Mr. Brian Thurston reports

COPPER QUEST AND I2I ENTER INTO CORPORATE MARKETING AND INVESTOR AWARENESS AGREEMENT

Copper Quest Exploration Inc. has entered into an agreement with i2i Marketing Group LLC, a Florida-based firm, to provide comprehensive corporate marketing and investor awareness services to Copper Quest.

The engagement with i2i is designed to enhance the company's market presence and expand its shareholder communications program. The services will include content creation management, author sourcing, project management and media distribution.

Under the terms of the agreement, i2i will be engaged for an initial period of six months for total cash consideration of $300,000 (U.S.). i2i and its principals are at arm's length to Copper Quest and, to the company's knowledge, do not have any interest, directly or indirectly, in the company or its securities, or any right or intent to acquire such an interest. The engagement and the terms of the agreement are subject to the final approval of the Canadian Securities Exchange.

About Copper Quest Exploration Inc.

The company's landholdings comprise seven projects that span over 45,000-plus hectares in great mining jurisdictions of Canada and the United States.

Copper Quest has a 100-per-cent interest in the past-producing Alpine gold mine located approximately 20 kilometres northeast of the city of Nelson, B.C., spanning 4,611.49 hectares with a 2018 National Instrument 43-101 (Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects) historical inferred resource of 268,000 tonnes, estimated using a cut-off grade of 5.0 grams per tonne gold and an average grade of 16.52 g/t Au, that represents an inferred resource of 142,000 ounces of gold (McCuaig and Giroux, 2018)*. Apart from the Alpine mine itself, the property hosts four other less explored significant vein systems, including the past-producing King Solomon vein workings, the Black Prince and the Cold Blow vein system, and the Gold Crown vein system.

Copper Quest has a 100-per-cent interest in the road-accessible Stars porphyry copper-molybdenum property, spanning 9,693 hectares in central British Columbia's Bulkley porphyry belt with Tana zone discovery drill intersection highlights of 0.466 per cent copper over 195.07 metres in drill hole DD18SS004 from 23.47 m, 0.200 per cent Cu over 396.67 m in drill hole DD18SS010 from 29.37 m and 0.205 per cent Cu over 207.27 m in drill hole DD18SS015 from 163.98 m. This highly prospective, approximately five-by-2.5-kilometre annular magnetic anomaly is interpreted to represent an altered monzonite intrusion and surrounding hornfels.

The company has not yet completed sufficient work to verify these 2018 historic inferred resource results.

Copper Quest has a 100-per-cent interest in the road-accessible Kitimat copper-gold property, spanning 2,954 hectares within the Skeena mining division of northwestern British Columbia located northwest of the deepwater port community of Kitimat, B.C. The property benefits from exceptional infrastructure, being within 10 km of tidewater, 1.5 km of rail and six km of high-voltage hydroelectric transmission lines. Exploration on the Kitimat property dates to the late 1960s, with the most significant historical work conducted by Decade Resources Ltd. (2010), which completed 16 diamond drill holes totalling 4,437.5 metres in the Jeannette copper-gold zone, and drill intersection highlights of 1.03 g/t Au and 0.54 per cent Cu over 117.07 m in hole J-7 from 1.52 m, 1.00 g/t Au and 0.55 per cent Cu over 103.65 m in hole J-1 from 9.15 m, 0.80 g/t Au and 0.45 per cent Cu over 107.01 m in hole J-2 from 6.10 m, and 0.41 g/t Au and 0.33 per cent Cu over 112.20 m in hole J-8 from 11.89 m.

Copper Quest has a 100-per-cent interest in the road-accessible Stellar property, spanning 5,389 hectares in British Columbia's Bulkley porphyry belt contiguous to the Stars property. This highly prospective region is known for its significant copper and precious metal deposits, with past-producing mines and active development projects in the surrounding area. Despite its strategic location, Stellar has never undergone modern systematic exploration. The property features multiple promising targets, including a large, classic porphyry-style magnetic anomaly, high-grade copper, gold and silver mineral showings, and previously underexplored zones with strong geophysical signatures.

Copper Quest has a 100-per-cent interest in the Thane project located in the Quesnel terrane of Northern British Columbia spanning over 20,658 hectares with 10 priority targets identified demonstrating significant copper and precious metal mineralization potential.

Copper Quest has an earn-in option of up to 80 per cent and a joint venture agreement on the road-accessible Rip porphyry copper-molybdenum project, spanning 4,700 hectares located in the Bulkley porphyry belt in central British Columbia. Two porphyry centres have been identified by the company with the 2024 drill program testing the northern target with two holes (RP24-001 and RP24-002) from a single drill pad. Results confirmed that mineralization starts at surface and extends to depth, with multiple intrusive phases, quartz-sulphide stockwork and veining. The southern highly prospective porphyry target remains untested by drilling.

Copper Quest has a 100-per-cent interest in the Nekash copper-gold project, a porphyry exploration opportunity located in Lemhi county, Idaho, along the prolific Idaho-Montana porphyry copper belt that hosts world-class systems such as Butte and Cumo. The project is fully road-accessible through maintained U.S. highways and forest service roads, and currently consists of 70 unpatented federal lode claims covering 585 hectares.

Copper Quest is committed to building shareholder value through acquisitions, discovery-driven exploration and responsible development of its North American critical mineral portfolio of assets. The company's common shares are principally listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol CQX.

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