Nevada Organic Phosphate Announces Continued Success in Drilling Program

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Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc., a B.C.-based company focused on organic sedimentary phosphate exploration, announced that its 2025 contractor, Falcon Drilling, is mobilizing onto the property to complete the planned 2026 drilling program. This move follows the successful intersection of the Upper Phosphate Zone in drill hole MM26-10, which extended the strike of phosphate mineralization to over 3 kilometres, as reported in the company’s news release dated August 26, 2026.

The company’s geological model interprets the Upper Phosphate Zone as a laterally extensive, nearly flat-lying sedimentary horizon within the Meade Peak Member of the Phosphoria Formation. Continued step-out drilling is designed to test strike continuity and refine true-thickness and grade controls across the broader Murdock Mountain trend.

The company has also received assay results for drill hole MM26-8, which intersected the Upper Phosphate Zone but was somewhat diluted by detritus. It returned 4.60% P2O5 over 5.00 metres true thickness. Phosphate P2O5 assaying was conducted by ME-XRF24 whole-rock analysis, where samples were fused with lithium borate and analyzed by X-ray fluorescence (XRF). This method provides high-precision determinations of major rock-forming oxides, including phosphorus, calcium, and silica.

The assay results received from the drilling program so far completed have been approved by Kenneth Tullar, B.Sc. Geol. Eng., P. Geo., AIPG Certified Professional Geologist (CPG-11142), an independent, qualified person as defined by NI 43-101.

Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc. holds a raw rock phosphate bed that is 6.6 kilometres long in northeast Nevada. Additional applications extend the potential strike of rock phosphate to over 30 kilometres. This is believed to be the only known large-scale organic certifiable sedimentary phosphate project in North America. The company is situated close to the main highway to Montello/Elko, Nevada, and the rail head to California or the East Coast.

The company has implemented a rigorous QA/QC protocol consistent with NI 43-101 standards, including the insertion of blanks and certified reference materials into the sample stream. Blanks are comprised of generically sourced sand approximately every 11 samples (or 9.3%) to monitor potential contamination during sample preparation and analysis. Certified reference materials (CRMs) are used to assess analytical accuracy and are usually rock powders comprised of known concentrations of the metal(s) of interest. CRMs are usually obtained from commercial suppliers who provide the average of many analyses of the CRMs by multiple labs, which is referred to as the certified value, and a standard deviation of the analyses from which the certified value is determined. A typical criterion for accepting the analyses of CRMs in the mineral industry is that they should fall within a range determined by the certified (or "target") value ± three standard deviations ("3 STD"). Analytical accuracy was verified against BAM 826-1, a certified reference material for phosphate slags issued by Germany's Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). The company inserts BAM 826-1 CRM standards approximately every 22 samples (or 4.5%), or about 2 per drill hole.

Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc. is committed to maintaining the reliability of its assay data and supporting the integrity of the phosphate grades reported.

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