Toronto, Ontario, November 17 — Royal Road Minerals Limited (TSXV: RYR, OTCQB: RRDMF) (“Royal Road” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce encouraging continuous rock-chip channel sampling results from the Ash Shajjah prospect, part of its Jabal Sahabiyah gold exploration project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Royal Road’s exploration activities in Saudi Arabia are conducted through its local subsidiary, Royal Road Arabia Limited (“RRA”), a 50:50 joint venture with MIDU Company Limited (“MIDU”), a Jeddah-based investment group with interests across the mining, industrial, real estate, and utilities sectors.
The Ash Shajjah prospect lies within the Company’s Jabal Sahabiyah project in Asir Province, covering three contiguous Exploration Licenses totalling 284 square kilometers (see Figure 1). Gold mineralization occurs within a broadly north–south striking, folded and doubly plunging, sheeted quartz-vein system.
Continuous rock-chip channel sampling has expanded on previous results (see Press Release October 6, 2025) and has now extended the footprint of known gold mineralization at Ash Shajjah to more than 800 meters of strike, remaining open both to the north and the south. Selected results include (see Table 1 and Figure 2):
(Note: Not true widths; the Company does not yet have sufficient information to determine true widths)
Complementing the rock-chip geochemistry, the Company has completed detailed geological mapping, ground magnetics and radiometrics across the prospect. Integration of these datasets indicates a vein system that continues beyond current sampling, with intermittent sub-crop suggesting a potential cumulative strike length of up to 3 kilometers and aggregate widths averaging approximately 5 meters.
Results to date point to the potential for an open-pit style scenario at Ash Shajjah, with overall grades influenced by the frequency and distribution of moderately plunging high-grade shoots; such as that intersected in ASCH17, returning 6 meters at 15.0 grams per tonne gold.
“Ash Shajjah is one of four known gold-mineralized vein systems within the Jabal Sahabiyah project area,” said Dr. Tim Coughlin, Royal Road’s President and CEO. “These systems can be challenging to trace on surface as they often appear as isolated outcrops within broad dry drainages or beneath colluvial cover. Our recent work has significantly improved our understanding of these gold mineralized vein systems, and we are looking forward to drill-testing these veins, and their concealed extensions, once mapping and modelling is complete in the coming weeks.”
About Royal Road Minerals:
Royal Road Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company with its head office and technical-operations center located in Jersey, Channel Islands. The Company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker RYR, on the OTCQB under the ticker RRDMF and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the ticker RLU. The Company’s mission is to apply expert skills and innovative technologies to the process of discovering and developing copper and gold deposits of a scale large enough to benefit future generations and modern enough to ensure minimum impact on the environment and no net loss of biodiversity. The Company currently explores in the Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and in Colombia. More information can be found on the Company’s website www.royalroadminerals.com.
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The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been prepared, reviewed and approved by Dr. Tim Coughlin, BSc (Geology), MSc (Exploration and Mining Geology), PhD, FAusIMM, President and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Road Minerals Limited and a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101.
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Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Sample preparation and analyses are conducted according to standard industry procedures at certified laboratories.
Rock-Chip and Chip-Channel Sampling and Analysis
Chip-Channel samples were collected on continuous 1 meter intervals across exposed sheeted veins and surrounding host rock. Samples of between 1 to 2kg were collected along the sampling interval using a hammer and chisel. All rock-chip samples were bagged in the field and sent to ALS Jeddah for gold and multi-elements analysis (Gold-ICP22 and ME-MS61. Select samples were also analyzed using a screen analysis technique to account for coarse gold (method Gold-SCR24). QAQC materials including CRMs, Blanks, and Duplicates were inserted into the sample batch on a ratio of 1:28.
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