Vault Strategic Engages Pioneer For Mag Survey As Follow Up To Widespread Anomalous Tungsten Values Up To 1,100 PPM And Manganese Values Up To 4,430 PPM At War Bond, Nevada

Vault Strategic Engages Pioneer For Mag Survey As Follow Up To Widespread Anomalous Tungsten Values Up To 1,100 PPM And Manganese Values Up To 4,430 PPM At War Bond, Nevada

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - JULY 24th, 2026 – TheNewswire - VAULT STRATEGIC MINING CORP. (TSXV: KNOX) (OTCID: KNXFF) (FSE: M850) (WKN: A41WE4) ("VAULT" OR THE "COMPANY") is pleased to announce that it has engaged Pioneer Exploration Consultants Ltd. (“Pioneer”) to conduct the Company’s previously announced high-resolution, UAV-based airborne magnetic survey at its War Bond Tungsten Project (“War Bond”) in Nevada, USA. War Bond encompasses the historical War Bond, Tactite and Thursday tungsten mines. Nevada was ranked as the number one mining jurisdiction in the Fraser Institute’s Annual Survey of Mining Companies released on February 26th, 2026.

The planned survey will comprise approximately 70 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic data collection using tightly spaced 25-metre flight lines and 250-metre perpendicular tie lines. This configuration is designed to provide high-density geophysical coverage across the Project and assist in identifying magnetic features, structural trends and geological contacts that may be associated with tungsten-bearing tactite and skarn mineralization over areas of soil and aeolian sand cover.

The magnetic survey represents an important follow-up to the Company’s recently completed Phase 1 surface sampling program. A total of 42 samples, comprising 30 rock-chip samples and 12 soil samples, were collected from six field areas and submitted to ALS Geochemistry in Reno, Nevada, for analysis. Tungsten has a large ion that does not easily fit in common geologic minerals, so it has a very low normal geochemical background of 1 - 3 ppm. The Company’s Phase 1 sampling returned tungsten values of up to 1,100 parts per million (“ppm”) from rock-chip sampling. Three samples collected from the Caved Adit area returned an average of 780 ppm tungsten, while soil samples collected along an interpreted structural trend returned values of up to 187 ppm tungsten. The strongest tungsten results were associated with garnet-bearing tactite and a broader molybdenum-bismuth-copper-manganese pathfinder-element signature.

The Company intends to integrate the high-resolution magnetic data with the Phase 1 sampling results and available historical information to better define the geological and structural controls on mineralization. The combined dataset is expected to refine priority exploration targets, guide follow-up mapping and sampling, support drill-target generation and drill-permitting activities and contribute to the technical foundation for the Company’s maiden NI 43-101 technical report being prepared by veteran geologist William “Bill” Feyerabend and Amazona Enterprises, as announced on July 15, 2026.

Quinn Field-Dyte, Chief Executive Officer of Vault Strategic Mining Corp., stated: “The planned drone-borne magnetic survey and our recent Phase 1 sampling results represent two highly complementary components of our exploration strategy at War Bond. This expanding modern dataset will also support the maiden NI 43-101 technical report being prepared by Bill Feyerabend and Amazona Enterprises. We believe War Bond’s historical production, Nevada location and emerging exploration model position the Project as a compelling North American tungsten opportunity at a time when secure domestic supplies of critical minerals are becoming increasingly important.”

Phase 1 Geochemistry Highlights Tungsten values are strongly anomalous across most sampled areas, with rock assays up to 1,100 ppm W (0.11% W), approximately three orders of magni...