Maple Gold drills 8.6 g/t Au over 4.2 m at Eagle; launches 25,000 m fall program

Highlights

High-grade gold mineralization at Joutel has been extended up to 450 metres ("m") beyond the Eagle-Telbel mine workings ; system remains open along strike and at depth .

New drill hole intercepts , located between the Eagle and Telbel shafts at approximately 200 m vertical depth and approximately 100 m above the Eagle mine workings , include:

JO-26-18: 8.6 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold ("Au") over 4.2 m within 2.5 g/t Au over 18.3 m.

JO-26-19: 2.5 g/t Au over 2.0 m within 1.2 g/t Au over 9.7 m.

Reconnaissance drilling >1 kilometre (" km ") southeast of the Telbel shaft intersected ~69 m of anomalous gold-bearing hydrothermal breccia—the same mineralization style associated with historical gold production at Eagle-Telbel—highlighting potential well beyond the mine complex.

Assays for all 22 winter drill holes (10,870 m) have now been reported, with 19 of 22 drill holes (86%) from the inaugural Joutel drill campaign intersecting target mineralization .

None of the winter drill results were included in the Company's updated 2026 Douay/Joutel Mineral Resource Estimate (the " 2026 MRE ") (see news release dated April 27, 2026) . The maiden Joutel underground resource comprises:

Indicated: 0.9 million tonnes ("Mt") at 4.53 g/t Au for 126,000 ounces ("oz") Au.

Inferred: 7.5 Mt at 4.11 g/t Au for 992,000 oz Au.

The Company has launched an expanded, fully funded 25,000 m fall drill campaign focused on accelerating near-surface resource growth and targeted resource conversion at Joutel.

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 10, 2026) - Maple Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: MGM) (OTCQX: MGMLF) (FSE: M3G0) (" Maple Gold " or the " Company ") is pleased to report new results from the final four (4) holes of its 10