Great Atlantic Resources Corp. [TSXV: GR] has received analytical results for stream sediment samples collected during 2024 at its 100% owned Kagoot Brook Cobalt Property, located in northern New Brunswick.

Ten consecutive stream sediment samples over an approximately 900 metres long section of a stream returned anomalous cobalt values in the 149-610 parts per million (ppm) range confirming reported cobalt anomalies. This included five consecutive highly anomalous cobalt values returning in 360-610 ppm range over an approximately 390 metres in length.

The Kagoot Brook Property consists of one mineral claim covering an area of approximately 767 hectares, covering reported historical cobalt stream and spring sediment / silt geochemical anomalies, with some samples reported from two streams (tributaries of Kagoot Brook) reported to be highly anomalous for cobalt.

Such anomalies were reported by the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources in the early 1980s along two northeast trending streams, one flowing from the southwest to north-central region of the Kagoot Brook property and the other stream within the eastern region of the property. Five samples from these streams were reported to return highly anomalous cobalt values in the 801-1316 ppm range (Davies, 1982).

Highly anomalous cobalt stream silt anomalies were reported in the areas of these streams by Brunswick Mining and Smelting Corp. in the mid-1980s including multiple samples reported to exceed 1,000 ppm cobalt (Brown, 1985) and during 2018 by Explorex Resources Inc. including samples reported to exceed 1,000 ppm cobalt (up to 3,190 ppm cobalt) (Kemp, 2019).

The 2024 stream sediment sampling was conducted along the eastern stream for which cobalt stream sediment/silt anomalies were previously reported. Eleven stream sediment samples were collected from the stream bed during 2024 with samples collected at approximately 100-metre spacings along the stream along an approximately 970 metres long section of the stream.

All but the northern-most sample exceeded 100 ppm for cobalt (149-610 ppm). The three southern-most samples returned anomalous cobalt values of 205 ppm, 149 ppm and 198 ppm. The next five samples along an approximaterly 390 metres long section of the stream returned highly anomalous cobalt values of 360 ppm, 610 ppm, 424 pm, 487 ppm and 547 ppm. The next two samples returned anomalous cobalt values of 167 ppm and 193 ppm. The northern-most stream sediment sample returned 19 ppm cobalt.

The 2025 stream sediment samples were analyzed by ALS Canada Ltd. which is independent of Great Atlantic.. The samples also returned up to 336 ppm zinc and 196 ppm nickel.

Great Atlantic has not identified the source of the cobalt stream sediment anomalies identified during the 2024 sampling. The company is planning focused prospecting, rock-soil geochemical sampling and geophysical surveys in the area of the five central highly anomalous samples (360-610 ppm Co) and the area upstream of these samples.

Great Atlantic is planning similar stream sediment sampling during 2026 for the second stream in the southwest to north-central regions of the property in areas of reported cobalt stream sediment/silt anomalies. Great Atlantic has not confirmed cobalt anomalies to date along this second stream.

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