Westhaven Engages San Diego Torrey Hills Capital for Investor Relations

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Westhaven
Gold Corp. (TSX-V: WHN) (OTCQB: WTHVF) (“Westhaven” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an initial three-month investor relations agreement, effective April 1, 2026, with San Diego Torrey Hills Capital (“SDTHC”), a U.S.-based investor relations and corporate communications firm.

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Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will pay SDTHC a monthly cash fee of US$7,000 and will reimburse certain expenses incurred by SDTHC in the performance of the services. Following an initial three-month term, the agreement will be automatically extended for an indefinite term unless terminated by either party with 30 days’ prior written notice. The engagement of SDTHC is intended to support Westhaven’s expanding U.S. capital markets presence following its recent OTCQB listing. SDTHC will assist the Company in strengthening investor awareness, coordinating virtual and in-person non-deal roadshows, facilitating institutional outreach, and enhancing communications across North American markets. SDTHC is at arm’s length to the Company and, to the Company’s knowledge, does not hold any securities of Westhaven as of the date of this release.

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San Diego Torrey Hills Capital was formed in 1998 and is headquartered in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The firm provides investor relations, corporate communications, market visibility strategies, and U.S. capital markets advisory services to emerging growth companies listed in Canada and the United States.

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The SDTHC agreement is subject to approval by the TSX Venture Exchange (the “TSXV”). The services to be provided are subject to compliance with the policies and guidelines of the TSXV and other applicable legislation.

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About Westhaven Gold Corp.

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Westhaven is a gold and silver focused exploration and development company targeting low sulphidation, high-grade, epithermal style gold and silver mineralization within the Spences Bridge Gold Belt in southern British Columbia. Westhaven controls ~60,263 hectares within four gold properties spread along this underexplored belt.

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The Shovelnose Gold project is the most advanced property, with a 2025 updated Preliminary Economic Assessment that validates the project’s potential as a robust, low cost and high margin 11-year underground gold mining opportunity with average annual life-of-mine production of 56,000 ounces gold and 313,000 ounces silver with a CDN$454 million after-tax net present value (at a 6% discount rate) and 43.2% IRR (base case parameters of US$2,400 per ounce gold, US$28 per ounce silver and CDN/US$ exchange rate of CDN$1.00=US$0.72).¹ 

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On February 23, 2026, Westhaven closed a strategic earn-in agreement with Dundee Corporation, whereby Dundee may earn up to a 60% interest in Westhaven’s four Spences Bridge Gold Belt properties through up to CDN$85,000,000 in staged project expenditures. Under the first phase, Dundee has committed a minimum of CDN$30,000,000, inclusive of a fully funded 50,000m drill program at Shovelnose, that is currently underway and expected to continue through the remainder of 2026. The agreement allows for the accelerated exploration and evaluation of one of Canada’s most compelling, undeveloped, high-margin gold and silver assets.

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Qualified Person

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The technical and scientific information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Robin Hopkins, P.Geo. (NT/NU), Vice President, Exploration for Westhaven and a Qualified Person for the Company under the definitions established by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

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_{¹ See Westhaven’s news release entitled “Westhaven Announces Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Shovelnose Gold Project, British Columbia” and dated March 3, 2025.}