Midland and SOQUEM Discover New Copper, Gold and Silver Boulders and Showings on Nachicapau

MONTREAL, Sept. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Midland Exploration Inc. (“Midland”) (TSX-V: MD) , in partnership with SOQUEM Inc. (“SOQUEM”) , is pleased to announce the results of the 2026 exploration campaign on the Nachicapau project (Figure 1). This exploration program follows the discovery, between 2022 and 2025, of copper, gold and silver occurrences along a 4-km-long by 1.5-km-wide corridor. These new results are reported under the Strategic Alliance between Midland and SOQUEM (the “Alliance”) in the Labrador Trough in Nunavik, Quebec.

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The 2026 sampling campaign was conducted over a period of 5 days in June, during which a total of 54 rock samples were collected. The campaign was designed to follow up on chargeability and conductivity anomalies outlined by the Orevision ® induced polarization survey conducted in 2025 (figures 2 and 3).

Assay results reveal that ten (10) grab samples show grades equal to or greater than 0.10% Cu, including four (4) samples above 1.00% Cu, reaching up to 26.8% Cu. Anomalous gold values above 0.1 g/t Au are associated with these samples, while three (3) samples exhibit silver values reaching up to 238 g/t Ag. These results highlight a close relationship between Cu, Au, Ag mineralization and the presence of monzonite dykes, alkalic ultramafic units, and regional structural features. Best results obtained in grab samples are listed in Table 1.

Digenite, Bornite and Malachite Mineralization Associated with Monzonite Dykes

The best results of the June 2026 campaign were obtained in grab samples collected in boulders, consisting of calcite-dolomite-quartz veins crosscutting a monzonite. The mineralization is characterized by the presence of centimetre-scale patches of digenite and malachite within the veins and in their selvages (Figure 4a to 4c). Hematite is a common accessory mineral and occurs as distinctive specularite crystals. The host rock is weakly deformed and systematically altered to albite, epidote and hematite.