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Gold Finder Provides Update on Exploration Activities in Northwestern Ontario

Exploration Programs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gold Finder Provides Update on Exploration Activities in

Northwestern Ontario

VANCOUVER, BC – September 3, 2 025 – Gold Finder Resources Ltd. (TSX -V: GLD)

(OTCQB: GLDFF) (“Gold Finder” or the “Company”) is a gold explorer focused on the

discovery potential of overlooked and underexplored properties. The Company's current properties

are all located in northwestern Ontario, home to some of the world's most productive gold belts

(Figure 1).

Figure 1: Property locations within the Archean Greenstone Belts of Northwestern Ontario.

Current projects include the West Madse n, Pipestone Bay , Pakwash North, and McDonough

properties all located in the Red Lake Mining District; and the Slate Falls property located in the

Patricia Mining District (Figure 1). An exploration update on each project follows.

West Madsen Property

Results from the summer 2025 prospecting and soil sampling program have now been received and

will be released shortly following a review and assessment of the geochemical data.

Gold Finder owns a 100% interest in the West Madsen property, which was originally acquired

from Great Bear Resources , and now covers 5,936 hectares in the heart of the Red Lake Gold

Camp. West Madsen adjoins the Madsen Mine property (Figure 2) owned by West Red Lake Gold

Mines (WRLG). Production at the Madsen Mine restarted in June and , as reported in WRLG ’s

operations update of August 6, 2025 , 3,800 ounces of gold were produced in July , and ore

processing at the mill is ramping up to the permitted 800 tonnes per day.

Figure 2: Drone view looking NE toward WRLG’s Madsen Mine/Mill Complex.

Slate Falls Property

The 100 %-owned Slate Falls property is located within the southwestern extension of the Meen -

Dempster Greenstone Belt, between the Red Lake and Pickle Lake gold camps. The 5,100-hectare

property covers k ey regional-scale structures that correlate with numerous high -grade gold and

silver showings identified over a 10-kilometre trend within the claim package. Previously reported

work in 2019 and 2020, targeted east-west shear zones containing high -grade quartz veins where

grab samples returned values of up to 331.8 grams per tonne (g /t) gold and 3,025 g/t silver , and

follow-up drilling returned values of up to 78.5 g/t gold and 73.7 g/t silver over 0.24 metres.

Subsequent work on the property has included an airborne high-resolution magnetic (MAG) survey

and a structural study that incorporated the MAG survey data with all known lithological and

mineralogical information and structural measurements . The resulting interpretation highlighted

major east-northeast-trending shear zones and fold structures across the property (see structural

interpretation map).

The next phase of target development fieldwork will include a fresh look at the high-grade Trail

and Sanderson zones. Mapping and sampling will also be carried out on showings in the eastern

part of the property, which Gold Finder has never visited, such as the FTM Zone (historical grab

samples up to 149 g/t gold and 169 g/t silver) and the Fry Lake #5 Occurrence (3.8 g/t gold and

0.083% uranium oxide).

The Company is actively engaged in discussions with local First Nations regarding an updated

Exploration Agreement. Further updates will be provided as they become available.

Pipestone Bay Property

A prospecting program in the western part of the Pipestone Bay Property earlier this summer did

not yield any significant gold results from grab samples, with values ranging from <2 to 74 ppb

gold. However, several horizons of banded iron formation were identified, which have previously

returned anomalous gold values on the property (with a known maximum of 730 ppb gold). Higher-

grade values are known to occur along strike to the southeast of the property (e.g. the historical

Ledge showings where gold is related to quartz veining near mafic-felsic contact zones and banded

iron formation, with values up to 22.1 g/t gold over 0.5 meters in channel samples and 7.7 g/t gold

over 0.9m including 30.9 g/t gold over 0.14m in diamond drill core (Singh 2005)). Systematic

geological mapping, prospecting and soil sampling is warranted in the western part of the property,

followed by backhoe stripping and diamond drilling if warranted.

Meanwhile, the 991 Zone in the eastern part of the property remains a drill-ready target. Only one

known drillhole has tested the zone, which is hosted in felsic volcanic rocks at the contact with a

folded ultramafic body to the north. The 2004 hole intersected a 200-meter-wide quartz-sericite

alteration zone containing anomalous gold and copper values but was drilled parallel to high-grade

north-south quartz veins previously identified at the showing, which Gold Finder sampled in 2019,

obtaining up to 44.9 g/t gold from grab samples.

Figure 3: Pipestone Bay Property regional setting.

The 100%-owned, 1,015-hectare Pipestone Bay property is located approximately 32 km west of

the town of Red Lake and is adjacent to the Rowan Property of West Red Lake Gold Mines

(WRLG) (Figure 3). The 991 Zone may represent the western extension of a regi onal structural

corridor on the Rowan property which hosts three past producing gold mines: Mt Jamie, Rowan

and Red Summit. WRLG recently carried out a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for the

Rowan Mine , reporting an Indicated resource of 0.197 Moz at 12.78 g/t gold and an Inferred

resource of 0.118 Moz at 8.73 g/t gold (Note: the QP has not verified the reported resource

estimates and these are not necessarily representative of mineralization present on the Pipestone

Bay Property).

Pakwash North Property

Located ~36 km southeast of the town of Red Lake, Gold Finder holds a 40% interest in the 3,105-

hectare Pakwash North property with BTU Metals having earned the remaining 60% interest in the

property via a March 2021 option agreement. Exploration work by BTU included Time Domain

Electromagnetic and Induced Polarization surveys over part of the property and a four-drill hole

program that returned low values in copper, zinc, and gold.

The property adjoins the southeastern portion of BTU ’s Dixie Halo property that was optioned to

Kinross Gold in February 2023 and the northern boundary of Kinross’s Bruce Lake property (see

area claim map). BTU announced on May 20, 2025, that Kinross had commenced a drill program

that is planned to include approximately 8,000 metres on various target areas identified as priority

locations for potential gold mineralization. Results are expected in early Q4 as reported in BTU’s

Annual Management’s Discussion and Analysis dated August 5, 2025. Should the Kinross drilling

program result in a new discovery near the Pakwash North claim boundary, it could enhance the

exploration potential of the property.

McDonough Property

A review of all geochemical, geological, and diamond drilling data was completed this summer to

understand why 2023 drilling did not intersect significant gold mineralization despite the

coincident geochemical and geophysical anomalies which were targeted, and to assess any other

potential targets of merit.

Figure 4: McDonough 2025 property review, geology, and area recommendations.

Two areas were identified for follow-up geological mapping, prospecting and soil sampling.

The first is to the south of where 2023 drilling took place, towards a regional unconformity (Figure

4). Hole MCD23-04 intersected an intermediate intrusive rock over its final 71 meters, which is

similar to the rock type hosting gold and silver mineralization in quartz veins at the Winter Road

Lake West Occurrence in the western part of the property, which according to the Ontario Mineral

Inventory (OMI) returned 0.435 g/t gold and 2.7 oz/ton silver over 2.13 meters in 1987 diamond

drilling.

The second area of interest is north of where 2023 drilling took place, where 2019 field work

identified further outcrops of intermediate intrusive rock which could be prospective for gold

mineralization.

Gold Finder holds a 100% ownership interest in the McDonough property , which is located ~15

km north of the town of Red Lake , the 1,054 -hectare property is contiguous with Evolution

Mining’s Slate Bay gold property and straddles a regional unconformity (see regional geology

map) that is a key structural signature of many deposits within the Red Lake Greenstone Belt.

Coleman Robertson, P. Geo, a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved

the technical contents of this news release on behalf of the Company.

References:

Singh, 2005. Assessment Report on West Red Lake Properties for Redstar Gold Corporation, Red

Lake District, NTS 52M01SE, 52M01SW, Ball Township, MNDM file 20000000647.

About Gold Finder Resources Ltd.

Gold Finder is a mineral exploration company focused on discovery -stage properties. Our goal is

to add value by defining or redefining the exploration opportunity, maintain ownership control

during the value creation phase of discovery, and then source a well -financed partner capable of

accelerating discovery, resource definition, and development.

For more information, you can visit our website at goldfinderresources.com, download our investor

presentation, and follow us on X at https://x.com/GoldFinderRes.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Signed “Gregory Lytle”

Gregory Lytle, President

Gold Finder Resources Ltd.

Direct line: (604) 839-6946

Email:[email protected]

179 - 2945 Jacklin Road, Suite 416

Victoria, BC, V9B 6J9

Forward-Looking Statements

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assumptions, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be

materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking

statements. Any forwar d-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this news release and, except as may be

required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking

statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or results or otherwise.

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the TSX Venture Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.