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Item 8.01 Other Events.
In its May 8, 2026 press release, Rise Gold Corp. ("Rise" or the "Company") announced that the Superior Court of California for the County of Nevada (the "Court") has denied the Company's Writ of Mandamus asking the Court to compel the Board of Supervisors of Nevada County to follow applicable law and grant Rise recognition of its vested right to operate the Idaho-Maryland Mine (the "I-M Mine").
The Court ruled that Rise met its burden to show that a constitutional right to mine the I-M Mine without a permit vested when Nevada County (the "County") established its zoning code in 1954.
The Court acknowledged further that the County has the burden of proving abandonment of the vested right by clear and convincing evidence. Yet, despite evidence offered by the Company of the directors' intentions to preserve the Company's vested mining rights and its right to mine in the future, the Court ruled that it "assigns minimal weight/value to the circumstantial evidence cited by Petitioner in support of its contentions." Deeming the Company's evidence to be circumstantial, the Court ruled that "the Idaho-Maryland Mine Corporation (Corporation) abandoned any vested mining right by no later than 1963."
The Company believes that multiple aspects of the Court's analysis were erroneous and plans to appeal the Court's ruling.
Additional details are provided in the news release issued by the Company on May 8, 2026, a copy of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
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| 99.1 | Press release dated May 8, 2026 |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: May 8, 2026
RISE GOLD CORP.
/s/ David Watkinson
David Watkinson
President and CEO