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Goldstorm Metals Initiates 2025 Exploration Program Targeting the Copernicus Zone on the Crown Property, Located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia

Exploration Programs

Goldstorm Metals Initiates 2025 Exploration

Program Targeting the Copernicus Zone on the

Crown Property, Located in the Golden

Triangle of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 8, 2025) -

Goldstorm Metals Corp.

(TSXV:

GSTM) (FSE: B2U)

("

Goldstorm

" or "

the Company

") is pleased to announce that, following a review

of its previous exploration programs and recent copper-gold-silver discoveries at the 100%-owned

Crown Property, geological and geophysical programs will be undertaken to advance exploration on the

Copernicus Zone. The Crown Property covers approximately 16,000 hectares situated adjacent and due

south of both Seabridge Gold Inc.'s KSM gold-copper project and Newmont's Brucejack gold mine.

See

below to view Crown Property location and concession map.

Crown Property Map

To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit:

https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/9214/258047_b02d5462e4fc8b39_002full.jpg

Centered on the Crown Project within the Orion Concessions, the Copernicus Zone represents a high-

grade copper target with associated gold and silver mineralization. Goldstorm is currently analyzing

assay results from previous sampling programs on the Property, which could define drill-hole locations

for an inaugural diamond drilling program. The Company may initiate a drill program if favourable results

are obtained from a detailed geophysical study, which is to be undertaken over the length of the Orion

'Spine', a six-kilometer-long, highly silicified and altered, north-south trending ridgeline that hosts various

styles of mineralization. Geophysics will include detailed Magnetotelluric (MT) and Induced Polarization

(IP) ground surveys to identify magnetic anomalies, chargeability highs, and co-incident resistivity lows

that may be associated with mineralization.

To facilitate potential upcoming drilling on the Copernicus Zone, Goldstorm has completed the

construction of several drill pads targeting the north to northwest trending, shear-hosted, massive

chalcopyrite lenses that may represent mobilized metals from a deeper source within the Orion Spine.

Ken Konkin, P.Geo., President and CEO, comments: "Our technical team has done an excellent job of

compiling the data from the recent discoveries along the Orion Spine. We believe that the mineral

showings discovered by our reconnaissance crews over the past two years may be surficial

representations of a deeper, larger mineralized zone, similar to discoveries at the KSM and Treaty

Creek Au-Cu-Ag porphyry deposits located to the north. It is theorized that metal-rich fluids may have

been mobilized along high-angle reverse faults that acted as conduits for volatiles originating from

intrusive bodies at depth. The silicification, alteration and oxidation observed at surface is similar to that

seen associated with mineralized intrusives dispersed along the trend of the Sulphurets thrust fault to the

north, which is projected to extend south through the center of the Crown Property. The geophysical

surveys may help determine the best possible drill targets along the Orion Spine that potentially lie

beneath the Copernicus Zone. The detailed geophysical surveys will augment previously completed

reconnaissance scale surveys done in 2016."

2024 Crown Property Sampling Results

Extensive mapping and sampling programs in 2024 on the Crown Property included a total of 627

surface rock grab, chip and channel samples.

On the

Orion Concession

, crews delineated multiple

mineralized trends within volcaniclastic rocks at the Copernicus Zone, located along the upper Orion

Spine. Three structures trending to the north, and one trending to the northwest, have been identified

over 1,500 m of length. Mineralization located over 500 m to the north suggests that the zone may extend

under the Frank Mackie Glacier and is potentially a larger source of mineralization associated with an

anomalous magnetic high. At the Cat in the Hat Zone, also on Orion, gold-bearing veins trending

northeasterly within rhyolitic rocks have been discovered, extending into previously unsampled glacial

ablation zones. Click to view:

maps of the sampled areas on the Orion Concession and

Copernicus Zone

.

Sampling highlights from the Copernicus and Cat in the Hat Zones include:

Grab sample (C969903) returned

30.9 g/t gold and 42.39 g/t silver

from the Cat in the Hat Zone

1.9-meter continuous chip samples (C969719 and C969720) returned

2.53 g/t gold, 54.7 g/t

silver and 3.3% copper

located 290 meters south of the original Copernicus showing

1.0-meter chip sample (C970612) returned

8.76 g/t gold and 7.62 g/t silver

located 650 meters

south of the original Copernicus showing

16 samples taken within the Copernicus Zone returned greater than 1% copper, with one sample

(C969842) assaying

0.58 g/t gold, 625 g/t silver, and 6.57% copper

at the original Copernicus

showing

Mineralized samples were found to correlate with a magnetic high geophysical anomaly

Orion Concessions Sample Results

:

Click to view all Orion samples

Table 1: Select Rock Sample Results for the Orion Concession

Sample

Easting

UTM09

Northing

UTM09

Elev.

(m)

Sampled

From

Sample

Type

Width

(m)

Au

(g/t)

Ag

(g/t)

Cu

(%)

Pb

(%)

Zn

(%)

C969903

422305

6246054

1565

Outcrop

Grab

30.90

42.39

0.00

0.02

0.00

C969901

422288

6246046

1557

Outcrop

Grab

14.30

67.66

0.00

0.02

0.00

C969842

421734

6247798

1657

Outcrop

Grab

0.58

625.00

6.57

0.18

1.10

A0905084

421966

6247168

1616

Outcrop

Grab

10.40

3.67

0.11

0.00

0.00

C969902

422290

6246046

1558

Outcrop

Grab

10.00

15.36

0.01

0.00

0.00

C969695

421928

6247203

1609

Outcrop

Grab

9.64

8.90

0.01

0.00

0.00

C970612

421929

6247200

1559

Outcrop

Chip

1

8.76

7.62

0.01

0.00

0.01

C970675

422205

6246022

1488

Outcrop

Grab

7.44

11.11

0.03

0.00

0.00

C969760

421946

6247179

1605

Outcrop

Grab

6.89

10.32

0.13

0.00

0.00

A0839840

422314

6246089

1550

Outcrop

Chip

0.5

5.13

17.05

0.00

0.00

0.00

C969904

422321

6246067

1569

Outcrop

Grab

4.71

12.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

C969994

421733

6247659

1670

Outcrop

Grab

0.14

273.00

3.85

0.09

0.71

C969720

421678

6247516

1602

Outcrop

Chip

1

3.09

59.90

3.02

0.00

0.11

C970703

422178

6245942

1487

Outcrop

Chip

0.1

4.33

5.48

0.00

0.00

0.00

A0905091

421736

6247773

1706

Outcrop

Chip

0.15

0.62

153.00

5.22

0.03

0.22

C970619

421930

6247200

1559

Outcrop

Grab

2.34

93.46

0.03

0.08

0.03

A0839845

422219

6246032

1481

Outcrop

Chip

0.65

3.48

4.92

0.01

0.00

0.00

C969719

421677

6247516

1602

Outcrop

Chip

0.9

1.98

49.55

3.04

0.00

0.06

C970667

421969

6247095

1602

Outcrop

Grab

3.17

2.98

0.10

0.00

0.00

C969686

421726

6247421

1609

Outcrop

Grab

0.38

91.85

4.55

0.00

0.73

The Company has granted stock options to directors, officers, and consultants of the Company to

purchase an aggregate of 5,550,000 common shares in the capital of the Company at an exercise price

of $0.11 per share, which expire on July 8, 2030. Following this stock option grant, the Company has a

total of 10,050,000 stock options outstanding representing approximately 9.9% of the outstanding

common shares of the Company. This stock option grant is subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture

Exchange (the "Exchange").

Qualified Person

The Qualified Person for this news release for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 is the

Company's President and CEO, Ken Konkin, P.Geo. He has read and approved the scientific and

technical information that forms the basis for the disclosure contained in this news release.

QA/QC

All samples were prepared at MSA Labs' Preparation Laboratory in Terrace, BC and assayed at MSA

Labs' Geochemical Laboratory in Langley, BC. Gold was assayed using a fire assay with atomic

absorption (AA) spectrometry finish. Samples over 10 ppm gold were fire assayed with gravimetric

finish. All samples were analyzed by four acid digestion with multi-element ICP-MS, with silver and base

metal over-limits being reanalyzed by emission spectrometry. MSA Laboratories quality system

complies with the requirements for the International Standards ISO 17025 and ISO 9001. MSA Labs is

independent of the Company.

About Goldstorm Metals

Goldstorm Metals Corp. is a precious and base metals exploration company with a large strategic land

position in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia, an area that hosts some of the largest and highest-

grade gold deposits in the world. Goldstorm's flagship projects, Crown and Electrum, cover an area that

totals 16,469 hectares over 6 concessions, of which 5 are contiguous.

The Crown Project is situated

directly south of Seabridge Gold's KSM gold-copper deposits and Newmont Corporation's

Brucejack/Valley of the Kings gold mine.

Electrum, also located in the Golden Triangle of BC, is situated

directly between Newmont Corporation's Brucejack Mine, approximately 20 kilometers to the north, and

the past producing Silbak Premier mine, 20 kilometers to the south.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF

GOLDSTORM METALS CORP.,

"

Ken Konkin

"

Ken Konkin

President and Chief Executive Officer

For further information, please visit the Company's website at

https://goldstormmetals.com/

or

contact:

Chris Curran

VP Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

Phone: (604) 559 8092

E-Mail:

[email protected]

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in

the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy

of this release.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This release includes certain statements and information that may constitute forward-looking

information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. All statements in this news

release, other than statements of historical facts, including statements regarding future estimates,

plans, objectives, timing, assumptions or expectations of future performance, including without

limitation, the statement regarding the expectation that geologists are expected to complete a

compilation study this winter once all assay results are received. Such a statement is a forward-

looking statement and contains forward-looking information.

Generally, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of forward-looking

terminology such as "intends" or "anticipates", or variations of such words and phrases or statements

that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "should", "would" or "occur". Forward-looking

statements are based on certain material assumptions and analysis made by Goldstorm and the

opinions and estimates of management as of the date of this press release, including that geologists

will complete a compilation study this winter once all assay results are received.

These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other

factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Goldstorm

to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or

forward-looking information. Important factors that may cause actual results to vary, include, without

limitation that geologists will not complete a compilation study this winter or at all.

Although management of Goldstorm has attempted to identify important factors that could cause

actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or forward-looking

information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or

intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results

and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly,

readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking

information. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other

purposes. Goldstorm does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, forward-looking

information or financial out-look that are incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with

applicable securities laws.

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https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/258047