Gemdale Gold widens gold mineralization at Pontio, Finland

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2026 / Gemdale Gold Inc. (TSXV:GEMG)(OTCQB:GDGIF) (" Gemdale " or the " Company ") is pleased to announce the initial drill results from the 2026 drill program at its 100% owned Pontio Gold Project located in western-central Finland. The first phase drill programme consisted of 28 diamond drill holes for a total of 5,009 metres, is mainly infill in nature to support an initial resource estimate planned for early 2027. This release reports on the results for the first 14 holes from the northern areas of the M2 Trend at Pontio.

Highlights Drilling focussed on the N2 Sector of the M2 Trend with intersections (downhole) continuing to show wide zones of near surface, bulk tonnage style gold mineralisation: HOLE PONT082: 92.85m @ 0.70 g/t Au from 44.52 m downhole plus 45.72m at 0.44g/t Au from 178.72m in hole PONT082 HOLE PONT084: 66.86m @ 0.59 g/t Au from 47.80 m downhole plus 24.92m @0.63g/t Au from 135.69m in hole PONT084 HOLE PONT079: 44.74m @ 0.65 g/t Au from 55.35 m downhole plus 14.26m @0.48g/t Au from 3.9m downhole plus 12.82m @0.58g/t Au from 27.18m downhole in hole PONT079 HOLE PONT080B: 52.03m @ 0.57 g/t Au from 32.22 m downhole plus 7.13m @1.2g/t Au from 10.75m downhole plus 35.14m @ 0.64g/t Au from 115.54m downhole in hole PONT080B HOLE PONT081: 23.34m @0.79g/t Au from 6.71m downhole plus 44.97m @0.55g/t Au from 45.28m downhole plus 17.23m @0.53g/t Au from 102.05m downhole in hole PONT081 Drilling significantly extends the width of the N2 portion of the M2 Trend. The mineralised diorite host to the subcropping gold mineralisation is now more than 100m in estimated true width on some profiles. The deposit remains completely open at depth with an average drill depth of less than 100m to date along the 4km of mineralised strike extent.

The next round of results, focused on the central-southern