Aquitaine Metals Provides Exploration Program Update

Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – June 12, 2025) – Aquitaine Metals Corp. (the “Company” or “Aquitaine”) is pleased to provide an update on its ongoing 8,800 metre Phase 1 drill program, and announce results from its preliminary regional sampling program at its Limousin Project (“Limousin” or the “Project”) in France.

The Project is located in the prolific Limousin Mining District in the Region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwest France, 40 kilometres south of the city of Limoges. It consists of 40 km² of exploration licenses with exclusivity granted over a total of 330 km². The area of exclusivity includes 23 past producing gold mines which operated during the 20^th to 21^st centuries and over 900 ancient high-grade gold mining sites along over 200 kilometres aggregate strike length of gold-bearing structures.

Highlights:

• 2,700 metres in 15 drill holes completed to date of a planned 8,800 metres of drilling in 44 holes. Drill holes completed to date, range in length from 43 to 342 metres. Drilling began in March 2025 and will continue into autumn. Drilling is being completed in fans of two to three drill holes per drill site, targeting gold-bearing structures, veins, breccias and stockworks. Figure 1.
• Assays are currently pending for six holes (two fans and one isolated hole) and will be released once complete results from these holes are available. Figures 2 and 3
• The main objectives of drilling are to confirm the historical dataset and to test the extensions of gold zones beside and below historical exploitation. Drilling has successfully intercepted the gold system in all holes to date as evidenced by quartz veining, widespread alteration, sulphide mineralization and locally visible gold. Figure 4
• 70 channel samples from underground historical mining between 1987 to 2002 were retrieved from archived collections of COGEMA and re-assayed by Aquitaine. Sample origins are provided in Table 1 and Figure 5. Highlights are:
  • 49 of 70 samples returned >1.00 g/t gold
  • Best precious metal samples were 2,440 g/t gold and 2,320 g/t silver
  • Best critical and strategic mineral samples were 16.55% lead, 5.68% zinc, 0.17% copper and 1.21% antimony.
• 497 new outcrop grab and channel samples were collected across the Project, focusing on exposures in ancient Gallic mining pits and regional fault structures. Figure 6. Highlights are:
  • 66 of 497 samples returned >1.00 g/t gold
  • Best precious metal samples were 487 g/t gold and 1,270 g/t silver
  • Best critical mineral samples were 2.15% lead, 2.09% zinc, 0.04% copper and 7.13% antimony. Figure 7
• Sampling results demonstrate significant gold mineralization along approximately 40 kilometres of an estimated 200+ kilometres of aggregate strike length of mineralized structures explored to date.
• While base/critical metals occur as accessories throughout the gold mineralized zones of the Project, samples with very high base metal values typically originate from cross-cutting massive sulphide occurrences that were encountered at 300+ metres depth in the historical workings, especially in the deepest levels of the Puits-Roux orebody.
• Very high-grade antimony (>1%) typically occurs in samples from waste dumps at the Les Biards antimony mines near the southern boundary of the Project, where exploitation occurred in the early 20^th century.

Chris Taylor, CEO and Director of Aquitaine said, “The extent of the gold system at the Limousin Project exceeds anything I have worked on previously. None of us at Aquitaine have previously had to prioritize over 900 potential exploration sites where historical high-grade mining occurred at or from the surface. We’re taking the approach of starting near more recent COGEMA mining from 1987 to 2002, and working outwards along strike and at depth. Visually we are intersecting additional zones of mineralization which are either visible gold or sulphide-rich stockwork dominated in all holes drilled so far. Early grab sampling results also show significant critical metal accessory mineralization, adding a strategic element to the Project.”

Yves Guise, President of Aquitaine’s subsidiary, Compagnie des Mines Arédiennes said, “The French government has recently advanced serious initiatives to revive domestic mining and secure economic benefits and reliable mineral supplies for its citizens and industries. In addition to the district-scale gold system, widespread critical metal mineralization also positions Aquitaine to potentially help satisfy EU and French domestic production mandates for key commodities like antimony, lead, zinc and copper. We have already committed to maximizing the number of our staff who are based locally, and now have around twenty Limousin staff on our sites. We look forward to continuing to build the relationships with local people and all levels of government, to revive this historical mining district with the highest environmental and social standards.”

Figure 1: Map of the Phase 1 drill program progress on the Laurieras fault structure

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Figure 2: Long section showing the Phase 1 drill program progress on Laurieras fault structure

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Figure 3: Serial cross sections from south-west to north-east along Laurieras fault of the first six drill holes realized from 3 platforms

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Figure 4: Drill core sample pictures from Phase 1 drill campaign

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(a) White and grey multi-stage quartz vein with visible gold from drillhole CMA005 – 100m in the down-dip extension of the last underground mined level at Pierrepinet West (sample 2990) from 283.70 to 284.50m.
(b) White and grey multi-stage quartz vein with visible gold from drillhole CMA001 – 600m in the south-west lateral extension of the last underground mined level at Pierrepinet West (not sampled yet) from 81.40 to 82.40m.
(c) Dark quartz and sulphides (pyrite, arsenopyrite) stockwork developed in a granite with pink potassic pervasive alteration at footwall of the Laurieras structure from drillhole CMA004 (sample 2569).
(d) White quartz vein with sulphides (pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena) crosscutting an intensely sericitized paragneiss from drillhole CMA003 (sample 2238).

Figure 5: Long section showing location of the re-assay gold results of historical underground channel sampling collected by SMB

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Figure 6: Limousin project property map and regional surface grab samples with gold assay results

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Figure 7: Rock grab sample pictures from field campaign and from historical underground mine levels

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(a) White and grey multi-stage quartz vein with visible gold collected by SMB in Laurieras – Pierrepinet West mine level 418 North (sample 24CMAGS-0569) – 2,440 g/t Au and 378 g/t Ag.
(b) White and grey multi-stage quartz vein with visible gold collected by Aquitaine at Nouzilleras (sample 24CMAGS-0102) – 487 g/t Au and 89 g/t Ag.
(c) Massive stibnite and quartz vein collected by Aquitaine at La Borderie (24CMAGS-0468) – 1.43 g/t Au and 7.13 % Sb.
(d) Massive sulphides breccia cross cutting a gold-bearing quartz vein collected by SMB in Laurieras mine level 397 South (sample 24CMAGS-0587) – 39.3 g/t Au, 16.55 % Pb and 5.68 % Zn.

Table 1: All 49 of 70 historical grade control and production channel samples collected from the COGEMA archives and assayed by Aquitaine that returned > 1 g/t gold.

Sample number	Ore body	Underground mining level	Au (g/t)	Ag (g/t)	Cu (ppm)	Pb (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Zn (ppm)
24CMAGS-0569	Laurieras	418 North	2,440	378	202	1410	312	80
24CMAGS-0539	Laurieras	418 South	1,470	209	164	420	153	38
24CMAGS-0570	Laurieras	418 South	1,465	550	456	1635	443	167
24CMAGS-0609	Laurieras	391 South	546	257	78	1260	83	1545
24CMAGS-0616	Laurieras	421 South	433	50.1	11	35	23	7
24CMAGS-0576	Laurieras	418 South	253	88	159	649	223	34
24CMAGS-0614	Laurieras	408 North	246	80	60	2740	231	158
24CMAGS-0591	Laurieras	415 South	208	59.8	43	304	134	604
24CMAGS-0612	Laurieras	385 North	203	13.6	4	311	27	42
24CMAGS-0550	Laurieras	409 South	138.5	107	511	2150	379	374
24CMAGS-0596	Laurieras	325 South	136	18.6	12	65	70	13
24CMAGS-0588	Laurieras	277 North	124.5	23.7	9	689	45	78
24CMAGS-0564	Laurieras	418 South	111	46.7	35	303	56	28
24CMAGS-0606	Laurieras	406 North	104	31.4	7	585	61	46
24CMAGS-0601	Laurieras	415 South	92.3	19.3	21	580	29	166
24CMAGS-0604	Laurieras	415 South	85.7	452	189	5070	371	1225
24CMAGS-0595	Puits-Roux	392 North	79.9	155	327	2750	572	1380
24CMAGS-0611	Laurieras	331 North	54.8	53.9	95	4040	774	852
24CMAGS-0567	Puits-Roux	380 South	44.9	4.2	29	43	66	10
24CMAGS-0587	Laurieras	397 South	39.3	794	38	165500	683	56800
24CMAGS-0615	Laurieras	391 South	34.2	231	15	6590	157	198
24CMAGS-0613	Laurieras	385 North	32.8	13.6	4	403	20	130
24CMAGS-0560	Laurieras	421 South	31.3	25.1	22	912	60	94
24CMAGS-0603	Laurieras	155 South	26.2	6.6	7	14	84	48
24CMAGS-0593	Puits-Roux	146 South	24.2	1285	1755	30000	2240	1990
24CMAGS-0582	Laurieras	155 South	22.1	420	344	45700	519	40
24CMAGS-0580	Laurieras	388 North	15.35	156	415	78000	267	27600
24CMAGS-0545	Laurieras	412 South	14.35	112	291	7790	2330	426
24CMAGS-0602	Laurieras	331 South	14.1	6.6	27	341	46	25
24CMAGS-0585	Laurieras	277 North	12	2180	294	9400	12100	3030
24CMAGS-0575	Laurieras	391 South	11.45	2320	292	8300	330	73
24CMAGS-0607	Laurieras	400 South	10.95	72.9	149	15050	131	1390
24CMAGS-0608	Laurieras	400 South	9.92	18	69	8230	189	2840
24CMAGS-0549	Laurieras	325 North	9.76	2.3	23	235	48	27
24CMAGS-0546	Laurieras	400 South	8.49	5.8	7	2520	319	246
24CMAGS-0578	Laurieras	400 South	6.45	20.4	135	7000	522	6100
24CMAGS-0562	Laurieras	406 South	5.42	23.8	74	1725	172	745
24CMAGS-0559	Laurieras	331 North	2.42	6.6	11	811	79	160
24CMAGS-0558	Laurieras	403 North	2.32	7.9	11	1400	55	172
24CMAGS-0568	Laurieras	104 South	2.26	4.8	7	265	139	32
24CMAGS-0598	Laurieras	331 North	1.87	5.2	9	286	41	78
24CMAGS-0594	Laurieras	104 South	1.86	1.5	3	21	135	5
24CMAGS-0542	Laurieras	379 North	1.84	1.1	2	17	50	8
24CMAGS-0556	Laurieras	280 North	1.81	39.4	219	2340	157	2170
24CMAGS-0577	Laurieras	331 North	1.78	8	43	2080	260	5730
24CMAGS-0573	Laurieras	388 South	1.57	12.2	53	2040	61	855
24CMAGS-0548	Laurieras	403 North	1.52	15.5	4	2430	35	17
24CMAGS-0557	Laurieras	391 North	1.32	3	2	327	34	36
24CMAGS-0551	Laurieras	406 South	1.07	12.6	59	91	46	37

 

Table 2: Rock grab samples highlights from across the Project. All sample locations are in the Lambert 93 (EPSG 2154) coordinate system.

Cheni – Nouzilleras trend
Orebody	Sample number	X	Y	Au (g/t)	Ag (g/t)	Cu (ppm)	Pb (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Zn (ppm)
Nouzilleras	24CMAGS-0102	557871.38	6497849.74	487	89	8	1790	119	7
Cheni	24CMAGS-0079	557469.42	6497239.80	183	9	1	<2	10	4
Nouzilleras	24CMAGS-0511	557863.90	6497823.91	10.45	10.8	12	505	83	4
Moulin de Cheni	24CMAGS-0091	556745.36	6497579.71	7.83	1.6	1	45	17	35
Les Rieux	24CMAGS-0346	560831.20	6498614.96	6.25	0.9	1	2	<5	2
Nouzilleras	24CMAGS-0104	557846.84	6497820.50	5.6	2.4	2	113	16	12
Brinde	24CMAGS-0507	559066.22	6496977.94	4.38	0.5	1	5	<5	<2
Mazieras	24CMAGS-0358	559315.35	6497071.07	3.09	0.6	1	2	<5	<2
Cheni	24CMAGS-0085	557384.24	6497302.41	2.92	6.9	23	124	75	8
Cros-Noyer	24CMAGS-0064	554858.17	6496269.40	2.49	<0.5	4	4	34	6
Cheni	24CMAGS-0075	557368.83	6497255.70	2.37	0.6	1	16	15	7
La Brunerie	24CMAGS-0057	557118.72	6496083.84	1.8	0.5	1	<2	<5	<2
La Plagne	24CMAGS-0512	561309.63	6499028.62	1.77	1	2	8	<5	<2
Cheni	24CMAGS-0082	557469.42	6497239.80	1.43	4	47	222	7	3
Cheni	24CMAGS-0071	557368.83	6497255.70	1.3	0.5	3	89	19	23
Cros-Noyer	24CMAGS-0521	555023.95	6496053.75	1.3	1.1	1	15	8	<2
Les Rieux	24CMAGS-0354	560807.74	6498707.38	1.25	<0.5	2	5	7	5
Brinde	24CMAGS-0115	559111.08	6496701.47	1	<0.5	<1	<2	<5	<2
Laurieras trend
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0016	562935.46	6498110.49	213	8.9	1	593	103	22
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0018	562935.46	6498110.49	28.9	8.6	39	1540	51	2690
Chadefaine	24CMAGS-0532	564080.50	6495915.35	7.04	15.2	1	129	<5	2
La Rochette	24CMAGS-0044	558877.73	6495827.48	6.92	14.2	25	65	99	39
Puits-Roux	24CMAGS-0519	562780.39	6497757.20	4.12	13.6	12	80	93	6
Combrailler	24CMAGS-0034	567313.94	6499308.53	2.77	6.9	4	1230	43	2
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0014	562843.95	6497989.35	2.5	4.2	3	186	37	36
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0003	562225.87	6497520.57	2.23	7.5	10	2660	77	53
La Rochette	24CMAGS-0048	559112.87	6495958.65	1.95	1270	77	21500	9800	97
Puits-Roux	24CMAGS-0518	562780.39	6497757.20	1.66	0.5	3	6	117	11
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0015	562843.95	6497989.35	1.46	2.6	8	113	38	42
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0344	561892.86	6497341.67	1.46	76.6	8	1755	25	9
La Rochette	24CMAGS-0047	559112.87	6495958.65	1.39	60.2	32	7260	1200	64
Laurieras	24CMAGS-0004	562225.87	6497520.57	1.18	2.6	3	973	28	10
La Benechie	24CMAGS-0427	555915.90	6492970.78	1.18	<0.5	1	6	<5	<2
Fagassière – Gareillas trend
Orebody	Sample number	X	Y	Au (g/t)	Ag (g/t)	Cu (ppm)	Pb (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Zn (ppm)
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0174	571512.95	6497655.42	83.9	8.2	5	996	246	814
Fagassière	24CMAGS-0168	570943.71	6497876.69	71.6	45.8	75	1085	438	42
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0176	571512.87	6497842.01	56.9	20.4	18	8000	276	4
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0181	571525.18	6498010.36	22	8.2	14	1645	90	136
La Verrine	24CMAGS-0201	573637.49	6498795.69	17.75	10.9	6	356	82	12
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0175	571561.06	6497758.52	14.3	10.4	6	3070	119	131
Les Marsoux	24CMAGS-0134	567193.42	6496569.44	9.34	86	20	2630	388	103
Mars	24CMAGS-0183	571784.13	6498212.79	8.87	15.8	179	1670	290	20900
Les Marsoux	24CMAGS-0132	567193.42	6496569.44	8.58	48	26	3860	539	63
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0173	571317.34	6497636.12	8.13	1.5	2	728	64	6
Violezeix South	24CMAGS-0399	569273.69	6498590.17	4.07	2.4	9	241	61	8
Baraban	24CMAGS-0402	570650.67	6498158.80	3.75	6.5	12	348	102	15
Baraban	24CMAGS-0407	570573.51	6498328.31	3.11	4.3	59	182	170	9
Lavergne	24CMAGS-0389	571438.99	6498952.13	3.02	3.1	33	295	102	215
Fayat North	24CMAGS-0206	572843.49	6499202.53	2.63	<0.5	1	26	36	26
Violezeix South	24CMAGS-0395	569180.49	6498408.61	2.45	0.6	1	3	40	7
Baraban	24CMAGS-0403	570621.89	6498237.96	1.7	2.5	10	35	85	7
Fagassière	24CMAGS-0167	570867.25	6497813.10	1.62	0.7	3	352	56	82
Lacaud	24CMAGS-0158	569939.05	6498742.73	1.51	2.3	8	9	58	17
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0163	571338.82	6497834.42	1.51	<0.5	1	3	28	3
Fagassière	24CMAGS-0501	570642.04	6497406.53	1.48	92.9	492	1560	1525	1400
Gareillas	24CMAGS-0180	571525.18	6498010.36	1.35	28	36	2780	105	6
Fagassière	24CMAGS-0165	570896.10	6497804.33	1.31	<0.5	1	7	64	3
Fau-Marié	24CMAGS-0531	569006.91	6498304.72	1.28	0.6	4	7	37	18
Violezeix South	24CMAGS-0398	569198.42	6498329.53	1.19	0.6	6	5	26	11
Fau-Marié	24CMAGS-0152	569845.47	6497945.10	1.18	<0.5	2	2	41	3
Leycuras trend
Orebody	Sample number	X	Y	Au (g/t)	Ag (g/t)	Cu (ppm)	Pb (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Zn (ppm)
Leycuras	24CMAGS-0218	564082.20	6503580.18	3.81	<0.5	5	11	46	52
Leycuras	24CMAGS-0222	563908.40	6503458.64	2.46	1.8	54	173	266	10
Leycuras	24CMAGS-0625	564265.54	6503694.42	2.13	3	8	110	84	21
Leycuras	24CMAGS-0214	564182.11	6503649.45	1.21	1.9	72	99	127	156
Leycuras	24CMAGS-0216	564146.76	6503619.42	1	0.5	12	42	56	20
La Porcherie trend
Orebody	Sample number	X	Y	Au (g/t)	Ag (g/t)	Cu (ppm)	Pb (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Zn (ppm)
La Porcherie	24CMAGS-0629	588050.42	6500930.73	13.25	11.5	27	150	17	173
Les Biards trend – Historical gold-antimony mining
Orebody	Sample number	X	Y	Au (g/t)	Ag (g/t)	Cu (ppm)	Pb (ppm)	Sb (ppm)	Zn (ppm)
La Borderie	24CMAGS-0468	564517.34	6486308.78	1.43	<0.5	40	63	71300	10

 

About the Limousin Project

• 40 km² of exploration licenses with exclusivity granted over a total of 330 km². The area of exclusivity includes 23 past producing gold mines which operated during the 20^th to 21^st century and over 900 ancient high-grade gold mining sites along over 200 kilometres aggregate strike length of gold-bearing structures.
• Recent production by French mining company COGEMA from 1988 to 2002 of approximately one million ounces of gold with average underground production grades of 12.5 g/t gold with a 10 g/t gold cutoff and mining widths of 3 – 10 m. Average open pit production grades of 7 – 8 g/t gold with a cutoff grade of 6 g/t gold.
• Production and exploration records with an estimated replacement value of $430 million.
• Critical metal potential including a district-scale antimony exploration target as the accessory mineral stibnite within the high-grade gold system, and precious-metal rich polymetallic massive sulphides as lenses locally within and adjacent to the gold system.

About Aquitaine Metals Corp.

Aquitaine Metals Corp. is a Vancouver-based gold and strategic metals exploration company focused on advancing its 100% owned Limousin project in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. A significant exploration Phase 1 diamond drill program was authorized and began in March. This work program will confirm historical datasets, and test extensions of the Pierrepinet and Douillac high-grade gold ore zones at the Laurieras and Moulin de Cheni mines.

Aquitaine Metals Corp. is a committed partner to all stakeholders, with a long-term vision of sustainable exploration to advance the Limousin project in a manner that demonstrates good stewardship of land, operational excellence and accountability.

Records of work activities, permitting timelines and environmental monitoring progress are available at Compagnie des Mines Arédiennes’ website at: https://www.minesarediennes.fr/

Quality Assurance and Control

Samples were analyzed at ALS Loughrea, an INAB Accredited Laboratory in Loughrea, Ireland (a commercial certified laboratory under ISO/IEC 17025:2017). Samples are crushed to 90% passing 2.00 mm screen, riffle split (1,000 g) and pulverized to 85% passing 75 µm. Samples were analyzed using a 50 g fire assay (50 g aliquot) with an Atomic Absorption (AA) finish. For samples that return assay values over 5.0 grams per tonne (g/t), another cut was taken from the original pulp and fire assayed with a gravimetric finish (50 g sample). Aquitaine Metals inserts blanks, duplicates and certified reference standards in the sample sequence for quality control. A secure chain of custody is maintained in transporting and storing of all samples. Samples with visible gold or with assays over 10 g/t Au are assayed using metallic screening. Other 48 elements are assayed by method ME-MS61 consisting of 0.25g sample digested by four acid solution with ICP-MS finish.

Note on Historical Data

All information related to COGEMA’s mining and exploration activities is believed to be accurate, but has not yet been verified by a Qualified Person according to the standards of National Instrument 43-101. Verification sampling is being undertaken at historical mine sites where exposures are available, and verification drilling will be included in the Phase 1 drill program beginning in February. Other historical production data is taken from public records, publications such as Bouchot et al., 2005, and past verification work by COGEMA. It is considered generally reliable for exploration purposes but cannot be verified. Information related to ancient gold production including estimates of historical production grades and total gold produced is taken from archaeological publications, particularly Cauuet et al., 2018, and Baron et al., 2019. Gallic gold mining sites are readily apparent on airborne LIDAR data, from which Aquitaine and CMA’s geologists have reproduced locations and outlines of sites verified and interpreted by archaeologists, and by Aquitaine’s field crews and past explorers at COGEMA.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

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