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What Makes Golden Age Exploration Special?

A High-Impact Strategy in a Premier Jurisdiction

Golden Age Exploration is focused on high-impact, early-stage gold and silver opportunities in one of North America’s most established mining jurisdictions: British Columbia. The company’s strategy is clear and disciplined, transforming focused, low-cost exploration into drill-ready targets capable of materially re-rating its valuation story.

Rather than acting as a passive landholder, Golden Age is actively advancing its portfolio through systematic exploration, modern technology, and consistent communication with investors. By combining geological upside with pragmatic execution and proactive news flow, the company positions itself differently from many junior explorers that simply hold acreage without a defined path forward.

This balance of ambition and discipline is what makes Golden Age Exploration stand out in a competitive sector.

Quality Assets in Proven Mining Terrain

Golden Age holds option agreements on strategically located land packages, including the Magic Property and the Blackhawk & Thompson claims. These assets sit within well-understood mineralized belts of British Columbia, an important factor for exploration-stage companies.

Operating in a proven jurisdiction offers several advantages:

  • Established geological frameworks
  • Clear permitting processes
  • Skilled local workforce
  • Nearby infrastructure and road access

These practical benefits help reduce logistical risk and exploration costs, two critical variables in early-stage mining ventures. Proximity to infrastructure also allows capital to be directed into exploration work rather than remote-access expenses.

For investors, jurisdiction matters. British Columbia’s long mining history provides a stable backdrop for exploration and development compared to many international projects, where geopolitical risks can be significant.

What Makes the Targets Attractive?

Golden Age’s portfolio is not just well located – it is technically compelling. Several key characteristics enhance the attractiveness of its targets.

1) Reproducible High-Grade Indicators

Historical and modern sampling across the Blackhawk & Thompson claims have returned multiple multi-gram gold assays from chip and grab samples. These results are not isolated; recent fieldwork and laboratory analyses have confirmed high-grade signatures across multiple showings.

Importantly, exploration teams have identified a newly discovered oxidized shear zone known as the “Blast Showing.” This addition expands the list of drill-ready targets and introduces new near-surface opportunities that could potentially be tested cost-effectively.

While historical grades are encouraging, the company remains clear that continuity must be proven through drilling. Still, the presence of repeatable high-grade surface samples provides a strong technical foundation for next-stage exploration.

2) Structural Focus and Modern Targeting

Modern LiDAR surveys and detailed mapping have revealed a coherent northwest-trending structural corridor extending approximately 2.6 kilometers. This structural alignment links multiple known showings, providing a geological vector for follow-up exploration.

Structural corridors often act as pathways for mineralizing fluids. Identifying and confirming these patterns allows for more efficient prioritization of drill targets rather than relying on scattered surface results.

By integrating LiDAR, geochemical data, and historical records, Golden Age is narrowing its focus toward areas where geological evidence aligns. This approach enhances capital efficiency – every dollar spent aims to meaningfully de-risk the project.

3) Multiple Target Types

The portfolio supports several styles of mineralization, including:

  • Shear-hosted quartz veins
  • Oxidized near-surface shoots
  • Historical underground workings, including a previously underreported West adit

The diversity of target types enables both short-term sampling programs and targeted scout drilling. Near-surface oxidized zones may offer accessible drill testing, while historical underground workings provide insight into structural continuity and grade distribution.

This layered opportunity set increases optionality while maintaining a structured exploration roadmap.

Why Early-Stage Explorers Can Outperform?

Junior exploration companies offer leveraged exposure to discovery. A single positive drill result can significantly impact asset valuation. Golden Age is structured to generate consistent, actionable milestones that keep the market informed and engaged.

  • These milestones include:
  • Mapping results
  • Drone-based geophysical surveys
  • Resampling programs
  • Permit advancements
  • Scout drilling results

Each step builds toward demonstrating continuity and scale, key drivers of value in mineral exploration.

At the same time, focusing exclusively on British Columbia reduces geopolitical risk compared to projects in less stable jurisdictions. This balanced outlook, high upside, paired with jurisdictional stability, forms a compelling risk-reward framework.

A Transparent and Disciplined Approach

Exploration is inherently uncertain. Historical grades, while promising, do not guarantee economic resources. Key hurdles remain, including:

  • Demonstrating grade continuity through drilling
  • Metallurgical validation
  • Permitting progression
  • Securing exploration capital

Golden Age openly acknowledges these realities. Its approach is staged and methodical:

1) Conduct inexpensive, high-value preliminary work such as mapping, drone geophysics, and targeted resampling.

2) Build robust geological models.

3) Advance to disciplined drill testing only where the case is technically strong.

This measured process helps reduce unnecessary dilution and ensures that capital is deployed strategically.

Near-Term Catalysts to Watch

Investors following Golden Age Exploration should monitor several upcoming milestones:

  • New financing initiatives to support exploration programs
  • Release of integrated target maps combining LiDAR, geochemistry, and historical assay data
  • Completion of drone-borne geophysics
  • Trench and adit resampling around high-grade showings
  • Permitting advancements for scout drilling
  • Planned drill testing at the East Showing and the newly identified Blast Showing
  • Potential strategic partnerships or financings if early results prove positive

Each of these developments represents a potential value inflection point.

Conclusion

Golden Age Exploration combines historically supported high-grade targets with modern exploration tools in one of North America’s most respected mining jurisdictions. Its strategy emphasizes disciplined capital allocation, geological rigor, and milestone-driven progress.

If drilling confirms continuity and scale, the upside per exploration dollar could be meaningful. While early-stage exploration carries inherent risk, the company’s pragmatic, transparent approach positions it to pursue discovery without excessive speculation.

For investors seeking leveraged exposure to gold and silver exploration in a stable jurisdiction, Golden Age offers a focused, technically grounded opportunity.

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Dave McAdam

Dave McAdam
Chief Financial Officer

GOLDEN AGE EXPLORATION

Mr. David McAdam brings more than 35 years of handson finance and operations experience, having served in senior executive roles including Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance, and Vice President of Operations across public and private companies in North America and South Africa.

Mr. McAdam has held CFO positions with several public and privately held organizations, including multiple mining companies. His experience includes serving as CFO of a Vancouverbased TSXlisted mining company with producing assets in South Africa and public reporting obligations across the TSX, AIM, and JSE exchanges. His background also spans sectors such as EnglishasaSecondLanguage education, where he provided executive advisory and investor relations support, and a Fortune 150 waste management and recycling company, where he served as Vice President of Operations and Director of Finance. In these roles, he regularly reported to public company Audit, Safety, and Risk Committees and delivered full Board presentations within a Fortune 150 environment.

Most recently, Mr. McAdam has focused on providing executive advisory and consulting services to small and mediumsized startup enterprises. He currently serves as CFO advisor to Bathurst Metals Corp. (TSX.V) as well as several private mining companies in Canada.

Mr. McAdam holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and a Securities Institute of Canada Certificate.

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Aziz-Ur Rehman,
Chief Financial Officer

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Aziz-ur Rehman, CPA, CGA, ACCA(UK), BGS
Chief Financial Officer

GOLDEN AGE EXPLORATION

Mr. Rehman is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Certified General Accountant(CPA, CGA) and Chartered Certified Accountant(ACCA) from the United Kingdom. He attended Langara College and then graduated from Athabasca University with a Bachelor of General Studies(BGS). Mr. Rehman has a broad range of financial accounting and management accounting experience and served various private and publicly listed junior mining companies during the last 12 years.

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Ehsan Salmabadi,
Qualified Person (“QP”) / Director

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Ehsan Salmabadi, B.Sc.(Geology), P. Geo. and Qualified Person (“QP”)

Mr. Salmabadi has worked in the mining industry since 2007 and has a broad base of previous experience in not only exploration but also mine development and operation. Mr. Salmabadi began his career working for exploration companies and decided to move to a mine setting to expand his breadth of knowledge. He served as an Underground Mine Geologist, then Senior Geologist at North American Tungsten Corp. at the Cantung Mine in the Northwest Territories where he was involved in increasing mineral resources, reserve development, and long-range planning. Since then, Mr. Salmabadi has taken his mining and exploration experience and applied it as a consultant to exploration projects in Canada and the United States. Mr. Salmabadi holds a Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of British Columbia and is registered as a Professional Geologist (P.Geo.) with the Engineers and Geoscientists of BC. He served as the Vice President of Exploration for Stuhini Exploration Ltd as Senior Geologist at Stuhini from 2019 until 2025 and currently is a senior project Geologist with Fireweed Metals Corp.

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Andrew Wilkins, Project Geologist

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I have balanced work in two professions for over 30 years. During the winter months, I have worked as a ski guide in the helicopter skiing industry since 1986. This included being a business partner with Whistler Heli-Skiing from 1994 to 2006 before selling the company to Whistler/Blackcomb. For the remainder of the year, I have worked in the mining exploration industry as an exploration geologist since 1981. Over the years, I have specialized in working in rugged mountainous environments. More recently, I have managed medium sized exploration projects in Canada, USA, Mexico and Argentina. I am currently QP for Mountain Boy Minerals and Stuhini Exploration.
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Tibor Gajdics,
President / Director

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Licensed to manage investments for individual clients in 1982 at Yorkton Securities, Tibor retired in 1998 and has since established himself as a specialist in corporate governance, project finance, mergers and acquisitions. With over 35 years in the business of raising equity for start ups and mid-tier companies, Tibor specializes in structuring early stage companies and identifying the financial instruments best suited for each venture. He also has extensive experience internationally in mining, focused on gold exploration, development and production. Most recently, as founding member and President of biotech company, KOP Therapeutics Corp, Tibor has raised more than $3M in equity capital for KOP and developed a pathway to commercialization of a new cancer drug platform with a target date for FDA approved human trials in 2024 – 2025. KOP Therapeutics’ mission is to support biomedical scientific research by working closely with lead investigators / scientists to discover leading edge scientific breakthroughs to improve human health.
Kevin Hanson

Kevin Hanson, Director

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Kevin Hanson, B.A.(Commerce), C.P.A, C.A., C.P.A. (Nevada)

Mr. Hanson is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Public Accountant since 1983 and C.P.A. (Nevada) with more than 43 years experience in the financial reporting and 29 years in auditing of publicly traded companies. From January 1991 to December 2007, Mr. Hanson was a partner with Amisano Hanson, a public accounting firm which merged with BDO Dunwoody LLP (predecessor to BDO Canada LLP) in December 2007 and continued as a consultant with BDO Canada LLP, Chartered Accountants until 2011. From 1987 to 1991, Mr. Hanson provided services as a controller of seven reporting public companies. From 1994 until 1998, Mr. Hanson served as a member of the Technical Subcommittee to the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Vancouver Stock Exchange. From 1993 to current, Mr. Hanson has been directly involved with public companies, in both Canadian and US markets, including incorporation, IPO’s, management, financing and project acquisition services. Mr. Hanson was a director of two junior capital pool companies, Pender Capital Corp, from 1993 to 1995, and Commercial Consolidators Corp. (formerly Balmoral Capital Corp.) from May 1998 to October 1999. Mr. Hanson was the President and a director of Petro River Oil Corp., (formerly Brockton Capital Corp.) from February 2000 to December 2007 and a director of Coastal Gold Corp (formerly Ridgemont Capital Corp.) from July, 2008 to November, 2010. Mr. Hanson was also a director and Chief Financial Officer of Taal Distributed Information Technologies Inc. (formerly Squire Mining Ltd.) from August 2014 until March 2018. Mr. Hanson has been a director of Golden Age Exploration Ltd from February 2021 to current and President / CFO from January 11, 2022 to current.
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Kevin Hanson, President

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Mr. Hanson is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Public Accountant since 1983 and C.P.A. (Nevada) with more than 35 years experience in the financial reporting and 25 years in auditing of publicly traded companies. From January 1991 to December 2007, Mr. Hanson was a partner with Amisano Hanson, a public accounting firm which merged with BDO Dunwoody LLP (predecessor to BDO Canada LLP) in December 2007 and continued as a consultant with BDO Canada LLP, Chartered Accountants until 2011. From 1987 to 1991, Mr. Hanson provided services as a controller of seven reporting public companies. From 1994 until 1998, Mr. Hanson served as a member of the Technical Subcommittee to the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Vancouver Stock Exchange. From 1993 to current, Mr. Hanson has been directly involved with public companies, in both Canadian and US markets, including incorporation, IPO’s, management, financing and project acquisition services. Mr. Hanson was a director of two junior capital pool companies, Pender Capital Corp, from 1993 to 1995, and Commercial Consolidators Corp. (formerly Balmoral Capital Corp.) from May 1998 to October 1999. Mr. Hanson was the President and a director of Petro River Oil Corp., (formerly Brockton Capital Corp.) from February 2000 to December 2007 and a director of Coastal Gold Corp (formerly Ridgemont Capital Corp.) from July, 2008 to November, 2010. Mr. Hanson was also a director and Chief Financial Officer of Taal Distributed Information Technologies Inc. (formerly Squire Mining Ltd.) from August 2014 until March 2018. Mr. Hanson is also a director and Chief Financial Officer of Zena Mining Corp. (formerly Zena Capital Corp.), since February 2000, a public industrial minerals company involved in the exploration of barite in British Columbia.