Banyan Gold Intersects High-Grades and Visible Gold at AurMac, Yukon, CanadaVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / January 27, 2026 / Banyan Gold Corp. (the "Company" or "Banyan") (TSXV:BYN)(OTCQB:BYAGF) is pleased to announce it has intersected high-grade gold ("Au") mineralization in the Airstrip Deposit ("Airstrip") and Aurex Hill Zone ("Aurex Hill") at its AurMac Project ("AurMac"), Yukon, Canada.Aurex Hill Intersections (East Powerline Deposit) Highlights:AX-25-796 - 0.84 g/t Au over 38.9m within 0.64 g/t Au over 76.0m; including high-grade intervals of 26.35 g/t Au over 0.5m,AX-25-802 - 2.82 g/t Au over 11.8m within 0.78 g/t Au over 51.1m; including high-grade interval of 7.26 g/t Au over 4.3mAirstrip Intersections Highlights:AX-25-720 - 1.10 g/t Au over 6.5m within 0.30 g/t Au over 38.9m; includes high-grade intervals of 16.70 g/t Au over 0.4m and 13.80 g/t Au over 1.0m,AX-25-731 - 2.27 g/t Au over 5.0m, within 1.24 g/t Au over 11.0m; includes high-grade interval of 14.10 g/t Au over 0.5m,AX-25-758 - 0.90 g/t Au over 18.9m, within 0.51 g/t Au over 43.8m; includes 17.14 g/t Au over 0.3m,AX-25-792 - 4.25 g/t Au over 3.3m within 0.60 g/t Au over 37.6m; includes 14.60 g/t Au over 0.5m"The high-grade gold mineralization in the Aurex Hill zone (East Powerline Deposit) and the Airstrip Deposit reinforces our understanding of the high-grade mineralization and achieves the objective of targeting areas suitable for starter pits," said Tara Christie, President and CEO. "In the Aurex Hill zone, high-grade sheeted quartz veins show potential for further expansion of the deposit, while the high-grade structures (marl) with brecciated quartz represent a new drill target (Figure 4). In Airstrip, the skarn mineralization in Cal 2 (lower horizon) shows consistent high-grade gold mineralization with holes AX-25-792 and AX-25-731, indicating the potential for eastward expansion at Airstrip (Figure 7 and 10)."The high-grade gold drill core from Airstrip, Powerline and the very high-grade silver drill core (News release, January 22, 2026) will be available to view at the AMEBC roundup core shack #823 on January 28-29th, 2026.Figure 1: Plan map of highlight gold intersections in Aurex Hill Figure 2: Cross-section 468850E in Aurex Hill. High-grade mineralization in AX-25-802 has potential to convert waste blocks and extend mineralized domains that are open up and down dip as well as along strike. Figure 3: Cross-section 469050E in Aurex Hill Zone has potential to extend high-grade mineralization in satellite pits in east Powerline. Figure 4: High-grade gold mineralization in AX-25-802 is associated with zones of marl with associated brecciated quartz veins. Figure 5: Sheeted quartz veins in AX-25-796 host high-grade gold mineralization and visible gold. Figure 6: Visible gold grains from drillholes AX-25-796. Multiple instances of visible gold intergrown with Bi-Sulphosalts were intersected at 42.3m (left) and 115.1m (right). These examples of coarse-grained gold mineralization in sheeted quartz veins are typical of Powerline-style mineralization, indicating near-surface high-grade mineralized domains have potential to be expanded in the Aurex Hill area east of Powerline. Figure 7: Plan map of highlight intersections in Airstrip for this release. Figure 8: Cross-section 466400E in Airstrip. Skarn mineralization intersected in drill holes AX-25-747 have potential to expand conceptual pit to the south and west of Airstrip. Figure 9: Cross-section 466800E in Airstrip. Skarn mineralization inAX25-756 and -758 have potential to convert waste blocks at southern edge of the conceptual pit as well as improve continuity of the Cal 1 horizon. Figure 10: Cross-section 467900E in Airstrip. Intersection in drillhole AX-25-792 has potential to extend conceptual satellite pit in the east of Airstrip Table 1: Diamond drillhole assay intercepts for Aurex Hill in this releaseHole IDdepth from (m)depth to (m)Au Interval (m)Au Interval (g/t)AX-25-75926.274.047.80.66including29.231.22.06.85including30.231.21.09.72and including51.452.71.37.55and93.594.51.00.57and108.0109.51.50.69AX-25-76533.538.04.51.66including33.536.53.02.13and51.055.04.00.62and78.580.01.50.53and93.294.51.31.77and123.2124.71.50.42and135.5137.01.50.57AX-25-76826.041.215.20.47including38.039.61.61.77and58.370.812.50.49including58.359.71.42.19and120.9122.92.00.86including120.9122.11.21.16and175.4176.61.20.31AX-25-7963.054.251.20.42including3.06.13.12.55and including30.030.40.41.65and including41.254.213.00.46including53.554.20.73.06and76.2152.276.00.64including81.392.511.21.07including81.382.00.76.74and including91.092.51.54.89and including105.2144.138.90.84including105.2105.60.47.29and including115.1115.60.526.35and including125.0125.60.65.57and including127.7138.410.70.62and176.3176.80.510.03AX-25-80211.518.87.30.29and23.527.64.10.27and36.438.01.60.45and51.852.70.90.88and85.688.22.60.44and107.0108.51.50.42and131.4182.551.10.78including154.2166.011.82.82including161.7166.04.37.26incl