Vior Gold Corporation Inc. announced that, on March 4, 2026, it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (?Agnico Eagle?) to acquire a 100% interest in the Kinebik, Peacock and Launay properties located in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Quebec (the ?Properties?). At closing, Vior will also grant Agnico Eagle a 2% Net Smelter Return (?NSR?) Royalty on all exclusive exploration rights (?EER?) that are free of any existing royalties. On all EER and other mining titles comprising the Properties where pre-existing royalties exist, Vior will grant Agnico Eagle a 2.0% NSR royalty subject to a 1.0% buyback right for CAD 2.0 million exercisable at Vior's discretion at any time.
The parties will also enter into an investor rights agreement (?IRA?) granting Agnico Eagle certain rights, such as the right to participate in future equity financings of the Corporation and the right to designate one nominee to the board of directors of the Corporation provided that Agnico Eagle maintains at least a 5% ownership of the Corporation. In aggregate, the Properties are comprised of 1,613 EERs, representing a total surface area of more than 86,373 hectares. Kinebik is a district scale project that comprises 934 EER located in the North Volcanic Zone of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt and straddles the Cameron Shear over 55 kilometers that is interpreted as the eastern part of the prolific Casa Berardi Break.
The southeastern portion of the Kinebik block represents 10 kilometers of Cameron break located directly on strike with Cartwright and Flordin deposits. Moreover, several gold mineralization occurrences are found in a variety of rock types such as banded iron formation, felsic intrusions, quartz veins and sedimentary rocks. Directly to the southeast of Cartwright, drilling conducted in 2024 and 2025 by O3 Mining Inc. returned values of 5.1 g/t Au over 2.8 meters (Cameron Main, drillhole O3KN-24-011 unpublished by O3 Mining Inc. from SIGEOM: GM 74516).
To the North of Flordin, mineralization hosted in granodiorite returned values of 5.5 g/t Au over 6.0 metres including 30.0 g/t Au over 1.0 meter (Florence showing, SIGEOM: GM 47626) and 7.43 g/t Au over 4.08 meters (Desjardins showing, Zone 52, SIGEOM: GM53676). Most of the northwest corridor has not seen proper exploration and remains largely unexplored. Drilling permits are already obtained and Vior Gold Corporation will undertake an initial drilling program in the second quarter of this year.
In addition to this acquisition, Vior Gold Corporation recently added 260 EERs through claims designation in the Kinebik area. The Peacock Project comprises two blocks totaling 456 EER located north of the Ligneris project, 60 kilometers north of Amos. It covers the potential south extension of the Joutel Camp stratigraphy and the western extension of the volcanic package hosting the Sleeping Giant Mine.
It displays exploration potential for gold rich VMS as well as gold-bearing quartz veins. Several semi-massive sulphide (copper bearing) coincident with VTEM and gravimetric anomalies remain untested by drilling. The project also covers more than 6 kilometers of the Laflamme shear zone and the northeast extension of the Riviere Octave Formation, hosting most of the Ligneris mineralization to the southwest.
The Launay project is located near the community of Taschereau, 43 kilometers west-northwest of the town of Amos and consists of 226 EER covering 12,602 hectares. The property is in the North Volcanic Zone of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt and is underlain by the Launay Pluton, the Guyenne and Taschereau Batholiths and the volcanics rock of the Figuery and Amos groups. There has been no historical mining or gold production on the property.
Gold mineralization at Launay typically occurs within 2 contexts: (1) within quartz-carbonate veins often associated with shears, faults and breccias zone; (2) associated with disseminated sulphides within felsic intrusive rocks strongly altered in carbonate, hematite and albite. Historical drilling on the southern edge of the Launay Pluton returned values of 4.18 g/t Au over 27.8 meters including 6.92 g/t Au over 12.8 meters, 4.04 g/t Au over 15.5 meters, including 5.10 g/t Au over 11.5 meters on Zone 75 (SIGEOM: GM68983), and 5.10 g/t Au over 9.42 meters on Zone Principale (SIGEOM: GM45769).
