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Search Minerals Announces Board Appointment

Management Changes

Search Minerals Announces Board

Appointment

St. Lewis, Newfoundland and Labrador--(Newsfile Corp. - September 19, 2025) - Search Minerals Inc.

(TSXV: SMY)

("

Search Minerals

" or the "

Company

") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.

Michael Pearson to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Pearson has over 30 years of international business leadership experience, from founding startups

to leading established global companies in mining and technology. He is the CEO of CONTAX Inc., a

global IT software company headquartered in Canada, with operations in Canada, USA, Australia and

The Netherlands. He is also CEO of Petra Holdings, an investment company with interests in mining

projects in Canada, Australia and Peru. Mr. Pearson is Chairman of the Board of Directors for LeadFX

Inc. (TSX: LFX) (a former public company) and a Director of Rosslyn Hill Mining Pty. Ltd. Mr. Pearson

holds a B.Sc. from Monash University.

"I am honored to join the Board of Directors of Search Minerals at such an exciting time in the company's

growth," said Michael Pearson. "Search Minerals is well positioned to play a vital role in advancing the

North American rare earths supply chain, and I look forward to contributing my experience and working

with the Board and management team to support the company's strategic vision and long-term success."

"We are delighted to welcome Michael Pearson to the Board of Directors of Search Minerals," said

Joseph Lanzon, CEO of Search Minerals. "Michael's extensive international leadership experience in

both mining and technology, combined with his proven track record in guiding companies through growth

and transformation, will provide significant strategic value to our team. I look forward to working with him

as we advance our critical rare earth element district from exploration to a new mine in southeastern

Labrador."

For further information about Search Minerals, please contact:

Joseph Lanzon

CEO and Director

Telephone: 613-796-5957

Email:

[email protected]

About Search Minerals

Search Minerals is focused on exploring for and developing Critical Rare Earths Elements (CREE) as

well as transition metals Zirconium (Zr) and Hafnium (Hf) within the emerging Port Hope Simpson - St.

Lewis CREE District of South-East Labrador. The Company controls two deposits (Foxtrot and Deep

Fox), two drill ready prospects (Fox Meadow and Silver Fox) and numerous other CREE prospects,

including Fox Valley, Foxy Lady and Awesome Fox, along a 64 kilometre long belt forming a CREE

District in Labrador.

Search Minerals also controls additional CREE assets in the Red Wine CREE District of central

Labrador. These include: the drill ready Two Tom Lake CREE-Be-Nb deposit, the Mann #1 CREE-Nb-

Be prospect and Merlot CREE Prospect.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking

information" or "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "Forward-Looking Information") within the

meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information

can be identified by the use of words and phrases or variations of such words and phrases or

statements such as "anticipate", "expect" "plan", "likely", "believe", "intend", "forecast", "project",

"estimate", "potential", "could", "may", "will", "would" or "should". Forward-Looking Information in this

news release are based on certain material assumptions and involve, known and unknown risks,

uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of

Search Minerals to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements

expressed or implied by the Forward-Looking Information. Such risks and other factors include, those

factors discussed in Search Minerals' public filings. Although Search Minerals has attempted to

identify important factors that could affect Search Minerals and may cause actual actions, events or

results to differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking Information, there may be other

factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can

be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information 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 Information. For further information on these and

other risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business, see the Company's

Management's Discussion and Analysis filed with certain Canadian securities regulators, which are

available at

www.sedarplus.ca

. Except as required by law, Search Minerals does not assume any

obligation to release publicly any revisions to Forward-Looking Information contained in this news

release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of

unanticipated events.

Neither the 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.

To view the source version of this press release, please visit

https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/267128