Getty Copper’s 2026 Exploration: Key Insights and Updates

Investor Insight

Getty Copper is a Canadian-based exploration and development company advancing a district-scale land position in British Columbia’s Highland Valley, with a historical resource and multiple opportunities for resource growth and new discoveries.

Overview

Getty Copper (TSXV:GTC; OTCQX:GTCDF) is a copper-focused mineral exploration company advancing an approximately 24,000-hectare land position in British Columbia’s Highland Valley district. The company is focused on systematically advancing its historical resources while testing a broader pipeline of exploration targets across the project.

A 2010 pre-feasibility study (PFS) reported a historical indicated resource of 114.4 million tonnes at 0.37 percent copper. The project benefits from established road, power and mining infrastructure and a skilled regional workforce. Under new leadership, Getty is applying modern exploration methods and a disciplined, systematic strategy focused on resource growth, improved geological understanding, and new discoveries across its land position.

Getty Copper also commenced trading on the OTCQX Best Market in August 2026, expanding access to U.S. investors. Its fully funded 2026 program is the first material multi-phase work program on the project in more than 30 years and is designed to build the modern geological and analytical dataset required to support future resource estimates and technical studies.

Company Highlights

• District-scale land position: The company’s Getty Copper Project comprises approximately 24,000 hectares of mineral claims in the Highland Valley district, providing a large-scale exploration position near Teck’s Highland Valley Copper mine.
• Sizeable historical resource: A 2010 prefeasibility study reported a historical indicated resource of 114 million tonnes at 0.37 percent copper, plus 41.8 million tonnes inferred at 0.27 percent copper.
• Fully funded 2026 exploration program: Getty has completed 10,807 metres of spring drilling as part of its fully funded 12,000–16,000-metre 2026 exploration program. The fall program is scheduled to begin in October, targeting resource growth and testing additional exploration opportunities across the broader land position.
• Near-term catalysts: Remaining assays from the 2026 spring program, commencement of fall drilling in October, continued resource-focused work at Getty North and Getty South, and testing of additional exploration targets across the broader land position, followed by updated studies targeted for early 2027.

Key Project

Getty Project

The Getty Copper Project comprises approximately 24,000 hectares of crown-granted and surveyed claims and includes three historically defined deposits: Getty North, Getty South and Getty West. A historical indicated resource of 114 million tonnes at 0.37 percent copper was reported in the project’s 2010 prefeasibility study.

The company holds an 82 percent interest in the Getty Copper Project, with the remaining 18 percent held by Robak Industries. The project is located in an established mining district with access to road, power, mining infrastructure and a skilled regional workforce, near Teck’s Highland Valley Copper Mine.

For 2026, Getty is executing its first material multi-phase drill program in more than 30 years, targeting resource growth at Getty North and Getty South while advancing a broader pipeline of exploration targets across the land position. The company set a target of 12,000 to 16,000 metres of drilling for the 2026 program, with continued resource-focused work and updated studies targeted for early 2027.

Historical 2010 PFS highlights:

• Getty North: 69.3 million tonnes indicated at 0.37 percent copper and 18.2 million tonnes inferred at 0.271 percent copper
• Getty South: 45.15 million tonnes indicated at 0.38 percent copper and 23.6 million tonnes inferred at 0.278 percent copper, with breccia-hosted copper mineralization

Getty North

Getty North hosts the largest portion of Getty’s historical resource and is the primary focus of the company’s 2026 resource-growth drilling program, with work designed to confirm historical data, test extensions to known mineralization and support a future resource estimate.

The completed spring drill program returned strong near-surface copper mineralization, including 194 metres grading 0.62 percent copper from 27 metres, as well as 342 metres grading 0.50 percent copper from 9 metres and 480 metres grading 0.34 percent copper from 3 metres. The results confirmed a classically zoned copper-molybdenum porphyry system and demonstrated continuity of mineralization both within and beyond the area of historical drilling.

Expansion drilling extended mineralization by more than 230 metres beyond historical drilling on three cross sections, supporting the potential to grow the historical resource while improving the geological and analytical dataset for a future resource estimate. Additional assays from the 2026 program remain pending.

Getty South

Getty South is the second-largest component of Getty’s historical resource and provides a distinct resource-growth and exploration opportunity. Historical trenching at the Trojan Zone returned 80 metres grading 1.06 percent copper, highlighting higher-grade mineralization for follow-up.

Getty’s 2026 exploration program is using modern geophysical and geological data to test beneath the historical mineralization at Trojan Zone, targeting a chargeability anomaly identified through induced polarization (IP) surveying that may represent a down-plunge extension of higher-grade mineralization. Modern drilling will help validate the historical data and assess the potential for resource growth.

Getty West

Getty West returned 42 metres grading 0.26 percent copper and 0.02 percent molybdenum from a single 1996 drill hole that has not been followed up and sits within a coherent IP geophysical anomaly sharing the same signature as Getty North and South.

Glossie Zone and Bark

Glossie Zone and Bark are part of Getty’s broader exploration pipeline and may be included in the 4,000 to 6,000-metre fall drilling program. Work would be directed at building modern datasets and advancing the targets toward initial drill testing.

The Glossie Zone extends roughly 5 kilometres and is associated with a historical underground mine, with strong copper and molybdenum soil anomalies along its length. Bark is a newly identified anomaly adjacent to the Lornex Fault and is defined through pine bark biogeochemical sampling.

Dot Matrix (DOT)

In addition to the Getty Project, the Company owns the 846-hectare Dot Matrix (DOT) property, located within the Highland Valley district approximately 25 kilometres southeast of the Getty Project. A historical, non-NI 43-101-compliant indicated resource estimate exists for the property, based on a 2010 technical report. Historical high-grade intercepts include 30.2 metres at 1.32 percent copper, 27.4 metres at 2.58 percent copper and 76.2 metres at 0.91 percent copper. Modern drilling will be required to verify the historical data and assess the property’s resource growth potential.

Management Team

Ryan O’Regan, P.Geo. — Chief Executive Officer

O’Regan is a mining executive and professional geologist with experience in mine development and capital markets. He has advanced several projects and participated in multiple strategic initiatives focused on shareholder value creation. He is currently a Director at North Atlantic Critical Metals.

Roy Greig, Ph.D., P.Geo. — Vice President Exploration

With more than a decade of experience, Greig specializes in exploration of porphyry copper systems and has advanced copper projects through discovery, growth and definition. He has been involved in significant recent BC Cu-Au discoveries with GT Gold Corp (Saddle) and as former VP Exploration for Amarc Resources (Aurora).

Jeremy Fong, CPA — Chief Financial Officer

Fong is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with more than 10 years of experience in financial reporting, IFRS compliance and strategic finance for publicly traded companies. He is also currently the Chief Financial Officer at 1993 Industries Inc. and Maxus Mining.

Rosana Batista, GPC.D – Corporate Secretary

Batista is a corporate governance professional with more than 20 years of experience in business administration and information technology governance. She has worked with international public companies on corporate governance, process improvement and budget oversight. Batista is a Chartered Governance Professional and an Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada.

Fernanda Dau – Corporate Communications Manager

Dau has experience in corporate governance, compliance, investor relations and corporate communications. She has supported executive teams across exploration, capital markets and producing companies, including through Gatos Silver’s merger with First Majestic.

Board of Directors

Charles Funk, BSS, BSc – Chairman of the Board

With over 18 years of mining leadership experience, Funk has held roles with companies including Newcrest, OZ Minerals and Vizsla Silver. He has raised over C$244 million and led acquisitions and key discoveries in Australia and Mexico. He is currently the founder and CEO of Heliostar Metals.

Mahesh Liyanage, CPA – Director

Liyanage is focused on mergers and acquisitions, treasury and Canadian/U.S. tax structuring. He is a CPA with over 20 years of experience in supporting Canadian mining operations in foreign and domestic jurisdictions.

Earl Hope – Director

Hope has over 40 years of experience in capital markets focused on junior resources and early-stage companies. He is a former stockbroker specializing in financings across major firms, including Richardson and Wilson and West Coast Securities. He is currently an Investor Relations Consultant at One World Lithium Inc.

Tom MacNeill – Director

Bringing over 35 years in mining finance, exploration and project development, MacNeill has held leadership roles across multiple resource companies and funds such as BEC International Corporation. He is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of 49 North Resources Inc.

Brent Lepinsky — Director

Brent is a mining executive and professional geologist with extensive experience in mineral exploration, project development and corporate leadership. He has held senior technical and executive roles across the mining industry, with experience advancing exploration and development-stage projects.