Mink Ventures Corporation’s board approved the grant of 975,000 incentive stock options to its officers and directors on September 3, 2026. The options carry an exercise price of $0.13 per common share, vest immediately and have a 10-year term, expiring September 3, 2036, subject to the TSX Venture Exchange’s rules, including a four-month-plus-one-day hold period, and the company’s Stock Option Plan. Mink is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on critical minerals in Ontario. Its portfolio includes the approximately 104-square-kilometer Montcalm project adjacent to Glencore’s former Montcalm Mine, the 11-square-kilometer Warren nickel-copper-cobalt project and the newly optioned Rankin Property. The company said Montcalm is supported by historical mine production of 3.93 million tonnes grading 1.25% nickel, 0.67% copper and 0.051% cobalt. Mink has 41,672,296 common shares outstanding. The release says the projects have road access and infrastructure and are near the Timmins Mining Camp, while cautioning that project prospectivity and other forward-looking information are subject to exploration, financing, permitting, market, operational and broader mining-industry risks.