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As gold prices continue to soar past record highs, investors are pouring billions into bars, coins, and digital tokens. However, regulators and analysts warn that the same rally is fueling a surge in scams that are quietly draining retirement accounts and life savings.

Gold has long been marketed as a safe haven in times of uncertainty. According to the World Gold Council (WGC), private investors now hold approximately 45,000 tons of gold in bars and coins—about 22 percent of all the gold ever mined.

To further illustrate, bar and coin demand alone accounts for roughly a quarter of annual global gold demand, or more than 1,000 tons a year.

But today’s retail gold market extends far beyond physical bullion. Investors can buy tokenized gold on blockchain platforms or purchase vaulted gold digitally through apps and websites.

However, this increased market accessibility has also created fertile ground for fraud.

A widening gap

Nearly half of Americans struggle with basic financial literacy. That vulnerability is increasingly being exploited in gold-related scams, especially among seniors.

In Texas, elderly victims lost more than US$55 million in gold scams. In the Boston area, the FBI documented over 100 instances in the past two years where couriers were used to pick up illicit cash or gold bars, with financial losses exceeding US$26 million. Around 98 percent of those losses were reported by individuals over 60.

In Ottawa last year, police reported an elderly couple lost US$460,000 in a gold investment scam after criminals convinced them to buy gold and arranged to pick it up. The victims were instructed by the scammers not to inform their family members or banks.

The pattern is no longer confined to North America. In Singapore, authorities reported at least 131 cases in 2025 in which victims were persuaded to buy gold bars and physically hand them over to scammers.

Although total scam losses in the country fell to US$913.1 million from a record US$1.1 billion in 2024, police flagged a “concerning trend” of syndicates shifting to gold as a payment method because it is harder to trace than bank transfers.

Five scams gaining traction

Sam Bourgi, senior analyst at InvestorsObserver, says the mechanics of gold fraud have evolved alongside technology. As generative AI tools become widely accessible, scammers can build convincing websites and tailor persuasive messages in minutes.

He has identified five schemes that are proliferating as gold prices climb.

The first is what Bourgi describes as aggressive upselling disguised as opportunity. An investor may initially purchase a small amount of legitimate gold at or near the spot price. The transaction appears ordinary. But soon afterward, high-pressure calls begin, urging the buyer to purchase “premium” coins or collectibles at steep markups.

A second scheme exploits social media. Fraudsters clone the name and branding of legitimate jewelry stores, advertise precious metals at attractive prices, then claim the physical store is temporarily closed.

Buyers are urged to place deposits to “reserve” items. When they attempt to collect their purchase, the address is fake.

A third red flag involves payment methods. Sellers who refuse traceable payment systems such as credit cards or standard bank transfers should raise immediate suspicion.

“Wire transfers are irreversible or hard to trace. No legitimate seller would be against bank involvement. If they are, verify everything they are telling you, through official websites or sources,” Bourgi noted.

Fourth are bogus investment platforms offering gold-backed tokens or digital gold accounts. Investors may see their balances rise rapidly online, only to encounter mysterious “taxes” or fees when attempting to withdraw funds.

“In this case, the money got into scammers’ pockets the second it left your bank. And this is money you won’t get back. It is pointless to pay the mysterious taxes, as your funds are locked inside a fake platform. If it is not a popular website, check reviews, check registration,” Bourgi explained.

Finally, recovery scams target victims twice. After someone loses money in a fake gold transaction, their contact details are sold. A person claiming to be a lawyer or government official offers assistance, but in exchange for an upfront fee.

“Never trust anyone who claims to be a government official or someone else whom you cannot verify from trusted sources. Especially if they ask you to make payments up front. You lost money when you both bought gold, it happens, but don’t make the same mistake twice,” Bourgi reminded.

The role of industry standards

Gold itself is not the problem. The issue, experts say, lies in opaque practices and aggressive marketing tactics.

To address trust concerns in the retail segment, the World Gold Council developed the Retail Gold Investment Principles after consulting 52 industry stakeholders across 16 countries.

The principles emphasize values such as fairness and integrity, transparent pricing, protection of client assets, and regulatory compliance, among others.

The guidelines are voluntary, but they aim to give providers a framework for responsible conduct and a way to signal credibility to investors navigating a largely unregulated space.

For consumers, the red flags remain consistent across jurisdictions: unsolicited contact from so-called “senior specialists,” high-pressure deadlines, promises of guaranteed returns, encouragement to liquidate retirement accounts quickly, and sellers unwilling to disclose fees or regulatory credentials.

Authorities also warn against pop-up messages or phone calls claiming bank accounts have been compromised.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says criminals often impersonate government agents, asserting that a victim’s name or Social Security number is linked to crimes, and then instruct them to convert their funds into gold for “safekeeping.”

The directive is always the same: buy gold bars and hand them to someone. Law enforcement agencies are unequivocal that such instructions are fraudulent.

Caution is the ‘golden’ rule

Gold’s appeal during periods of inflation and market volatility is well documented. But as prices push higher and retail participation expands, due diligence becomes more critical.

Checking real-time gold prices on independent platforms, verifying dealer registrations with state and federal agencies, insisting on traceable payment methods, and consulting trusted family members or financial advisers before making large purchases are just some of the simple but effective safeguards against these schemes.

Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.

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Quimbaya Gold Inc. (CSE: QIM,OTC:QIMGF) (OTCQX: QIMGF) (FSE: K05) (‘Quimbaya’ or the ‘Company’) reports the completion of drone-based magnetic and radiometric surveys covering approximately 800 hectares of the Tahami Center concession. The survey area includes zones where geological reconnaissance and sampling have identified features interpreted as potentially associated with a porphyry-style copper system. These features define a prospective surface trend of approximately 3.1 km by 1.3 km.

Highlights

  • High magnetization vector intensity (MVI) anomalies show two subvertical zones dipping to the southeast. These are interpreted to be porphyry intrusions. They coincide with the mapped porphyry-style potassic alteration and veining with anomalous Cu, Au and Mo geochemistry.

  • A MVI low anomaly on the SE side coincides with the mapped lithocap in which alteration is magnetite-destructive.

  • Magnetic anomalies interpreted to be associated with a porphyry intrusive suite extend over approximately 3.1 km in length and 1.3 km in width, with a dominant northwest-southeast orientation (Figure 1).

  • Pad locations for the maiden drilling program at the Tahami Center target area will be defined following the completion and integration of soil, rock and stream sediment geochemical assay results, detailed geological mapping, and preliminary 3D geological – geophysical modeling. This work is expected to be finalized this month.

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‘The work completed to date at Tahami continues to strengthen our confidence in the exploration potential of the project,’ said Alexandre P. Boivin, CEO of Quimbaya Gold. ‘This survey materially strengthens our technical thesis at Tahami Center. We are seeing a large, coherent subsurface magnetic system that aligns with mapped surface mineralization and alteration. That level of consistency supports advancing confidently toward drill testing as we define our initial targets.’

‘The presence of well-developed porphyry-style veinlets at surface is considered significant in the context of the Company’s exploration model for a porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum system,’ stated Ricardo Sierra, B.Sc., MAusIMM, Vice President Exploration and Qualified Person. ‘Geophysical cross-sections and a plan view at approximately -700 meters in elevation (Figure 2) demonstrate a spatial correlation between the mapped surface porphyry-style mineralization and a projected subsurface magnetic high identified in the recently completed airborne magnetic survey. These magnetic anomalies may reflect zones of increased magnetite content, which in porphyry systems can be associated with potassic alteration. This interpretation is conceptual in nature and has not yet been confirmed by drilling. Confirmation will require diamond drilling and the integration of pending radiometric survey, soil and rock geochemical assay results.’

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Detailed geological mapping has identified an area interpreted as a preserved lithocap in the east – southeastern portion of the mining concession. This zone spatially coincides with low magnetic susceptibility values observed in the MVI survey. The reduced magnetic response is interpreted to reflect magnetite destruction associated with intense advanced argillic alteration. This alteration is locally associated with quartz vein systems in which gold, silver, and copper mineralization has been identified through surface sampling.

Qualified Person

Ricardo Sierra, AusIMM, is a non-independent Officer ‘VP Exploration’ and the Qualified Person for this news release. The scientific and technical content of this press release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Sierra, who has sufficient experience with South American exploration projects relevant to the style of mineralization and type of deposit under consideration. He consents to the inclusion of the Exploration Results in the form and context in which they appear.

About Quimbaya

Quimbaya Gold is a Colombia-focused exploration company advancing a district-scale portfolio of more than 66,000 hectares across highly prospective mineral belts in Antioquia, Colombia. Its flagship Tahami Project, located in Segovia, is immediately adjacent to Colombia’s most prolific high-grade gold mining camp, while the Berrio and Maitamac projects are strategically positioned in Puerto Berrío and Abejorral, respectively. Early-stage exploration has identified extensive mineralized vein systems and confirmed the presence of a large, multi-commodity porphyry system hosting gold, copper and molybdenum, highlighting the district-scale discovery potential of Quimbaya’s land package. The Company is led by a proven technical and management team committed to disciplined exploration and responsible mining practices.

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Alexandre P. Boivin, President and CEO apboivin@quimbayagold.com

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Certain statements contained in this press release constitute ‘forward-looking information’ as that term is defined in applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking information. Generally, but not always, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as ‘intends’, ‘expects’ or ‘anticipates’, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘should’, ‘would’ or ‘occur’. Forward-looking statements herein include statements and information regarding the Offering’s intended use of proceeds, any exercise of Warrants, the future plans for the Company, including any expectations of growth or market momentum, future expectations for the gold sector generally, the Colombian gold sector more particularly, or how global or local market trends may affect the Company, intended exploration on any of the Company’s properties and any results thereof, the strength of the Company’s mineral property portfolio, the potential discovery and potential size of the discovery of minerals on any property of the Company’s, including Tahami South, the aims and goals of the Company, and other forward-looking information. Forward-looking information by its nature is based on assumptions and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Quimbaya to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, that the Company’s exploration and other activities will proceed as expected. The future outcomes that relate to forward-looking statements may be influenced by many factors, including but not limited to: future planned development and other activities on the Company’s mineral properties; an inability to finance the Company; obtaining required permitting on the Company’s mineral properties in a timely manner; any adverse changes to the planned operations of the Company’s mineral properties; failure by the Company for any reason to undertake expected exploration programs; achieving and maintaining favourable relationships with local communities; mineral exploration results that are poorer or better than expected; prices for gold remaining as expected; currency exchange rates remaining as expected; availability of funds for the Company’s projects; prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services (including transportation); no labour-related disruptions; no unplanned delays or interruptions in scheduled construction and production; all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals are received in a timely manner; the Offering proceeds being received as anticipated; all requisite regulatory and stock exchange approvals for the Offering are obtained in a timely fashion; investor participation in the Offering; and the Company’s ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws. Although Quimbaya’s management believes that the assumptions made and the expectations represented by such information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking information will prove to be accurate. Furthermore, should one or more of the risks, uncertainties or other factors materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking statements or information. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking information contained in this news release represents the expectations of Quimbaya as of the date of this news release and, accordingly, is subject to change after such date. Except as required by law, Quimbaya does not expect to update forward-looking statements and information continually as conditions change.

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One Bullion Ltd. (‘One Bullion’ or the ‘Company’) (TSXV: OBUL,OTC:OBULF), a gold exploration company holding complete ownership of three highly prospective mining areas in Botswana, is pleased to announce that it has approved the consolidation of the Company’s issued and outstanding common shares on the basis of one (1) new common share for every ten (10) existing common shares (the ‘Consolidation’).

The Consolidation was approved by way of director resolution. In connection with the Consolidation, the Company has sent letters of transmittal to holders of its common shares for use in transmitting their existing share certificates (‘Existing Certificates’) to the Company’s registrar and transfer agent, Marrelli Trust Company, in exchange for new certificates (‘New Certificates’) representing the number of post-Consolidation common shares to which such shareholder is entitled as a result of the Consolidation. No delivery of a New Certificate to a shareholder will be made until the shareholder has surrendered its Existing Certificates. Until surrendered, each Existing Certificate shall be deemed for all purposes to represent the number of post-Consolidation common shares to which the holder is entitled as a result of the Consolidation. The common shares of the Company reflecting the Consolidation will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange effective as of March 4, 2026 under the same symbol ‘OBUL’.

In connection with the Consolidation, SLD Capital Corp. (‘SLD’) is entitled to receive an aggregate of 200,000 common shares pursuant to the consulting agreement dated July 8, 2024 between One Bullion and SLD. The shares will be subject to a statutory hold period expiring four months and one day following the issuance thereof, and the issuance remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

In other news, the Company also announces that it has granted an aggregate of 1,100,000 restricted share units to officers and directors of the Company.

About One Bullion
One Bullion Ltd. is a Toronto-based gold exploration company focused on advancing high-quality gold assets in Botswana, one of Africa’s most stable and mining-friendly jurisdictions. Established in 2018, the company controls approximately 8,004 km² of prospective land across three greenstone belt-hosted gold projects, including Vumba, Kraaipan, and Maitengwe. One Bullion’s strategy centers on disciplined, data-driven exploration — combining modern geological methods with advanced targeting to identify and test high-priority gold targets — while maintaining a commitment to environmental stewardship, community engagement, and long-term value creation for stakeholders.

Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively referred to herein as ‘forward-looking statements’) within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements, which are inherently uncertain, are based on estimates and assumptions, and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties (both general and specific) that contribute to the possibility that the future events or circumstances contemplated by the forward-looking statements will not occur, including the effective date of trading of the post-Consolidation common shares. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward looking statements contained in this press release, and the assumptions on which such forward-looking statements are made, are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements included in this document, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not occur, which may cause the Company’s actual performance and results in future periods to differ materially from any estimates or projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

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Adam Berk, Chief Executive Officer
T: 917-690-7556

Investor Contact:
KCSA Strategic Communications
Jack Perkins or Valter Pinto
T: 212-896-1254
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Oreterra Metals Corp. (TSXV: OTMC,OTC:RMIOD) (OTCID: OTMCF) (OTCID: RMIOD) (FSE: D4R0) (WKN: A421RQ) (‘Oreterra’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce that, further to its press releases of February 10, 2026, February 12, 2026, February 18, 2026 and February 19, 2026, it has closed the first tranche of its oversubscribed and upsized non-brokered private placement with the placement of 12,068,332 hard-dollar units (‘HD Units’) of the Company at a price of $0.45 per HD Unit for gross proceeds of $5.43M and the placement of 7,708,000 flow-through units (‘FT Units’) at a price of $0.50 per FT Unit for gross proceeds of $3.85M (collectively, the ‘First Closing’). A second closing of the private placement, bringing gross proceeds to $9.7M, is scheduled for March 4, 2026.

‘The fact that this financing has attracted the extraordinary level of interest that it has, is a testament to the strength of Trek South as a porphyry copper-gold discovery prospect and the strong resurgence of market interest in such prospects,’ said Kevin Keough, CEO. ‘More than 115 separate investors participated, 83% of whom are new to the Company, including major funds who as a group will now own approximately 25% of the Company on a fully diluted basis, and resource-knowledgeable investors from as far afield as Europe and Australia. Moreover, we also achieved exposure to most of the major mining-focused brokerage firms in the country. All of this has broadened awareness of Oreterra and its prospects as we advance, now fully financed, toward the first-ever drilling of Trek South this summer.’

Offering Details:

The non-brokered private placement is now for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $9,684,000 through the issuance of a combination of $5,500,000 in hard-dollar units (‘HD Units‘) of the Company at a price of $0.45 per HD Unit and $4,184,000 in flow-through units (‘FT Units‘) at a price of $0.50 per FT Unit (collectively, the ‘Offering‘).

Each HD Unit, priced at $0.45, comprises one (1) common share of the Company and one (1) common share purchase warrant (each a ‘HD Warrant‘). Each HD Warrant entitles the holder to acquire one additional common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.60 per share for three years following the closing of the Offering.

Each FT Unit, priced at $0.50, comprises one (1) flow-through share of the Company (each a ‘FT Share‘) and one (1) common share purchase warrant (each an ‘FT Warrant‘). Each FT Warrant entitles the holder to acquire one additional common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.60 per share for three years following the closing of the Offering.

First Closing Details:

The Company paid ten eligible finders. Nine received cash fees in the aggregate of $409,917.05 and 840,751 broker warrants (each a ‘Broker Warrant‘). Each Broker Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire one additional common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.60 per share for three years following the closing of the Offering. The tenth finder received 18,000 HD Units in lieu of cash compensation of $8,100.

All securities issued under the First Closing are subject to a hold period expiring on June 28, 2026.

Three Insiders subscribed for $216,000 of the First Closing, with one insider subscribing for $150,000 of HD Units and two insiders subscribing for $66,000 of FT Units. Such insider private placements are exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 (‘MI 61-101‘) by virtue of the exemptions contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1) (a) of MI 61-101 in that the fair market value of the consideration for the securities of the Company which have been issued to the insiders does not exceed 25% of its market capitalization.

The securities described herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ‘U.S. Securities Act‘), or any state securities laws, and accordingly, may not be offered or sold within the United States except in compliance with the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities requirements or pursuant to exemptions therefrom. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any securities in any jurisdiction.

The FT Shares will qualify as ‘flow-through shares’ (within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the ‘Tax Act’). An amount equal to the proceeds received from the issuance of the FT Shares will be used to incur eligible resource exploration expenses which will qualify as (i) ‘Canadian exploration expenses’ (as defined in the Tax Act), and (ii) as ‘flow-through critical mineral mining expenditures’ (as defined in subsection 127(9) of the Tax Act) (collectively, the ‘Qualifying Expenditures‘).

Expenditures in an aggregate amount not less than the proceeds raised from the issue of the FT Shares will be incurred (or deemed to be incurred) by the Company on or before December 31, 2027 and will be renounced by the Company to the purchasers of the FT Shares with an effective date no later than December 31, 2026. The net proceeds from the issuance of HD Units will be primarily used for exploration activities at the Company’s Trek property, as well as for general working capital purposes.

About Oreterra Metals Corp.

Oreterra Metals Corp. commenced trading on February 2, 2026, under the new ticker OTMC, following a months-long effort to restructure the former Romios Gold Resources Inc. Management took on the task because it believes the Company’s wholly-owned Trek South porphyry copper-gold prospect represents, based upon the impressive results of the spectrum of geosciences applied to the target area to date, among the finest new targets of its kind in BC’s Golden Triangle. The Company recently released (news, January 22, 2026) a National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report for the Trek property which recommends two initial phases of drilling at Trek South, for execution in the approaching 2026 field season. A copy of the Technical Report is available on the Company’s website at www.oreterra.com, and on the Company’s SEDAR+ issuer profile at www.sedarplus.ca.

Additional wholly-owned Company property interests include two former producers in Nevada: the Kinkaid claims in the Walker Lane trend covering numerous shallow Au-Ag-Cu workings over what is believed to be one or more porphyry centres (source: J.Biczok, P.Geo, June 2025, Kinkaid Gold-Copper-Silver Project, www.oreterra.com), and the Scossa mine property in the Sleeper trend which is a former high-grade gold producer (source: J.Biczok, P.Geo, July 2025, Scossa Historic Gold Mine Property, www.oreterra.com). The Company also holds a 100% interest in the large Lundmark-Akow Lake Au-Cu property adjacent to the northwest of the Musselwhite Mine in northwestern Ontario, where drilling by the Company has produced highly encouraging, broad VMS-style Au-Cu intersections.

For further information visit www.oreterra.com or contact:

Kevin M. Keough Stephen Burega
Chief Executive Officer President
Tel: 613 622-1916 Tel: 647 515-3734
Email: kkeough@oreterra.com Email: sburega@oreterra.com

 

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This news release includes certain ‘forward-looking statements’ which are not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements that describe the Company’s future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward-looking statements may be identified by such terms as ‘believes’, ‘anticipates’, ‘expects’, ‘estimates’, ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘will’, or ‘plan’. Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and

uncertainties. Although these statements are based on information currently available to the Company, the Company provides no assurance that actual results will meet management’s expectations. Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to failure to identify mineral resources, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, political risks, inability to fulfill the duty to accommodate First Nations, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects, capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.

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Transition Metals Corp. (TSXV: XTM) (‘Transition’, ‘the Company’), is pleased to announce that it has vested a 100% interest in the Pike Warden property, a porphyry-epithermal exploration asset located in southern Yukon. This acquisition consolidates the Company’s control over the property and positions it for continued exploration activities and partnering opportunities. The Company will seek a partner to more aggressively explore the large mineralized system opportunity.

This acquisition represents an important step in expanding Transition Metals’ portfolio of high-quality exploration assets,’ said Scott McLean, CEO of Transition Metals. ‘The Pike Warden property has strong exploration potential, and the work carried out by Transition to date has identified over 30 high grade Au-Ag epithermal and Cu-Mo porphyry showings, which together with the geophysical and mapping data demonstrate a large porphyry and epithermal mineralizing system.

Terms of Vesting

The project was optioned from a local geologist in 2022 (see news release dated June 28, 2022). The Company has vested its interest by paying the Optionor $120,000, issuing 1,000,000 shares, and spending $1,000,000 in exploration over the four-year period. The Optionor retains a 1% Net Smelter Return royalty on the Property.

Financing

The Company is pleased to announce that it intends to raise up to $1,000,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement consisting of up to 8,695,652 Charity Flow Through Units (the ‘CFU‘) at a price of $0.115 per CFU. The initial Purchasers of the CFU may subsequently donate such CFU to registered charitable organizations, who may in turn choose to sell such CFU Units (the ‘Re-Offered Units’) to purchasers at a price of $0.08 per Re-Offered Unit (the ‘Re-Offer Price’) or sell such Re-Offered Units to purchasers at the Re-Offer Price. The Company will not be a party to any such arrangements. The Re-Offered Units will consist of a common share and a half warrant. Each full warrant entitles the investor to purchase a common share in the Company at any time for $0.115 for a period of 18 months. A finder’s fee may be paid in connection with the Offering to finders, as determined by mutual agreement between the Corporation and the finders and subject to regulatory approval. The finders’ fee will consist of 6% cash for Units sold to investors introduced by such finders, and non-transferable share purchase warrants equal to 6% of such CFU sold to investors (‘Compensation Warrants’). The Compensation Warrants will permit the purchase of one common share in the capital of the Company for 18 months from closing at a price of $0.115.

Proceeds from the CFT Shares issued in connection with the Offering will be used to explore and advance critical minerals properties in Ontario (Saturday Night PGM) and Northwest Territories (Dessert Lake U) as well as Ontario precious metal project (Gowganda Au). The securities issued in connection with the Offering, including any common shares issued upon exercise of the Compensation Warrants, will be subject to a four-month restricted resale period and applicable securities legislation hold periods outside of Canada from the closing date. Completion of the Offering will be subject to all necessary approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. There can be no assurance that the Offering will be completed as proposed or at all.

About Transition Metals Corp.

Transition Metals Corp. (TSXV: XTM) is a Canadian-based, multi-commodity explorer. Its award-winning team of geoscientists has extensive exploration experience which actively develops and tests new ideas for discovering mineralization in places that others have not looked, often allowing the company to acquire properties inexpensively. Joint venture partners earn an interest in the projects by funding a portion of higher-risk drilling and exploration, allowing Transition to conserve capital and minimize shareholder’s equity dilution.

Further information is available at www.transitionmetalscorp.com or by contacting:

Scott McLean
President and CEO
Transition Metals Corp.
Tel: (705) 667-6178

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While framed as a book about economic development theory and the history of colonialism, William Easterly’s latest tome is actually something grander and more ambitious: a deeply researched 300-year chronicle of political and moral theory in the Western world. The questions that colonizers, settlers, natives, and revolutionaries wrestle with in Easterly’s 448-page history aren’t just about plantations and trading posts – they’re the most important questions we have about morality and justice. They’re particularly timely in an era when classical liberal values are under greater challenge than at any time since the Cold War.

We begin in the eighteenth century with a grounding in the work of Adam Smith, a justly legendary intellectual figure getting even more attention than usual this year because his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations, is celebrating its 250th anniversary alongside the United States. Smith is, for Easterly, a kind of godfather of the liberal tradition of individual rights that the rest of the figures in the book are measured against. Smith stood for trade as a civilized and civilizing force and emphasized the need for voluntary, mutually beneficial relationships. He was not in favor of the takeover of the rest of the world (or just “the Rest” in Easterly’s styling) by white men in the supposedly enlightened West. 

The first section contrasts Smith with the French aristocrat Nicolas de Condorcet, who — despite his modern reputation as a champion of free trade and individual rights — endorsed what Easterly calls the Development Right of Conquest. Under this view, a civilized nation or race may rule another’s land if it claims it can put it to a higher and more productive use.

This might mean ruling a newly discovered tribe to advance its development toward a higher civilization. If the tribe resisted — as was often the case — the more “developed” people could kill or displace the “savages” and seize the land themselves. Either way, the supposedly superior group — typically Western European — decided which path was best for both.

This is the great divide that defined the next few centuries of global territorial expansion and settlement. European thinkers who believed in peaceful coexistence and voluntary trade relations were the inheritors of Smith, and those who believed their superior wisdom entitled them to plan the moral and economic advance of foreign peoples were the intellectual descendants of Condorcet. Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University, emphasizes many times how lopsided this family tree was on the latter’s side. 

Both sides, of course, believed they were in the right. Few, if any, colonizers – no matter how rapacious in action – admit to plundering new lands and people solely for their own benefit. Even those who were literal enslavers of their fellow man created elaborate theories about how they were actually acting in the interests of the non-white people they encountered.  

The essential difference that Easterly emphasizes is that some were willing to let others decide their own interests, while most overrode foreign preferences with cultural chauvinism and civilizational theory. The classical liberals in his account were hardly “woke” by modern standards, but they replaced the question “Are these non-European people worthy of self-government?” with the more searching one: “Are we fit to rule them by force?”

The advance of liberal ideas was fitful and slow. Just like the progress toward representative democracy and constitutional government within Europe itself, the recognition that non-white people might want and be entitled to the same rights as their white counterparts faced many disappointing setbacks. Easterly does a great job, however, of setting the scene for the greatest victory of them all – the abolition of slavery in the modern world. First, peacefully, in the British Empire under the political leadership of men like William Wilberforce, and then, amid catastrophic bloodshed, in the United States.  

Many histories of the world after 1865 have treated the end of slavery (in most countries, at least) as the beginning of a new enlightened age. Whatever came later in the various colonial empires, however imperfect, was certainly vastly superior to an era in which kidnapping and intergenerational forced labor were a major commercial enterprise.  

While the line between enslavement and mere colonial paternalism might seem bright and obvious, Easterly doesn’t let the triumph of slavery ending in the nineteenth century get the West off the hook for continuing oppression and injustice around the world. The policies of Caribbean sugar planters before emancipation had more in common with, for example, twentieth-century colonial administrators in sub-Saharan Africa than most historians care to admit. Underlying both is the same, only marginally reformed, assumption that white skin and technological advancement entitle one to treat other races as children and supplicants for their supposed long-term benefit. In the post-slavery colonies, even when plans for advancement were undertaken for ostensibly beneficial purposes, the opinions of the people supposedly benefiting were neither solicited nor heeded.  

Violent Saviors tries to remedy some of that historic injustice in telling their story, but also in citing some of the rare first-person sources that were recorded from those subjected to “civilization” via musket barrels and bayonets. Many students of US history will be familiar with some of the figures Easterly quotes at length, like the formerly enslaved abolitionist who became one of the most famous people in nineteenth-century America, Frederick Douglass. Far fewer will have read anything about Mohegan Indian and Christian convert Samson Occam (1723–1792), once a student at the missionary school that eventually became Dartmouth College, or the British ex-slave Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757–1791), who was at first an advocate for, and later an opponent of, a quixotic eighteenth-century plan to re-settle the free black residents of London in a kind of proto-Liberia colony in Sierra Leone.    

The author also gets a historian’s revenge on multiple generations of supposedly well-intentioned military, political, religious, and philanthropic leaders whose high status contrasted embarrassingly with their inability to successfully implement any of their grand plans for the advancement of the “dusky races.”  

Easterly has famously written at length about the contradictions and failures of modern economic development policy in books like The White Man’s Burden and The Tyranny of Experts. He now reaches back multiple centuries to deliver withering takedowns of figures ranging from French aristocrats Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817) and Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière (1719–1801) to Treaty of Versailles architect Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) and Lyndon B. Johnson–era National Security Advisor Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003).

He offers a more inspiring, if much shorter, list of theorists and experts who pointed the way in the right direction. Beginning with Adam Smith (1723–1790), we also encounter (mostly) good actors like the anti-slavery Anglican Bishop William Warburton (1698–1779) and Swiss political theorist Benjamin Constant (1767–1830). Easterly devotes significant attention to better-known writers such as John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) and Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), while also crediting the beloved figures of twentieth-century free-market economics: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton and Rose Friedman, among others. 

In recent years, the so-called neoliberal view of economics and the rules-based international order has been significantly challenged by a resurgence of populist economic thought emphasizing national solidarity — as defined by a handful of executive policymakers — over the equality of all individuals and positive-sum economic exchange.

President Donald Trump’s use of tariff authority — for purposes ranging from explicit industrial protectionism to the attempted conquest of Greenland — has dramatically set back decades of post–World War II progress in free trade. Violent Saviors, with its inspiring narrative of mercantilist authoritarianism giving way to a world where equality and cooperation are the norm, reminds us why so many fought so hard for these ideals in the first place.

Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Friday (February 25) as of 1:30 p.m. UTC.

Get the latest insights on Bitcoin, Ether and altcoins, along with a round-up of key cryptocurrency market news.

Bitcoin (BTC) was priced at US$66,270.44, down by 0.4 percent over the last 24 hours.

Bitcoin price performance, March 2, 2026.

Bitcoin price performance, March 2, 2026.

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Ether (ETH) was priced at US$1,947.16, down by 1.8 percent over the last 24 hours.

Altcoin price update

  • XRP (XRP) was priced at US$1.35, down by 1.8 percent over 24 hours.
  • Solana (SOL) was trading at US$83.41, down by 1.8 percent over 24 hours.

Today’s crypto news to know

Bitcoin slips under US$67,000 as Iran tensions continue

Bitcoin drifted back below $67,000 late Sunday as uncertainty surrounding the Iran-Israel conflict continued to weigh on global risk assets.

The token was down roughly 1 percent over 24 hours, after swinging sharply in response to US-Israel air strikes on Iran and retaliatory activity across the region. Prices had plunged to around US$63,255 early Saturday during the initial shock, only to rebound above US$68,000 later that day amid unconfirmed reports about Iran’s leadership.

Meanwhile, Ether hovered near US$1,950 after tumbling roughly 10 percent in the immediate aftermath of the escalation.

Bitcoin remains down about 23 percent year-to-date and nearly 50 percent off its October peak of US$126,000, with some Wall Street analysts warning a move toward US$50,000 is possible before any durable recovery takes hold.

X lifts crypto ad ban

Social media platform X has reversed course on its crypto advertising policy, removing digital assets and gambling from its list of prohibited industries for paid promotions.

The change opens the door for influencers and key opinion leaders to monetize crypto content legally on the platform, provided they follow new disclosure rules. Under X’s updated Paid Partnership framework, posts created as part of a commercial arrangement must carry a clear “Paid Partnership” label.

“Undisclosed promotions hurt the integrity of the product and lead people to distrust the content they read on X,” said Nikita Bier, the company’s head of product, adding that the update is meant to encourage transparency and regulatory compliance.

Influencers remain responsible for adhering to applicable laws, including Federal Trade Commission guidelines on endorsements. While crypto is no longer banned from paid partnerships, the platform maintains distinctions between sponsored content and traditional advertising placements.

UAE security alert prompts crypto firms to shift to remote work

Major cryptocurrency exchanges in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have moved staff indoors after the country entered a heightened security posture, with authorities reporting missile interceptions and aerial defense activity across parts of the Gulf.

Binance and Bybit instructed UAE-based employees to remain home and work remotely until further notice. Binance circulated a company-wide notice directing staff to avoid outdoor areas and stay clear of windows and open spaces.

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Radisson Mining Resources Inc. (TSXV: RDS,OTC:RMRDF) (OTCQB: RMRDF) (‘Radisson’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to report an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (‘MRE’) at its 100%-owned O’Brien Gold Project (‘O’Brien’ or the ‘Project’) located in the Abitibi region of Québec. The Company is currently undertaking a fully-funded 140,000-metre step-out drill program at the Project with the objective of determining the scope of mineralization to a depth of 2 kilometres. This program commenced in 2025 and is expected to continue through the first half of 2027. Today’s updated MRE is an interim report that demonstrates the impact of recent drilling successes completed as of December 31, 2025. Highlights include:

  • 82% increase in Inferred Mineral Resources from step-out drilling intersecting new mineralization, with 1.69 million ounces (‘Moz’) in 10.37 million tonnes (‘Mt’) at 5.08 grams per tonne (‘g/t’) gold (‘Au’);

  • 8% increase in Indicated Mineral Resources with 0.63 Moz in 3.49 Mt at 5.59 g/t Au;

  • Estimated using US$2,500/oz Au and 2.2 g/t Au cut-off, with a refined geological model and capping strategy, establishing the go-forward basis for future, modern mine development.

Matt Manson, President and CEO: ‘Today we report the first of several planned, step-by-step updates to the MRE at the O’Brien Gold Project, quantifying the impact of our recent drilling success and establishing a clear foundation for future, modern mine development. With just 25% of our 140,000 metre step-out drill program completed, the new vein mineralization delineated beneath the historic mine workings and the previous mineral resource volume (Radisson news release dated February 12, 2026) has resulted in an 82% increase in the quantity of Inferred Mineral Resources, now 1.69 Moz (10.37 Mt at 5.08 g/t Au). At the same time, we have refined the estimate of Indicated Mineral Resources, incorporating more tonnes at a lower average grade for an 8% increase in contained ounces, now 0.63 Moz (3.49 Mt at 5.59 g/t Au). Our estimates utilize a 2.2 g/t Au cut-off at a reasonable gold price assumption of US$2,500/oz.’

‘The former O’Brien Mine was known for high-grade ore-shoots mined in small volumes. Mining ended in 1957 with the gold price at US$35/oz. Significant volumes of mineralized vein material, below what we believe to have been a 7 g/t to 8 g/t Au cut-off, were left untouched. Now, we are presenting the Project as it should be viewed for future development: not as a bespoke deposit of extreme grade and limited scale, but as an extensive Abitibi vein deposit with a substantial inventory of mineralized material amenable to modern mechanized mining at higher throughput.’

‘Our step-out drill campaign at O’Brien is ongoing with up to eight rigs. We expect to complete 72,500 metres in 2026 and 32,500 metres in the first half of 2027. This is in addition to the meterage supporting today’s updated MRE. The vein mineralization system we have been intersecting is open at depth. In fact, since our step-out drilling began in the fall of 2024, we have been seeing an impressive 84% success rate in intercepting classic O’Brien quartz-sulphide-gold veins with grades and thicknesses consistent with today’s updated MRE. Looking to a 2-kilometre exploration floor, we believe an appropriate Exploration Target at O’Brien is another 5 Mt to 10 Mt at grades of between 4.0 g/t and 6.0 g/t Au containing 0.6 Moz to 2.0 Moz. We expect to complete further step-by-step updates to the MRE as our drilling progresses.’

Cautionary statement: Readers are cautioned Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The estimate of mineral resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, socio-political, marketing, or other relevant issues including risks set forth in Radisson’s filings made with Canadian securities regulatory authorities. The potential quantity and grade of an Exploration Target is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.

A video presentation of today’s news by Matt Manson can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZwSSYbO70.

Mineral Resource Estimate (effective January 31, 2026)

The MRE is based on 428,440 metres of drilling completed to the end of December 31, 2025, and has been authored by SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd. (‘SLR‘). The estimate utilizes a 2.2 g/t Au cut-off at US$2,500/oz and makes certain assumptions on mining and processing costs, currency exchange rate, and metallurgical recovery (Table 1 and Figure 1). A wireframe vein model prepared by Radisson and reviewed by SLR constrains the estimate and applies a minimum width of 1.2 metres. Individual assays are capped at 60 g/t Au prior to compositing to full width of the veins, and the block model utilizes 5 by 2 by 5 metre blocks consistent with recent mine design studies.

Table 1: Mineral Resource Estimate, Effective January 31, 2026

Category Tonnes (kt) Grade (g/t Au) Oz (koz Au)
Indicated 3,493 5.59 628
Inferred 10,368 5.08 1,692
Notes:
  1. Prepared in accordance with the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Definition Standards (2014) and Best Practice Guidelines of Mineral Resources and Reserves (2019).
  2. Mineral resources are reported above a cut-off grade of 2.2 g/t Au based on a C$215/t operating cost, a long-term gold price of US$2,500/oz Au, a US$/C$ exchange rate of 1:1.33, and a metallurgical recovery of 90%.
  3. Wireframes were modelled at a minimum width of 1.2 m.
  4. Bulk density varies by deposit and lithology and ranges from 2.76 t/m³ to 2.87 t/m³.
  5. Individual assays were capped at 60 g/t Au prior to compositing to full vein width.
  6. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
  7. Numbers may not add due to rounding.

 

An MRE for the Project was previously published in March 2023 (Radisson news release dated March 2, 2023) based on 325,509 metres of drilling completed to the end of 2022. Indicated Mineral Resources (effective March 2, 2023) were estimated at 0.50 Moz (1.52 Mt at 10.26 g/t Au) with additional Inferred Mineral Resources of 0.45 Moz (1.60 Mt at 8.66 g/t Au). The 2023 study applied a 4.5 g/t Au cut-off at US$1,600/oz Au.

In July 2025, Radisson published a Preliminary Economic Assessment (‘PEA‘) for the Project that utilized the 2023 estimate re-blocked by SLR in the Z-direction from 10 metres to 5 metres to allow for more flexible underground mine design. A cut-off of 2.2 g/t Au at US$2,000/oz Au and an updated set of economic criteria were applied in the re-blocking exercise consistent with the parameters used for the optimization of the PEA’s underground mine schedule. No other changes were made. Indicated Mineral Resources (effective May 6, 2025) were estimated at 0.58 Moz (2.20 Mt at 8.22 g/t Au) with additional Inferred Mineral Resources of 0.93 Moz (6.67 Mt at 4.35 g/t Au).

The updated MRE released today benefits from 66,387 metres of additional drilling in 122 drill holes conducted between 2023 and 2025, which is the most significant factor in the increase of Inferred Mineral Resources (Figure 2). Radisson has also validated an additional 36,544 meters of historic drilling. The updated MRE utilizes similar estimation parameters to previously, but a more restrictive approach to capping. In the March 2023 estimate, and as incorporated in the re-blocked May 2025

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Figure 1: Block Models for the Mineral Resource Estimates Effective May 6, 2025 (Top) with Recently Published Drill Results and the Updated MRE Effective January 31, 2026 (Bottom) 

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estimate, capping at 40 g/t Au was applied to the full-length composites. In the updated MRE, capping has been applied at 60 g/t Au to the underlying assays prior to compositing. This has the effect of reducing the average grade by approximately 12%, and in the opinion of Radisson and SLR is an appropriate approach to a narrow high-grade vein deposit such as O’Brien.

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Figure 2: 3D View of Block Model by Resource Classification (Left) and Gold Grade (Right) Illustrating Volume Utilized in the Previous May 2025 MRE 

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Compared to previous estimates, the aggregate impact on the Indicated Mineral Resources of the new drilling, the 2.2 g/t Au cut-off, and the updated capping strategy has been to add more tonnes at a lower average grade for an overall increase in contained ounces. The aggregate impact of these three factors on the Inferred Mineral Resources has been the addition of more tonnes at a higher average grade for an overall increase in contained ounces. Indicated Mineral Resources have increased by 8% to 0.63 Moz, based on an increase in tonnes of 58% to 3.49 Mt and a decrease in grade of 32% to 5.59 g/t Au. Inferred Mineral Resources have increased by 82% to 1.69 Moz, based on an increase in tonnage of 55% to 10.37 Mt and an increase in grade of 17% to 5.08 g/t Au.

O’Brien’s system of Quartz-Sulphide-Gold vein mineralization remains open to depth across a broad front beneath the historic mine workings and the updated MRE. The potential continuation of this mineralization to a 2 kilometres depth defines an Exploration Target of an additional 5 Mt to 10 Mt at grades of between 4.0 g/t and 6.0 g/t Au containing 0.6 Moz to 2.0 Moz. The potential quantity and grade of an Exploration Target is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.

Table 2: Sensitivities of the Mineral Resource Estimate Based on Cut-Off

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A New Vision for the O’Brien Gold Project

The historic O’Brien mine produced over half a million ounces of gold at an average grade exceeding 15 g/t Au. It is clear that the former mine was ‘high-graded’, with manual mining methods applied to the highest-grade veins and ore shoots at an estimated cut-off grade of 7 g/t to 8 g/t Au. Parallel but lower-grade mineralized zones, which would be well above an economic cut-off grade today, were left unmined.

The updated MRE does not incorporate any mineral resources potentially remaining in the former mine. However, in applying the lower grade cut-off of 2.2 g/t Au based on a gold-price estimate of US$2,500, the new estimate captures the overall volume attributes of the O’Brien mineralizing system, with more tonnes and more ounces at a lower average grade. This has the benefit of improving the continuity of mineralization for future mine planning, with larger stopes and more development headings supporting a higher potential mining rate. The Project has existing mining infrastructure to support such a vision, such as a shaft in the former mine extending to a 1,000 metres depth and multiple mills in the region with significant future capacity.

Table 2 illustrates sensitivities on Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources and the MRE block model based on cut-off grade. These are:

  • a) 8.0 g/t Au (US$700/oz) representing the former mine,

  • b) 4.5 g/t Au (US$1,250/oz) representing the MRE effective March 2, 2023,

  • c) 2.2 g/t Au (US$2,500/oz) representing the updated MRE, and

  • d) 1.5 g/t Au (US$3,800/oz) representing the recent long-term consensus price of gold.

The comparison clearly indicates the relationship between volume and grade based on cut-off, the directionality of steeply-plunging grade shoots at O’Brien, and the increased continuity of mineralization achieved at progressively lower cut-offs.

Gold Mineralization at O’Brien and Step-Out Drill Program

Gold mineralization at O’Brien occurs within quartz-sulphide veins developed primarily within the interlayered mafic volcanic rocks, conglomerates, and porphyritic andesitic sills of the Piché Group occurring in contact with the regionally significant Larder Lake-Cadillac Break (‘LLCB’). Individual veins are generally narrow, ranging from several centimetres up to several metres in thickness, and are associated with mineralized alteration envelopes of up to several metres in thickness. Multiple veins occur sub-parallel to each other, as well as sub-parallel to the Piché lithologies and the LLCB. As mapped at the historic O’Brien mine, and now replicated in the modern drilling, individual veins have well-established lateral continuity, with steeply plunging grade shoots developed over significant lengths.

Since the end of 2024, Radisson has been pursuing a program of broad step-out drilling at O’Brien with the objective of determining the overall scope of mineralization at the Project to a depth of 2 kilometres (Figure 1). The priority is the quantity and distribution of mineral resources with step-outs rather than in-filling to upgrade the classification of the existing mineral resources.

This drilling is accomplished with pilot holes followed by wedges and directional drilling to maximize drill efficiency. In October 2025, Radisson announced the expansion of the program to 140,000 metres employing an eventual eight drill rigs (see Radisson news release dated October 16, 2025). An initial 35,000 metres of the program were completed in 2025, with 72,500 metres budgeted for 2026, and a further 32,500 metres scheduled for the first half of 2027.

QP Disclosure

Disclosure of a scientific or technical nature in this news release was prepared under the supervision of Mr. Richard Nieminen, P.Geo., (QC), a geological consultant for Radisson and a Qualified Person for purposes of NI 43-101. Mr. Luke Evans, M.Sc., P.Eng., ing., of SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd., is the Qualified Person responsible for the preparation of the MRE at O’Brien. Both Mr. Nieminen and Mr. Evans are independent of Radisson and the O’Brien Gold Project.

About Radisson Mining

Radisson is a gold exploration company focused on its 100% owned O’Brien Gold Project, located in the Bousquet-Cadillac mining camp along the world-renowned Larder-Lake-Cadillac Break in Abitibi, Québec. A July 2025 PEA described a low cost and high value project with an 11-year mine life and significant upside potential based on the use of existing regional infrastructure. Indicated Mineral Resources are estimated at 0.63 Moz (3.49 Mt at 5.59 g/t Au), with additional Inferred Mineral Resources estimated at 1.69 Moz (10.37 Mt at 5.08 g/t Au). Please see the NI 43-101 ‘O’Brien Gold Project Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment, Québec, Canada’ effective June 27, 2025, and other filings made with Canadian securities regulatory authorities available at www.sedarplus.ca for further details and assumptions relating to the O’Brien Gold Project. For more information on Radisson, visit our website at www.radissonmining.com or contact:

Matt Manson
President and CEO
416.618.5885
mmanson@radissonmining.com

Kristina Pillon
Manager, Investor Relations
604.908.1695
kpillon@radissonmining.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains ‘forward-looking information’ within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation that is based on expectations, estimates, projections, and interpretations as at the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements including, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the ability to execute the Company’s plans relating to the O’Brien Gold Project as set out in the Preliminary Economic Assessment; the Company’s ability to complete its planned exploration and development programs; the absence of adverse conditions at the O’Brien Gold Project; the absence of unforeseen operational delays; the absence of material delays in obtaining necessary permits; the price of gold remaining at levels that render the O’Brien Gold Project profitable; the Company’s ability to continue raising necessary capital to finance its operations; the ability to realize on the mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates; assumptions regarding present and future business strategies; local and global geopolitical and economic conditions and the environment in which the Company operates and will operate in the future; planned and ongoing drilling; the significance of drill results; the ability to continue drilling; the impact of drilling on the definition of any resource; and the ability to incorporate new drilling in an updated technical report and resource modelling; the Company’s ability to grow the O’Brien Gold Project; and the ability to convert inferred mineral resources to indicated mineral resources.

Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, interpretations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as ‘expects’, or ‘does not expect’, ‘is expected’, ‘interpreted’, ‘management’s view’, ‘anticipates’ or ‘does not anticipate’, ‘plans’, ‘budget’, ‘scheduled’, ‘forecasts’, ‘estimates’, ‘believes’ or ‘intends’ or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results ‘may’ or ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘might’ or ‘will’ be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information and are intended to identify forward-looking information. Except for statements of historical fact relating to the Company, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements Forward-looking information is based on estimates of management of the Company, at the time it was made, involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the companies to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others; the risk that the O’Brien Gold Project will never reach the production stage (including due to a lack of financing); the Company’s capital requirements and access to funding; changes in legislation, regulations and accounting standards to which the Company is subject, including environmental, health and safety standards, and the impact of such legislation, regulations and standards on the Company’s activities; price volatility and availability of commodities; instability in the global financial system; the effects of high inflation, such as higher commodity prices; the risk of any future litigation against the Company; changes in project parameters and/or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; geological, mining and exploration technical problems; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing; risks relating to the drill results at O’Brien; the significance of drill results; and the ability of drill results to accurately predict mineralization. Although the forward-looking information contained in this news release is based upon what management believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the parties cannot assure shareholders and prospective purchasers of securities that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking information, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, and neither the Company nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any such forward-looking information. The Company believes that this forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this press release should not be unduly relied upon. The Company does not undertake, and assumes no obligation, to update or revise any such forward-looking statements or forward-looking information contained herein to reflect new events or circumstances, except as may be required by law. These statements speak only as of the date of this news release.

Please refer to the ‘Risks and Uncertainties Related to Exploration’ and the ‘Risks Related to Financing and Development’ sections of the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis dated April 29, 2025 for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis dated November 26, 2025 for the three month period ended September 30, 2025, all of which are available electronically on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. All forward looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.

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While framed as a book about economic development theory and the history of colonialism, William Easterly’s latest tome is actually something grander and more ambitious: a deeply researched 300-year chronicle of political and moral theory in the Western world. The questions that colonizers, settlers, natives, and revolutionaries wrestle with in Easterly’s 448-page history aren’t just about plantations and trading posts – they’re the most important questions we have about morality and justice. They’re particularly timely in an era when classical liberal values are under greater challenge than at any time since the Cold War.

We begin in the eighteenth century with a grounding in the work of Adam Smith, a justly legendary intellectual figure getting even more attention than usual this year because his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations, is celebrating its 250th anniversary alongside the United States. Smith is, for Easterly, a kind of godfather of the liberal tradition of individual rights that the rest of the figures in the book are measured against. Smith stood for trade as a civilized and civilizing force and emphasized the need for voluntary, mutually beneficial relationships. He was not in favor of the takeover of the rest of the world (or just “the Rest” in Easterly’s styling) by white men in the supposedly enlightened West. 

The first section contrasts Smith with the French aristocrat Nicolas de Condorcet, who — despite his modern reputation as a champion of free trade and individual rights — endorsed what Easterly calls the Development Right of Conquest. Under this view, a civilized nation or race may rule another’s land if it claims it can put it to a higher and more productive use.

This might mean ruling a newly discovered tribe to advance its development toward a higher civilization. If the tribe resisted — as was often the case — the more “developed” people could kill or displace the “savages” and seize the land themselves. Either way, the supposedly superior group — typically Western European — decided which path was best for both.

This is the great divide that defined the next few centuries of global territorial expansion and settlement. European thinkers who believed in peaceful coexistence and voluntary trade relations were the inheritors of Smith, and those who believed their superior wisdom entitled them to plan the moral and economic advance of foreign peoples were the intellectual descendants of Condorcet. Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University, emphasizes many times how lopsided this family tree was on the latter’s side. 

Both sides, of course, believed they were in the right. Few, if any, colonizers – no matter how rapacious in action – admit to plundering new lands and people solely for their own benefit. Even those who were literal enslavers of their fellow man created elaborate theories about how they were actually acting in the interests of the non-white people they encountered.  

The essential difference that Easterly emphasizes is that some were willing to let others decide their own interests, while most overrode foreign preferences with cultural chauvinism and civilizational theory. The classical liberals in his account were hardly “woke” by modern standards, but they replaced the question “Are these non-European people worthy of self-government?” with the more searching one: “Are we fit to rule them by force?”

The advance of liberal ideas was fitful and slow. Just like the progress toward representative democracy and constitutional government within Europe itself, the recognition that non-white people might want and be entitled to the same rights as their white counterparts faced many disappointing setbacks. Easterly does a great job, however, of setting the scene for the greatest victory of them all – the abolition of slavery in the modern world. First, peacefully, in the British Empire under the political leadership of men like William Wilberforce, and then, amid catastrophic bloodshed, in the United States.  

Many histories of the world after 1865 have treated the end of slavery (in most countries, at least) as the beginning of a new enlightened age. Whatever came later in the various colonial empires, however imperfect, was certainly vastly superior to an era in which kidnapping and intergenerational forced labor were a major commercial enterprise.  

While the line between enslavement and mere colonial paternalism might seem bright and obvious, Easterly doesn’t let the triumph of slavery ending in the nineteenth century get the West off the hook for continuing oppression and injustice around the world. The policies of Caribbean sugar planters before emancipation had more in common with, for example, twentieth-century colonial administrators in sub-Saharan Africa than most historians care to admit. Underlying both is the same, only marginally reformed, assumption that white skin and technological advancement entitle one to treat other races as children and supplicants for their supposed long-term benefit. In the post-slavery colonies, even when plans for advancement were undertaken for ostensibly beneficial purposes, the opinions of the people supposedly benefiting were neither solicited nor heeded.  

Violent Saviors tries to remedy some of that historic injustice in telling their story, but also in citing some of the rare first-person sources that were recorded from those subjected to “civilization” via musket barrels and bayonets. Many students of US history will be familiar with some of the figures Easterly quotes at length, like the formerly enslaved abolitionist who became one of the most famous people in nineteenth-century America, Frederick Douglass. Far fewer will have read anything about Mohegan Indian and Christian convert Samson Occam (1723–1792), once a student at the missionary school that eventually became Dartmouth College, or the British ex-slave Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757–1791), who was at first an advocate for, and later an opponent of, a quixotic eighteenth-century plan to re-settle the free black residents of London in a kind of proto-Liberia colony in Sierra Leone.    

The author also gets a historian’s revenge on multiple generations of supposedly well-intentioned military, political, religious, and philanthropic leaders whose high status contrasted embarrassingly with their inability to successfully implement any of their grand plans for the advancement of the “dusky races.”  

Easterly has famously written at length about the contradictions and failures of modern economic development policy in books like The White Man’s Burden and The Tyranny of Experts. He now reaches back multiple centuries to deliver withering takedowns of figures ranging from French aristocrats Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817) and Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière (1719–1801) to Treaty of Versailles architect Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) and Lyndon B. Johnson–era National Security Advisor Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003).

He offers a more inspiring, if much shorter, list of theorists and experts who pointed the way in the right direction. Beginning with Adam Smith (1723–1790), we also encounter (mostly) good actors like the anti-slavery Anglican Bishop William Warburton (1698–1779) and Swiss political theorist Benjamin Constant (1767–1830). Easterly devotes significant attention to better-known writers such as John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) and Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), while also crediting the beloved figures of twentieth-century free-market economics: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton and Rose Friedman, among others. 

In recent years, the so-called neoliberal view of economics and the rules-based international order has been significantly challenged by a resurgence of populist economic thought emphasizing national solidarity — as defined by a handful of executive policymakers — over the equality of all individuals and positive-sum economic exchange.

President Donald Trump’s use of tariff authority — for purposes ranging from explicit industrial protectionism to the attempted conquest of Greenland — has dramatically set back decades of post–World War II progress in free trade. Violent Saviors, with its inspiring narrative of mercantilist authoritarianism giving way to a world where equality and cooperation are the norm, reminds us why so many fought so hard for these ideals in the first place.

On July 8, 2024, a guest essay by Stephen Smith on elevator policy was published in The New York Times. Though this may seem like a rather dry topic at first glance, Smith’s essay quickly dispelled that notion. The piece immediately went viral and has sparked a considerable amount of commentary from across the political spectrum. 

In the essay, Smith summarized the findings of a lengthy report on elevators that he had authored in May of that year for a think tank, the Center for Building in North America, which he founded in 2022. Prompted by a personal struggle with a lack of elevator access, Smith conducted a comprehensive review of the global elevator industry with the goal of answering a very specific question: Why are there so few elevators in North America compared to the rest of the world? 

“Despite being the birthplace of the modern passenger elevator, the United States has fallen far behind its peers,” he writes in the report. 

While the US has more than 1.03 million elevators — one of the highest totals in the world — it has fewer elevators per capita than any other high-income country for which data can be found, and Canada’s position on a per capita basis is similar. 

“…Part of this absence is due to the dominance of freestanding single-family houses in North America,” Smith acknowledges, “but even apartments in the United States are less likely to have elevators than those in much of Europe and Asia.” He points out, for example, that while New York City and Switzerland have similar populations, and a greater percentage of New Yorkers than Swiss live in apartment buildings, New York only has half the number of passenger elevators. 

“No matter how you slice the numbers,” he says, “America has fallen behind on elevators.” 

Smith’s findings all pointed to cost as the major factor. In Canada and the US, he says, new elevator installations cost at least three times as much as in Western Europe — roughly $150,000 compared to $50,000. What is driving this cost differential? Smith spends the majority of the report outlining three main culprits: mandatory minimum cabin sizes, labor issues with elevator installers, and technical codes and standards, which are harmonized for practically the whole world except the US and Canada. 

He writes: 

The North American approach is one of extremes. American and Canadian elevators have the largest cabins, the strongest doors, the most redundant communication systems, the best paid workers, and the most diversity of codes on the one hand. And in exchange, Americans and Canadians have the highest prices, the most limited access, the most uncompetitive market for parts, and the most restricted labor markets.

‘One of the Most Powerful Construction Unions in North America’ 

Smith’s comments on the labor point have attracted particular attention, because the inefficiencies are so glaring. As he wrote in The New York Times

Architects have dreamed of modular construction for decades, where entire rooms are built in factories and then shipped on flatbed trucks to sites, for lower costs and greater precision. But we can’t even put elevators together in factories in America, because the elevator union’s contract forbids even basic forms of preassembly and prefabrication that have become standard in elevators in the rest of the world. The union and manufacturers bicker over which holes can be drilled in a factory and which must be drilled (or redrilled) on site. Manufacturers even let elevator and escalator mechanics take some components apart and put them back together on site to preserve work for union members, since it’s easier than making separate, less-assembled versions just for the US. 

National Review economics editor Dominic Pino has noted, along with City Journal contributor Connor Harris, that this is a textbook example of what’s known as featherbedding, a practice in labor relations where unions obtain “make work” rules so that more union workers can be employed. 

The main elevator union in Canada and the US is the International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC), which Smith points out is “one of the most powerful construction unions in North America.” A 2011 comment from its General President, Dana Brigham, is revealing. 

“We can’t afford to sit back and see our trade dumbed down through factory prefabrication and preassembly to a point where all our members will have to do on the job is simply uncrate the elevator, set it, and plug it in,” Brigham said. Responding to this quote, Pino quips: “Heaven forbid elevators be easy to install.” 

It’s no wonder that featherbedding has a bad reputation. As Leonard Read observed in 1960, these practices are “as obviously absurd to the layman as they are disgusting to the economist.” 

In modern jargon, the economist’s disgust is often expressed by characterizing these practices as a kind of rent-seeking. Indeed, Alec Stapp, co-founder of the Institute for Progress, recently cited the elevator union rules that Smith uncovered as a good example of this concept. 

The notion of rent-seeking comes from the public choice school of economics, specifically the work of economists Gordon Tullock and Anne Krueger. Developed in the ‘60s and ‘70s, rent-seeking refers to any practice where you are trying to increase your wealth by changing the rules of the game, as compared to profit-seeking, which is trying to increase your wealth by being more productive. 

Common examples of rent-seeking include lobbying for tariffs or subsidies — or, in this case, union featherbedding. Profit-seeking, on the other hand, would include activities such as research and development aimed at creating new products to sell to customers. 

The word “rent” in this context refers to the old economic definition of rent, which is about the excess returns yielded by a factor of production, and not the colloquial definition of a payment made for the use of property.

Elevators Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg 

The other two factors that Smith discusses — minimum cabin sizes and technical codes and standards — are a classic case of government regulations making things considerably more expensive than they need to be (and regulation, particularly licensing, no doubt contributes to the labor issues as well). 

Now, if the mandated wastefulness that we find in the elevator industry were unique, it would still be cause for alarm, but the absurd truth is that regulations like this are everywhere. 

“When most people go through their daily lives, they don’t think about the ways in which government regulations are making their lives more difficult,” writes economist Scott Sumner, reflecting on Smith’s elevator story. “In almost every case I come across with systematic inefficiency, the root cause is counterproductive regulations.” 

It feels like every few months, a story like this comes along that grips the public’s attention. Calls for reform are heard, a public outcry fills the airwaves, maybe legislation is introduced. But it rarely occurs to people that these stories form a pattern. As such, we’ve fallen into this routine where our news feeds periodically become dominated with the latest absurd regulation story, and then at best we play whack-a-mole with legislation designed to address the Current Thing

Perhaps, if we can focus on the bigger picture, we should consider trying a different approach. Maybe there will come a point where we realize that news-driven piecemeal deregulation isn’t particularly effective, and more fundamental changes, such as blanket limits on government intervention in the economy, must be considered.