Blue Jay Gold intersects 6.15 g/t Au and 124 g/t Ag over 14.0 m at Skukum Creek

Blue Jay Gold Intersects 14.0 m of 6.15 g/t Gold and 124 g/t Silver at Skukum Creek, Including 10.5 m of 7.84 g/t Gold and 154 g/t Silver

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Jay Gold Corp. (TSXV: JAY) (OTCQB: JAYGF) (FSE: JAY) (“Blue Jay” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce the first assay results from its maiden 2026 diamond drill program at the Steller Gold Project ("Steller" or the "Project") in the Yukon Territory. Hole SC26-003 returned 14.00 metres (m) of 6.15 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au) and 124 g/t silver (Ag), or 8.04 g/t gold equivalent (AuEq), from 495.00 m, including 10.50 m of 7.84 g/t Au and 154 g/t Ag (10.19 g/t AuEq). The intersection represents an approximate 32 m down-plunge extension of the mineralization intersected in drill hole SC21-027, which returned 14.8 m of 5.79 g/t Au and 100.9 g/t Ag in 2021¹. The results highlight continuity of the mineralization and its host structure across multiple intercepts, with room for further expansion. The system displays an intermediate sulfidation epithermal style comparable to giant districts such as Fresnillo, Zacatecas and Pachuca in Mexico. Intercepts extending from surface to over 500 m down dip demonstrate the continuity and scale potential of the Skukum Creek system. Initial drilling at Mt. Skukum, the site of historical gold production between 1986 and 1988, returned 0.5 m of 57.4 g/t Au and 44.1 g/t Ag from 160.8 m in hole MS26-001. The historical high-grade production at Mt. Skukum, combined with the presence of multiple undertested vein sets, points to resource growth potential on this target corridor. The Company has identified similar potential for expansion along strike at other target areas across the Project's 170 km² land package.

"SC26-003 is the kind of result we underwrote when we bought this project," said Geordie Mark, CEO of Blue Jay Gold. "It confirmed mineralization more than 30 metres down-plunge of SC21-027, drilled in 2021, with effectively the same width, grade and grade distribution. That is what continuity looks like: not just a string of separate hits, but a zone you can follow. We identified this area as being completely open to depth and down-plunge. That was the call, and we have delivered results that exemplify our thesis.”

Most exploration programs start with a blank map. Steller handed us one already partly drawn, aided by historical drilling, 7.5 kilometres of underground development, and a high-grade resource in the ground. What has never existed is a structural framework that explains where the grade goes, and a hydrothermal model that predicts where other mineralized systems could be."

"Hyperspectral core logging is central to how we are building it," added Mark. "We have now put roughly 18,000 metres of historical core through the scanner system, reading alteration mineral distribution and chemistry directly from the core ahead of assay results from the lab. It shows a consistent, zoned alteration envelope around the mineralized structures that points toward mineralization. Every metre we scan turns rock we already own into data we can use to refine targets.