Equinox Gold Wins the Mining Forum Americas 2026 RREI Award

DENVER GOLD GROUP NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE · November 4, 2026

Heliostar Metals and Skeena Gold & Silver named runners-up among 203 participating companies

DENVER, Colorado, November 4, 2026. Denver Gold Group (DGG) today announced that Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX, NYSE American: EQX) has received the Relative Return on Event Investment (RREI) Award for Mining Forum Americas 2026, held 27 to 30 September 2026 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. Heliostar Metals Ltd. (TSX: HSTR, OTCQX: HSTXF) and Skeena Gold & Silver (TSX: SKE, NYSE: SKE) are the runners-up.

As the award winner, Equinox Gold receives complimentary participation at its choice of Mining Forum Europe 2027, at the Park Hyatt Zürich from 12 to 14 April 2027, or the inaugural Mining Forum Australia, in Sydney from 26 to 28 October 2027.

RREI is DGG’s measure of what each participating company gained from a Mining Forum, scored relative to the other companies at the same event. It combines five indices: meeting engagement in the forum’s 1x1 Meetings, investor demand for meetings, the share of the company’s stock held by investors who attended, viewing of the company’s webcast presentation in the 30 days after release, and share performance against a gold-equity benchmark after the forum. Scores allow for company size, so a junior and a senior producer are measured on the same footing. This is the second year of the award; Greatland received the inaugural award at Mining Forum Americas 2025.

All 203 member companies accepted to Mining Forum Americas 2026 received an RREI. Equinox Gold, Heliostar Metals and Skeena Gold & Silver each scored above the forum average on all five indices.

“RREI provides member companies with an independent account of what their time and money at a Forum returned, relative to every other company in the room. Equinox Gold, Heliostar and Skeena each strongly outperformed on every part of that measure, from the meetings they held to the investors who own their shares, and the audience generated for their webcasts,” said Tim Wood, Executive Director of Denver Gold Group.

“We thank the Denver Gold Group for hosting one of the mining sector’s premier investor conferences. Mining Forum Americas has long provided a valuable setting for open dialogue between companies and investors, and we appreciate the opportunity to participate and share Equinox Gold’s strategy and progress with the investment community,” said Jason Simpson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Equinox Gold.

Equinox Gold is a Canadian gold producer with operations in Canada and the Americas. Heliostar Metals is a gold producer with operations in Mexico; its shares began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on 7 October 2026. Skeena Gold & Silver is developing the Eskay Creek gold-silver project in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia, with initial production planned for the second quarter of 2027.

A public description of the RREI method is available at mfa.miningforum.com/why-attend. Company-level scores are provided to each participating company and are not published.

About Denver Gold Group

Denver Gold Group is a not-for-profit industry association that has connected mining companies with institutional investors since 1989. Its 229 member companies have a combined market capitalization of about US$1.2 trillion across 42 countries. DGG produces Mining Forum Americas, held each September in Colorado Springs and now in its 38th year, Mining Forum Europe, held each April in Zürich, and, from October 2027, Mining Forum Australia in Sydney. More information is available at denvergold.org.

Media contact

Tim Wood
Denver Gold Group
3900 S Wadsworth Blvd, Suite 455, Lakewood, Colorado 80235
twood@denvergold.org · +1 (303) 717-3537

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