Southern Cross Gold drills 481 m mineralization, 0.8 m @ 141.0 g/t Au at Westernmost

Vancouver, British Columbia and Melbourne, Australia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 28, 2026) - Southern Cross Gold Consolidated Ltd (TSX: SXGC) (ASX: SX2) (OTCQX: SXGCF) (FSE: MV3F) ("SXGC", "SX2" or the "Company") announces results from five drill holes at the 100%-owned Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Project in Victoria, comprising the westernmost sequence of holes reported from the main prospect area to date, close to 300 m west of any previous drilling (Figures 1 to 5). Three definition holes tested the upper portion of the Christina prospect and two deep control holes defined the down-dip architecture through Golden Dyke and Rising Sun. SDDSC235 is the westernmost hole released from Christina.

The hole remained within prospective dyke and altered sediment for a cumulative 800 m of its 1,405.7 m length, including a zone of mineralization from 282.1 m that returned 481 m @ 0.9 g/t Au (uncut) , carrying Christina through into the Golden Dyke corridor before defining the prospective corridor within Rising Sun 1,010 m below surface. The hole returned seven individual assays above 50 g/t Au, up to 496.0 g/t Au , demonstrating that Christina hosts the same scale of mineralized system as Golden Dyke and Rising Sun. Best results include a broad intercept of 8.3 m @ 4.8 g/t AuEq (4.8 g/t Au, 0.0% Sb) from 708.7 m and a high-grade interval of 0.8 m @ 141.0 g/t AuEq (141.0 g/t Au, 0.0% Sb) from 568.9 m, both in SDDSC235.

All three definition holes from the new western pad intersected gold within 15 m to 60 m of surface, defining up to three previously unidentified shallow vein sets, including 2.6 m @ 7.5 g/t AuEq from 40.0 m in SDDSC220. Across the five holes, eight individual Au assays exceeded 50 g/t Au and four individual Sb assays exceeded 10% Sb, up to 39.50% Sb over 0.10 m from 91.79 m in SDDSC235. The true thickness of the minerali