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Search Minerals Appoints Chief Financial Officer

Management Changes

Search Minerals Appoints Chief Financial

Officer

St. Lewis, Newfoundland and Labrador--(Newsfile Corp. - October 17, 2025) - Search Minerals Inc.

(TSXV: SMY)

("

Search Minerals

" or the "

Company

") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.

Jason Macintosh, B.Comm, MBA, CPA, CGA as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Mr. Macintosh is a results-driven professional with over 25 years of comprehensive finance experience.

He has a strong commitment to professional integrity, shareholder wealth preservation, and the

alignment of finance strategies with overall business objectives. Most recently, he served as CFO &

Corporate Secretary for STLLR Gold Inc., a Canadian gold development company with significant

projects in Ontario and the Northwest Territories. In this role, he provided the strategic leadership for

accounting and finance operations, established robust policies and controls, while supporting the

company's continued growth and exploration efforts.

Commenting on his new role, Mr. Macintosh stated, "I'm excited to join Search Minerals at such a pivotal

stage of growth. The Deep Fox and Foxtrot Projects are key assets in strengthening Canada's critical

minerals supply chain. As CFO, my focus will be on supporting the company's financial strategy and

ensuring the capital discipline needed to drive long-term shareholder value."

Joseph Lanzon, CEO and Director commented, "The Board is delighted to welcome Jason to our

executive team. His appointment strengthens our leadership capacity, reinforcing a prudent approach to

fiscal discipline and the generation of long-term value for shareholders and our community and

Indigenous partners. Jason's financial and corporate experience will greatly benefit the company as it

advances the Deep Fox and Foxtrot Critical Rare Earth Elements projects to development."

For further information about Search Minerals, please contact:

Joseph Lanzon

CEO and Director

Telephone: 613-796-5957

Email:

[email protected]

About Search Minerals

Search Minerals is focused on exploring for and developing Critical Rare Earths Elements (CREE) as

well as transition metals Zirconium (Zr) and Hafnium (Hf) within the emerging Port Hope Simpson - St.

Lewis CREE District of South-East Labrador. The Company controls two deposits (Foxtrot and Deep

Fox), two drill ready prospects (Fox Meadow and Silver Fox) and numerous other CREE prospects,

including Fox Valley, Foxy Lady and Awesome Fox, along a 64 kilometre long belt forming a CREE

District in Labrador.

Search Minerals also controls additional CREE assets in the Red Wine CREE District of central

Labrador. These include: the drill ready Two Tom Lake CREE-Be-Nb deposit, the Mann #1 CREE-Nb-

Be prospect and Merlot CREE Prospect.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking

information" or "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "Forward-Looking Information") within the

meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information

can be identified by the use of words and phrases or variations of such words and phrases or

statements such as "anticipate", "expect" "plan", "likely", "believe", "intend", "forecast", "project",

"estimate", "potential", "could", "may", "will", "would" or "should". Forward-Looking Information in this

news release are based on certain material assumptions and involve, known and unknown risks,

uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of

Search Minerals to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements

expressed or implied by the Forward-Looking Information. Such risks and other factors include, those

factors discussed in Search Minerals' public filings. Although Search Minerals has attempted to

identify important factors that could affect Search Minerals and may cause actual actions, events or

results to differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking Information, there may be other

factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can

be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and

future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers

should not place undue reliance on Forward-Looking Information. For further information on these and

other risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business, see the Company's

Management's Discussion and Analysis filed with certain Canadian securities regulators, which are

available at

www.sedarplus.ca

. Except as required by law, Search Minerals does not assume any

obligation to release publicly any revisions to Forward-Looking Information contained in this news

release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of

unanticipated events.

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

release.

To view the source version of this press release, please visit

https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/270843