Zodiac Gold expands Monterra with 12 m at 1.16 g/t Au from trenching at Feh Feh

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 25, 2026) - Zodiac Gold Inc. (TSXV: ZAU) (OTCQB: ZAUIF) (FSE: K19) ("Zodiac Gold" or the "Company"), a West African gold exploration company, is pleased to report highly encouraging new trenching and channel sampling results from the Feh Feh and Lewis areas at its flagship Todi Gold Project in Liberia. Importantly, the Company has also identified new gold-bearing artisanal workings outside the footprint of the existing soil geochemical survey that defines the 16km Monterra Trend, providing valuable new targets that could further support the Company's district-scale exploration thesis.

Highlights:

Trenching Program Progress: 20 trenches have been completed across the Ben Ben to Feh Feh targets as part of the Company's planned 3,600m trenching program. Trenching continues on the Lewis North trend as Zodiac Gold systematically advances multiple targets across the Monterra Trend.

Trenching Results from the Feh Feh Target: 23m at 0.68 g/t Au, including a higher-grade interval of 12m at 1.16 g/t Au, with 1m at 8.28 g/t Au, confirming meaningful gold mineralization at another priority target along the 16km Monterra Trend. Trenching at the Ben Ben and Lewis targets has already returned standout intersections of 30m at 1.24 g/t Au and 30m at 1.04 g/t Au (Map 1).

Expansion of Exploration Footprint: Newly identified hard rock artisanal workings at Gbolomine (Map 2), approximately 800m south of the Lewis target, returned the following channel samples from two separate pits:

5m at 1.54 g/t Au, including 1m at 5.71 g/t Au, and

3m at 0.96 g/t Au, including 1m at 2.05 g/t Au,

Additional artisanal workings have been identified up to 1,450m outside the currently defined footprint of the Monterra Trend, opening new areas for systematic mapping, sampling, trenching