A.I.S. Resources Announces Preliminary Rock Sample Assay Results at its New Brunswick Projects

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Favourable geology: The Company’s current exploration model considers the properties prospective for IOCG-style, intrusive-related, magmatic copper-gold and structurally controlled copper-silver-gold mineralization. Further work is required to confirm the nature, controls, continuity, and economic significance of the mineralization.

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Encouraging assays: The Company considers these preliminary results encouraging, as they demonstrate multi-element mineralization across several target areas. The combination of higher surface mineralization with historical exploration data supports the Company’s interpretation that the project area contains multiple styles of mineralization that warrant systematic follow-up exploration.

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Next steps: The current ground prospecting, geological mapping and sampling program is progressing well, and new batches of samples are being delivered to the laboratories for analysis on regular basis. The results will be announced as available and data processed. The results combined with historical and current geophysical survey data will be used to develop the upcoming drill program for which a local driller has already been contracted.

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Sample Preparation, Analysis and QA/QC
Rock samples were submitted to Activation Laboratories Ltd. (“Actlabs”) for preparation and analysis. Sample preparation was completed at Actlabs’ Fredericton, New Brunswick facility, and prepared pulps were forwarded to Actlabs’ Ancaster, Ontario laboratory for geochemical analysis. Gold was analyzed by fire assay with atomic absorption finish and reported in parts per billion. Multi-element analysis was completed using total digestion with ICP-MS and/or ICP-OES finish, as reported by Actlabs. The laboratory’s internal quality-control program included the use of certified reference materials, blanks and laboratory control samples. The Company and its Qualified Person are reviewing the laboratory QA/QC data and final certificates, including pending overlimit analyses, prior to final interpretation of the dataset. Actlabs is independent of the Company.

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Geological Setting and History:
Southern New Brunswick represents a prospective and underexplored mineral exploration jurisdiction, with a long history of mineral occurrences and past-producing deposits associated with complex Appalachian geology, including volcanic, sedimentary, intrusive and structurally controlled settings. The region hosts favourable geological environments for copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc, antimony, cobalt, nickel and other critical minerals, with mineralization commonly associated with fault zones, volcanic and sedimentary contacts, intrusive-related systems, skarn-style alteration, and structurally controlled vein and breccia systems. A.I.S. Resources considers southern New Brunswick to offer strong exploration potential due to its combination of historical showings, accessible infrastructure, road access, proximity to tidewater and industrial services, and the opportunity to apply modern exploration methods, including detailed geological mapping, geochemistry, airborne geophysics and targeted follow-up sampling. The Company believes its New Brunswick property portfolio provides a platform to evaluate multiple mineralized trends and advance high-priority copper-gold and critical-mineral targets in a mining-friendly Canadian jurisdiction.

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A.I.S. cautions that the Project is at an early stage of exploration. No mineral resource has been defined, and there has been insufficient work completed by A.I.S. to verify the scale, continuity, grade or economic significance of the reported mineralization.

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About the Saint John Project
The Saint John Project is considered prospective for IOCG-style mineralization based on regional geological setting and the Company’s current exploration model. The Property remains at an early stage of exploration, and further work is required to determine whether IOCG-style mineralization is present on the Property. The IOCG exploration targets provide strategic exposure to gold, silver (precious metals), copper (energy transition metal), antimony, and rhenium (critical minerals) as shown in the historical sampling data.

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Figure 1 Mineralized vein at the Little Lepreau quarry area Saint John Property

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Figure 2 Mineralized quartz carbonate vein Prince of Wales Saint John Property

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Figure 3 Mineralized quartz carbonate vein at the Prince of Wales quarry pit Saint John Property