Platinum Group Metals Ltd. (TSX: PTM) (NYSE American: PLG) reports the closing on May 29, 2025 of a non-brokered private placement of common shares at a price of US$1.26 per common share as previously announced on May 12, 2025. An aggregate of 800,000 common shares were subscribed for and issued to existing major beneficial shareholder, Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited through its subsidiary Deepkloof Limited, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of US$1,008,000. Closing of the Private Placement allows HCI to return to a 26% interest in the Company.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement for its share of pre-construction site work, engineering and preparation costs on the Waterberg Project in South Africa, and for general corporate and working capital purposes.

Securities purchased pursuant to the Private Placement may not be traded for a period of four months plus one day from the closing of the Private Placement. The securities described herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of such Act.

HCI is a “related party” of the Company (as defined by Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Securityholders in Special Transactions) and the Company intends to rely on the exemptions from both the formal valuation requirement and the minority shareholder approval requirement under sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a), respectively, of MI 61-101, on the basis that neither the fair market value of the subject matter of, nor the fair market value of the consideration for, the transaction, insofar as it involves HCI, exceeds 25 per cent of the Company’s market capitalization calculated in accordance with MI 61-101. The Company did not file a material change report more than 21 days before the expected closing date of the above transaction as it has negotiated the above transaction on an expedited basis.

About Platinum Group Metals Ltd. and Waterberg Project

Platinum Group Metals Ltd. is the operator and majority owner of the Waterberg Project, a bulk underground platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold deposit located in South Africa. The Waterberg Project was discovered by Platinum Group and is being jointly developed with Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., Mnombo Wethu Consultants (Pty) Ltd., and HJ Platinum Metals Company, a company established in 2023 by Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security and Hanwa Co. Ltd. as a special purpose company to hold and fund their aggregate equity interests in the Waterberg Project.