TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 16, 2026 / Rocky Shore Gold Ltd. ("Rocky Shore" or the "Company") (CSE:RSG)(OTCQB:RSGLF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement for the Handcamp Property, a purchase agreement for the Springdale Property and has completed the staking of additional claims in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Both properties and the staked claims trend within the Roberts Arm VMS belt, host to the former high-grade Buchans VMS mine. The newly termed Rocky Pond VMS Project ("Rocky Pond") has the potential to enhance the Company's discovery profile in a VMS belt known for gold-rich polymetallic mineralization. It will also complement the Company's Gold Anchor Project located in one of Canada's most prospective gold belts in central Newfoundland (see Map 1 and Map 2).

Key Rocky Pond Highlights:

• Handcamp Zone - near-surface drill hole mineralization:
  • 1.96 g/t AuEq over 25.05 m from 13.05 m, including 3.50 g/t AuEq over 11.60 m (H22-04)
  • 2.20 g/t AuEq over 21.95 m from 10.20 m, including 3.98 g/t AuEq over 11.35 m (H22-03)
  • 2.89 g/t AuEq over 11.85 m from 12.10 m, including 4.41 g/t AuEq over 7.30 m (H22-01)
  • 2.61 g/t AuEq over 12.25 m from 68.45 m, and 2.92 g/t AuEq over 5.55 m (H22-10)
  • 1.17 g/t AuEq over 26.25 m from 19.25 m, including 2.08 g/t AuEq over 11.05 m (H22-02)
  • 2.38 g/t AuEq over 8.55 m from 27.60 m, including 4.58 g/t AuEq over 4.10 m (H22-14)

See table below for complete historical drill results. Lengths represent down-the-hole drill thicknesses.

• Additional surface mineralization identified: Loon Pond showing: two rock samples grading 8.35% Zn, 2.5% Pb, 0.75% Cu, 131.6 g/t Ag, 17.2 g/t Au and 9.15% Zn, 0.13% Pb, 0.13% Cu, 85.2 g/t Ag, 0.9 g/t Au.

Loon Pond is strategically located 15 kilometres northeast and on trend to the Handcamp Zone. Surface samples may not accurately reflect the true grade of the surrounding potential VMS system and should not be relied upon.

Ken Lapierre, President and CEO of Rocky Shore Gold, commented, "We are fortunate to have secured such a project as we believe it is an opportunity that may significantly enhance Rocky Shore's discovery profile. We are now firmly established in two exciting districts in central Newfoundland. At Rocky Pond, we are now located within a VMS belt hosting an existing high-grade gold-rich VMS prospect and a prime location where multiple gold-rich VMS discoveries are possible. We intend to fly the first-ever airborne VTEM survey over the entire project and integrate previous work to help determine the size of the Handcamp Zone mineralizing system, identify any enhanced areas yet to be tested and additional potential areas waiting to be discovered along the prospective 40-kilometre-long trend of the VMS belt. As we continue to drill our Gold Anchor Project, we look forward to announcing drill results shortly."

Map 1: Newfoundland and Rocky Shore's two projects (in red): Gold Anchor Project (Au) and Rocky Pond VMS Project (Au-Ag-Zn-Pb-Cu).

Map 2: Rocky Shore's Rocky Pond VMS Project: Geology of the Roberts Arm VMS Belt, Red Indian Line Fault, location of significant mineralization (Handcamp, Loon Pond) within the project on trend to former mines.

Table 1: Handcamp Zone Drill Assay Highlights for 2022 drilling. The lengths below are drill hole lengths, as true thickness is not known currently.