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Athena GOLD Enters into Marketing and Investor Relations Agreements

Marketing Announcement

ATHENA GOLD ENTERS INTO MARKETING AND INVESTOR RELATIONS AGREEMENTS

White Rock, BC --- July 4, 2025 --- Athena Gold Corporation (CSE: ATHA) (OTCQB: AHNRF) (“Athena Gold”

or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an advertising and e-marketing contract dated June

30, 2025 with 1001103323 Ontario Inc. (the “Contractor”), controlled by Luke Komavli, based at 3rd Floor, 39 Queen

Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2R 5G6, and reachable at [email protected] or (647) 544-7207

to provide marketing services, including social media engagement through X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, YouTube

and Reddit. The initial term of the agreement is for a period of 150 days, commencing July 4, 2025 and terminating

December 4, 2025, and may be renewed with mutual written agreement. During the initial term, the Contractor will

be paid an upfront cash fee of CAD $20,000. No stock options or other securities will be issued to the Contractor as

compensation for its marketing services . Athena Gold has an arm’s length relationship to the Contractor. The

Contractor and Luke Komavli, its President, are both shareholders of Athena Gold as a result of subscribing for

300,000 common shares , and 200,000 units (consisting of 200,000 common shares and 100,000 share purchase

warrants), respectively, all in previous private placements of Athena Gold.

Athena Gold further announces that it has entered into a marketing and investor awareness agreement dated June 20,

2025 (the "Marketing Agreement") with Departures Capital Inc. ("Departures Capital"), a marketing and media

company focused on investor outreach and digital awareness campaigns. Departures Capital will provide a

comprehensive suite of investor relations service s, including email marketing, lead generation, Google Ads

campaigns, detailed keyword research, display and native advertising, audience retargeting, landing page creation,

and ongoing campaign optimization, all in accordance with the applicable policies of the Canadian Securities

Exchange.

The purpose of the engagement is to increase online visibility and public awareness of Athena Gold’s business

operations, project milestones, and investment potential among retail investors and small -cap focused audiences. As

part of the campaign, Departur es Capital will also create and manage targeted ad groups and develop digital

advertising assets across various online platforms.

The term of the Marketing Agreement is six (6) months, commencing on July 1, 2025, and ending on December 31,

2025. As consideration for its services, Departures Capital will receive an upfront cash fee of CAD $20,000. No stock

options or other securities will be issued in connection with this agreement. Neither Departures Capital nor any of its

principals have an ownership interest, directly or indirectly, in Athena Gold or its securities, and Athena Gold has not

granted Departures Capital or its principals any right to acquire any such interests . Departures Capital is a British

Columbia company (Email: [email protected] , Phone: 519- 590-6985; Address: Suite 1500, 409

Granville St, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1T2) and is an arm's length party to Athena Gold. The principal of

Departures Capital is Aaron Missere.

About Athena Gold Corporation

Athena Gold is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and the acquisition of mineral property assets. Its

objective is to locate and develop economic precious and base metal properties of merit and to conduct additional

exploration drilling and studies on its projects across North America. Athena Gold’s Laird Lake project is situated in

the Red Lake Gold District of Ontario, covering over 4,000 hectares along more than 10 km of the Balmer -

Confederation Assemblage contact, where recent surface sampli ng results returned up to 373 g/t Au. This

underexplored area is road-accessible, located about 10 km west of West Red Lake Gold’s Madsen mine and 34 km

northwest of Kinross Gold's Great Bear project. Meanwhile, its Excelsior Springs Au- Ag project is located in the

prolific Walker Lane Trend in Nevada, where it us currently under option by Firetail Resources Limited. Excelsior

Springs spans over 1,500 hectares and covers at least three historic mines.

For further information about Athena Gold Corporation and our Excelsior Springs Gold project, please visit

www.athenagoldcorp.com.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors

Koby Kushner

President and Chief Executive Officer, Athena Gold Corporation

For further information, please contact:

Athena Gold Corporation

Koby Kushner, President and Chief Executive Officer

Phone: 416-846-6164

Email: [email protected]

CHF Capital Markets

Cathy Hume, CEO

Phone: 416-868-1079 x 251

Email: [email protected]

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward -looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, "forward-looking

statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and US. securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical

fact, included herein, including, without limitation, statements regarding future exploration plans, future results from exploration,

and the anticipated business plans and timing of future activities of the Company, are forward-looking statements. Although the

Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.

Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: "believes", "will", "expects", "anticipates", "intends",

"estimates", ''plans", "may", "should", ''potential", "scheduled", or variations of such words and phrases and similar expressions,

which, by their nature, refer to future events or results that may, could, would, might or will occur or be taken or achieved. In

making the forward-looking statements in this press release, the Company has applied several mat erial assumptions, including

without limitation, that there will be investor interest in future financings, market fundamentals will result in sustained precious

metals demand and prices, the receipt of any necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approv als in connection with the future

exploration and development of the Company's projects in a timely manner.

The Company cautions investors that any forward- looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future results or

performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward-looking statements.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to

update any of the forward-looking statements in this press release or incorporated by reference herein, except as otherwise stated.

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its regulation services provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or

accuracy of this release.