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Pacific Ridge is a company under the Fiore Group, aiming to become British Columbia's leading copper exploration company.

Investor website: https://pacificridgeexploration.com/

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Pacific Ridge is a company under the Fiore Group, aiming to become British Columbia's leading copper exploration company. Its flagship project is the Kliyul copper-gold project, located in the Quesnel terrane near existing infrastructure. The company's project portfolio also includes the RDP, Onjo, and Redton copper-gold projects, all situated in British Columbia. Pacific Ridge acknowledges that its projects are located in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Gitxsan Nation, McLeod Lake Indian Band, Nak’azdli Whut’en, Takla Nation, and Tsay Keh Dene Nation.

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Cash position
$495,812
Shares outstanding
31,329,009
Fully diluted shares
116.6M
Mineral resource
Kliyul Main Zone ('KMZ'), just one target area at Kliyul, hosts 334.1 million tonnes ('Mt') grading 0.33% copper equivalent ('CuEq'), 0.15% copper, 0.26 g/t gold, and 0.95 g/t silver, or 2.42 billion pounds CuEq, which includes 1.11 billion pounds of copper, 2.74 million ounces of gold and 10.22 million ounces of silver, in the Inferred Mineral Resource category (see news release dated September 18, 2025) and remains open for expansion.
Projects
["Owned 100% by Pacific Ridge, RDP is located 40 km west of the Company’s flagship Kliyul. RDP is over 10,000 hectares in size and lies within the Stikine Terrane, which is host to numerous significant porphyry deposits in northern British Columbia, including Kemess, Red Chris, Kerr-Sulphurets and Galore Creek. From 2022-2024, RDP was under option to Antofagasta Minerals S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Antofagasta PLC (ANTO: LSE). RDP contains several porphyry copper-gold targets (Roy, Day, Porcupine, and Bird - see Figure 1), that have been explored intermittently since the early 1970’s, including prospecting and mapping, various geochemical surveys, ground and airborne geophysical surveys, trenching and a limited amount of drilling. The Project is underlain by lower Hazelton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks (Lower Jurassic) of andesitic and dacitic composition and the Gyr rhyolite porphyry; and by Late Triassic to Early Jurassic plutonic rocks including the Fir gabbro and Roy plutonic suite with porphyritic plugs, sills, and stocks of monzodiorite composition.","RDP Highlights - Located in B.C.’s Golden Horseshoe at the southern end of the Toodoggone District in northcentral British Columbia, a prolific area for porphyry copper-gold exploration: Past-producing Kemess (2.975 Moz of gold and 749 Mlbs of copper produced from 1998-2011), Kemess Underground (Measured and Indicated mineral resource containing 2.265 Moz gold and 779 Mlbs copper), and Amarc Resources Ltd. recent high-grade porphyry copper-gold-silver discovery at AuRORA on their Joy project (drill hole JP-24-074 returned 108 m of 2.59% CuEq within 162 m of 1.90% CuEq). Five diamond drill holes, totaling 1,392 m, were completed at the Day target (“Day”) in 2022 with drill hole RDP-22-005 returning 107.2 m of 1.39% CuEq or 2.06 g/t AuEq (0.63% copper, 1.10 g/t gold, and 2.91 g/t silver) within 497.2 m of 0.66% CuEq or 0.97 g/t AuEq (0.37% copper, 0.40 g/t gold, and 1.60 g/t silver). This was one of the highest-grade porphyry copper-gold intervals reported in B.C. in 2022. Only two drill holes, totaling 987 m, were completed at Day in 2023. Drill hole RDP-23-007 was collared 330 metres northwest of RDP-22-005 and intersected 19.0 m of 0.45% CuEq or 0.67 g/t AuEq (0.32% copper, 0.19 g/t gold, and 1.08 g/t silver) at the bottom of the hole, which supports Pacific Ridge’s interpretation of a tabular porphyry system with a steeply north-dipping pipe vectoring towards a larger porphyry source at depth. Pacific Ridge doesn't believe that the 2023 drill program adequately tested this interpretation. Targeting the porphyry source at Day will be the focus of the 2025 RDP drill program.","RDP 2025 Drilling Highlights - Pacific Ridge completed five drill holes, totaling 2,156 m, at RDP in 2025 and were focused on the Day target. RDP-25-011 returned 112.2m of 1.35% CuEq or 2.02 g/t AuEq. RDP-25-012 returned 154.7 m of 0.63% CuEq or 0.93 g/t AuEq. RDP-25-014 returned 130.8 m of 0.47% CuEq or 0.70 g/t AuEq. RDP-25-011 was the best interval ever returned from RDP. RDP-25-012 and 013 confirmed the tabular nature of mineralization between RDP-22-005 and RDP-23-007, collared 240 m to the northeast and ending in 19.0 m of 0.45% CuEq. RDP-25-014 is significant in that it expands the potential for mineralization at Day hundreds of metres to the northwest.","Day Target - Mineralization at Day includes pyrite, magnetite, chalcopyrite, minor molybdenite, and local bornite as disseminations, sheeted veins and vein stockworks in diorite and adjacent altered volcaniclastic rocks. Historical drilling includes 2,472 m in 19 drill holes. Drill highlights include 0.67% Cu and 0.93 g/t Au over 58.8 m (drill hole D-74-1) and 0.54% Cu and 0.69 g/t Au over 57 m (drill hole C-92-1).","Roy Target - Mineralization at Roy consists of a quartz-magnetite-chalcopyrite stringer stockwork within a monzonite intrusion. Trench sampling in 1990 encountered 0.121% Cu and 0.55 g/t Au over 62 m within an 80 m trench. Shallow diamond drilling programs have been completed at Roy, but results are incomplete or unavailable except for drill hole EQ-11-01. This hole was drilled in 2011, the last time RDP was explored, and returned 0.11% Cu and 0.64 g/t Au over 122.95 m.","Porcupine Target - Discovered in 1972, the Porcupine target was explored as a stratabound massive sulphide target. Float samples assayed as high as 17.2% Cu and 0.19% Cu with 7.98 g/t Au. Four holes drilled in 1972 returned sporadic results. More recent evaluation of the alteration and soil geochemistry at Porcupine suggests it is epithermal in nature and possibly related to an underlying porphyry system.","Bird Target - The historical Bird Target, located between Roy and Porcupine target areas, about 1.8 km west-southwest of Roy, was reassessed with mapping and prospecting. A nearby mineral occurrence with several percent chalcopyrite, quartz-chalcopyrite vein stockwork and potassic alteration (K-feldspar, magnetite), was identified in a topographic low where porphyry dykes intrude prospective (subaqueous type) volcaniclastic host rocks."]
Leadership
Blaine Monaghan (President, CEO, Director, Mr. Monaghan has more than 20 years' experience in the mineral exploration industry and a proven track record of creating shareholder value. He has been involved in capital raises totaling more than $125 million for exploration projects around the globe.), Danette Schwab (Vice President Exploration, Ms. Schwab is a Professional Geoscientist registered in British Columbia with 18 years of experience in mining and mineral exploration. She has held various roles including Senior Exploration Geologist and Project Manager.), Harry Nijjar (Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Nijjar is a Managing Director of Malaspina Consultants Inc. and provides CFO and strategic financial advisory services. He is a CPA CMA with a BCom from the University of British Columbia.), Tally Barmash (Corporate Secretary, Ms. Barmash is Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance of Fiore Management & Advisory Corp. and has served as an officer and director of multiple public companies focused on the resource sector.)

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