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Regional Exploration Highlights Potential for Resource Expansion and Identifies Targets at MPD Copper-Gold Project

Exploration Programs

Regional Exploration Highlights Potential for

Resource Expansion and Identifies Targets at

MPD Copper-Gold Project

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 24, 2026) - Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSXV:

KDK) (OTCQX: KDKCF) (FSE: 5DD1) (the "

Company

" or "

Kodiak

") today reports soil geochemical

and prospecting results from the 2025 exploration program on its 100% owned MPD copper-gold

porphyry project in southern British Columbia.

Highlights

Kodiak's 2025 regional exploration program

confirms numerous historic high-grade targets,

identifies new targets and highlights the potential to expand the recent Mineral Resource

Estimate

reported for the Ketchan deposit.

The 2025 soil geochemical program included the collection of

2,415 soil samples

and focussed

historical targets, areas with perspective geology and VRIFY artificial intelligence (AI)

Areas of Interest at MPD Northwest

Figure 1

At the Ketchan deposit

, a well-defined

copper-in-soil trend over two kilometres suggests

the deposit could be larger than the 1.4 kilometres of strike

currently defined by resource

drilling.

Figure 2

Anomalous soil results were also coincident with prospective geology

at the Thor/Boss,

Thalia, Zig, Par, Hook and Delta targets.

Prospecting in 2025 included

112 rock samples

which confirmed historic showings and

discovered a

new copper-gold-silver target near the West deposit

Figure 3

The best prospecting grab sample assayed

11.4 % Cu, 23.8 g/t Au and 43.6 g/t Ag

and was

from historic workings at the Tomcat area in MPD Northwest.

Figures 3 & 4

Regional results from 2025 are being used to prioritise target and Resource drilling in 2026, with

plans to be announced in the near future.

Claudia Tornquist, President and CEO of Kodiak, said, "The results from our 2025 regional program

once again underscore the exceptional prospectivity of our MPD project. The planning for this year's

exploration program is well underway, with a clear objective to significantly increase our recent maiden

Resource estimate by expanding several of the deposits. The soil results presented today impressively

show the strong expansion potential of the Ketchan deposit. In addition, we are prioritizing numerous

untested targets that may represent the next discovery and intend to drill several of them in the upcoming

campaign. We are preparing for an extensive 2026 field program, with work planned to commence in the

spring and continue through most of the year."

2025 Soil Geochemical Surveys

The 2025 soil geochemical program was comprised of 2,415 samples collected in nine prospective

areas across the MPD Northwest claims (see Figure 1). Samples of "B" horizon weighing 300 to 500

grams were collected at nominal intervals of 50 metres along east-west lines using 100 or 200 metre

spacing. Soil grids targeted historic showings, prospective geology and VRIFY AI Areas of Interest. The

largest grid covered seven square kilometers in the Ketchan deposit area.

The 2025 soil results highlight a number of areas for follow up in 2026, particularly at Ketchan where a

well-defined copper-in-soil anomaly over two kilometres in length suggest this deposit may extend

beyond the current 1.4 kilometre strike defined by resource drilling.

Figure 1: Soil Geochemical Survey Areas - MPD Northwest

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Figure 2: Copper-in-Soil Geochemical Trend associated with the Ketchan Deposit

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Anomalous copper values up to 2,030 ppm and gold values up to 0.21 ppm were returned from the 2025

soil sampling. Result thresholds and percentiles are included as Table 1.

Table 1: 2025 Soil Geochemical Sampling - Value Ranges and Anomalous Thresholds for

Copper-Gold-Silver

Percentile

(ppm)

Percentile

(ppm)

Percentile

(ppm)

MPD Northwest

43.8

605

0.002

617

0.119

607

67.4

242

0.004

252

0.198

242

99.6

121

0.006

122

0.272

122

172.4

0.010

0.381

Min

3.2

Min

0.00025

Min

0.012

Max

2030

Max

0.21

Max

29.4

Mean

41.2

Mean

0.002

Mean

0.12

*Number of samples

2025 Prospecting Results

Kodiak collected 112 rock samples from prospecting traverses in 2025 of which 66 were from MPD

Northwest and 56 from other parts of the property (Figure 3). Rock sample results from the 2025

program continue to demonstrate the potential for additional discoveries at MPD. More follow-up work is

planned in 2026. Select highlight assays from prospecting in 2025 are included in Table 2 and Figure 4.

Prospecting in 2025 focused primarily on historic showings.

The best sample in 2025 assayed 11.4

% Cu, 23.8 g/t Au and 43.6 g/t Ag

(sample 222381) from mineralized veins at the Boomerang showing

on the Tomcat claims at MPD Northwest. The Tomcat area hosts a number of high-grade showings.

The

best sample in the southern part of the property assayed 0.23% Cu and 1.56 g/t Au

(sample

222257)

from a new copper-gold-silver discovery named Nebula located approximately 500

metres north of the West deposit

. The mineralization is associated with a monzodiorite/conglomerate

unit similar to the geology seen at West.

Figure 3: 2025 Rock Sample Locations - MPD Property

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Figure 4: 2025 Prospecting Results - Tomcat & Thalia Targets

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Table 2: 2025 Prospecting Result Highlights

Sample

Easting

Northing

Target

g/t

Host Rock

Type

(UTM Z10)

222267

676644

5516806

Ketchan

0.5

0.14

1.2

Monzonite

222295

674754

5519275

Ketchan

3.56

0.01

34.7

Tuff

(historical trench)

222297

676888

5516599

Ketchan

0.67

0.62

13.3

Monzonite

252861

676324

5517081

Ketchan

0.32

0.03

2.6

Monzonite

222373

671729

5526285

7.53

0.01

68.6

Contact

(historical pit)

222368

672442

5528602

Tomcat 2

2.16

0.21

4.2

Vein

(historical pit)

222378

673460

5527647

Blooey

1.25

0.01

Sandstone

222381

673894

5527968

Boomerang

11.4

23.8

43.6

7.31

1.12

Vein (historical

trench)

222395

672806

5528170

Tomcat

2.57

0.01

7.3

Conglomerate

(historical shaft)

222387

673354

5525543

Zig

0.99

0.01

6.3

Conglomerate

(historical shaft)

222388

673721

5526416

Nor 30

0.95

0.003

Tuff

(historical trench)

222257

677476

5504041

Nebula

0.23

1.56

1.8

Contact

QA/QC Procedures

All rock samples are picked up from Kodiak's field office in Merritt, BC by Activation Laboratories Ltd.

(Actlabs) and delivered to their accredited laboratory in Kamloops, BC, for preparation and Fire Assay

prior to being shipped to their Ancaster, Ontario Laboratory for Multi-element analysis. The rock samples

are analyzed for gold by fire assay fusion with an AA finish. If samples return gold values over 10ppm,

samples are reanalysed by fire assay with gravimetric finish. Samples then undergo four acid digestion

and ICP-OES and ICP-MS analysis for 48 elements. Samples that return copper values above 10,000

ppm are further analysed using a "near-total" digestion, ICP-OES package.

All soil samples are picked up from Kodiak's field office in Merritt, BC by Activation Laboratories Ltd.

(Actlabs) and delivered to their accredited laboratory in Kamloops, BC, for preparation and analysis.

The soil samples are analysed for gold by cyanide extraction and ICP-MS, and for 63 elements using

Aqua Regia (partial) digestion and ICP-MS.

Actlabs meets all requirements of International Standards ISO/IEC 17025:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 for

analytical procedures. In addition to Actlabs quality assurance-quality control (QA/QC) protocols, Kodiak

implements an internal QA/QC program for samples that includes the insertion of sample blanks,

duplicates, and certified reference materials, at a rate of one per ten samples.

Dave Skelton, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration and the Qualified Person as defined by National

Instrument 43-101, has approved and verified the technical information in this news release.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Kodiak Copper Corp.

Claudia Tornquist

President & CEO

For further information, contact:

Nancy Curry, VP Corporate Development

[email protected]

+1 (604) 646-8362

About Kodiak Copper Corp.

Kodiak is focused on advancing its copper porphyry projects in Canada and the USA, which host known

mineral discoveries with the potential to hold large-scale deposits. Kodiak Copper's most advanced

asset is the 100% owned MPD copper-gold porphyry project in the prolific Quesnel Terrane in south-

central British Columbia, Canada, an established mining region with producing mines and excellent

infrastructure. MPD exhibits all the hallmarks of a large, multi-centered porphyry district with the potential

for future economic development. The initial Mineral Resource Estimate published in 2025 outlines

seven substantial deposits and underscores the scale and potential of the project. All known deposits

remain open to expansion, and numerous targets across the property have yet to be tested. Kodiak

continues to systematically explore MPD's district-scale potential with the goal of delivering new

discoveries and building further critical mass toward being the region's next mine.

Kodiak's founder and Chairman is Chris Taylor who is well-known for his gold discovery success with

Great Bear Resources. Kodiak is also part of Discovery Group led by John Robins, one of the most

successful mining entrepreneurs in Canada.

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