Independence Gold hits 14.70 g/t Au over 9.10 m at 3Ts

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 22, 2026) - Independence Gold Corp. (TSXV: IGO) (OTCQB: IEGCF) (FSE: 625) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of the new Goofy Vein, located approximately 250 metres west of the Ted-Mint Vein System at its wholly-owned 3Ts Gold Project. Situated approximately 185 kilometres southwest of Prince George, British Columbia, the 3Ts Project comprises thirty-one mineral claims covering approximately 35,486 hectares in the Nechako Plateau region. The project lies 16 km southwest of Artemis Gold Inc.'s Blackwater Mine and hosts a low-sulphidation epithermal quartz-carbonate vein district within which at least twenty known mineralized veins, ranging from 50 to over 1,100 metres in strike length and true widths up to 32 metres, have been identified, eleven of which remain untested by drilling.

Discovery drill hole 3TS-26-39 intersected 9.10 metres ("m") grading 14.70 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold and 36.70 g/t silver (estimated true width of 7.00m). The Goofy Vein was discovered by testing one of the radial structural corridors ("spokes") identified through the Company's evolving structural exploration model and coincident thorium anomalies defined from the 2025 airborne radiometric survey. This represents the second blind vein discovery generated using this targeting methodology, following the recently announced Balrog discovery (see news release dated June 29 th 2026).

Highlights New Goofy Vein discovered approximately 250 metres west of the Ted-Mint Vein System Discovery hole 3TS-26-39 intersected 9.10 metres grading 14.70 g/t Au and 36.70 g/t Ag (estimated true width of 7.00 metres Second blind vein discovery generated from the Company's evolving structural targeting model following the recently announced Balrog discovery Additional drilling has been completed along strike and beneath the