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American Pacific Closes Transaction to Gain USD$10M and 100% Interest in the Palmer VMS Project in Alaska

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American Pacific Closes Transaction to Gain USD$10M and 100%

Interest in the Palmer VMS Project in Alaska

Vancouver, British Columbia – December 2, 2024—American Pacific Mining Corp. (CSE: USGD /

OTCQX: USGDF / FWB: 1QC) (“American Pacific” or the “Company”) announced today that it has

closed its previously announced transaction with Dowa Metals & Mining Alaska Ltd. (“Dowa”) to

acquire Dowa’s interest in Constantine Mining LLC, the holder of the Palmer VMS Project

(“Palmer” or the “ Project”). American Pacific would once again like to thank Dowa for its

collaborative approach to work at Palmer over the years.

Transaction Terms

Pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement executed November 15th, 2024, Constantine

North Inc. , a wholly -owned subsidiary of American Pacific, has acquired Dowa’s interest in

Constantine Mining LLC (the “ Dowa Interest ”) and Dowa has paid American Pacific

USD$10,000,000 in exchange for providing an affiliate of Dowa with an option to acquire up to

50% of the zinc concentrate produced for the initial year of production and each subsequent year

of production at the Project and the provision of certain indemnities in the Purchase Agreement.

With the close of the acquisition of the Dowa Interest, American Pacific has a consolidated 100%-

interest in the Project.

"This transaction marks a pivotal moment for American Pacific ,” commented American Pacific's

Chief Executive Officer , Warwick Smith. “We've now obtained full ownership of a project with

proven mineral resources and vast untapped regional discovery potential, while also securing

substantial funding to ramp up exploration of key assets across our portfolio, paving the way for

significant resource growth.”

Palmer VMS Project

The Palmer VMS Project is an advanced stage copper-zinc-gold-silver exploration project in

Southeast Alaska with road access and located only 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the deep sea

port at Haines, Alaska. More than USD$116M has been spent to -date at Palmer, with NI-43-101

mineral resources defined at the Palmer and AG deposits. Recent drilling (2023 -2024) has

highlighted the potential to define extremely rich copper zones and the Palmer Project includes

numerous drill-ready, high-grade prospects that define more than 15 kilomet res of favo urable

mineral trends, all hallmarks of a significant massive sulphide system.

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Qualified Person Statement

The technical information in this news release regarding the Palmer Project has been reviewed

and approved by Michael Vande Guchte, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for the Palmer

Project and a Qualified Person (QP) as defined by National Instrument 4 3-101, Standards of

Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

About American Pacific Mining Corp.

American Pacific Mining Corp. is a precious and base metals explorer and developer focused on

opportunities in the Western United States. The Company has two flagship assets: 100%-owned

Palmer Project, a Volcanic Massive Sulphide-Sulphate (VMS) project in Alaska, and the 100%-

owned Madison Project, a past-producing copper-gold project in Montana. For the Madison

transaction, American Pacific was selected as a finalist in both 2021 and 2022 for ‘Deal of the

Year’ at the S&P Global Platts Metals Awards, an annual program that recognizes exemplary

accomplishments in 16 performance categories. Also in American Pacific’s asset portfolio, are

three high-grade, precious metals projects located in key mining districts of Nevada, USA: the

Ziggurat Gold project, the Gooseberry Silver-Gold project; and the Tuscarora Gold-Silver

project. The Company’s mission is to grow by the drill bit and by acquisition.

On behalf of the American Pacific Mining Corp Board of Directors:

Warwick Smith, CEO & Director

Corporate Office: Suite 910 – 510 Burrard Street

Vancouver, BC, V6C 3A8 Canada

Investor relations contact:

Kristina Pillon, High Tide Consulting Corp.

604.908.1695 / [email protected]

Media relations contact:

Adam Bello, Primoris Group Inc.

416.489.0092 / [email protected]

Full disclosure can be found in our NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Palmer Project at

www.americanpacificmining.com.

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Forward-looking Information

This news release includes certain statements that may be deemed to be “forward -looking

information” within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. All statements in this news

release, other than statements of historical facts are forward looking statements. Forward -

looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek",

"anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate" , "expect", "may", "will", "project", "predict",

"potential", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might ", "should", "believe" and similar expressions.

These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may

cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking

statements. Althou gh APM believes the expectations expressed in such forward -looking

statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future

performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-

looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in

forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, timing of receipt of required permits,

changes in applicable laws, changes in commodities prices, chan ges in mineral production

performance, exploitation and exploration successes, as applicable, continued availability of

capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions, political risk,

currency risk and capital cost inflation. In addition, forward-looking statements are subject to

various risks, including that data is incomplete and considerable additional work will be required

to complete further evaluation, including but not limited to drilling, engineering and socio -

economic studies and investment. The reader is referred to the APM’s filings with the Canadian

securities regulators for disclosure regarding these and other risk factors. There is no certainty

that any forward -looking statement will come to pass, and investors shoul d not place undue

reliance upon forward-looking statements.

The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release.