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C3 Metals Restarts Full Exploration Activities in Jamaica Following Community Assistance Programs After Hurricane Melissa

Exploration Programs

C3 Metals Restarts Full Exploration Activities

in Jamaica Following Community Assistance

Programs After Hurricane Melissa

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 12, 2026) -

C3 Metals Inc.

(TSXV: CCCM) (OTCQB:

CUAUF) ("C3 Metals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that project infrastructure has been

restored following Hurricane Melissa making landfall over Jamaica on October 28, 2025, and full

exploration activities have recommenced.

Super Block Project

At the Company’s 50%-owned Super Block project the phase one scout drilling program comprising a

14-hole 2,500m program is approximately 50% complete (see press release dated June 3, 2025).

date, seven of the 14 holes of the program have been completed.

Drilling has recommenced.

Bellas Gate Project

At its 100%-owned Bellas Gate project, where Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation ("Freeport")

is currently funding exploration and project related costs as part of a previously announced earn-in

agreement (see press release dated February 11, 2025), the Company has resumed exploration drilling

with its Company-owned, man-portable drill rig.

The Company has also resumed a 70 sq. km 3DIP

geophysical survey of which approximately 46 sq. km has been completed to date (see press release

dated October 6, 2025).

Community Assistance Programs

Concurrent with restoring project infrastructure, the Company embarked on a much-needed community

assistance program following the devastation brought by Hurricane Melissa.

The Company's community assistance program included:

The delivery of food, water and basic necessity care packages;

Road repairs and clearing to reconnect communities; and

Providing roofing and housing materials to rebuild damaged homes and community buildings.

In total, C3 Metals assisted approximately 500 families across three communities concurrent with

restoring project infrastructure necessary to restart exploration activities.

Figure 1: (Top Left) Donations for hurricane relief, shipped from Canada. (Top Right) C3 Metals' team

delivering care packages to nearby community members most impacted by Hurricane Melissa. (Bottom

Left) The C3 Metals' team working to repair and restore roads following Hurricane Melissa in an effort to

reconnect communities and restore project infrastructure. (Bottom Right) The C3 Metals' team providing

roofing and housing materials to nearby community members that suffered damaged to homes during

Hurricane Melissa.

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Dan Symons, President and CEO, commented: "

The safety of our workforce is our number one priority.

We ceased exploration activities a few days in advance of Hurricane Melissa making landfall to make

necessary preparations and take precautions to keep our people and equipment safe.

Hurricane

Melissa was a devasting storm that severely impacted a large portion of Jamaica.

At C3 Metals, we

believe it is important to come together as a community during difficult times by ensuring our

neighbours had access to food, water, and basic necessities and assisting in rebuilding homes and

critical infrastructure.

I am very pleased with how quickly our team was able to formulate and execute a

much-needed Community Assistance Program for those most in need closest to our project areas.

am also very happy to report that we have now restored all necessary project infrastructure and have

restarted full exploration activities at both the Super Block and Bellas Gate projects in Jamaica."

For additional information, contact:

Dan Symons

President and CEO

+1 416 716 6466

[email protected]

ABOUT C3 METALS INC.

C3 Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on creating substantive value for its

shareholders through the discovery and development of large copper and gold deposits.

The Company

holds approximately 31,000 hectares located in the prolific high-grade Andahuaylas-Yauri Porphyry-

Skarn belt of Southern Peru.

Mineralization at Jasperoide is hosted in a similar geological setting to the

nearby major mining operations at Las Bambas (MMG), Constancia (Hudbay) and Antapaccay

(Glencore).

At Jasperoide, the Company has identified over 15 skarn prospects and an outcropping

porphyry system over two parallel 28km belts.

The Company has published a maiden resource estimate

on the first of these skarn targets, which contained Measured & Indicated Resources of 52Mt at 0.5%

copper and 0.2 g/t gold

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The Company is also actively exploring in Jamaica where it has identified 16

porphyry, 40 epithermal and multiple volcanic redbed copper prospects over a 30km strike extent.

The

Company holds a 100% interest in 17,855 hectares of exploration licenses, of which Freeport-McMoRan

Exploration Corporation, a wholly-owned affiliate of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX), has the

option on 13,020 hectares to earn up to a 75% interest by funding up to US$75 million of exploration and

project related expenditures.

The Company also holds a 50% interest in 9,870 hectares in a joint venture

with Geophsyx Jamaica Ltd, the largest mineral tenure holder in the country.

Barrick Mining Corp.

announced on May 1, 2024, that it had entered into an earn-in agreement with Geophysx Jamaica Ltd.

on approximately 400,000 hectares of exploration licenses, several of which surround C3 Metals' mineral

concessions.

Mining is currently the second largest industry in Jamaica, and historical mining dates back

to the colonial eras of the 1500s (Spanish) and 1800s (British).