Athena Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the closing of the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement previously announced on November 14, 2025, as amended November 24, 2025, to raise up to CDN $3,100,000 . An aggregate of CDN $2,727,526.03 has been raised in the first tranche consisting of the following: CDN $1,331,801.03 through the issuance of 19,025,729 flow-through units at a price of CDN $0.07 per FT Unit; CDN $1,015,500.08 through the issuance of 14,507,144 flow-through common shares at a price of CDN $0.07 per CMETC FT Share; and CDN $380,224.92 through the issuance of 6,337,082 non-flow-through unit at a price of CDN $0.06 per NFT Unit. Due to high investor interest the Company expects that the NFT Units will be oversubscribed by approximately CDN $400,000, i...