Evergold Appoints Brian Butterworth to the Board of Directors
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NEWS RELEASE
Evergold Appoints Brian Butterworth to the Board of Directors
Toronto, Ontario – Thursday, February 19, 2026 - Evergold Corp. (TSX-V: EVER, WKN:A2PTHZ) (“Evergold” or
the “Company”) is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, Brian P. Butterworth has joined the board of
directors.
Mr. Butterworth is a senior mining executive with over 40 years of experience in mineral exploration, project development,
and capital markets. From 2014 to 2025, he served as President of H y-Tech Drilling Ltd., where he provided strategic
leadership and strengthened the company’s market position. His background also includes senior roles in mining
investment banking, where he led and co-managed equity financings and advised on mergers and acquisitions across the
sector. Throughout his career, Mr. Butterworth has been an active member of the Vancouver exploration and mining
community and has chaired a variety of committees for organizations such as Association for Mineral Exploration BC,
Engineers and Geoscientists BC and the Vancouver Mining Exploration Group.
About Evergold
Evergold Corp. is focused on advancing the Golden Lion project, its 100% -owned, gold-silver project in northern British
Columbia’s prolific Toodoggone mining district. At the southern end of the Golden Lion property, at the GL1 Main Zone,
previous drilling by the Company, along with historical work, has outlined a near-surface, epithermal-style gold and silver
bearing system with excellent potential for expansion along trend and down dip. The property was last explored by the
Company in 2021, when the final three holes yielded some of the most significant gold-silver intercepts ever drilled on the
property (see News January 17, 2022). To the north of the GL1 Main Zone, the property also has copper potential that is
clearly evident in historical data, and which has been realized recently elsewhere in the district.
For additional information, please contact:
Alex Walcott, P.Geo
President, CEO & Director
Tel 604.891.6200
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Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release includes certain “forward -looking statements” which are not comprised of historical facts. Forward - looking
statements include estimates and statements that describe the Company’s future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the
effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward -looking statements may be identified
by such terms as “believes”, “anticipates”, “expects”, “estimates”, “may”, “could”, “would”, “will”, or “plan”. Since forward -looking
statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risk s and
uncertainties. Although these statements are based on information currently available to the Company, the Company pro vides no
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assurance that actual results will meet management’s expectations. Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forwa rd-
looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from th ose
expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-
looking information include, but are not limited to failure to complete the offering of convertible debentures on the terms as announced
or at all, failure to identify mineral resources, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or othe r
project approvals, political risks, inability to fulfill the duty to accommodate First Nations, uncertainties relating to the availability and
costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations in com modity
prices, delays in the development of projects, capital and operating costs varyi ng significantly from estimates and the other risks
involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on
SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward -looking information in this
news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news
release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims any
intention or obligation to update or revise any forward -looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, other than as required by law.