Cascade Copper looks back at 2025, ahead to 2026

Mr. Jeffrey Ackert reports CASCADE COPPER HIGHLIGHTS 2025 WORK, OUTLINES 2026 PLANS Cascade Copper Corp. has outlined its strategic plans for 2026 while reflecting on a productive year of advancements in 2025. "We have built meaningful momentum through 2025, creating a clear springboard for growth in 2026," said Jeff Ackert, president and chief executive officer of Cascade Copper. "Our team's focus on modern exploration techniques is generating compelling targets, and, with recent financings secured, we are positioned to initiate drilling and accelerate development across our entire portfolio. We continue to review additional opportunities that could significantly broaden Cascade's scale while progressing our existing projects with purpose and efficiency." "As we move toward the 2026 field season, the groundwork completed this past year places us in a strong position for meaningful exploration progress," added Shannon Baird, vice-president of exploration. "With assay results from surface sampling expected and a drill permit now submitted, our first drill program at Centrefire could commence in early 2026. We thank our shareholders for their ongoing support and extend our best wishes for the new year." 2025 highlights: building momentum in exploration and financing In 2025, Cascade Copper continued to advance its portfolio of projects across British Columbia and Ontario, securing financing, and enhancing its leadership profile. Key achievements include: Successful financings: The company closed multiple tranches of non-brokered private placements, raising over $1-million in total. This included fully closing a placement in October for $401,255, with the third tranche alone bringing in $123,255. More recently, in December, Cascade closed an oversubscribed placement, raising $660,000 for coming exploration programs. Exploration advancements: Cascade completed a high-resolution drone magnetic survey, covering over 700 line kilometres along the mineralization trend at the Centrefire copper-gold project. It also completed fieldwork at the project in October, including ground truthing of geophysical anomalies and rock sampling, with 3-D interpretation under way. As of mid-December, a work program permit was submitted, and a drill permit receipt is expected within 60 days. At the Copper Plateau porphyry project, high-grade copper, gold, molybdenum and silver samples were collected in July, confirming historic soil anomalies with significant bedrock mineralization. Forty-five additional preliminary analyses through pXRF and near-infrared (ReveNIR) are pending. The company also introduced the Bendor gold-tungsten project in November, completing an initial compilation of historical data, which revealed notable historical gold and tungsten values. It is also initiating 3-D magnetic inversion modelling and interpretation of historic and modern exploration data. Artificial intelligence technology collaboration: In June, Cascade Copper announced a collaboration with Blockware Technology of Calgary, Alta., that will utilize field-acquired data to create predictive mapping in real time, saving time and money and speeding up the discovery of mineral resources. Strategic appointments: In April, the company announced the appointment of Niel Marotta as a strategic adviser to the company, and, in December, Cascade welcomed Noah Komavli, PEng, to its advisory board. Both gentlemen bring a combination of capital market expertise and corporate development acumen to benefit the company. These accomplishments positioned Cascade for continued growth, leveraging modern technologies such as AI driven predictive modelling, 3-D magnetic inversion modelling and lidar-derived elevation data to prioritize exploration targets. 2026 plans: advancing key projects while pursuing value-added opportunities Looking ahead to 2026, Cascade Copper is focused on accelerating exploration across its flagship properties while evaluating strategic transactions to enhance shareholder value. Planned activities include: Centrefire copper-gold project: securing a diamond drill permit and processing pending assays from the 2025 field season; merge magnetic data and conduct 3-D inversion modelling to refine targets; initiate a maiden drill program beneath the highly mineralized Main zone; Copper plateau porphyry project: project-wide induced polarization survey to further delineate mineralization especially beneath the large copper-molybdenum-gold-silver soil anomalies with little to no bedrock exposure; additionally, a mobile magnetotelluric and/or ZTEM survey, alongside a detailed core review and resampling of select portions, to build on 2025 sampling results; initiating a maiden drilling program at Copper Plateau, incorporating all new geophysical data; Fire Mountain project: conducting ZTEM and/or MobileMT geophysical surveys, with submission of permits for drilling and an induced polarization survey to further delineate mineralization prior to drilling; Bendor gold-tungsten project: completing 3-D magnetic inversion modelling, followed by first quarter permit submission for drilling programs to test high-potential gold and tungsten zones; Corporate development: continuing to evaluate value-added transactions in the mining space, including potential acquisitions or partnerships to expand the company's critical mineral portfolio within safe, mining-friendly jurisdictions. Cascade remains committed to responsible exploration practices and creating long-term value for stakeholders in the critical mineral sector. About Cascade Copper Corp. Cascade Copper is an exploration-stage natural resource company engaged in the evaluation, acquisition and exploration of copper-based mineral resource properties. Cascade is focused on copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry and mesothermal gold-silver deposits in British Columbia with volcanogenic massive sulphide and banded iron formation copper-gold-silver style deposits in Ontario. Cascade's priority is to conduct efficient and economic exploration using modern technology and old-fashioned boots on the ground geology. Drilling is planned on several of its copper-gold projects this year. Cascade has five projects, including the Copper Plateau copper-molybdenum-silver project, the Centrefire copper-gold-silver project, the Rogers Creek copper-gold project, the Fire Mountain copper-gold project and the Bendor gold-tungsten project. We seek Safe Harbor.