Purecore Engages HEG & Associates for its 2026 Exploration Program at the Bankier Property

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Purecore Metals Inc. (CSE: PURE) (“Purecore” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has engaged HEG & Associates Exploration Services Inc. (“HEG”) to plan and execute the Company’s 2026 exploration program at the Bankier Property, located in the Similkameen and Osoyoos Mining Divisions of southern British Columbia.

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About HEG

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HEG is a Kelowna-based geological services company specializing in exploration programs throughout the Okanagan region and similar geological settings. The company focuses on advancing early-stage projects through systematic, cost-effective field programs while maintaining operational flexibility and responsible exploration practices.

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With its head office located approximately 50 minutes from the Bankier Property, HEG is well positioned to efficiently support field activities while helping reduce mobilization time and overall program costs.

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Peter Berdusco, CEO of Purecore, commented: “We are thrilled to be working with HEG on the Bankier Property for the upcoming 2026 field season. Their strong regional expertise and proximity to the project area make them a natural fit for advancing our exploration efforts in a cost-effective and technically rigorous manner. We look forward to the results of this year’s program as we get boots on the ground.”

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2026 Exploration Program

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The 2026 summer exploration program will leverage HEG’s experience in early-stage project advancement to support geological mapping, prospecting, sampling, and target evaluation across the Bankier Property, located near the historic Brenda Mine area near Kelowna, British Columbia.

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About Bankier

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The Company holds 100% interest in the Bankier Property, an early-stage exploration project located in the Central Okanagan region of British Columbia, approximately 22 kilometres west of Peachland and near the historical Brenda Mine, a past-producing copper–molybdenum mine now in remediation. The property is underlain by a structurally complex intrusive system characterized by granodiorite and granite lithologies, cut by numerous alaskite dykes that are locally associated with alteration and mineralization.

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Exploration work to date has identified three reported MINFILE showings on the property, including the Glad, Bankier, and HP showings. Historical and recent geochemical and geophysical programs, including airborne magnetics, Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) soil sampling, and rock sampling, have outlined multiple multi-element geochemical anomalies in copper, molybdenum, gold, zinc, silver, lead, and uranium.

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Market Maker

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The Company also announces it has engaged Independent Trading Group (“ITG”) to provide market-making services.

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ITG will provide market-making services in accordance with Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”) policies. ITG will trade shares of the Company on the CSE and all other trading venues with the objective of maintaining a reasonable market and improving the liquidity of the Company’s common shares.

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The agreement is for an initial term of one month, commencing on May 21, 2006, and will renew for additional one-month terms unless terminated by either party with 30 days’ notice. There are no performance factors contained in the agreement and ITG will not receive shares or options as compensation. ITG and the Company are unrelated and unaffiliated entities and at the time of the agreement, neither ITG nor its principals have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the securities of the Company.