Rockland Resources Reports Visible Gold in Initial Drill Holes at Cole Gold Mines Project

Rockland Resources Ltd. has reported obtaining visible gold in the first two drill holes completed as part of an ongoing 3,000-metre diamond drilling program at its 100%-owned Cole Gold Mines Project in Ontario's Red Lake Mining District. The initial holes, RR-26-01 and RR-26-02, were completed at the historic Cole Gold Mine to confirm the style and nature of gold mineralization and to establish alteration styles, lithologies, and structural controls to assist current and future exploration. In drill hole RR-26-01, visible gold was intersected at three locales, including from 82.20 to 82.60 metres over a core length of 0.40 metres and at a depth of 85.70 metres down-hole. Diamond drill hole RR-26-02, a deeper cut below the first hole, intersected visible gold over a 0.20-metre interval between 74.90 to 75.10 metres and at a deeper intercept of 187.00 metres down-hole.

The gold mineralization in both holes is hosted in deformed quartz veins, veinlets, and stockwork that cross-cut broad zones of intense silicification, which range from 7 to 30 metres in width and contain lesser biotite and subordinate garnet. These quartz features also contain fine-grained arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and locally, tourmaline. The silicified zones contain disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite in seams and fracture fillings, suggesting appreciable potential widths for gold mineralization if assays are favorable. These zones are flanked by intervals of strong biotitic alteration with less intense silicification and also contain garnet. Prominent altered ultramafic and mafic dikes, intersected over variable widths, are closely spatially associated with the veins containing visible gold and the zones of intense silicification. This association suggests the dikes and veins occupy and heal the same structures; the proximity of ultramafic rocks to gold mineralization is well known in the Red Lake district, which bodes well for the Cole property.

Mike England, CEO of Rockland, stated that multiple occurrences of visible gold in each of the two initial drill holes is a very exciting start to the drill program. He noted that hole RR-26-02 is the deepest completed yet and contains the best occurrence of visible gold obtained to date, occurring beneath the Cole Gold Mine workings, indicating gold mineralization continues to depth, which is very encouraging. The company also looks forward to drilling several other high-priority targets containing high-grade gold mineralization that have never been drill tested. It should be noted that visible gold observed in drill core does not on its own indicate the grade, continuity, or economic viability of mineralization. Photographs depicting the gold mineralization are posted on the Rockland Resources website and are dated February 6, 2026. The disclosure of a technical or scientific nature in this news release was reviewed and approved by Danae Voormeij, P. Geo., a registered professional geoscientist with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia since 2007, who serves as the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 and as Rockland Resources' newly appointed Chief Geologist.