Nortec Minerals hits 24.2 g/t Au from waste rock, 4.59 g/t over 0.50 m at Barker Bay

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 9, 2026) - NORTEC MINERALS CORP. (TSXV: NVT) (FSE: WMQ1) (" Nortec " or the " Company ") is pleased to report results from its bedrock trenching and prospecting program at the Barker Bay Gold Project (" Barker Bay " or the " Project "), located approximately 55 kilometers south of Dryden, Ontario.

Grab samples from the waste-rock pile adjacent to the historical Barker Bros Mine shaft returned 24.2 g/t, 11.0 g/t, and 10.7 g/t Au, while channel sampling returned 4.59 g/t Au over 0.50 meters from the newly excavated North Trench.

The Company has consolidated ownership of the project and now owns 100% of the mineral rights at the Barker Bay project following reversion of the 'Barker Patent' which the historical Barker Bros Mine. was located within.

Highlights:

Grab samples from the waste-rock pile adjacent to the Barker Bros. Mine returned high-grade gold values of 24.2 g/t Au (H189496) , 11.0 g/t Au (H189494) , and 10.7 g/t Au (H189493) from hornblende altered schist and deformed quartz-vein material. These results confirm localized high-grade gold at the historical mine workings.

Channel sampling at the North Trench returned 0.5 meters of 4.59 g/t Au (sample H189457), within a broader 8.0 meter sample averaging 0.42 g/t Au.

Channel sampling at the 800 Trench returned 0.5 meters of 1.36 g/t Au (sample H189469) within a broader 5.0 meter sample averaging 0.19 g/t Au.

Nortec has acquired the mineral rights to the Barker Patent, following reversion of the former Mining Patent No. PAT5582 (HW339) to surface-rights only status. Nortec now owns 100% of the mineral rights to the Barker Bros Mine shaft area within mineral claim 712903, consolidating 100% mineral tenure across the Project.

A gold-in-soil anomaly had previously been identified along approxim