Independence Gold intercepts 9.07 g/t Au, 70.56 g/t Ag over 31.04 m at Tommy Vein, 3Ts, BC

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 19, 2026) - Independence Gold Corp. (TSXV: IGO) (OTCQB: IEGCF) (FSE: 625) (the "Company") is pleased to announce drill results from the Tommy Vein System at its wholly owned 3Ts Gold and Silver 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, twelve of which remain untested by drilling.

Drill holes 3TS-26-27 and 3TS-26-34 were designed as resource infill holes at the Tommy Vein System but were refined to test an interpreted intersection between radial and arcuate structural features coincident with a strong thorium anomaly. Both holes intersected broad zones of high-grade gold-silver mineralization containing multi-stage quartz-carbonate veining and brecciation, adularia, amethyst and sulphosalts, supporting the interpretation that structural intersections may represent favourable zones of enhanced dilation and repeated hydrothermal activity.

Highlights:

3TS-26-34 intersected 31.04 metres ("m") grading 9.07 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold and 70.56 g/t silver, including 9.77 m grading 18.24 g/t gold and 90.69 g/t silver.

3TS-26-27, drilled approximately 50 m north, intersected 27.63 m grading 5.86 g/t gold and 51.83 g/t silver, including 5.07 m grading 16.20 g/t gold and 126.23 g/t silver.

Tommy Vein System Drilling

Table 1. Tommy Vein System drill hole results

*Reported intervals are core lengths. Based on the current