Mr. Brett Marsh reports

SPARTAN METALS CORP ENGAGES THE HOWARD GROUP TO DIRECT CAPITAL MARKET & CORPORATE DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMS

Spartan Metals Corp. has engaged The Howard Group Inc. to provide strategic investor relations and capital markets communications services to create and direct traditional and on-line initiatives targeting institutional and retail investing groups as well as the broader investment community.

Brett Marsh, Spartan's president and chief executive officer, stated: "We are delighted to engage The Howard Group and add their experience to the Spartan team. Their deep experience, combined with their strong network of strategic and institutional investors within the tungsten and critical minerals sectors, will be a significant asset as we continue advancing our Victorio and Eagle projects. We believe their involvement will help increase market awareness of Spartan's unique opportunity and strengthen our efforts to deliver value to our shareholders."

The engagement is for one year commencing June 15, 2026, subject to a review after six months, with compensation of $12,000 per month. The company also agreed to grant The Howard Group stock options to purchase 400,000 common shares of the company with a three-year term at an exercise price of 61 cents. The options shall vest quarterly over 12 months.

Engagement of The Howard Group is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

The Howard Group participated in the April, 2026, 55-cent unit financing and holds 100,000 units of Spartan Metals.

"Our initial decision to invest in Spartan Metals was based on the quality, potential and history of the company's Nevada and New Mexico projects," stated Grant Howard, president of The Howard Group. "To now have the opportunity to work with management to increase the awareness and participation of multiple investing communities in Spartan's progress is particularly gratifying."

Since 1988, The Howard Group has provided investor relations engagement programs, capital markets advisory, and corporate and digital communications services to high-growth, high-potential publicly trading companies, including those in the critical metals sector.

About Spartan Metals Corp.

Spartan Metals is focused on developing critical minerals projects in well-established and stable mining jurisdictions in the Western United States, with an emphasis on building a portfolio of diverse strategic defence minerals such as tungsten, rubidium, antimony, bismuth and arsenic.

Spartan's high-quality project portfolio includes an option to earn 100 per cent of the Victorio tungsten-molybdenum project in New Mexico and the 100-per-cent-owned Eagle tungsten-silver-rubidium project in Nevada. Victorio hosts the largest tungsten resource in the United States and contains significant concentrations of beryllium and fluorspar, while the Eagle project consists of the highest-grade historic tungsten resource in the United States, which includes significant underdefined resources consisting of high-grade silver, rubidium, antimony, bismuth, indium, as well as precious and base metals.

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