High Grade Drill Results at Blanket Mine

Better than expected grades and widths from drilling in multiple areas anticipated to boost gold resources at Blanket

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St Helier, June 23, 2025 - Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc ("Caledonia" or "the Company") is pleased to report further encouraging high grade results from the ongoing resource expansion drill programme at Caledonia's 64% owned Blanket Mine. The programme is aimed at evaluating the continuity of the mineralised zones on the Blanket, Eroica and Lima orebodies (which comprise three of the main orebodies at Blanket Mine). The objectives of the programme are to increase the confidence levels of the existing mineral resource and to grow the mineral resource estimate below the 34 level of the mine (1,110 metres). These results follow the previously announced results on January 30, 2024.

Results from 6,976 metres of underground drilling from January 2024 to the end of April 2025 indicate that the existing Blanket and Eroica orebodies have grades and widths which are generally better than expected, while the Lima orebody is shown to continue below 22 level (750 metres). A new potential orebody has been intersected in the Blanket orebody area of the mine, with impressive grades and widths.

Table 1. Drilling Highlights**

*End of hole depth

**The complete long hole drilling results for January 2024 to April 2025 are provided in Appendix 1

Mark Learmonth, Caledonia's Chief Executive Officer, commented:

"Our ongoing drilling campaign continues to demonstrate encouraging results, further improving our confidence in the Blanket Mine mineral resource and pointing to additional future mineral resource growth. The grades and widths we are seeing from this drilling campaign are as good as and, in some cases, considerably better than results from previous drilling campaigns, which is highly encouraging.

"We anticipate that the positive grades and widths will result in an increased overall mineral resource estimate, which in due course should result in the extension of the existing life of mine. We have invested heavily in Blanket Mine over the last seven years to increase production capacity, resulting in a mine infrastructure that can sustain production beyond the current production horizon.

"Drilling is currently focussed on the Blanket and Eroica orebodies, where crosscuts have been developed to allow optimal access to drill the deeper zones of the steeply-dipping orebodies. These results are extremely promising, and we look forward to the next phase of drilling and updating the market accordingly."

Commentary

The drilling at Blanket Mine continues to confirm the continuation of several of the main orebodies (the Blanket, Eroica and Lima orebodies) at depth at the lowest levels of the mine and beyond. The increased density of drilling intersections from the programme is aimed at upgrading the inferred mineral resource estimate to the indicated mineral resource category or better, providing a solid resource base for life of mine planning. Grades and widths in the results from the Blanket and Eroica orebodies have been generally better than previously expected and modelled.

Further data on each drill hole is set out at Appendix 2 and pictorial representations of the holes are included below.

Figure 1. Blanket Mine Drilling - Long Section (North - South) of Blanket Mine Showing Locality of Drilling

Blanket Orebody - Strong Grades and Widths in Infill Drilling and New Orebody Discovered

In holes BLK870EX2312 and BLK870EX2308 (holes 16 and 13 on the section below, respectively), drilling intersected a new orebody which is believed to be another subparallel orebody which would be in addition to the 6 subparallel orebodies which currently comprise the Blanket series of orebodies (together referred to as the Blanket orebody). The initial intersections into this previously unknown orebody are highly encouraging, with highlights of 31.8 metres (estimated true width of 24.73 metres) at 6.71 grammes per tonne ("g/t") gold and 10.8 metres (estimated true width of 5.93 metres) at 17.73 g/t gold.

Infill drill results into the Blanket orebody have returned, in general, better widths and grades than expected when compared to the current mineral resource estimate contained within the report entitled "NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Blanket Gold Mine, Zimbabwe" with an effective date of 31 December 2023.

A comparison of drillhole ARS1110EX2308 with the 2023 resource model shows a similar width for Blanket 1 Footwall (BLK1FW) orebody of approximately 13 metres while the drillhole grades return a composite grade inclusive of internal dilution from 66.21 to 85.41 metres downhole of 20.64 g/t compared to a mineral resource model grade of approximately 4.64 g/t.

The Blanket 1 Hangingwall (BLK1HW), in the same drillhole ARS1110EX2308, returned a similar value of 6.28 g/t when compared to the mineral resource model grade of between 4.0 and 6.0 g/t while the true width in the drillhole of 7.14 metres is thicker than the mineral resource model width of approximately 3.30 metres.

Drill results reported in this announcement concern intersections between 26 and 34 level on the south end of the mine (Figure 2), plus intersections below 34 level in the middle portion of the Blanket orebody (Figure 3). This information will form part of the planned mineral resource update anticipated to be published by year end.

Figure 2. Blanket Orebody - Drilling from 26 Level (870 metres below surface)

Figure 3. Blanket Orebody - Drilling from 34 Level (1,110 metres below surface)

Eroica and Lima Orebodies - Solid Intersections at Eroica at 34 Level and Extension Demonstrated at Lima

Drilling commenced at Lima and initial intersections are encouraging. The likelihood of the Lima orebody (Lima main, footwall, hangingwall and intermediates) extending from 22 level to 34 level is considered to be high. The potential down dip continuation of the Lima orebody will be accessible from Eroica orebody development on 30 and 34 level with relatively minor extensions to current development.

Figure 4. Eroica and Lima Orebodies - Drilling from 750 metres (22 Level) below surface

This information will form part of the planned mineral resource update anticipated to be published by year end.

Future Exploration Plans and other Programs Ongoing

Drilling will continue to evaluate the Blanket, ARM and ARS orebodies to the 38 level (1,230 metres) and beyond.

In addition to underground exploration drilling, Blanket Mine has commenced a surface exploration project within the area held under the Blanket Mine mining lease. The program is targeting the Banded Iron Formation ("BIF") which strikes in a north-westerly direction and has been exploited at the nearby Vubachikwe and Sabiwa gold mines. The BIF extends from the southern boundary of the Blanket Mine lease area through to the northern boundary and beyond.

Initial work comprised Induced Polarisation ("IP") and Ground Magnetic ("GM") surveys over a selected area. These surveys delineated anomalous zones over a 600-metre strike length which subsequent surface reconnaissance mapping and pitting has shown to be quartz filled shear zones hosted within the BIF. Grab samples from shallow surface pits returned assay values ranging between 0.59 and 32.12 g/t from analysis at the Blanket Mine assay laboratory.

Planned activities for 2025 include:

• Surface trenching at 50 metres spacing over the strike length of 600 metres.
• Reverse Circulation ("RC") drilling focusing on defining the potential of shallow oxide mineral resources.

Appendix 1

* ERCN - Eroica North, ERCS - Eroica South, BQR - Blanket Quartz Reef, BLK1HW - Blanket 1 Hanging wall, BLK1FW - Blanket 1 Footwall, BLK2FW - Blanket 2 Footwall, BLK4_5 - Blanket 4 and 5, ARSEWL - AR South East - West Limb, LIM - Lima Main, LIMI - Lima Intermediate, NEW - Mineralisation not correlated to known orebodies.

Appendix 2

Underground exploration drill hole; azimuth, dip, drilled length, and collar location (UTM NAD83)

Craig James Harvey, MGSSA, MAIG, Caledonia Vice President, Technical Services, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information contained in this news release. Craig James Harvey is a "Qualified Person" as defined by each of (i) the Canadian Securities Administrators' National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and (ii) sub-part 1300 of Regulation S-K of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Access to Blanket Mine premises is controlled by security personnel on the first gate. On the second gate, in addition to security, entry is gained by biometric entry system. Diamond drilling is performed by qualified diamond drillers under the supervision of a diamond drill foreperson. Drilled core is routinely brought to surface to the core shed where it is received and laid down. A qualified geological technician performs geotechnical logging while a qualified geologist logs the core and marks the portions for splitting. The core is split in half along the core axis using an electric core cutter equipped with a diamond saw cutter. The geologist marks the sample intervals, put tickets, insert standards and blanks. One half of the sample is put into a plastic sample bag and sealed with cable ties. The sampling information is entered into the database. The other half of the core is marked with sample intervals and sample numbers and returned to the core box and retained for future reference. The samples are put in marked grain bags and tied with cable ties.

Transportation is by road using a mine vehicle to a SADCAS accredited testing laboratory (accreditation number TEST-05 0030) in Kwekwe, some 330km from Blanket Mine. A delivery note is signed as proof of dispatch.

Gold is analysed by a 50 grams fire assay with an Atomic Absorption (AA) finish. The laboratory also has internal quality control ("QC") programs that include insertion of reagent blanks, reference materials, and pulp duplicates.

Blanket Mine inserts QC samples (blanks and reference materials) at regular intervals to monitor laboratory performance.

When results are received, the assay results are painted against the sample numbers on the core retained.