North Arrow extends AE strike to 1000 m at Kraaipan, Botswana

New surface targets identified

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 24, 2026) - North Arrow Minerals Inc. (TSXV: NAR) (OTCQB: NHAWF) (FSE: 9TB) (" North Arrow " or the " Company ") today reports results from 97 surface samples collected in Q2 2026 at the Kraaipan Gold Project (" Kraaipan ") in southern Botswana, extending the potential strike length of Target AE to 1,000 m, with outcrop and float samples returning values of up to 27.8 g/t Au at Target AF and 13.5 g/t Au at Target A. The recent surface sampling across the southern portion of the property extended gold-in-rock trends at four key target areas and generated additional targets for follow-up work. The Company has also completed Rotation 3 regional reconnaissance reverse circulation ("RC") drilling, comprising 44 holes totalling 1,639 m, as part of its US$2.3 million 2026 exploration program. The Kraaipan Project is a significantly underexplored, gold-endowed system masked by shallow Kalahari sand cover that represents the direct northern extension of the Archean greenstone terrane, the Kraaipan Greenstone Belt ("KGB"), hosting Harmony Gold's multi-million-ounce Kalgold Mine, 40 km to the south.

Key Highlights

Potential strike length at Target AE extended to 1,000 m - Anomalous bedrock samples returning up to 0.61 g/t Au were collected approximately 150 m south of previously reported hole KR26-036 (26 m @ 0.59 g/t Au from 1-27 m depth). Together with historical drill intercepts to the south and interpretation of geophysical data to the north, the potential strike length of the target is extended to 1,000 m.

New gold values at Target AN - Surface samples at Target AN, located 3 km north of Target AE returned a maximum value of 1.67 g/t Au, 500 m along strike and to the north of a 1.33 g/t Au sample collected in 2025.

Continued significant gold-in-b