Pirate Gold Corp.

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland and Labrador, Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pirate Gold Corp. (TSXV: YARR) (OTCQB: YARRF) (“Pirate Gold” or the “Company”) announces that it has entered into an engagement letter with Canaccord Genuity Corp. (“Canaccord Genuity”) pursuant to which Canaccord Genuity and a syndicate of agents (collectively, the “Agents”) will act as agents in connection with a “best efforts” private p...

PGC-26-118: Collared approximately 100m west of discovery holes PGC-26-058 and PGC-26-068, the hole intersected 0.24% Cu Eq over 299.4m from 12.6m downhole.Higher-grade intervals: The broad interval includes 0.43% Cu Eq over 56.5m, including 0.52% Cu Eq over 35.6m, and a separate interval of 0.43% Cu Eq over 19.8m.Mineralization continues at depth: PGC-26-118 re-entered copper-gold mineralization below a mafic dyke, returning 0.23% Cu Eq over 72.7m, including 0.33% Cu Eq over 37.0m.Follow-up drilling: Assays are pending from 11 additional holes targeting Moby Dick, with visible chalcopyrite lo...

Eastern Trend shallow drilling continues to deliver high-grade assay results along its southern extension with 30.6g/t Au over 1.35m including 89.7g/t Au over 0.40m in PGC-26-112Western Trend drilling down plunge of the surface vein exposure yielded 4.25g/t Au over 6.65m including 40.8g/t Au over 0.50m in PGC-26-087Caribou Fault Zone is a newly identified parallel fault structure to the Eastern and Western Trend Faults where shallow drilling has identified significant assay grades up to 2.88g/t Au over 2.45m including 4.63g/t Au over 0.90m in PGC-26-100 Rib Vein results include 1.29 g/t Au ove...