Lomiko Metals Announces Receipt of Province of Quebec Permits to Initiate the Bulk Sample Works at La Loutre Graphite Project and Update on Private Placement

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MONTREAL — Lomiko Metals Inc. (TSX.V: LMR) (“Lomiko” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the receipt of the Autorisation pour travaux d’exploration à impacts (“ATI”) for its planned 250-tonne bulk sample at La Loutre Graphite deposit. This bulk sample is an essential aspect of the ongoing research and development to scale up and confirm the process of producing anode material. The bulk sample work will be done in the fall, after the holiday and hunting seasons. Some noninvasive work and mapping will start through the summer. The Company will continue to provide transparent and full information and comply with ECOLOGO for all field work.

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Gordana Slepcev, CEO, President, and Director, stated: “We are happy to announce that we have received the ATI permits to initiate the field and work on the 250 tonne bulk sample excavation and processing. The bulk sample will be used to start the work on the scaling up of the anode testing work and demonstrate on a larger scale the results already achieved in the lab-scale testing, showing positive results for use in anode battery technology. This work is supported by a contribution agreement for building Canadian expertise and processing capabilities in graphite. Graphite is one of the six priority critical minerals.”

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In addition, Lomiko is presently in a permitting phase, as previously announced, to commence geotechnical site investigations with Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (“MRNF”). All Canadian contractors have been announced, and Lomiko is proud to have retained the vast majority, and few exceptions, with Southern Quebec-based consulting and contractor team for the Pre-Feasibility Studies. See press releases dated April 24, 2025 and May 21, 2025, for details.

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Lomiko will continue to engage with community members and remains open to answering questions via regular virtual meetings, the company’s Facebook page and direct emails. The information sessions are published on the company’s Facebook page and website.

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Qualified Person

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The technical content presented in this press release was reviewed and approved by Gordana Slepcev, P.Eng., who is the CEO & President of Lomiko Metals and acts as the “Qualified Person” as that term is defined under National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

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Private placement

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The Company further advises that it will not seek approval from the TSX-V for a second extension to the closing of a 2

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flow-through tranche, which closes June 30, 2025; details of which are disclosed in the Company’s original press release dated April 1, 2025

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About Lomiko Metals Inc.

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The Company holds mineral interests in its La Loutre graphite development in southern Quebec. The La Loutre project site is within the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (KZA) First Nation’s territory. The KZA First Nation is part of the Algonquin Nation, and the KZA traditional territory is situated within the Outaouais and Laurentides regions.​ Located 180 kilometers northwest of Montreal, the property consists of one large, continuous block with 76 mineral claims totaling 4,528 hectares (45.3 km2).

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The Property is underlain by rocks from the Grenville Province of the Precambrian Canadian Shield. The Grenville was formed under conditions that were very favorable for the development of coarse-grained, flake-type graphite mineralization from organic-rich material during high-temperature metamorphism.

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Lomiko Metals published an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) in a NI 43-101 Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimate Update for the La Loutre Project, Quebec, Canada, prepared by InnovExplo on May 11th, 2023, which estimated 64.7 million tonnes of Indicated Mineral Resources averaging 4.59% Cg per tonne for 3.0 million tonnes of graphite, a tonnage increase of 184%. Indicated Mineral Resources increased by 41.5 million tonnes as a result of the 2022 drilling campaign, from 17.5 million tonnes in 2021 MRE with additional Mineral resources reported down-dip and within marble units resulted in the addition of 17.5 million tonnes of Inferred Mineral Resources averaging 3.51% Cg per tonne for 0.65 million tonnes of contained graphite; and the additional 13,107 metres of infill drilling in 79 holes completed in 2022 combined with the refinement of the deposit and structural models contributed to the addition of most of the Inferred Mineral Resources to the Indicated Mineral Resource category, relative to the 2021 Mineral Resource Estimate. The MRE assumes a US$1,098.07 per tonne graphite price and a cut-off grade of 1.50% Cg (graphitic carbon). The independent and qualified persons for the mineral resource estimate, as defined by NI 43 101, are Marina Iund, P.Geo. (InnovExplo Inc.), Martin Perron, P.Eng. (InnovExplo Inc.)., Simon Boudreau, P.Eng. (InnovExplo Inc.). and Pierre Roy, P.Eng. (Soutex Inc.). The effective date of the estimate is May 11, 2023. The Company also holds interest in seven early-stage projects in southern Quebec, including Ruisseau, Tremblant, Meloche, Boyd, Dieppe, North Low and Carmin, covering 328 claims in total on 7 early-stage projects covering 18,622 hectares in the Laurentian region of Quebec and within KZA territory.

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