Northern Lights Reports Results of 2025 Exploration at the Pup Copper Project

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Vancouver, British Columbia – 12March 2026 – TheNewswire- Northern Lights ResourcesCorp. (“Northern Lights” or the“Company”) (CSE: NLR) (OTC: NLRCF) is pleased to announce resultsfor its 2025 work program at the Pup Copper Project (“Pup” or the“Project”) located in Yukon, Canada. A multi-disciplinary fieldprogram was completed, with this work successfully advancing thevarious zones on the property, including bringing the Petal Zone tothe drill decision stage.

2025 Work Program Highlights:

• Sampling expanded the Petal Zone copper soil anomaly toapproximately 1,000 metres long by 400 metres wide, with it remainingopen to the northwest and southeast. Hand trenching within thisanomaly continued to encounter malachite and azurite bearing subcropwith representative grab samples returning up to 1.881% Cu.  

• Ground magnetic surveying at Petal shows a correlationbetween increased magnetic anomalism and increased copper in soilvalues. 

• Soil sampling at the Finn Zone returned stronglyanomalous values of up to 2,085.8 ppm Cu suggesting good potential forsignificant nearby bedrock mineralization.  

• Although hampered by occasional thick overburden,exploration at the Gismo Zone expanded the target to the west andeast, with it remaining open in both directions. 

• Thin section work identified the primary host tomalachite and azurite mineralization at Petal as aquartz–chlorite–epidote schist, likely derived from a mafic tointermediate igneous protolith. Pup’s geological and mineralogicalcharacteristics appear broadly similar to those associated withdeposits located in the Yukon’s Minto Copper Belt. 

• On October 29, 2025 the project received a Class 3exploration permit, valid for 10 years, that allows for drilling,trenching, trail construction and limited road building.  

Northern Lights CEO Luka Capincommented: “We are pleased to report that our 2025 Pupprogram has brought Petal to the drill-decision stage, while Finn andGismo continue to yield strong results. Several factors support drillreadiness: the development of a prospective geological model based onMinto Copper Belt deposits, excellent road access, the acquisition ofmagnetic data to enhance targeting efforts, and the receipt of arobust exploration permit. The scale and tenor of the Petal Zone iscompelling, and we are eager to undertake a value-driving drillprogram to see what lies beneath the widespread overburden, vegetationcover, and surface oxidation.”

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Figure 1: Project map showing zone locations and selectgeochemical data

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Figure 2: Petal Zone geochemical sampling map

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Figure 3: Petal Zone geochemistry on Total MagneticIntensity map

Pup Project Highlights:

• The Petal Zone is an approximate 1,000 metres long andup to 400 metres wide soil anomaly with up to 2,962.9 ppm Cu, withinwhich are several areas with up to 138 ppb Au and 3.0 ppm Ag. Theanomaly is open to the northwest and southeast, into an area whereincreased overburden and fluvial gravels have been noted. 

• Hand pitting within the Petal Zone has exposed heavilyoxidized and weathered, foliated, quartz-chlorite-epidote schist withdisseminated, fracture-controlled, and lesser quartz-vein-hosted,malachite, azurite and hematite. Grab samples of this material havereturned up to 3.799% copper. 

• Geological studies suggest the Petal Zone is underlainby the quartz-chlorite-epidote schist unit in contact with, orinterfingered with, a quartz-sericite-limonite unit (possiblyrepresenting rhyolitic volcanics). 

• The Gismo Zone, located approximately 2.0 kilometresnortheast of Petal, consists of a 200-metre-wide area with rock samplevalues of up to 201.3 ppb gold, 643.2 ppm copper, 109.9 ppmmolybdenum, and 2.9 g/t silver, along with soil samples with up to632.3 ppm copper. This target remains open to the east and west andshares geological similarities with the Petal Zone.  

• The Finn Zone is located approximately 1.5 kmsouthwest of Petal. Limited historical exploration and sampling inthis area located several showings consisting of malachite-stainedquartz-sericite schist, samples of which have returned up to3,082 ppm copper. Soil sampling in 2025 returned strongly anomalouscopper values of up to 2,085.8 ppm.  

• The Project is located approximately 10 kilometres westof the regional centre of Dawson City. It consists of 90 quartz claimstotalling approximately 1,820 hectares, and is accessible via anetwork of rough dirt roads leading to two active placer goldmines. Pup is situatedwithin the mineral deposit rich Yukon Tanana Terrane, host to numeroussignificant Cu-Au porphyry systems, VHMS base metal targets andorogenic gold deposits. 

Steven McMullan, P. Geo. supervised the preparation of,and reviewed and approved the scientific and technical informationcontained in, this news release. Mr. McMullan is a qualified personas defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure forMineral Projects.

For FurtherInformation

Luka Capin, Chief ExecutiveOfficer 

Email: ir@northernlightsresources.com 

Tel: +1 647 625 8669

About Northern LightsResources Corp.

Northern Lights Resources Corp is a growth-orientedexploration and development company advancing three key projects: theHoretzky Copper Project, located in the Babine Porphyry belt ofcentral British Columbia, the Pup Copper Project in west-central Yukon and the 100% owned,Secret Pass Gold Project located in Arizona. Northern Lights alsoholds a 1% NSR royalty on the Medicine Springs Silver Project inNevada 100%owned by Torex Gold Resources Inc.

Northern Lights Resources trades under the ticker of“NLR” on the CSE and on the OTC under the ticker “NLRCF”. Thisand other Northern Lights Resources news releases can be viewed atwww.sedar.com and www.northernlightsresources.com.

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