The First Assay — September 15, 2026

⚑ Hole of the Day

◉ Shallow · From 56.5m Extension · Step-out Ecuador · Moderate Risk ~ Porphyry-Au

Hole DSB-68 ran 905 m of continuous mineralisation averaging 0.60 g/t Au and 0.12% Cu (0.63 g/t AuEq) from 56.5 m, and Auro says weaker mineralisation continued to the rig-limited end of hole at 1,282 m — the best gram-metre intercept in the project's history. At 0.6 g/t this is a bulk-tonnage Au-Cu porphyry number that only works at scale with a low strip; the geology supports that (sub-vertical hole into a large system, infill hole DSB-70 gave 262.5 m @ 0.71 g/t nearby) but the hole is sub-vertical in a system whose geometry is not yet defined, so treat the length as drilled, not true. GT of 543 g/t·m on a ~C$158M cap gives 3.43× — the second-best clean ratio on the sheet behind Tiger's 465 m hole. Against the archives on hand it ranks #4 of the last 30 days' gold intercepts by GT, behind three narrow bonanza holes (Lion One, Nuvau, Founders), and is the widest by roughly a factor of three. Ecuador is a moderate-risk jurisdiction — permitting and community consultation are the binding constraints on any porphyry there. Watch the five pending Phase I holes and the 20,000 m Phase II now under way with three additional rigs; the question is whether DSB-69/70-style grades hold across the 900 m step-outs the company is now planning.

GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5

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

Silver Acadia's 288.7× on an C$9M cap is a micro-cap artefact — 5.5 m of 470 g/t AgEq is a Great hole but it is a cross-metal ratio and not comparable to the Au/Cu names, as are Contango (25.2×) and PPX (9.7×). Volta's 5.55× is a TREO ratio with no NdPr basis. The best clean ratios are Tiger Gold at 3.56× (465 m @ 0.6 g/t from surface) and Auro at 3.43×, followed by Adyton 1.79×, Getty 1.43× on copper and Gemdale 1.45× on a C$34M cap.

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

Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 10 of 118

Rating	Company	Metal	Hole	m	Grade	GT	AuEq·m	GT/MCap
Exceptional ★	Auro MetalsAURO	AuPorphyry-Au	DSB-68* ~	905.22 ◉	0.60 g/t Au, 0.12% Cu	543.1	570.3	3.43×
Exceptional	Tiger GoldTIGR	AuPorphyry-Au	CEDDH-018* ~	465 ◉	0.6 g/t Au, 1.0 g/t Ag, 0.05% Cu	279.0	314.8	3.56×
Great	Auro MetalsAURO	AuPorphyry-Au	DSB-70* ~	262.5 ◉	0.71 g/t Au, 0.10% Cu	186.4	191.6	1.18×
Great	Adyton ResourcesADY	AuEpithermal-L	FDD026* ~	167 ◉	1.03 g/t Au, 0.12% Cu	172.0	190.4	1.79×
Great	Tiger GoldTIGR	AuPorphyry-Au	CEDDH-019* ~	165.7	0.9 g/t Au, 0.9 g/t Ag, 0.05% Cu	149.1	161.7	1.90×
Great	Soma GoldSOMA	AuOrogenic	BASDDH-25-038 ✓ ~	8.55 ◉	15.3 g/t Au	130.8	130.8	1.30×
Great	Auro MetalsAURO	AuPorphyry-Au	DSB-69* ~	200.55	0.59 g/t Au, 0.08% Cu	118.3	122.3	0.75×
Great	Tiger GoldTIGR	AuPorphyry-Au	CEDDH-019* ~	232 ◉	0.5 g/t Au, 0.9 g/t Ag, 0.04% Cu	116.0	130.5	1.48×
Great	Adyton ResourcesADY	AuEpithermal-L	FDD026 (incl.)* ~	57 ◉	1.91 g/t Au, 0.17% Cu	108.9	115.7	1.13×
Great	Soma GoldSOMA	AuOrogenic	UATDDH-26-008 ✓ ~	3.2 ◉	28.2 g/t Au	90.2	90.2	0.90×

↗ View all 118 intercepts in Google Sheets +108 not shown: CNL APC-182 Exceptional 0.02×, FWZ TS26-003 Exceptional 1.27× (Zn), CTGO DV26-515 Exceptional 25.2× (Ag), GTC GS26-06 Great 1.43× (Cu), VLTA SL26-28 Great 5.55× (TREO), GLAD BCG-045 Great 0.25× (Cu), CCCM, MACK, OMI, PPX, SLA, GEMG, THX and the remaining includes

Near-miss	C3 MetalsCCCM	CuPorphyry-Cu	KHZ5825-004*	55.6 ◉	0.18% Cu	12.8	17.0	0.15× (Cu)
Near-miss	Bonterra ResourcesBTR	AuOrogenic	BRDS-26-114*	1.4	4.75 g/t Au	6.6	6.6	0.20×
Near-miss	Bonterra ResourcesBTR	AuOrogenic	BRDS-26-128A*	8.2	0.79 g/t Au	6.5	6.5	0.20×

✓ 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  ·  Ag: Good >500, Great >2,000, Exceptional >10,000 g/t·m  ·  Cu: Good >20, Great >40, Exceptional >150 %·m  ·  Zn+Pb: Good >50, Great >150, Exceptional >300 %·m  ·  TREO: Good >50, Great >200, Exceptional >500 %·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · Zn $3,000/t · Pb $2,000/t · GT/MCap uses C$ mkt cap at September 15, 2026; USD caps converted at 1.36
Rows rated on a PR-reported equivalent grade show GT in the native primary metal. REE AuEq requires NdPr% disclosure; "N/A" if basket not specified. Deposit type shown under metal symbol.

Not Screened

Lahontan Gold (LG · TSX-V · C$160M) — Santa Fe Heap Leach Pad Two, Nevada. Best intercept: 16.5m of 2.72 g/t Au. Sonic drilling of historic heap-leach residue, not in-situ rock — no GT framework applies (weighted average of all pad samples to date 0.50 g/t Au vs ~0.29 g/t expected from production records).

North American Niobium & Critical Minerals (NIOB · CSE · C$4.6M) — Bardy, Québec. Best intercept: 14.6m of 0.12% TREO (2.05m of 0.43% TREO). Screened and failed — every interval is far below the TREO Good threshold; NdPr% and Nb₂O₅ not reported.

SAGA Metals (SAGA · TSX-V) — Radar, Labrador. Headline: 470m of 36.72% Fe₂O₃, 5.40% TiO₂, 0.245% V₂O₅. Fe-Ti-V — no GT threshold in the framework; not opened.

Zodiac Gold (ZAU · TSX-V · C$25M) — Todi / Lewis North, Liberia. Trench LWT003: 58m of 3.15 g/t Au incl. 1m of 158 g/t. Trenching / channel samples, not drilling; Lewis North drilling starts this week.

GoldHaven Resources (GOH · CSE · C$19M) — Magno / Kuhn tungsten skarn, BC. Program update: ~20m of visual skarn and pXRF only, no WO₃ assays yet — assays pending.

Fortitude Gold (FTCO · OTCQB) — East Camp Douglas, Nevada. Headline: 28.96m of 2.07 g/t Au incl. 1.52m of 13.20 g/t. OTC-only listing — outside exchange coverage; not opened.

Forge Resources (FRG · CSE) and Arizona Eagle Mining (AZEM · TSX-V) — visual drill observations at Alotta and surface sampling in Arizona respectively; no assays from drilling, not opened.

Coverage note: Getty Copper's Sept 14 release posted after Monday's scrape and is carried in today's sheet as a catch-up. Every other enumerated release in the Sept 14 15:37Z → Sept 16 02:20Z window was read; nothing is carried to the backlog.

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