Highland Critical Minerals Corp. Provides Corporate Update

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 14, 2025) - Highland Critical Minerals Corp. (CSE: HLND) ("Highland" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that since September 30, 2025, the Company has issued 4,909,750 class A common shares through the exercise of warrants, resulting in gross proceeds of $736,462.50. The Company's current consolidated cash balance is approximately $875,000. The funds will be used to continue to fund the Company's exploration activities, the plan of arrangement for the spin out of Highland Red Lake Gold Corp. as announced on August 20, 2025, general working capital, and to identify new strategic acquisitions.

Ted Yew, CEO of Highland, commented, "We are extremely pleased to have the continued support of our shareholders through the warrant exercises. With the current treasury balance, the Company is well positioned to carry on its planned exploration activities at its Sy property and at the Red Lake gold district. As well, the Company is well funded to identify additional strategic acquisitions, minimizing any dilution to current shareholders."

The Canadian Securities Exchange has not in any way passed upon the merits of the matters referenced herein and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release.

ABOUT HIGHLAND CRITICAL MINERALS CORP.

Highland is a mineral exploration and development company. Its activities consist of acquiring and exploring, mining properties to enhance shareholder value as it proceeds with the exploration work on the Church Property among other mining properties it may acquire and develop.

For more information, please visit https://highlandcritical.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this news release, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "projects", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. Forward looking statements include but are not limited to statements about the plan of arrangement and spin-out of Highland Red Lake Gold Corp., exploration of the Sy property and Red Lake gold property, statements about the use of funds by the Company, and identification and completion of strategic acquisitions.