Golden Age Presents the Thompson GOLD Project and Announces Management Change
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GOLDEN AGE EXPLORATION LTD.
GOLDEN AGE EXPLORATION PRESENTS
THE THOMPSON GOLD PROJECT: UNLOCKING A HIGH-GRADE
OPPORTUNITY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
and MANAGEMENT CHANGE
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, February 3, 2026 – Golden Age Exploration Ltd. (the
“Company”) (“Golden Age”) (CSE: GDN) is pleased to present the Thompson Gold Project
(the “Project”), a consolidated 4,630-hectare land package in British Columbia, Canada. Located
approximately 19 kilometres north-northwest of Vernon, this project combines the historically
high-grade Blackhawk Project (330 hectares, option to acquire 100%) with the larger Thompson
Claims (4,300 hectares, 100% acquired).
Strategic Acquisition Rationale and Project Foundations: Golden Age's core business is to
identify, analyze, and reassess extensive historic and regional data from around the globe to
identify opportunities. The Thompson Gold Project has been identified as having the potential
for significant gold mineralization in an underexplored, road-accessible land package in close
proximity to infrastructure.
The Blackhawk Project
• Blackhawk has long been considered a polymetallic, shear and quartz vein hosted,
gold prospect. Historic reports detail gold grades, including 16.46 g/t Au over 4.6m,
20.8 g/t Au (grab). The efforts of previous owners to fill the 500m gap between the
East and West showings and extend known strike lengths suggest an underlying
belief in a connected, larger mineralized body rather than isolated occurrences.
Furthermore, the property is located in an area with a history of minor placer mining
dating back to the late 1800s, suggesting the possibility of a notable regional gold
endowment.
• Untested Potential: Critical to its value, only three shallow historical drill holes
are known to have been completed in 1979, proving inconclusive due to issues like
poor core recovery or suboptimal orientation. This means the high-grade potential
remains largely untested at depth and along strike by modern methods.
• Recent (2025) surface sampling on the Blackhawk Project has provided compelling
modern validation of high-grade gold mineralization. Key results include:
o Grab samples up to 14.35 g/t Au and 9.41 g/t Au.
o Chip samples up to 13.05 g/t Au over 1.0m and 11.70 g/t Au over 1.35m.
o Composite chip samples up to 12.27 g/t Au over 2.35m and 9.00 g/t Au
over 3.0m.
o These samples also show significant polymetallic credits with Cu up to
0.272% and Zn up to 1.250%, aligning with the polymetallic nature
noted historically for Blackhawk.
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The Thompson Claims: Large-Scale Potential
• Outright Ownership and Regional Scale: The 4,300 adjacent hectares, 100% owned by
the Company, and the Blackhawk Project form a land package capable of hosting a
significant amount of mineralization. Blackhawk covers a 2.25-kilometre gold-in-soil
anomaly, and the broader land package shows several target areas with anomalous
gold values associated with favourable structural controls and other gold occurrences
(e.g., the Irish Showing).
Geological Setting and Prospectivity: The Project is situated in a highly prospective region of
British Columbia and is characterized by structurally controlled, shear-hosted, quartz-vein and
breccia-style mineralization. Our current understanding, informed by historical data and modern
analytical tools, suggests the possibility of multiple underexplored gold-bearing structures.
QA/QC
2025 Rock sample sites were marked with coloured flagging tape labelled with the sample
number, and the location of each sample was recorded using a handheld GPS unit. Rock sample
preparation and analyses were carried out at ALS Minerals in North Vancouver, BC. Each
sample was dried, fine crushed to better than 70% passing 2 mm and then a 250 g split was
pulverized to better than 85% passing 75 microns. The fine fraction was analyzed for 48
elements using a four-acid digestion followed by inductively coupled plasma combined with
mass spectroscopy and atomic emission spectroscopy (ME-MS61). An additional 30 g charge
was further analyzed for gold by fire assay (Au-AA25). Overlimit values were determined by
four acid digestion with inductively coupled plasma and either atomic emission spectroscopy or
atomic absorption spectroscopy (Zn-OG62). All previous results are considered historical in
nature and should not be relied upon.
Qualified Persons
Ehsan Salmabadi, P.Geo., a "Qualified Person" for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101,
has reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.
Management Change
The Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. David McAdam as Chief
Financial Officer effective immediately. Mr. McAdam brings more than 35 years of hands -on
finance and operations experience, having served in senior executive roles, including Chief
Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance, and Vice President of Operations across North
America and South Africa. These include CFO positions with several public and privately held
organizations, including multiple mining companies. His experience includes serving as CFO of a
TSX listed mining company with producing assets in South Africa and public reporting obligations
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across the TSX, AIM, and JSE exchanges. His background also spans sectors such as English as a
Second Language education, where he provided executive advisory and investor relations support,
and a Fortune 150 waste management and recycling company, where he served as Vice President
of Operations and Director of Finance.
Most recently, Mr. McAdam has focused on providing executive advisory and consulting services
to small and medium sized startup enterprises (predominantly private and CSE -based). He
currently serves as CFO advisor to Bathurst Metals Corp. (TSX.V) and several private Canadian
mining companies. Mr. McAdam holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of
British Columbia and a Securities Institute of Canada Certificate.
Aziz-Ur Rehman has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company to follow other pursuits.
The team at Golden Age thanks Aziz-Ur for his work with the team and wishes him all the best in
his future endeavours.
About Golden Age Exploration Ltd.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Tibor Gajdics
President
1-604-969-4070
www.goldenageexploration.com
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Golden Age is a mineral exploration company with an international reach, focused on the acquisition,
exploration, and development of high- potential gold and silver projects in premier, mining -friendly
jurisdictions globally. The Company’s core business is to identify, analyze, and re-assess extensive historic
and regional data from around the globe to pinpoint “Best In Their Class Resource Assets” worthy of
significant exploration and exploitation. The Company’s focus extends to mining-friendly jurisdictions that
offer low political risk and adhere to the letter of the law. The acquisition/option of the high- grade
Thompson Gold Project in British Columbia perfectly exemplifies this strategy. This strategic assembly of
land consolidates a compelling 4,630- hectare package within a premier and stable jurisdiction. The
Company also has the option to acquire up to an 80% interest in the Magic Property in British Columbia.
The Magic property has some of the same characteristics as the Blackwater Davidson Gold Project located
105 kilometers to the northwest. The Magic property is believed to lie along a northwest trending deep-
seated geological structure that includes the Blackwater, Capoose and Windfall Hills low sulphidati on
epithermal gold-silver deposits and/or prospects of the northern Nechako district. Blackwater commenced
commercial production in May 2025.