TRU Precious Metals Corp. announced that its copper-focused exploration program at its Golden Rose Project in Western-Central Newfoundland is underway. As previously announced on April 18, 2024, exploration will be focused on the critical minerals associated with the deposit-bearing Cape Ray - Valentine Lake Shear Zone, with the view to developing a deeper understanding of the overall critical minerals potential at Golden Rose, and ideally to identifying drill targets for such minerals.

While special emphasis is on copper exploration ("Cu"), the program will also investigate other critical minerals occurrences hosting nickel ("Ni") and zinc ("Zn"), which have been identified in previous exploration activities carried out by the Company. Exploration work will include prospecting, grab (rock) sampling, reconnaissance soil sampling and trenching over interpreted critical minerals anomalies determined through previous work by TRU, historical data compilation, and recently acquired high resolution satellite and remote sensing data over the entire property. Many of the planned target areas have had limited exploration to date as Golden Rose is a historically underexplored asset.

Target areas for the exploration program will include locations for which exploration in 2021-2023 identified critical mineral anomalies in soils, rock samples and drill core. These areas include: Jacob's Pond (up to 3.42% Cu), Jacob's Twin (up to 11.0% Cu), Jacob's West (up to 1,094 ppm Cu in soils), Glenn's Prospect (up to 7.6% Cu), King George IV (up to 0.66% Cu and 1.33% Zn) and Bear Pond (up to 409 ppm Ni). The exploration program will also test a number of new opportunity areas which have been identified.