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GoldMining Inc.

For the period ended Nov 30, 2024. Filed Feb 27, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Feb 27, 2025

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EX-99.1 · Data Verification

Data Verification

The current inspection for the La Mina Project was carried out on October 12-13, 2022 by Scott Wilson who visited the property located in the village of La Mina, municipality of Fredonia in the department of Antioquia, Colombia. Mr. Wilson met with the geological team and technicians to review geological maps and sections, inspect drill core, review the digital database, observe the location of drill collars and collect a number of core samples to validate and confirm existing information.

Since taking an option on the property and until 2016, the Bellhaven sampling and assaying programs have been controlled by a systematic application of certified standards and blanks, along with Bellhaven's own field duplicate and laboratory duplicate checks. The use of an independent international preparation and assay laboratory, ALS Minerals (then ALS Chemex), adds additional assurance that assay results are representative of the mineralization encountered on the property.

As an additional verification and check on the overall level of copper-gold grades reported for the porphyry mineralization at the La Mina Project, samples from drill core representing the current drill programs were independently collected.

This verification sampling is intended only as a check of the general level of copper-gold mineralization found at La Mina, but is not intended as a comprehensive QA/QC assessment for the purposes of resource estimation.

The results of the check assays compared to the original assays are within acceptable precision.

Three samples were collected from three different La Garrucha exploration holes. One quarter core interval was collected from each hole; LME-1107, LME-1108 and LME-1111. The results of the check assays compared to the original assays are within acceptable precision.

In the opinion of the qualified person, the data collected by the Company is adequate for the estimation of mineral resource for the La Mina Project.

Two scoping level metallurgical test work programs have been completed on samples from the La Mina deposit.

Resource Development Inc. ("RDI") was contracted to undertake the first scoping level metallurgical study for the La Mina porphyry gold-copper prospect in Colombia, which was completed and reported in 2011. The Company contracted ALS Metallurgy, a division of ALS Limited ("ALS Metallurgy") to undertake the second program, which was completed and reported in 2022, on samples from the La Garrucha deposit. Generally, the copper and gold recoveries by flotation into a bulk rougher concentrate and gold recovery by cyanide leaching were consistent in the two test programs for the materials tested, and indicate that the La Mina samples (La Cantera, Middle Zone and Garrucha) are amendable to standard flotation for copper and gold recovery and to cyanide leaching for gold recovery.

RDI received four composite samples for the first metallurgical study. ALS Metallurgy received ten bags of samples, comprising quarter NQ core derived from two drill holes and used these to form a master composite of the La Garrucha zone for metallurgical testing. The ALS Metallurgy test program included sample preparation and characterization, Bond ball millwork index determinations, mineralogical assessments, cyanide leaching of whole ore samples and of cleaner and rougher flotation tails samples and rougher and cleaner floatation tests.

The metallurgical test work undertaken included sample preparation and characterization, Bond's ball millwork index determinations, in-place bulk density measurements, gravity tests, direct cyanidation and carbon-in-leach tests and rougher and cleaner flotation tests.

The RDI and ALS Metallurgy test work showed a Bond's ball mill work index of 10.2 to 14.0, and 15.5 kWh/t respectively, indicating that the Garrucha material is slightly harder than the other La Mina zones tested.

Gravity concentration tests on the RDI samples indicated that one could not produce a high-grade concentrate that could be directly smelted. Hence, gravity circuit may not be applicable for this deposit.

No mineralogical testwork was undertaken for the RDI test program. The mineralogical testwork on the ALS Metallurgy samples indicated that the material was relatively amenable for copper and gold recovery, with a pyrite to copper sulphide ratio of 3:1 but relatively little association of copper sulphides with pyrite, which indicates that a reasonably efficient separation of pyrite from copper sulphides in a flotation process is feasible. The sample contained insignificant amounts of oxide copper minerals. With about 48% copper liberation at the nominal 103 μm K 80 primary grind sizing, reasonably rougher copper response could be anticipated if relatively aggressive flotation conditions are applied.

Whole ore cyanide leach tests on the RDI samples extracted over 80% of the gold from three of the four RDI composites, but with high cyanide consumption. Cyanidation tests were also completed on whole rock in the ALS Metallurgy testing, from which gold extractions average 90%. Pre-aeration prior to cyanidation leach tests increased the dissolved oxygen level, which markedly improved initial leach kinetics and substantially decreased overall sodium cyanide consumption.

A series of open-circuit, batch flotation tests were conducted in the RDI test program using a simple reagent suite consisting of potassium amyl xanthate, Aeropromotor 404 and methyl isobutyl carbonyl. Generally, recoveries ranged between 74% to 90% for both gold and copper in the rougher concentrate over a primary grind range of 150 μm -74 μm. No systematic cleaner tests were performed but a single test incorporating regrinding of the rougher concentrate followed by two stages of cleaner flotation in open-circuit tests produced a concentrate assaying over 26% Cu and ±50 g/t Au for three of the four composite samples. No data on concentrate or recoveries were presented, but ICP analysis of the composites indicated that the levels of some of the major potential deleterious elements (As<10ppm, Bi<10ppm, Hg, Se not measured) were relatively low.

Rougher and cleaner flotation tests in the ALS Metallurgy program were completed at three different primary grind sizings, nominally 150 μm, 106 μm and 74 μm. Copper rougher recovery improved slightly with finer primary grind sizing. Gold recoveries to rougher concentrates did not vary much by primary grind size, averaging approximately 86%. On this basis, the coarser primary grind sizing may be optimal, though an economic trade-off study would be required to confirm this. Increasing cleaner circuit pH from 10 to 11 improved copper concentrate grade, while maintaining similar overall copper and gold recoveries.

Two different processing options were tested in the ALS Metallurgy program, flotation and also cyanide leaching of flotation tailings. Flotation testing produced a bulk concentrate containing 27% copper, 19 g/tonne gold and 549 g/tonne silver, while recovering about 77% of the copper and 67% of the gold. As this was an open circuit test, closed circuit testing would be expected to recover some of the losses in the cleaner tails, resulting in higher recoveries at lower grade. Final concentrate analysis, based on small sample availability, indicated relatively high concentrations of some deleterious materials e.g. As, Pb. Cyanide leaching of the cleaner and rougher tailings recovered approximately 78% of the gold in the rougher tailings and 85% in the cleaner tailings, collectively representing about 25% of the feed gold. Overall, gold recovery from such a flowsheet would be expected to total around 92%.

An overall base case recovery for gold and copper by flotation after regrind and cleaning into a 23% - 26% copper concentrate is projected at 69% and 80% respectively. Cyanide leaching of the cleaner and rougher tailings increases the total gold recovery to approximately 91%. It is reasonable to assume that further test work and optimization work around primary grind size, flotation reagents, mass pull and concentrate regrind and cyanide leaching conditions could further improve gold and copper recoveries and optimize reagent consumptions. Further test work on representative samples, mineralogy and a program of open and locked cycle flotation testing and cyanide leach testing is required to provide further confidence in the metallurgical response and optimization of the recovery process.

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