill program as we advance the Ted-Mint, Tommy, Johnny, Larry and Ian vein systems. With the expansion of our mineralized vein portfolio and pending assay results, 2025 is shaping up to be a transformational year for the project."

The drill program commenced in November, 2024, and continued through the winter, concluding in early June, 2025. Final analysis of samples is under way, and results are expected in the coming weeks. Highlights released to date from the drilling include:

• Tommy vein: Hole 3TS-24-26 returned 8.30 grams per tonne gold and 73.23 grams per tonne silver over 7.47 metres (true width approximately 5.77 metres).
• Johnny vein: Hole 3TS-25-05 returned 4.04 grams per tonne gold and 40.9 grams per tonne silver over 77 metres (true width approximately 32 metres).
• Ted-Mint vein: Hole 3TS-24-28 returned 5.59 grams per tonne gold and 86.17 grams per tonne silver over 29.5 metres (true width approximately 14.75 metres).
• Larry vein: Hole 3TS-25-07 returned 5.58 grams per tonne gold and 73.76 grams per tonne silver over 19.40 metres (true width approximately 6.3 metres).
• Ootsa target drilling: Hole 3TS-25-15 returned 5.49 metres averaging 55.74 grams per tonne silver and 0.95 per cent copper (plus lead/zinc mineralization (true width approximately 4.45 metres).

The company anticipates an updated mineral resource model in the third quarter of 2025, strengthened by extensive infill and exploratory drilling. New drill data, combined with refined geological modelling, will underpin resource estimates for the expanded set of vein systems. The current National Instrument 43-101 resource model was completed in 2022 and the updated resource will include data compiled over five drill programs since then (please see news release dated Aug. 18, 2022, for further details: "Technical Report on the Mineral Resource Estimate Update for the 3Ts Gold Project, Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada," written by Armitage and Miller).

Quality assurance/quality control protocols

Samples consist of saw-cut (NQ) drill core, with one-half retained for reference and one-half submitted for analysis. Samples were submitted in sealed plastic bags delivered to Bandstra Transportation for shipping to SGS Natural Resources Canada's lab in Burnaby, B.C., for sample preparation and analysis. Robotic sample preparation is used to ensure reproducibility and samples are pulverized to greater than 85 per cent passing 75 microns. All samples are submitted for four-acid digest with an ICP finish. Gold grades are obtained by fire assay with AAS finish. Samples that return greater than 10 parts per million gold and 100 parts per million silver are resubmitted for fire assay with a gravimetric finish. Sample batches consist of core samples, control standards, blanks and duplicates. Blanks and control standards (QA/QC) are inserted into each batch of samples, with one QA/QC per 20 samples. QA/QC samples that return values 10 per cent outside of the expected range require samples from that internal batch to be rerun by the lab. SGS laboratories operate under a quality management system that complies with ISO/IEC 17025. SGS's minerals laboratory in Burnaby is accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) for specific mineral tests listed on the scope of accreditation to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard.

About Independence Gold Corp.

Independence Gold is a well-financed mineral exploration company with holdings ranging from early-stage grassroots exploration to advanced-stage resource expansion in British Columbia and Yukon. The company is positioned to add shareholder value through systematic project advancement while management continues to evaluate additional gold and silver projects for possible acquisition.

Andy Randell, PGeo, the company's qualified person as defined by NI 43-101 and who is an independent consultant of the company, has reviewed the technical information in this news release.

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