Idaho Strategic (IDR) Resources announced its exploration plans for the 2025 exploration field season at its three rare earth elements and thorium projects, each of which are largely located in central Idaho within Idaho’s 70-mile long REE-Th Belt. Although Idaho Strategic has been planning its 2025 exploration programs for many months now, the timing to announce the Company’s plans serendipitously coincides with President Trump’s recent Executive Order titled, “Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production in the United States”, announced late last week. The Executive Order directs government agencies to immediate action to facilitate domestic mineral production to the maximum extent possible by identifying and encouraging mineral development on Federal lands, and by streamlining the Federal permitting process. Idaho Strategic’s management believes that its strategic first mover advantage and track record as an operator within the state of Idaho and the importance of its rare earth elements and thorium projects aligns well with President Trump’s strategy to unlock the mineral potential of the United States. Building on successful exploration results that yielded up to 5% total rare earth oxides including magnet REEs in excess of 70%, Idaho Strategic is planning a widespread radiometric survey over known REE and Th occurrences coinciding with an extensive soil sampling initiative. The combination of both radiometrics and soil sampling allows for the identification of potential drill targets and initial ground truthing of those targets to help prioritize the order in which follow-on exploration and investment should logically occur. Lemhi Pass will receive the bulk of the Company’s attention given its favorable locations for a potential mine, its positive exploration results to-date, and its favorable REE mix showing a unique enrichment of higher-value magnet REEs compared to many projects globally. The plan for IDR’s Mineral Hill project is to fly drone assisted radiometric, magnetic, and lidar mapping over the Company’s entire claim block. This program is designed to identify and assist in planning for potential future drill targets. As the project sits, Idaho Strategic has already identified areas that warrant drilling, such as the Upper Roberts occurrence that returned multiple samples between 20% and 34% TREO at the surface. However, surface mapping of other areas within the Company’s claim block have revealed previously unknown carbonatite occurrences with high-grade REEs at the surface. The completion and interpretation of the drone survey data will allow the Company to plan a more cost effective and comprehensive drill program in the future to test multiple areas and help to reduce drill mobilization fees associated with the project’s variable terrain. Given the success of Idaho Strategic’s 2022 trenching and drilling program at its Diamond Creek project, the Company’s geologists have planned and permitted a follow-up trenching program at a number of occurrences along strike from the favorable results obtained in 2022. The program is designed to extend the strike length of the historic resource outlined by M.H. Staatz of the United States Geological Survey in 1979, which was based on limited surface exploration work and covered approximately half of the strike length identified to-date by Idaho Strategic geologists. While the historic resource at Diamond Creek is not compliant with modern 43-101 or S-K 1300 resource standards, it is a great starting point for Idaho Strategic’s geologists to build from.