Mr. Chad Peters reports

RIDGELINE MINERALS WELCOMES INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR RYAN WALCHUCK TO THE BOAR

Ridgeline Minerals Corp. has welcomed Ryan Walchuck to the board of directors of the company. Duane Lo will resign as a director of the company and remain in his position as chief financial officer.

Mr. Walchuck is a senior mining finance executive with global experience across complex mining projects, joint ventures and multistakeholder partnerships. He is currently senior manager, business analysis, at Rio Tinto, where he supports strategic investment decisions, capital allocation and value optimization for projects. He has held senior roles at Rio Tinto and BHP, contributing to major developments, including Simandou and Oyu Tolgoi, with a strong focus on joint venture governance, partner alignment and disciplined capital deployment. His experience spans Africa, Australia, Mongolia and the Americas. He is a chartered accountant and chartered business valuator, bringing strong financial oversight, governance and shareholder-focused decision-making experience to the Ridgeline board.

Chad Peters, Ridgeline's president and chief executive officer, commented: "Ryan joins the team at a pivotal time in Ridgeline's growth. With two highly prospective discoveries coming together at Swift and Selena, Ryan's unique skill set will help guide our strategic decision making as we focus on optimizing the value of our joint venture portfolio for our shareholders."

The company further advises it has granted 150,000 stock options and 100,000 deferred share units to Mr. Walchuck in accordance with the company's incentive stock option plan. The options are exercisable at 24 cents per share for a period of five years, and the DSUs are governed by the company's DSU plan and will be subject to applicable securities law hold periods.

About Ridgeline Minerals Corp.

Ridgeline Minerals is a discovery-focused precious and base metal explorer with a proven management team and a 200-square-kilometre exploration portfolio across seven projects in Nevada, United States. The company is a hybrid explorer with a mix of 100-per-cent-owned exploration assets (Big Blue, Atlas, Bell Creek and Coyote) as well as two earn-in exploration agreements with Nevada Gold Mines at its Swift and Black Ridge projects and a third earn-in with South32 at its Selena project totalling up to $60-million (U.S.) in partner-financed exploration expenditures.

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