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iMetal Resources Commences 2025 Drilling at Gowganda West

Exploration Programs

iMetal Resources Commences 2025 Drilling at

Gowganda West

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 1, 2025) -

iMetal Resources Inc. (TSXV: IMR)

(OTCQB: IMRFF) (FSE: A7VA)

("

iMetal

" or the "

Company

") is pleased to announce it has

commenced the 2025 Phase I drill program at the Company's Gowganda West ("GW") project. The

drilling will be focused in the area of IMGW23-04, the spring 2023 discovery hole of 48.5m of 0.85 g/t Au

starting at 316.5m (see News Release dated 2023-Jun-06).

A program of approximately 2,000 metres is planned with 4 to 6 holes to be drilled to test the discovery

zone along strike and dip and also to test for additional bands of mineralization in the footwall. Diafor Inc.

of Riviere-Heva, Quebec will undertake the drill program and Laurentia Exploration Inc. of Jonquiere,

Quebec will provide technical and geological supervision.

"We have been patiently working toward this next drill program at Gowganda West and are eager to

finally see the drill bit turning once again," commented iMetal President & CEO Saf Dhillon. "With recent

developments at the contiguous Juby Deposits, including the purchase by McFarlane Lake Mining

Limited (MLM), we expect to see additional positive developments in the Abitibi's Shining Tree District."

The Gowganda West property hosts a large package of gold prospective Timiskaming metasediments,

approximately 7 km in strike and up to 5 km in width, that hosts all the gold mineralization thus far

discovered on the property. Successive drill programs advancing to the southwest continued to intersect

increasing alteration and gold values in suspected NW trending zones and lead directly to the IMGW23-

04 discovery hole. The 48.5m gold interval is characterized by a coarse-grained to boulder-sized

conglomerate, with moderate to pervasive silica alteration associated with a large intermediate-mafic

dyke. There appears to be a strong correlation between the intensity of the silica alteration and

increased gold grades.

Gowganda West is an exploration-stage gold project about 100 km south-southeast of Timmins, Ontario;

contiguous to McFarlane Lake Mining's Juby Deposits Project in the Shining Tree Camp of the southern

part of the Abitibi Greenstone Gold Belt; and also contiguous to the Knight project that is part of the

Strategic Partnership between Orefinders Resources Inc. and Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. iMetal's fall 2022

and spring 2023 drill program were successful in intersecting new gold trends in the SW section of the

property. The Property also has multiple-ounce grab samples from trends that have yet to be drill tested.

Qualified Person

The technical content of the New Release has been reviewed and approved by R.Tim Henneberry,

P.Geo. (BC), a director of the Company and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.

About iMetal Resources Inc.

iMetal is a Canadian-based junior exploration company focused on the exploration and development of

its portfolio of resource properties in Ontario and Quebec. The flagship property Gowganda West, is an

exploration-stage gold project with a recent discovery hole of 48.5m at 0.85 g/t gold that borders the

Juby Deposit and is located within the Shining Tree Camp area in the southern part of the Abitibi

Greenstone Gold Belt about 100 km south-southeast of the Timmins Gold Camp. The 220-hectare Ghost

Mountain property, 42 kilometres NE of Kirkland Lake, lies 5 kilometres W of Agnico Eagle's Holt and

Holloway Mine. Carheil is an exploration stage project with multi-metal potential and previous graphite

results. The project is about 170 km north of Rouyn-Noranda in the Northern Abitibi Greenstone Belt.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

,

Saf Dhillon

President & CEO

iMetal Resources Inc.

[email protected]

Tel. (604-484-3031)

Suite 550, 800 West Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 2V6.

https://imetalresources.ca

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release.

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the Vendor and the outstanding conditions to such a transaction. These forward-looking statements

are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and assume, among other things, the

ability of the Company to successfully pursue its current development plans, that future sources of

funding will be available to the company, that relevant commodity prices will remain at levels that are

economically viable for the Company and that the Company will receive relevant permits in a timely

manner in order to enable its operations, but given the uncertainties, assumptions and risks, readers

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Company disclaims any obligation to update, or to publicly announce, any such statements, events or

developments except as required by law.

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