The First Assay — September 3, 2026

⚑ Hole of the Day

▾ Deep · ~924 m below surface Extension · New Zone Colombia · Moderate Risk ~ Porphyry-Au / Breccia

Two directional holes aimed at the Ramp Zone instead cut a new, gold-dominant northern extension of the Apollo breccia — APC172-D2 returned 141.4 m @ 4.88 g/t AuEq incl. 38.0 m @ 15.46 g/t, with 31 visible-gold occurrences, 100 m beyond the known breccia margin and open east, west and at depth. At ~924 m below surface this is underground-only material, but 4.9 g/t across 141 m of breccia is bulk-underground grade × width, not a vein — the kind of intercept that moves a block model, and true widths are stated at 60–100%. GT/MCap of 0.33× clears the 0.25 floor on a C$2.1B cap; on absolute scale it is the widest high-grade gold hole archived since August 4 and ranks #2 of 477 Au intercepts in the 30-day archive, behind only Lion One's 4.2 m @ 715 g/t narrow bonanza. Colombia is a moderate-risk jurisdiction. Watch for the northern-extension follow-up holes and what the extra 100 m of strike does to the Apollo resource.

GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5

Au and Cu metrics are on different price bases — not directly comparable across metals.

Brixton's 1.0 m @ 6,199 g/t Ag at Langis prints 118× and four of the top five ratios are Cobalt-camp silver veins on a C$53M cap — Ag-unit bonanzas, not comparable to the Au/Cu names. Earthwise's 25.7× is a C$2M shell at zero volume and should be ignored. The best clean ratios are all copper: Sterling 2.18× (451 m @ 0.30% CuEq, C$62M), Cascadia 1.89× (82.7 m @ 1.78% CuEq), Vizsla 1.77× (49.2 m @ 4.7% CuEq); Scorpio's 1.20× (48.9 m @ 3.02 g/t Au) leads the gold names.

◉ From depth ≤200m (shallow)  ·  ⚠ High jurisdiction risk  ·  ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk  ·  ✓ True width stated  ·  ★ HOTD

Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 10 of 247

Rating	Company	Metal	Hole	m	Grade	GT	AuEq·m	GT/MCap
Exceptional ★	Collective MiningCNL	AuPorphyry-Au	APC172-D2 ✓ ~	141.4	4.88Eq g/t	690	690	0.33
Exceptional	Southern Cross GoldSXGC	AuOrogenic	SDDSC222W1 ✓	0.6	993.2Eq g/t	596	596	0.22
Exceptional	Contango Silver & GoldCTGO	AuOrogenic	LSS26016*	2.45 ◉	86.05 g/t	211	211	0.47
Exceptional	Omai Gold MinesOMG	AuOrogenic	26ODD-193 ✓	40.5	5.12 g/t	207	207	0.12
Great	Outcrop Silver & GoldOCG	AgEpithermal	DH637 ✓ ~	2.86	2,214Eq g/t	6,332	65.3	36.45 (Ag)
Great	Brixton MetalsBBB	AgOther	LM-26-399*	41	79.22 g/t	3,248	33.5	61.70 (Ag)
Exceptional	Vizsla CopperVCU	CuVMS	CMR26-199*	49.2	4.7 CuEq %	231	308	1.77 (Cu)
Great	Cascadia MineralsCAM	CuPorphyry-Cu	CD-26-056 ✓	82.69	1.78 CuEq %	147	196	1.89 (Cu)
Great	Sterling MetalsSAG	CuPorphyry-Cu	SC-26-16*	450.92 ◉	0.30 CuEq %	135	180	2.18 (Cu)
Exceptional	Paladin EnergyPDN	U₃O₈Unconformity	PLS26-782*	12.5	1.8 eU₃O₈ %	22.5	458	0.00 (U₃O₈)

↗ View all 247 intercepts in Google Sheets +237 not shown, incl. SGLD 26MN-115 (Great, 1.20×), KLDC KLM26-037 (Great, 1.16×), EM EME-26-086 (Great, 0.25×), AZT TR26-41 (Great, 1.73×), GTC GS26-01 (Great, 0.91×), RDS OB-26-386W4 (Great, 0.29×), NSU RP-26-18-39 (Great, 0.16×), VLTA SL26-37 (Good, 3.96×), WM FAL-26-002A (Great, 0.78×), KUYA 26-UH-004 (Great, 13.9×)

Near-miss	Brixton MetalsBBB	AgOther	LM-26-394*	2 ◉	236.00 g/t	472	4.9	8.97 (Ag)
Near-miss	Brixton MetalsBBB	AgOther	LM-26-379*	10.9 ◉	32.87 g/t	358	3.7	6.81 (Ag)
Near-miss	Earthwise MineralsWISE	AuOrogenic	IR26055*	6.5 ◉	1.43 g/t	9.3	9.3	4.72
Near-miss	Earthwise MineralsWISE	AuOrogenic	IR26053*	15	0.53 g/t	8.0	8.0	4.04
Near-miss	Kuya SilverKUYA	AgEpithermal	25-UH-043*	1.2 ◉	316.3 g/t	380	3.9	2.59 (Ag)
Near-miss	Kuya SilverKUYA	AgEpithermal	26-UH-004*	2.1 ◉	178.5, 0.51 g/t	375	3.9	2.56 (Ag)

✓ True width stated in PR  ·  * Drilled width — TW not determined  ·  ◉ From ≤200m (shallow)
⚠ High jurisdiction risk  ·  ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk
GT thresholds — Au: Good >10, Great >50, Exceptional >200 g/t·m  ·  Cu: Good >20, Great >40, Exceptional >150 %·m  ·  WO₃: Good >1, Great >5, Exceptional >20 %·m (through-cycle APT basis)  ·  TREO: Good >50, Great >200, Exceptional >500 %·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · APT $3,300/mtu · NdPr $70/kg · GT/MCap uses C$ mkt cap at September 3, 2026
REE AuEq requires NdPr% disclosure; "N/A" if basket not specified. Deposit type shown under metal symbol.

Not Screened

Arbor Metals (ABR · TSX-V · C$9.6M) — Jarnet, Quebec. Best intercept: 0.61 m of 260 ppm Li (≈0.06% Li₂O). Lithium and REE reported at ppm level only — no intercept approaches the Li₂O or TREO thresholds.

Contango Silver & Gold (CTGO) — West Drift Extension KM2/KM3 grab and stockpile samples (up to 395 g/t Au) excluded: not drill intercepts.

Coverage gap — August 25 to 31. No issue was published between the August 24 and September 3 runs; releases from those five trading days were not screened (the JMN listing only reaches back to September 1). Backlog entries from August 19–24 — Westhaven (WHN), Kingsmen (KNG), Fitzroy (FTZ), South Pacific Metals (SPMC), Alkane (ALK), Stakeholder (SRC), Mercado (MERC), Juggernaut (JUGR) — aged out past the 5-day limit unread.

Great Pacific Gold (GPAC) — KVH-01/03/04 rows are restatements of March–April 2026 results (data corrections); only KVH-06 and KVH-12 are new. Archived with a RESTATED tag.

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