Graphano Advances Black Pearl Project and Engages AI Resource Exploration to Refine High-Priority Targets

Graphano announced that it has engaged AI Resource Exploration to integrate its airborne magnetic and TDEM data, historic drilling results, and surface sampling into a machine‑learning workflow. The goal is to rank conductive trends across the 6 km Black Pearl corridor and produce a prioritized list of ground follow‑up targets. Ground work – prospecting, mapping, trenching, channel sampling and surface geophysics – will start in the coming weeks once snow melt permits field access.

• Scope: The AI partnership refines target selection but does not add new capital, resources or contracts. It is an operational efficiency upgrade rather than a value‑creating event.
• Comparison to prior guidance: Earlier releases (Feb 26 2026) already identified a 6.5 km conductive trend with five priority zones. The AI work simply accelerates the ranking of those same zones; expectations for drilling remain unchanged.
• Market reaction: Share price has been flat around $0.12 since early March, indicating that investors view the announcement as incremental. No immediate financing or royalty changes accompany it.
• Conclusion: The news is positive (enhances exploration efficiency) but routine relative to prior material disclosed. It does not materially alter valuation assumptions.

Graphano Energy focuses on high‑grade graphite projects in Quebec, Canada. Its flagship is the 100 % owned Black Pearl discovery (≈4,149 ha, 84 claims). The property sits adjacent to the advanced‑stage Standard Mine and exhibits a conductive trend identified by airborne MAG‑TDEM surveys. Historic drilling has intersected near‑surface graphite up to 11.33 % Cg over 8.6 m.