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United Critical Minerals Announces Results from 2025 Field Program at Tahlo Lake Property, British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 16, 2026) - United Critical Minerals Corp. (CSE: UCM) ("UCM" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an
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[{"type":"text","content":" Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 16, 2026) - United Critical Minerals Corp. (CSE: UCM) (\"UCM\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide an update on its 2025 grass roots exploration activities at its 1,692.22-hectare Tahlo Lake porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold property (the \"Tahlo Lake Property\" or the \"Property\") located in north-central British Columbia. The Tahlo Lake Property is located approximately 11 km to the northeast of American Eagle Gold Corp's (TSXV: AE) NAK project, where drilling has identified numerous long high-grade intervals of copper-gold mineralization. *Mineralization on nearby or adjacent properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Property. The Tahlo Lake Property is at the northern end of a prospective belt of rocks known as the Babine porphyry copper belt. This belt, measuring roughly 20 km by 80 km on the east side of Babine Lake, hosts many copper-rich mineral deposits at varying stages of development, including notable occurrences, developed prospects and past producing mines. In September 2025, UCM completed a targeted geochemical till-sampling program (the \"2025 Program\") at the Tahlo Lake Property, focused on high-priority gold-copper targets defined by interpretation of the Z-Axis Tipper Electromagnetic (\"ZTEM\") airborne geophysical survey that the Company carried out in 2024. The ZTEM data was integrated with newly acquired Light Detection and Ranging (\"LiDAR\") data to improve surficial mapping and refine sampling locations. A total of 18 till samples were collected from hand-dug pits designed to test subglacial till within and down-ice of key ZTEM targets (Figure 1). Approximately half of the samples were interpreted to represent true subglacial till, providing valuable information on glacial dispersion and potential underlying bedrock sources. While the 2025 Program covered only a small portion of the Tahlo Lake Property and no anomalous mineralization or significant geochemical anomalies were identified in the till samples, it confirmed the effectiveness of a focused, data-driven targeting approach and provided valuable information to refine targeting and guide future exploration efforts. Much of the Tahlo Lake Property remains underexplored, and the results of the 2025 Program highlight the potential for follow-up work. More...