Emergent Metals Corp. Announces Appointment of New Director and Lead Director

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Officers of Skeena Gold + SilverTake New Roles with Emergent  

Vancouver, British Columbia –TheNewswire - February 2, 2026 – Emergent Metals Corp.(TSXV: EMR, OTC: EGMCF, FRA: EML, MUN: ELM) (“Emergent” or the “Company”) is pleasedto announce that it has appointed Robert Kiesman as an independentdirector of the Company.  Mr. Kiesman is aprivate business owner and corporate lawyer who specialized insecurities law, corporate finance, and mergers & acquisitions atStikeman Elliott LLP in Vancouver.  Until 2021, he served as the ViceChair of the Board of the Provincial Health Services Authority, apublic health authority with an annual budget of over $4 billion.  Heis the co-owner and Chief Legal Officer of Vancouver CorporateSolutions and is an experienced director and/or officer of a number ofpublic companies, including Skeena Gold + Silver (NYSE:SKE) and BeyondOil (TSX:BOIL). He is the CEO of Cora Capital Corp., which is currentlyundertaking a merger and public listing transaction with TigerFinancial Corporation, a digital banking fintech company operating inSoutheast Asia.  He has a law degree from the UBC Faculty of Law anda BA in Political Studies from Trinity Western University.

The Company is also pleased to announce that currentboard director, Andrew MacRitchie, has been appointed as the LeadDirector of the Company.  Mr. MacRitchie has been an independentdirector of Emergent since 2012.  He is a Chartered ProfessionalAccountant with over 25 years of leadership experience in publiclylisted mining companies.  He is currently the Chief Financial Officerfor Skeena Gold + Silver (NYSE:SKE)  and has played a role in raisingmore than $1.5 billion in capital during his career. He began hiscareer with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has since contributed to thesuccess of gold, silver, diamond, and base metal projects across NorthAmerica, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

David Watkinson, President and CEO of Emergent, stated,“Emergent is pleased to add Robert Kiesman to our board and we alsowelcome Andrew MacRitchie to his expanded role, as we continue to moveto strengthen the board.  The board has now five members, with fourindependent directors.  The members have diversified experience inmining engineering, geology, business, accounting, and legal, withover 100 years of combined experience in the miningindustry.”

About Emergent

Emergent is a gold and base metal exploration companyfocused on Nevada and Quebec.  The Company’s strategy is to lookfor quality acquisitions, add value to these assets throughexploration, and monetize them through sales, joint ventures, options,royalties, and other transactions to create value for our shareholders– an acquisition and divestiture (“A&D”) businessmodel.  

In Nevada, Emergent’s Golden Arrow Property is anadvanced-stage gold and silver property with a well-defined measuredand indicated resource and a Plan of Operations and EnvironmentalAssessment in place to conduct a major drilling program.  Asannounced by press release on September 29, 2025, Emergent is in theprocess of selling Golden Arrow to Fairchild Gold Corp. (TSXV:FAIR).  NewYork Canyon is an advanced-stage copper skarn and porphyry explorationproperty.  The West Santa Fe Property is a gold, silver, and basemetal property, subject to a Lease with an Option to PurchaseAgreement with Lahontan Gold Corporation (TSXV: LG).  BuckskinRawhide East is a gold and silver property leased to Rawhide MiningLLC, operators of Rawhide Mine.  

In Quebec, the Casa South Property is a goldexploration property located south of and adjacent to Hecla MiningCompany’s (NYSE:HL) operating Casa Berardi Mine and north of andadjacent to IAMGOLD Corporation’s (NYSE: IAG) GeminiTurgeon Property.  The Trecesson Property is a gold explorationproperty located about 50 km north of the Val d’Or mining camp. 

Emergent has a 1% NSR in the Troilus North Property,part of the Troilus Gold Project, being advanced by Troilus MiningCorporation (TSX:TLG) toward production.  The Company has a 1%NSR in the East-West Property, part of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited(NYSE: AEM) Canadian Malartic Complex.  Emergentalso has a 1% NSR on the York Property, part of Lahontan Gold’s(TSXV:LG) Santa Fe Project in Nevada is also being advanced towardproduction.

Note that the location of Emergent’s propertiesadjacent to producing or past-producing mines or advanced-stageproperties does not guarantee exploration success at Emergent’sproperties or that mineral resources or reserves will be delineated. 

Qualified Person

All scientific and technical information disclosed inthis new release was reviewed and approved by David Watkinson, P.Eng.,an employee of Emergent and a non-independent qualified person underNational Instrument 43-101.

For more information on the Company, investors shouldreview the Company’s website at www.emergentmetals.com orview the Company’s filings available at www.sedarplus.ca.

On behalf of the Board ofDirectors
David G. Watkinson, P.Eng.
President & CEO

For further information, please contact:

David G. Watkinson, P.Eng.
Tel: 530-271-0679 Ext 101
Email: info@emergentmetals.com

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor itsRegulation Services Provider (as the term is defined in the policiesof the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacyor accuracy of this release.

Cautionary Note onForward-Looking Statements

Certain information contained in this news releaseconstitutes “forward-looking information” or “forward-lookingstatements” (collectively, “forward-looking information”).Without limiting the foregoing, such forward-looking informationincludes statements regarding the process and completion of theOffering, the use of proceeds of the Offering, and any statementsregarding the Company’s business plans, expectations, andobjectives. In this news release, words such as “may”,“would”, “could”, “will”, “likely”, “believe”,“expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”,“estimate”, and similar words and the negative form thereof areused to identify forward-looking information. Forward-lookinginformation should not be read as guarantees of future performance orresults, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether,or the times at or by which, such future performance will be achieved.Forward-looking information is based on information available at thetime and/or the Company management’s good faith belief with respectto future events and is subject to known or unknown risks,uncertainties, assumptions, and other unpredictable factors, many ofwhich are beyond the Company’s control. For additional informationwith respect to these and other factors and assumptions underlying theforward-looking information made in this news release, see theCompany’s most recent Management’s Discussion and Analysis andfinancial statements and other documents filed by the Company with theCanadian securities commissions and the discussion of risk factors setout therein. Such documents are available at www.sedarplus.ca underthe Company’s profile and on the Company’s website,https://emergentmetals.com/. The forward-looking information set forthherein reflects the Company’s expectations as at the date of thisnews release and is subject to change after such date.  The Companydisclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise anyforward-looking information, whether as a result of new information,future events, or otherwise, other than as required by law.

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