BTU provides details on recent acquisition

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 12, 2026 / BTU METALS CORP. ("BTU" or the "Company") (TSXV:BTU)(OTCQB:BTUMF) is announces that on June 3 rd , 2026 the Company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Dixie East Block 3 Project (the "Project" or the "Property"), located approximately 6 kilometres east of the Kinross-owned Great Bear Project in the eastern part of the Red Lake District, Ontario. The newly acquired claim package is directly adjacent to the Kinross and BTU Dixie Halo Project and further augments the Company's strategic land position in one of Canada's most active and prospective gold exploration districts. The new acquisition brings the Company's total Dixie East Project strike coverage to approximately 17 kilometres.

The Company would like to add that there were 6 claims acquired in the transaction and no finder's fees were paid in relation to the transaction. Qualified Person Bruce Durham, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration of the Company, is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information in this news release. Mr. Durham has verified the technical information disclosed herein through a review of historical exploration records, publicly available information relating to adjacent properties, and regional geological datasets relevant to the Dixie East Project.

About BTU BTU Metals Corp. is a junior mining exploration company. BTU's primary assets are the Dixie Halo Project located in Red Lake, Ontario (operated by Kinross) immediately adjacent to the Kinross Great Bear Project and its gold and critical minerals properties in the active Wawa gold district. The Company continues to look to acquire high quality exploration projects to add to its portfolio for the benefit of its stakeholders.

The Company has no debt and minimal property obligations. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD " Paul Wood " Paul Wood, CEO, Director pwood@btumetals.com BTU Metals Corp. Telephone: 1-604-683-3995 Toll Free: 1-888-945-4770 Cautionary Statement Trading in the securities of the Company should be considered highly speculative. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.

Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws that are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. The information in this release about future plans and objectives of the Company is forward-looking information.

Other forward-looking information includes but is not limited to information concerning: the intentions, plans and future actions of the Company. Any statements that involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information and are intended to identify forward-looking information. This forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time it was made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information.

Such factors include, among others: risks relating to the global economic climate; dilution; future capital needs and uncertainty of additional financing; the competitive nature of the industry; currency exchange risks; the need for the Company to manage its planned growth and expansion; the effects of product development; protection of proprietary rights; the effect of government regulation and compliance on the Company and the industry; reliance on key personnel; global economic and financial market deterioration impeding access to capital or increasing the cost of capital; and volatile securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated to operating performance. The Company has also assumed that no significant events occur outside of the normal course of business. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.

There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking information other than as required by law.

SOURCE: BTU Metals Corp. View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire ACCESS Newswire June 12, 2026 - 7:50 PM PDT News by QuoteMedia www.quotemedia.com