VANCOUVER, BC — November 6, 2025 — Leads & Copy —
Finlay Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: FYL) (OTCQB: FYMNF) has completed its 2025 exploration programs at the PIL and ATTY Projects in north-central British Columbia’s Toodoggone region. The company announced that results are still being received and will be released once they have been compiled and integrated into the existing data sets.
The exploration activities, fully funded through Earn-In Agreements with Freeport-McMoRan Mineral Properties Canada Inc. (“Freeport”), included geological and alteration mapping, soil sampling, induced polarization (IP) surveys, and airborne magnetic surveys.
Freeport can earn up to an 80% interest in each property by investing a total of $35 million in exploration expenditures and making cash payments of $4.1 million over six years. Finlay will act as the operator for both projects and earn an operator’s fee, according to the agreement.
The primary goal of the 2025 exploration programs was to develop drill targets for 2026 and assess other targets for subsequent fieldwork and geophysical surveys.
Exploration Work Completed:
PIL 2025 Program:
- 1,533 line-kilometres (“km”) of airborne magnetics
- 381 rock samples collected
- 1,494 soil and talus samples collected
- 46 line-km of IP
ATTY 2025 Program:
- 543 line-km of airborne magnetics
- 152 rock samples collected
- 647 soil and talus samples collected
- 14 line-km of IP
The PIL project includes several porphyry copper-gold (“Cu-Au”) targets and associated epithermal gold-silver (“Au-Ag”) mineralization. To date, 18 porphyry Cu ± Mo ± Au and related low- and high-sulphidation epithermal Au-Ag occurrences have been identified on the PIL Property. The property is adjacent to Freeport and Amarc Resources’ JOY Project, as well as TDG Gold Corporation’s GSN (Shasta/Baker) and Sofia Properties. It is also situated approximately 25 km northwest of Centerra Gold’s former Kemess South Mine and 15 km east of Thesis Gold’s Lawyers-Ranch Project.
The ATTY property covers 3,875 hectares of sub-alpine terrain in the southern Toodoggone region, an area known for significant porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au-Ag deposits. It is located between Centerra Gold’s Kemess Project and the JOY Project, held by Freeport and Amarc Resources. The KEM target on the ATTY Property resembles the Kemess North Trend, which is home to the Kemess Underground and Kemess East deposits. Exploration focused on the Wrich target, located near the copper geochemical anomaly at the SWT target on the JOY Property. This anomaly extends over 2 km and continues onto the ATTY for an additional 1.2 km to the southeast.
Wade Barnes, P. Geo. and Vice President, Exploration for Finlay Minerals and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has approved the technical content of this release.
Finlay Minerals Ltd. is a TSXV company focused on exploration for base and precious metal deposits through the advancement of its ATTY, PIL, JJB, SAY and Silver Hope Properties; these properties host Cu-Au porphyry and Au-Ag epithermal targets within different porphyry districts of northern and central BC.
Robert F. Brown, Executive Chairman of the Board
