Desert Gold Signs Option Agreement on 297 Square Kilometre Tiegba Gold Project in Ivory Coast

Delta, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 23, 2025) - Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSXV: DAU) (FSE: QXR2) (OTCQB: DAUGF) ("Desert Gold" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an option agreement (the "Agreement") with Flower Holdings SARLU ("Flower") to acquire a 90% interest in the Tiegba Gold Project. Flower is a private company located in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The signing of the Tiegba option agreement marks a major milestone for the Company as it expands its project portfolio to become a regionally diversified gold explorer and developer in West Africa.

Tiegba Project Highlights

• The Tiegba Project is in Ivory Coast which has one of the most accommodative and investor friendly mining codes in the region;
  • Politically stable
  • Fast permitting
  • Excellent infrastructure
  • Major discoveries made in recent years with new mines coming online such as Montage Gold's Koné Project
• Large 297km² strategic land package in Tier-1 Birimian orogenic gold belt (see Image 3.);
  • Underexplored. Less than 20% of the Tiegba license has been explored representing significant exploration blue sky
• Located near multi-million-ounce deposits (See Image 2) including;
  • Agbaou (Allied Gold Corp)
  • Bonikro/Hire (Allied Gold Corp)
  • Yaouré (Perseus Mining Ltd)
• Large 4.2 km by 2.1km gold-in-soil anomalous trend along key regional structure; Tehini Shear Zone (see Image 1);
  • Multiple parallel mineralized trends with values exceeding 900 ppb gold including 89 samples over 50 ppb gold, 29 samples between 100 and 200 ppb gold and 12 samples over 200 ppb gold
  • Tiegba has never been drill tested despite compelling surface results
  • Company site visit confirms in-situ nature of gold anomalies
• Upcoming exploration program aims to quickly define drill targets;
  • Infill and expanded soil grids
  • Property-wide airborne magnetic and IP Surveys
  • Targeted trenching, geological mapping and prospecting

Desert Gold's CEO Jared Scharf commented "The completion of the Tiegba option agreement is a major milestone diversifying the Company into a regional West African player. During the spring, our technical team evaluated a dozen projects in the region covering over 1,000km². Tiegba ticked all the boxes. We look forward to quickly advancing the obvious and compelling gold prospects on the property into drill ready targets."