First Tellurium Reports on Recent Activity in the Company's Share Price

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Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 11,2026 – TheNewswire -First Tellurium Corp. (CSE: FTEL, OTC:FSTTF)reports that, regarding recent calls and emails from concernedshareholders, there is no negative news affecting the current pressureon the Company’s share price.

“There are no fundamental changes within the companythat warrant a drop in the price of our stock,” said First TelluriumPresident and CEO Tyrone Docherty. “On the contrary, we are makinggood progress on developments announced over the past several monthsregarding the thermoelectric technology with our subsidiary PyroDeltaEnergy Corp.”

Docherty noted that PyroDelta is currently focused ondrone technology that will be showcased at the U.S. Department ofDefense’s DARPA Heavy LiftChallenge later this year, as well asrevenue streams based on PyroDelta’s proprietary Capillary Castingmanufacturing process.  

“We are entering the DARPA contest with a dronedesign built around the tellurium-based thermoelectric technology thatcaptures waste heat from the drone engine and uses it to providesupplemental power,” said Docherty. “We believe this design willbe highly competitive and introduce the advantages of our technologyto large and influential parties within the drone industry and U.Sgovernment. We have also identified manufacturing opportunities toserve the thermoelectric sector, and we expect to have news on this inthe near future.”

As awareness of the thermoelectric technology grows,Docherty also noted that First Tellurium continues to field inquiriesfrom industry, media and government representatives.

“We are responding to these inquiries as best wecan,” said Docherty. “However, with limited resources, we have tofocus on the applications that we believe will deliver the greatestvalue for our shareholders in the shortest amount of time. I shouldalso note that we were recently approached, and I was interviewed by,the Wall StreetJournal,” said Docherty. “Last yearUSA Today ran a story about PyroDelta’s technology, as well. Idon’t know of any other junior company garnering that kind ofexposure and interest.”

As for government inquiries, Docherty added that FirstTellurium has reached out to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation EvanSolomon, and to Minister of Parliament (MP) for Delta, BC andAssociate Minister of National Defence Jill McKnight about ourthermoelectric technology’s ability to provide clean energy for avariety of applications in both industry and defense.

“I was very pleased with the prompt response,” saidDocherty. “I am meeting with MP Jill McNight  later this week todiscuss possible avenues for government support in moving ourtechnology forward for Canada.”

About First Tellurium Corp.

First Tellurium’s unique business model is togenerate revenue and value through mineral discovery, projectdevelopment, project generation and development of tellurium-basedtechnologies.

First Tellurium is listed on the Canadian SecuritiesExchange under the symbol “FTEL” and on the OTC under the symbol“FSTTF”. Further information about FTEL and its projects can befound at www.firsttellurium.com.

Neither theCanadian Securities Exchange nor its regulations services acceptresponsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward-lookinginformation

All statements included in thispress release that address activities, events or developments that theCompany expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in thefuture are forward-looking statements.  These forward-lookingstatements involve numerous assumptions made by the Company based onits experience, perception of historical trends, current conditions,expected future developments and other factors it believes areappropriate in the circumstances. In addition, these statementsinvolve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties thatcontribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts,projections and other forward-looking statements will proveinaccurate, certain of which are beyond the Company’s control. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-lookingstatements.  Except as required by law, the Company does not intendto revise or update these forward-looking statements after the datehereof or revise them to reflect the occurrence of futureunanticipated event.

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