CRANBROOK, BC / ACCESS Newswire / September 2, 2026 / Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:EPL)(OTCQB:EGPLF) ("EPL" or "Eagle Plains") and Earthwise Minerals Corp. (CSE:WISE)(FSE:966)(OTCQB:EWISF) ("Earthwise" or "WISE") have received results from the 3-hole, 1182m drill program recently completed at Eagle Plains' 100% owned Iron Range Project, SE British Columbia. Earthwise holds the exclusive option to acquire up to an 80% interest in the Iron Range Project and fully funded the 2026 drilling.

Highlights

• All three holes intersected mineralization

• IR26053: 15m @ 0.53g/t Au; and 0.50m @ 7.26 g/t Au;

• IR26054: 24m @ 0.73 g/t Au; and 0.5m @ 11.75 g/t Au;

• IR26055: 60.5m @ 0.76 g/t Au; including 1.0m @ 6.62 g/t Au;

• Potential for multiple ore shoots within Talon Zone;

The 2026 drill program was designed to infill historical mineralized intercepts and assess continuity of mineralization along trend at the Talon Zone structure, where 2010 drilling by Eagle Plains intersected 2 intervals of strong and continuous mineralization including 14.0m grading 5.1g/t gold, 1.86% lead, 2.1% Zinc, 75.3g/t silver and 7.1m grading 8.13g/t gold, 2.84% lead, 3.07% zinc, 86.6g/t silver (DDH IR10010).

The 20,021ha Iron Range Project is considered by management of both Eagle Plains and Earthwise to hold excellent potential for the presence of structurally controlled gold-silver mineralization, iron-oxide copper-gold ("IOCG") and Sullivan-style lead-zinc-silver sedimentary-exhalative ("sedex") mineralization. The property is owned 100% by Eagle Plains, with part of the property subject to an underlying 1.0% Net Smelter Royalty held by a third party. The drill program was managed by Terralogic Exploration Inc. and diamond drilling was contracted to QB Drilling.

Chuck Downie, President and CEO of Eagle Plains commented "We are very encouraged by the results from the 2026 drilling program. Hole IR26055 indicates the potential for additional ore shoots within the broader Talon Zone. Similar structural splays off of the Iron Range Fault system, coincident with anomalous pathfinder geochemistry and IP geophysical anomalies that are modelled to extend to depth exist elsewhere in the Talon Zone area, and are untested by drilling."

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Table 1 Drill Hole Information

*Collar locations projected in NAD83 UTM Zone 11N

2026 Drill Results

Table 2 Analytical Results