Cascadia Minerals Ltd. announced that diamond drilling has commenced at its Catch Property, following up on last season's discovery of a significant new copper-gold porphyry system. The Catch Property is located in central Yukon, approximately 10 km from an all-season highway and powerline. It lies within an extension of the Stikine terrane ?

a key geological setting which extends from the Golden Triangle in British Columbia to Yukon. Catch Exploration Plans: 1,200 m phase 1 diamond drill program at the Spark Zoneis underway, comprising a minimum of two holes; Diamond drilling will follow up on a new porphyry discovery made in 2023, with hole CA-23-002 returning 116.60 m of 0.31% copper with 0.30 g/t gold; Planned hole A will target a stronger portion of the IP chargeability anomaly 315 m southeast of 2023 drilling; Planned hole B will step out 150 m north from CA-23-002, targeting a magnetic low coincident with high chargeability and resistivity; and Comprehensive property-wide prospecting, mapping and soil sampling at Catch will advance up to ten additional copper-gold targets. Catch Property: In 2023, Cascadia conducted the inaugural diamond drill program at the Catch Property, which resulted in the drill confirmation of a significant new copper-gold porphyry discovery at the Spark Zone.

Two holes were completed at this target in 2023, both of which encountered mineralization. Hole CA-23-002 returned 116.60 m of 0.31% copper with 0.30 g/t gold from 356.00 m and CA-23-001 returned 45.83 m of 0.30% copper with 0.15 g/t gold from surface. These holes are the only two drill holes completed at the Spark Zone and have not yet seen any follow-up work.

Diamond drilling for this season is now underway at the Spark Zone with planned Hole A targeting a 315 m southeast step-out from hole CA-23-002. This significant step-out targets a stronger and broader portion of the IP chargeability anomaly, coincident with a zone of high resistivity that could be indicative of potassic alteration. A small zone of potassic alteration was encountered in CA-23-002, which returned 0.95% copper and 0.96 g/t goldover 2.48 m from 437.52 m, confirming the higher-grade nature of potassic alteration in the system.

Planned hole B will test a zone of high chargeability and resistivity at depth, 150 m north of CA-23-002, coincident with a region of pronounced low magnetic response. This hole will test deeper in the system than last year's drilling and targets a potential extension of mineralization from hole CA-23-002 towards an area of stronger resistivity, which may represent potassic alteration. Numerous additional drill holes at the Spark Zone have been planned, and Cascadia is positioned to move ahead with an expanded program if financing conditions and results of the first phase of work are favourable.

A comprehensive prospecting, mapping and soil sampling program is also underway focusing on underexplored portions of the 117 km2 property. Ten additional targets have been prioritized for follow-up rock sampling based on results of previous soil sampling and an airborne ZTEM survey. A 1.6 x 0.6 km copper-in-soil anomaly with an associated 500 x 500 m magnetic low (analogous to the Spark zone) located 10 km southeast of CA-23-002 has been identified as a high priority.

Multiple zones of anomalous copper-in-soil response located in the central and eastern portions of the property that have yet to see follow-up prospecting will also be assessed in this field program. Crews are also working to improve Cascadia's understanding of the Volt Zone, where abundant high-grade copper-gold surface float is present, but limited diamond drilling has yet to intersect similar mineralization in bedrock. The Volt Zone occurs within a localized landslide, which has shifted surface mineralization from source by several hundred metres.

Crews will work upslope from the slide area to locate the original bedrock source of mineralization.