Announcement • Jul 20

Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. Reports Record 24.3% Clean Natural Hydrogen At Bennett Hill Ddh-26-04 and Begins Technical Evaluation of Pilot-Scale Development Pathway and Clean Energy Generation

Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. reported new mud-gas geochemical results from the 250-metre to 818-metre interval (final depth) of diamond drill hole DDH-26-04 at Bennett Hill, Nova Scotia, including a peak reading of 24.3% H2 at 707 metres. The results build on the Company's June 29, 2026 disclosure of a 16.0% H2 peak at 236 metres over the 100 m to 250 m interval of the same hole, and complete the DDH-26-04 hydrogen dataset from surface to final depth. Taken together with previously reported results from DDH-26-01, DDH-26-02 and DDH-26-03 at the Eatonville Road area — approximately 15 kilometres from Bennett Hill — the Company considers the DDH-26-04 results to be an important data point supporting its working geological model of a district-scale, structurally controlled clean natural hydrogen system across the Advocate Area and Canada's longest reported clean natural hydrogen corridor and system. A peak reading of 24.3% H2 at 707 metres, together with 19.2% H2 at 674 m, 18.1% H2 at 671 m, 12.4% H2 at 665 m, 11.9% H2 at 287 m, 11.4% H2 at 779 m, and 9.8% H2 at 668 m. Of 284 co-collected IsoJar mud-gas samples across the full hole (14 m-815 m), 104 returned readings at or above 1% H2, 23 at or above 5% H2, and 10 at or above 10% H2 — consistent with the Company's characterization of repeated, rather than single, elevated readings. Percent-level readings continued to within 39 metres of the bottom of the hole (11.4% H2 at 779 m; 8.3% H2 at 776 m), indicating the system remained open and did not weaken toward the base of DDH-26-04. Methane (CH4) was recorded at approximately 0% and carbon dioxide (CO2) at or below 0.2% across the 250-818 m interval, consistent with the hydrogen-dominant, low-methane and low-CO2 gas signature reported at DDH-26-01, DDH-26-02 and DDH-26-03. Companion 2-litre bottle headspace sampling across the 281-818 m interval returned hydrogen enrichment in similar intervals (for example, 1.3% H2-equivalent at 371 m), at generally lower absolute values consistent with the greater dilution inherent to the headspace method as described in prior Company disclosures. DDH-26-04 was completed to a final depth of 818 metres. DDH-26-04 was collared on or about June 9, 2026 at a planned azimuth of 355° (northwest) per the Diamond Drill Report header and completed at a final downhole depth of 818 metres. Downhole survey measurements filed with the updated Diamond Drill Report record hole bearings of approximately 356° to 012° (true north) along the hole and a dip of approximately -69° at the first survey station (-14 m), progressively flattening to approximately -51° by 794 m. All depths in this release are downhole (core-length) measurements; owing to this deviation, true vertical depths are shallower — on a preliminary minimum-curvature basis, approximately 705 metres at end of hole and approximately 620 metres at the 707 m peak reading. The hole intersects a structurally complex package dominated by variably deformed syenogranite intruded by mafic dykes and, in its upper 43 metres, mafic volcanic rock, with a discrete zone of faulted sedimentary screens (siltstone, argillite and polymictic sedimentary breccia) between approximately 409 m and 425 m - interpreted as a fault-bound block consistent with the Company's R2G2™ (Reactivated Rift and Graben Geostructure) exploration model. The updated Diamond Drill Report records 32 intervals of fault breccia (between approximately 132 m and 538 m) and 86 discrete intervals of broken core (between approximately 48 m and 652 m), together with a discrete fault zone and associated fault gouge at 17.1-17.8 m — indicating that roughly the upper 650 metres of DDH-26-04 is affected by distributed faulting and fracturing rather than a single, isolated structure, with the most intense fracturing concentrated above approximately 250 metres. The 665-707 m interval hosting the hole's strongest readings, including the 24.3% H2 peak at 707 m, lies within a variably deformed mafic dyke-syenogranite complex described in field logs as containing hydrothermal, quartz- and hematite-healed breccia and fracture sets oriented over a wide range of angles to the core axis — consistent with a repeatedly reactivated structural corridor. Core quality (RQD) through this interval remains generally high (75-100%), indicating the fracture network here is substantially healed rather than open rubble. Core-quality data show the only interval of 0% RQD logged in the hole at 776-779 m — where the field log records near-total core loss (approximately 20 cm of core recovered over the 3-metre run) and queries a possible open void — and where magnetic susceptibility also falls to approximately 0 SI×10?³ over 777-778 m against a local background of 3-5 SI×10?³ - both consistent with a discrete, more intensely broken structural break. This interval directly brackets two of the strongest readings in the lower part of the hole (8.3% H2 at 776 m and 11.4% H2 at 779 m), providing one of the clearest direct correlations yet observed on the project between a specific structural feature and elevated hydrogen. Company field personnel have reported a pressurized water interval at approximately 617 m encountered during drilling of DDH-26-04, with water observed overflowing at surface at the wellhead. The Diamond Drill Report logs a mm-scale fault gouge at 618.9 m and an associated pyrite clot at 616.65 m in this same interval, consistent with a hydraulically active structure at this depth. On a preliminary basis, the Company interprets the thick, dominantly syenogranitic block between approximately 250 m and 640 m as a competent, low-porosity interval with the potential to act as a comparatively impermeable cap above the deeper 665-818 m hydrogen-bearing zone. Diamond Drill Report data support a tight rock-mass characterization of this block: core recovery is logged at 100% throughout, with Rock Quality Designation (RQD) averaging approximately 90% (median 93%) and no logged sub-interval falling below approximately 57% — markedly more competent than the pervasively faulted upper 250 metres of the hole. Field logs repeatedly describe the block as massive and silicified — including "texturally and mineralogically constant" from 486.1 m to 535.3 m and an "overall silicified section" at 575-577 m — with fracture and breccia sets dominantly healed by quartz, hematite and silica infill, including, in the brecciated syenogranite toward the base of the block, the explicit observation that "quartz-filled fractures do not extend into the matrix.

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