VANCOUVER, BC — January 16, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd. has entered into a purchase agreement with Wild West Gold Corp. to acquire an additional mineral claim contiguous with the Company’s 100%-owned Maestro Project in central British Columbia.
The acquisition expands Quartz’s land position at Maestro to 2,422 hectares and further consolidates prospective mineral host rocks adjacent to the Company’s primary project area.
Quartz’s Chairman, Bob Dickinson, said the newly acquired claim forms part of the Maestro project area, where exploration activities have been underway to advance multiple priority targets. Dickinson said the acquisition is strategic and illustrates the company’s strong conviction in the potential of Maestro. Quartz was built with the mission to discover and transact high-value gold-silver-copper projects that are coveted by major operators, and this expansion of Maestro contributes to that strategy.
The potential for Maestro is significant, according to Dickinson, and the company is looking forward to the additional drill programs and survey results coming in 2026. Phase 4 drill program is planned to mobilize in early February.
The acquired claim comprises approximately 113 hectares immediately adjacent to the east of the current Maestro property claims. The claim acquisition secures ground adjacent to a newly identified, multi-element soil geochemical anomaly on the Maestro Project, providing important area protection.
The expanded land position enhances Quartz Mountain’s ability to advance exploration across the broader Maestro area, which hosts geological features and a mineralization age similar to the new Blackwater Mine (Artemis Gold) near Vanderhoof.
Recent drilling at the Maestro Property (Nov. 3, 2025) has commenced delineating the Prodigy Au-Ag-Mo-Cu discovery, with 8,346 metres completed in 13 holes. A fully funded Phase 4 drill program is planned to commence in February 2026.
Under the claim purchase agreement with Wild West Gold Corp., Quartz will acquire a 100% interest in a mineral claim subject to the approval of the TSX-Venture Exchange and other customary conditions. The consideration consists of 25,000 Quartz shares upon closing of the transaction.
Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Quartz Mountain Resources is focused on discovering and transacting important-scale gold, silver and copper projects in British Columbia. The Company owns 100% of the Maestro gold-silver project and 100% of the Jake porphyry copper-gold-silver project. Both projects are permitted by the British Columbia government for drilling activities with access to infrastructure and high potential for the development of substantial resources for significant future transactions.
Quartz is associated with Hunter Dickinson Inc. (HDI), a company with over 35 years of successfully discovering, developing and transacting mineral projects in Canada and internationally. Former HDI projects in British Columbia included Mount Milligan, Kemess South and Gibraltar all of which are porphyry-copper±gold deposits with current-producing or former-producing mines. Recently, Amarc Resources, also an associate of HDI, which is in joint venture with Freeport Minerals Canada Inc., announced the discovery of the high grade, AuRORA gold-copper porphyry deposit in British Columbia. Other well-known projects with HDI involvement include Sisson and Prosperity in Canada, Pebble and Florence in the United States, and Xietongmen in China.
The Maestro Project, located in central British Columbia, lies adjacent to Highway 16, 15 km north of Houston and 45 km south of Smithers. Covering 2,422 hectares, it has a rich exploration history dating back to 1914. Since acquiring the property, Quartz has conducted comprehensive geochemical and geophysical surveys. Quartz’s first ever drill test on its Maestro Property, a Phase One, two-hole drill program at the Prodigy Zone, discovered high-grade Au-Ag lodes and Ag-Au veins which are both hosted within an extensive epithermal Au-Ag system. Three phases of delineation type drilling of the new Prodigy discovery at Maestro have been completed and announced. It is expected that further drilling at Prodigy will be consistently advanced in multiple stages during 2026. Mineralization remains open in multiple directions and at depth.
Mineralization at Jake is situated within a prominent rusty coloured gossan measuring 3.5 km long by 1.5 km wide. A series of modern surface exploration programs were first completed by Quartz to build on very compelling historical data on the Property developed by legendary porphyry copper explorers, including Kennco, Canadian Superior, Cities Service, Placer Development and Teck Corp. Taken together this comprehensive technical database defined a significant-scale porphyry copper-gold deposit target which Quartz tested with 3,418 meters of drilling in seven 7 holes during 2024. This initial drill program successfully discovered a new porphyry copper-gold-silver system, wide open to expansion. The next milestone towards a transaction will be delineation drilling of the new Jake discovery, currently being planned to commence after successful delineation drilling being conducted at Maestro over 2025.
Bob Dickinson can be reached at robertdickinson@hdimining.com or +1 604-684-6365.
Roger Blair can be reached at rblair@acuityadvisorycorp.com or +1 604-351-0025.
Jeff Wilson can be reached at jwilson@acuityadvisorycorp.com or +1 604-837-5440.
Source: Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd.
