Focus Graphite Proclaims Remaining Outcomes From 2022 Drill Program at Lac Tetepisca; West Limb Extends Mineralized Strike to eight KM

Outcomes Place Lac Tetepisca for a Mineral Useful resource Replace and Subsequent-Part Metallurgical Development

Focus Graphite Inc. (TSXV: FMS,OTC:FCSMF) (OTCQB: FCSMF) (FSE: FKC0) (“Focus” or the “Firm”), a number one developer of high-grade flake graphite deposits and innovator of next-generation lithium-ion battery expertise, studies the ultimate assay outcomes from its 2022 exploration and definition drilling program on the Firm’s 100%-owned Lac Tetepisca Graphite Undertaking (the “Undertaking”). In the present day’s disclosure contains outcomes from the remaining twenty-two (22) drill holes on the West Limb, together with complementary outcomes from six (6) beforehand disclosed holes within the Southwest extension of the Manicouagan-Ouest Graphitic Hall (“MOGC”) flake graphite deposit.

These outcomes lengthen the drilled strike size of mineralization to roughly eight (8) kilometers alongside a folded construction. All assay outcomes from the 2022 drill marketing campaign have now been acquired and launched.

Highlights

• Remaining assay outcomes acquired from the Focus’s 2022 Lac Tetepisca drill program drill program have now been acquired, finishing 74 drill holes totalling 14,900.5 meters and 11,824 assays and enabling the Firm to proceed with an up to date Mineral Useful resource Estimate in Q1 2026.
• Outcomes from the 22 West Limb and 6 Southwest MOGC holes lengthen confirmed graphite mineralization alongside a roughly 8-km strike size, considerably increasing the dimensions of the Lac Tetepisca system.
• A number of West Limb holes returned vital graphite intervals, kind of aligned on strike alongside one of many aeromagnetic anomalies, together with:
  • 39.16 m (true) @ 9.02% Cg, together with 10.50 m @ 24.49% Cg (LT-22-160)
  • 12.55 m (true) @ 8.90% Cg and 24.97 m (true) @ 6.43% Cg (LT-22-161)
  • 10.98 m (true) @ 8.17% Cg and a number of extra mineralized horizons (LT-22-162)
• Drilling on the Southwest MOGC intersected a second, structurally distinct mineralized horizon, highlighted by:
  • 20.19 m (true) @ 9.71% Cg, together with 8.61 m @ 14.76% Cg (LT-22-141)
• Completion of the complete assay dataset represents a serious technical milestone, positioning Focus to reassess the dimensions, continuity, and growth potential of Lac Tetepisca because it advances towards metallurgical, purification, and downstream utility testing.

Dean Hanisch, Chief Government Officer of Focus Graphite, acknowledged, “The completion of all assays from our 2022 drilling program gives the entire dataset required to advance an up to date Mineral Useful resource Estimate, anticipated in Q1 2026. The present maiden useful resource predates all 2022 drilling, and the outcomes affirm significant improve potential throughout the Lac Tetepisca system.”

Whereas mineralized intervals intersected within the West Limb are to not the identical extent than these in the primary MOGC deposit, it demonstrated the continuity of the broad low grade graphitic mineralization on this space, at a special stratigraphic stage than on the South Limb the place MOGC is positioned. The extent of this low-grade zone is seemingly enough to be thought-about within the incoming Mineral Useful resource Estimate (“MRE“) replace deliberate for Q1 2026.Regardless of being decrease grade, definition of, “vital mineralization” is outlined as intercepts grading ≥5.0% graphitic carbon (“Cg”) over a minimal true thickness of 6.0 metres, with inside dilution set at a most of seven.0 consecutive metres and no exterior dilution. This definition has been maintained to be in line with earlier releases.

MOGC Useful resource Background

The MOGC flake graphite deposit is a part of the Firm’s Lac Tetepisca Undertaking, positioned southwest of the Manicouagan Reservoir on the Nitassinan of the Pessamit Innu First Nation, in Quebec’s Cote-Nord area. The MOGC is at present outlined by a linear 1.5 km lengthy section of an 8 km lengthy folded geophysical magnetic-electromagnetic anomaly that tendencies N035°. The April 4, 2022 NI 43-101 Technical Report, ready by DRA America’s Inc. (“DRA“), outlines a pit-constrained Indicated Useful resource of 59.3 million tonnes (Mt) grading 10.61% Graphitic Carbon (Cg) for an estimated content material of 6.3 Mt of pure flake graphite (in-situ), and an Inferred Useful resource of 14.9 Mt grading 11.06% Cg for an estimated content material of 1.6 Mt of pure flake graphite. This maiden useful resource predates all drilling accomplished in 2022. An up to date MRE incorporating all 2022 drill holes is anticipated in Q1 2026.

The present maiden resource-which positions the MOGC as one of many largest flake graphite deposits in North America-is detailed within the NI 43-101 Technical Report Mineral Useful resource Estimate Lac Tetepisca Graphite Undertaking, Quebec, ready by DRA and dated April 4, 2022. The reporst is obtainable on the Firm’s profile at www.sedarplus.ca/ on the Firm’s profile. This maiden useful resource predates all drilling accomplished in 2022. As demonstrated in earlier releases, the 2022 drill program prolonged the mineralization at depth and to the southwest, and now to the West Limb.

2022 Exploration and Definition Drill Program

Focus accomplished 74 diamond drill holes totalling 14,900.5 metres between March 3 and November 17, 2022 on the Undertaking. Program goals of the exploration and definition drilling program have been twofold:

1. Full systematic definition drilling alongside strike and at depth of the MOGC deposit to help the conversion of Inferred sources to the Indicated class and to develop the full mineral useful resource estimate.

2. Check the graphite abundance that is likely to be the reason for the magnetic and aeromagnetic anomaly extending from the MOGC towards the Southwest extension and West Limb.

Previous to this launch, the Firm disclosed full outcomes from twenty-seven (27) definition holes drilled alongside strike of the MOGC deposit, partial outcomes for eighteen (18) exploration holes on the Southwest MOGC goal and 7 (7) exploration holes on the West Limb goal.

The remaining outcomes from West Limb (22 holes, Desk 1, Determine 1) and Southwest MOGC (6 holes, Desk 3, Determine 1) are offered herein. All assays outcomes for the 2022 marketing campaign are actually full.

Additionally included are minor corrections of beforehand launched outcomes for 2 (2) West Limb holes (Desk 2, Determine 1).

One aborted gap (LT-22-147) within the Southwest MOGC goal was deserted on account of technical/drilling difficulties and was efficiently re-drilled and underneath the LT-22-172 moniker.

Please seek the advice of the Firm’s web site at www.focusgraphite.com for earlier information releases containing analytical highlights from the 2022 exploration and deep definition drilling program on the Lac Tetepisca undertaking, in addition to relevant location maps.

West Limb: Exploration Drill Outcomes

The West Limb zone consists of the opposite section of the regionally folded aeromagnetic anomaly and hosts as much as three time-parallel aeromagnetic anomalies interpreted as potential stratigraphic duplication or tectonic imbrication inside the folded construction. A complete of twenty-nine (29) exploration holes (5,421.6 m) have been drilled on totally different segments of the anomalies, of which ends from seven (7) on the southeastmost anomaly have been beforehand launched (Could 28, 2025). The twenty-two (22) exploration holes launched in the present day (Desk 1) affirm constant graphitic horizons and highlighted the structural complexity of the world. Six (6) drill holes intersected vital graphitic mineralization, together with:

Gap LT-22-120

• Drilled at 300°/-45° to a vertical depth of 121.76 metres on Part L19+00NW, intersected 13.22 metres (true thickness) grading 5.16% Cg (from 19.00 to 32.70 metres core size).

Gap LT-22-158

• Drilled at 300°/-45° to a vertical depth of 138.39 metres on Part L07+00NW, intersected 9.98 metres (true thickness) grading 5.77% Cg (from 26.75 to 37.00 metres core size).

Gap LT-22-159

• Drilled at 300°/-45° to a vertical depth of 199.97 metres on Part L22+00NW, intersected 7.56 metres (true thickness) grading 8.75% Cg (from 192.15 to 199.90 metres core size).

Gap LT-22-160

Gap LT-22-161

Gap LT-22-162

Correction to Beforehand Launched Outcomes (Desk 2)

Gap LT-22-112

Southwest MOGC: Exploration Drill Outcomes

The Southwest MOGC was examined with eighteen (18) exploration holes totalling 2,838.8 metres, all beforehand launched (11 July 2024 and 28 could 2025). Complementary assay outcomes for six (6) holes are launched in the present day (Desk 3). 5 (5) of those holes intersected vital graphitic intervals beneath a thick layer of barren paragneiss, indicating stratigraphic duplication or tectonic complexities that have been beforehand unnoticed.

Gap LT-22-141

Gap LT-22-142

• Drilled at 350°/-45° to a vertical depth of 71.30 metres on Part L00+00SW, intersected 10.95 metres (true thickness) grading 6.70% Cg (from 30.00 to 42.00 metres core size).

Gap LT-22-143

• Drilled at 350°/-45° to a vertical depth of 128.19 metres on Part L01+75SW, intersected 6.35 metres (true thickness) grading 8.94% Cg (from 127.15 to 134.15 metres core size).

Gap LT-22-144

Gap LT-22-146

• Drilled at 350°/-45° to a vertical depth of 72.12 metres on Part L03+50SW, intersected 8.96 metres (true thickness) grading 5.05% Cg (from 40.50 to 50.50 metres core size).

The graphitic zones intersected on the Southwest MOGC and West limb goal are thinner or of decrease grade than these within the MOGC deposit and seem like partially positioned at totally different stratigraphic ranges. Ongoing 3-D structural goals to combine the West Limb and Southwest targets with the primary MOGC mineralized system.

Determine 1 – Location of the drill holes and drill gap sections mentioned in in the present day’s information launch

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Desk 1 – Highlights from the twenty-two (22) exploration holes drilled on the West limb MOGC goal in 2022 launched in the present day

 

Desk 2 – Correction to beforehand launch highlights grades outcomes.

 

Desk 3 – Highlights from the six (6) exploration holes drilled on the Southwest MOGC goal in 2022 with hosts rock outcomes and launched in the present day

Notes:

(1) True thicknesses are reported on this information launch and are based mostly on the native dip of the mineralised envelope as calculated on 3-D mannequin. Core descriptions, sampling info and analytical outcomes have been captured in Geotic™ core logging software program after which used with LeapFrog Geo software program for tri-dimensional (3-D) rendering. The three-D mineralisation envelope of MOGC has an azimuth of N035.5° and dips at -58.5° to the south-east. The drill holes crosscut the envelope of the primary mineralised zone’s strike (80°) and dips (60^o) at excessive angle.
(2) “Finest intercepts” and “vital graphitic mineralisation” are outlined as Cg grading a minimal of 5.0% over at the very least 6.0 m with inside dilution set at a most of seven.0 m consecutive and no exterior dilution. “Finest sub-intercepts” are outlined as Cg grading a minimal of 10.0% over 6.0 m with similar limitations on dilution. The 5% cg and 10% Cg cut-offs are used solely to delineate the extent of the mineralised envelopes similar to “Finest intercepts” and “Finest sub-intercepts”, respectively. Financial cut-offs based mostly on geological, metallurgical, mining, and financial elements, parameters and issues might be decided as a part of the mineral useful resource estimate replace deliberate for the Lac Tétépisca undertaking later via subsequent technical research.
(3) Barren core intervals inside the mineralised envelope of the MOGC that weren’t analysed are thought-about as 0.0% Cg inside dilution.
(4) Analyses have been carried out by Activation Laboratories of Ancaster, Ont., an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 licensed facility utilizing combustion in induction furnace and infrared spectrometry (code 4F – C-Graphitic) and are reported as graphitic carbon (Cg) and complete sulphur (code 4F-S), with about 10% of the pattern duplicated for high quality management analyzed by COREM. Apart from holes 145 and 146, the place all of the samples have been analysed by COREM and the cross checks by ACTLABS for high quality management.
(5) QA/QC program: IOS launched 17% reference samples, together with licensed and inside reference supplies, duplicates, and clean samples. 9.7 p.c of the drill core samples have been duplicated and re-analyzed by COREM for graphitic, complete, natural and inorganic carbon in addition to complete sulphur (or by ACTLABS for duplicated samples in holes 145 and 146). The identical 9.7 % of the drill core samples have been additionally analysed by ACTLABS Laboratories of Ancaster, Ontario (ISO/IEC 17025:2005 with CAN-P-1579) for hint metals by ICP-MS after aqua-regia digestion (code 1E2).

2022 Drill Program: Design, Operation, and High quality Management

The 2022 drilling program was designed and operated by IOS Geosciences Inc. (IOS) of Saguenay, Quebec, underneath the supervision of Desk Jamésienne de Concertation Minière (TJCM) of Chibougamau, Quebec, performing as technical adviser to the Firm. Drilling was carried out by Forage G4 of Val-d’Or, Quebec utilizing a single drill rig.

Pattern Preparation and Evaluation

Beginning in March 2022, drill core packing containers for every gap, as soon as logged, have been packaged by sequential numbers onto pallets within the discipline by IOS personnel after which shipped by truck each two weeks to IOS’s amenities in Saguenay the place they’re at present archived. Sampling has been performed with a diamond noticed, with NQ-diameter core from the Southwest MOGC and West Limb targets being halved, whereas all HQ-diameter core from the MOGC deposit being quartered. Pattern preparation work at IOS consisting of crushing and grinding and the insertion within the pattern sequences of QA/QC samples. A complete of 545 pulverized splits from the at present disclosed set of drill holes have been despatched to Activation Laboratories in Ancaster, Ontario (ISO/IEC 17025:2005 with CAN-P-1579) for graphitic carbon (code 4F – C-Graphitic) and complete sulphur evaluation (code 4F – S) utilizing an Eltra® induction furnace with infrared spectroscopy. Nonetheless, holes 145 and 146 adopted the method previous to the inversion of the laboratories (Corem as first laboratory and verification by actlabs). The 14 samples from holes 145 and 146 have been analysed by COREM for graphitic carbon (code B10) and complete sulphur (code B41). The subset of 9.7% of samples was additionally analyzed for 40 hint ingredient evaluation utilizing ICP-OES and ICP-MS after an aqua-regia digestion at Activation Laboratories (Code 1E2 – Aqua Regia). This brings the full variety of core samples analyzed underneath the undertaking to greater than 9,800, excluding reference supplies and duplicates.

High quality Assurance / High quality Management

The analytical high quality management program for the Lac Tetepisca undertaking has been applied by an IOS registered chemist and is equivalent to the one used for earlier drill applications at Lac Tetepisca and on the Firm’s Lac Knife undertaking. Underneath the QA/QC program, a complete of 54 duplicates of the core samples, or 9.7 %, have been analysed by the 2 chosen laboratories. The present set of analyses included 52 duplicates of the core samples which have been re-analyzed by COREM for graphitic carbon duplicated analyses (code B10), complete sulphur (code B41), complete carbon (code B45), natural carbon (code B58) and inorganic carbon (code B11) and the two duplicates of the core samples from holes 145 and 146 have been re-analyzed by Activation Laboratories for graphitic carbon (code 4F – C-Graphitic) and complete sulphur evaluation (code 4F – S), in accordance with the QAQC plan when these holes are handled. A complete of 105 reference supplies (about 17% of all of the samples analysed) have been inserted within the pattern sequences, both licensed or inside reference materials samples (CDN-GR1, CMRI12, Oreas-723, OREAS-724, OREAS-725, CGL-004, NCS-DC-60119), duplicates (quarter-split core or grinding duplicates), and preparation and analyses blanks, not together with those inserted by the assaying laboratories.

Certified Individual

The technical content material disclosed on this information launch was reviewed and permitted by Rejean Girard, P.Geo. (QC), President of IOS Geosciences Inc., a guide to the Firm, and a professional individual as outlined underneath Nationwide Instrument NI-43-101.

In regards to the Lac Tetepisca Graphite Undertaking

Focus Graphite’s 100%-owned Lac Tetepisca Graphite Undertaking is within the Southwest Manicouagan reservoir space of the Cote-Nord area of Quebec, certainly one of North America’s main rising flake graphite districts. The undertaking lies on the Nitassinan of the Pessamit Innu First Nation, 234 km north-northwest of the town of Baie-Comeau, an industrial metropolis positioned the place the Manicouagan River intersects the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It contains two contiguous properties, Lac Tetepisca and Lac Tetepisca Nord. Collectively, the 2 properties type a block of 126 map-designated claims (complete space: 6,785.14 ha). Focus bought a 100% unencumbered curiosity of the mineral rights within the 67 CDC claims constituting the unique Lac Tetepisca property from a 3rd celebration in August 2011. The Lac Tetepisca Nord property was map-staked by the Firm in 2012. The Lac Tetepisca Undertaking is accessible year-round by the use of a community of secondary gravel roads that stretch north from Freeway 389, 10 km to the south of the Manic 5 hydroelectric energy station.

From 2014 to 2021, Focus examined the Manicouagan-Ouest Graphitic Hall with 106 drill holes drilled over a 1.4 km strike size (complete: 16,468 metres). The drilling fashioned the idea of a NI 43-101 maiden mineral useful resource estimate (MRE) for the Lac Tetepisca graphite undertaking with the MRE technical report filed on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca/) on April 5, 2022. The mineral useful resource estimate, ready by DRA International Restricted’s Montreal workplace, features a pit-constrained Indicated useful resource for the MOGC prospect on the Lac Tetepisca undertaking of 59.3 million tonnes (Mt) grading 10.61% Graphitic Carbon (Cg) for an estimated content material of 6.3 Mt of pure flake graphite (in-situ), plus an Inferred useful resource of 14.9 Mt grading 11.06% Cg for an estimated content material of 1.6 Mt of pure flake graphite.

Extra maps of the Lac Tetepisca property exhibiting the placement of the MOGC graphite deposit, together with up to date drill sections, can be found on the Firm’s web site at www.focusgraphite.com.

About Focus Graphite Superior Supplies Inc.

Focus Graphite Superior Supplies is redefining the way forward for important minerals with two 100% owned world-class graphite initiatives and cutting-edge battery expertise. Our flagship Lac Knife undertaking stands as one of the vital superior high-purity graphite deposits in North America, with a totally accomplished feasibility research. Lac Knife is about to turn into a key provider for the battery, defence, and superior supplies industries.

Our Lac Tetepisca undertaking additional strengthens our portfolio, with the potential to be one of many largest and highest-purity and grade graphite deposits in North America. At Focus, we transcend mining – we’re pioneering environmentally sustainable processing options and progressive battery applied sciences, together with our patent-pending silicon-enhanced spheroidized graphite, designed to boost battery efficiency and effectivity.

Our dedication to innovation ensures a chemical-free, eco-friendly provide chain from mine to market. Collaboration is on the core of our imaginative and prescient. We actively associate with trade leaders, analysis establishments, and authorities businesses to speed up the commercialization of next-generation graphite supplies. As a North American firm, we’re devoted to securing a resilient, regionally sourced provide of important minerals – decreasing dependence on foreign-controlled markets and driving the transition to a sustainable future.

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