Nord Precious Metals Announces Investor Awareness Agreement

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Vancouver, B.C. – February 17, 2026– TheNewswire - Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc.("Nord" or the "Company") (TSXV: NTH, OTCQB:CCWOF, FF: QN3) announces that the Company has enteredinto an Investor Awareness Agreement with Baystreet.ca Media Corp.dated February 11, 2026 (the “Agreement”) whereby the services tobe provided by Baystreet will include branding services,communications, advisory and general consulting services.

The consulting services to be provided by Baystreet shall include, butare not limited to, SEO, digital media campaigns for branding, MediaConsulting, General Business Development, Multimedia services andProject Management. Baystreet will also write and distribute weeklyticker tag articles highlighting the company in sector based analysis,as well as news based tags when the company has a new event as outlined in the Agreement for a fee of $81,526 + gst for aterm of six months upon acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange.

Baystreet and the Company are not related parties andoperate at arm’s length.  Neither Baystreet nor its principalshave any interest in the Company’s securities, directly orindirectly, or any right or intent to acquire such an interest.

Qualified Person

The technical information in this news release was approved andprepared under the supervision of Mr. Frank J. Basa, P.Eng. (PEO),director of Nord Precious Metals, a qualified person in accordancewith National Instrument 43-101.

About Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc.

Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc. operates TTL Laboratories, the onlypermitted high-grade milling facility in the historic Cobalt Camp ofOntario, where the Company has established an integrated positionconnecting high-grade silver discovery with strategic metals recoveryoperations.

The Company's flagship Castle property encompasses 58 sq. km ofexploration ground and the past-producing Castle Mine, complemented bythe Castle East discovery where drilling has delineated 7.56 millionounces of silver in a now historic, Inferred resource grading anaverage of 8,582 g/t Ag (250.2 oz/ton) in 27,400 tonnes of materialfrom two sections (1A and 1B) of the Castle East Robinson Zone,beginning at a vertical depth of approximately 400 metres. Mineralresources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstratedeconomic viability. Please refer to the Nord Precious Metals PressRelease of May 27, 2020, for the resource estimate. The above resourceis now considered an historical resource. Insufficient work has beendone to categorize the above historical estimate as current.Significant additional diamond drilling and analytical work along withmodelling is required before a new resource estimate can be compiled.

Nord's integrated processing strategy enables multiple metalrecovery streams. High-grade silver recovery supports the economics ofextracting critical minerals including cobalt, nickel, and otherbattery metals. The Re-2Ox hydrometallurgical process, validated atpilot scale through SGS Lakefield, eliminates the typical arsenicbarriers in complex silver-cobalt ores while producing battery-gradecobalt sulphate and other metal products to customer specifications.This multi-metal approach, combined with established infrastructureincluding TTL Laboratories and underground mine access, positions Nordwithin Ontario's emerging critical minerals supply chain.

The Company maintains a strategic portfolio of battery metalsproperties in Northern Quebec including its 35% ownership in ConiagasBattery Metals Inc. (TSXV: COS), as well as the St. Denis-Sangsterlithium project comprising 32 square kilometres of prospective groundnear Cochrane, Ontario.

More information is available at www.nordpreciousmetals.com.

For further information pleasecontact:

Frank J. Basa, P.Eng.

Chief Executive Officer

416-625-2342

or

Wayne Cheveldayoff

Corporate Communications

P: 416-710-2410

E: waynecheveldayoff@gmail.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains statements that constitute"forward-looking statements." Such forward-lookingstatements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and otherfactors that may cause the Company's actual results, performanceor achievements, or developments in the industry to differ materiallyfrom the anticipated results, performance or achievements expressed orimplied by such forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are statements that are nothistorical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by thewords "expects," "plans," "anticipates,""believes," "intends," "estimates,""projects," "potential" and similar expressions,or that events or conditions "will," "would,""may," "could" or "should" occur.

Forward-looking statements in this document includestatements regarding: the expectation that the Company will receiveExchange approval for the Proposed Transaction; the potential forsilver recovery from tailings; the Company's processingcapabilities and integrated strategy; and the anticipated benefits ofOntario's regulatory and funding frameworks.

Although the Company believes the forward-lookinginformation contained in this news release is reasonable based oninformation available on the date hereof, by their natureforward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results,performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materiallydifferent from any future results, performance or achievementsexpressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Examples of such assumptions, risks and uncertaintiesinclude, without limitation, assumptions, risks and uncertaintiesassociated with: general economic conditions; adverse industry events;future legislative and regulatory developments; the Company'sability to access sufficient capital from internal and externalsources; inability to access sufficient capital on favourable terms;the ability of the Company to implement its business strategies;competition; the ability of the Company to obtain and retain allapplicable regulatory and other approvals; commodity pricefluctuations; and other assumptions, risks and uncertainties.

THE FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NEWSRELEASE REPRESENTS THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE COMPANY AS OF THE DATE OFTHIS NEWS RELEASE AND, ACCORDINGLY, IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AFTER SUCHDATE. READERS SHOULD NOT PLACE UNDUE IMPORTANCE ON FORWARD-LOOKINGINFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT RELY UPON THIS INFORMATION AS OF ANY OTHERDATE. WHILE THE COMPANY MAY ELECT TO, IT DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO UPDATETHIS INFORMATION AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME EXCEPT AS REQUIRED INACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange norits Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in thepolicies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for theadequacy or accuracy of this release.

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