Independence Gold intercepts 3.11 g/t Au, 48.69 g/t Ag over 8.03 m at 3Ts

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 24, 2026) - Independence Gold Corp. (TSXV: IGO) (OTCQB: IEGCF) (FSE: 625) (the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from three additional drill holes completed during the 2026 winter/spring drill program at its wholly-owned 3Ts Gold and Silver Project. Situated approximately 185 kilometres southwest of Prince George, British Columbia, the 3Ts Project comprises thirty-one mineral claims covering approximately 35,486 hectares in the Nechako Plateau region. The project lies 16 km southwest of Artemis Gold Inc.'s Blackwater Mine and hosts a low-sulphidation epithermal quartz-carbonate vein district within which at least twenty known mineralized veins, ranging from 50 to over 1,100 metres ("m") in strike length and true widths up to 32 m, have been identified, twelve of which remain untested by drilling.

Highlights

Hole 3TS-26-50 intersected multiple discrete gold-silver mineralized intervals below the microdiorite sill at the Balrog vein

These Balrog vein results represent the first drilling beneath the microdiorite sill and validate the interpretation that the mineralized system continues at depth

Balrog vein remains open along strike and vertically, below the current drilling

Shallow resource infill drilling at the Tommy vein (3TS-26-32 and 3TS-26-33) returned additional high-grade gold-silver intercepts

Hole 3TS-26-50 represents the first test of the Balrog vein at depth beneath the microdiorite sill. The hole intersected five separate mineralized intervals between 83.20 and 110.23 m, including 1.20 m grading 2.24 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold and 21.67 g/t silver. These results extend the known Balrog vein mineralization below the sill and supports the interpreted vertical continuity of this vein system, which remains open at depth and along str