Stakeholder confirms bedrock gold across multiple targets at Ballarat

Drilling intersects gold in seven of nine holes across three major target areas, including up to 1.20 g/t Au at Skye North, 0.92 g/t Au at East Zone and 0.58 g/t Au at NW Zone; extensive gold-bearing trends remain largely untested, while coarse-gold metallic-screen assays are currently being undertaken to investigate the higher grades of gold identified with ICP testing and expanded field programs have been initiated to refine the highest-priority targets

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 22, 2026) - Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) (OTCQB: SKHRF) (WKN: A2QEP1) ("Stakeholder" or the "Company") is pleased to announce encouraging gold assay results from nine diamond drill holes (BA2602 to BA2610) completed on the Company's 100%-owned Ballarat Project ("Ballarat") in the White Gold District of the Yukon Territory. This drill program tested beneath four large gold-in-soil anomalies - Skye North, Skye South, East and Northwest (NW) zones - and successfully confirmed gold-bearing bedrock at the Skye North, East and NW zones (Figure 2).

The 2026 results provide an important validation of Stakeholder's exploration model: gold mineralization was intersected in three of the four target zones tested and in seven of nine drill holes. The drilling confirms that extensive surface gold anomalies at Ballarat are associated with gold-bearing bedrock and establishes multiple priority areas for systematic follow-up. Notable results include 1.20 g/t Au over 1 metre within 6 metres grading 0.32 g/t in BA2604, together with 1.03 g/t gold in BA2603 from a subparallel structure at Skye North. The Skye North gold-in-soil anomaly extends for more than 2 km of strike extent. At the East Zone, BA2607 returned 0.92 g/t Au over 1 metre within a 650 X 350 metre gold-in-soil anomaly located at the headwaters of the prolific