Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 13, 2026) - NORTEC MINERALS CORP. (TSXV: NVT) ("Nortec" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that bedrock trenching and sampling have commenced following completion of a drone magnetic and LiDAR survey at its 100%-owned Barker Bay Gold Project ("Barker Bay" or the "Project"), located approximately 55 kilometers south of Dryden, Ontario. Nortec completed a drone magnetic and Light Detection and Ranging ("LiDAR") survey over the Barker North and Petrie target areas, and has commenced bedrock trenching, mapping, and sampling to test interpreted structures associated with anomalous gold-in-soil geochemistry and drone magnetics.