Lode Gold Closes Second Tranche of Private Placement for Total Financing of $1.2 Million to Initiate Work at the Fremont Mine in California

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 16, 2025) - Lode Gold Resources Inc. (TSXV: LOD) (OTCQB: LODFF) ("Lode Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has closed the second tranche of its non-brokered private placement offering.

Proceeds will be used to advance work at the Fremont Mine in Mariposa, California. This is an advanced-stage exploration and development asset, where recently an NI 43 -101 compliant mineral resource estimate (MRE 2025) was completed with a new geological model that separates vein mineralization from stockwork: 1.34 Moz at 4.4 g/t (3 g/t cut off, average true width: 16.8 m).¹

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Fremont was previously mined at 10.7 g/t. Only 8% of the total mineral resource, filed at SEDAR+ (April 2025) has been extracted, mostly in the first 250 m. This is a structurally controlled orogenic deposit with excellent continuity. Exploration upside exists as it is open at depth and on strike. Three step-out holes at 1,300 m hit structure and were mineralized.

Upcoming 2025-2026 Catalysts:

• Rehabilitation of 2 km of the 23 km of underground workings
• Access to three of the adits, out of a total of 14
• Channel sampling to upgrade resources to M&I
• Metallurgy and Recovery Studies
• Geotechnical work and rock mechanics assessments
• Underground drilling 3,000 m (to initiate Pre-Feasibility Study) 
• Completion of Pre-Feasibility Study (underground bulk mining and other optimized methods will be evaluated)

"We had a busy year. We completed corporate restructuring, a joint venture, the creation of a spin-co, and advanced all three of our assets in Yukon, New Brunswick and California. Over the past 12 months, we delivered three technical reports. At Fremont, two pivotal findings stand out: first, mineralization in the stockworks—outside the veins—remains completely untouched when mining was suspended during World War II (1942), when gold was just $35/oz. Second, at a 1 g/t cut-off, we see an impressive average true width of 53 meters," comments Wendy T. Chan, CEO and Director of Lode Gold.