The First Assay — September 16, 2026

⚑ Hole of the Day

◉ Shallow · From 154.5m Infill · Resource USA · Stable Orogenic

GS2641 hit an uncut 5.8 m @ 71.46 g/t Au from 154.5 m, driven by 3.1 m @ 133 g/t in a fault-marginal quartz vein with pyrite-arsenopyrite-jamesonite in eastern Cleary — the 414 g/t·m is nugget-controlled and the true width is undetermined, so read it as a high-grade-domain indicator rather than a resource-grade number. The more consequential hole in the same release is GS2634: 102.8 m @ 3.10 g/t (incl. 55.9 m @ 5.18) from 460 m in the Cleary Road Cut Shear hanging wall — about 2.5× the 1.24 g/t indicated resource grade — and it ended early at 576.8 m in mineralization. Both are infill inside a ~29 Moz orogenic bulk-tonnage resource being pushed to PFS, so the read-through is grade uplift in the Cleary high-grade shear domain (underground-relevant at these depths), not new ounces. At 0.62× on a C$664M cap this is solid rather than spectacular value-per-dollar; among this week's Au results it ranks second to Auro's DSB-68 (570 AuEq·m, Sept 15) — full 30-day rank not computed this run. Watch the remaining 2026 assays (>52,000 m drilled), the Albion/GlassLock vs BIOX/POX met trade-off, and the 2027 MRE/PFS.

GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5

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

Metalsource (30.5×) and Kootenay (25.2×) top the sheet only because Ag-unit GT is not comparable to Au or Cu — Silver Hill's 7.3 m @ 261 g/t AgEq is a Good-rated interval on a C$63M cap, and Columba's 17 m @ 178 g/t is a ~3.7 m true-width breccia at 435 m. The best clean ratio is FireFox at 3.27× — 21 m @ 4.13 g/t on a C$26M cap, a genuine discovery 650 m from any prior drilling with two more Lammas holes pending — then SLAM at 2.42× (CuEq only, C$9.5M micro-cap, native grades not disclosed) and Sterling at 1.88×, which is the one with porphyry scale behind it.

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

Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 10 of 79

Rating	Company	Metal	Hole	m	Grade	GT	AuEq·m	GT/MCap
Exceptional ★	Freegold VenturesFVL	AuOrogenic	GS2641*	5.8 ◉	71.46 g/t	414	414.5	0.62
Exceptional	Freegold VenturesFVL	AuOrogenic	GS2634*	102.8	3.10 g/t	319	318.7	0.48
Great	G Mining VenturesGMIN	AuOrogenic	GUD-26-029 ✓	79.6 ◉	1.78 g/t	142	141.7	0.01
Great	FireFox GoldFFOX	AuOrogenic	26MJ032*	21 ◉	4.13 g/t	86.7	86.7	3.27
Great	Avanti GoldAGC	AuOrogenic	MSDD0153 ✓ ⚠	11.5 ◉	6.50 g/t	74.8	74.8	0.69
Great	Goliath ResourcesGOT	AuOrogenic	GD-26-478 ✓	4.85	13.81 g/t	67.0	67.0	0.22
Great	RPX GoldRPX	AuOrogenic	SD-26-676 ✓	35.1 ◉	1.87 g/t	65.6	65.6	0.92
Exceptional	Aya Gold & SilverAYA	AgEpithermal	DZG-SF-26-945*	3.5 ◉	3 g/t	12,254	126.3	2.29 (Ag)
Great	Kootenay SilverKTN	AgEpithermal	CDH-26-243 ✓	17	178 g/t	3,026	39.2	25.16 (Ag)
Great	Sterling MetalsSAG	CuPorphyry-Cu	SC-26-26*	397.19 ◉	0.37% CuEq %	119	175.0	1.88 (Cu)

↗ View all 79 intercepts in Google Sheets +69 not shown: MSM SH26-22 (Good, 30.48×), MSM SH26-23 (Good, 27.50×), MSM SH26-23 (incl.) (Good, 24.72×), KTN CDH-26-253 (Grea, 24.23×), MSM SH26-22 (incl.) (Good, 20.33×), KTN CDH-26-250 (Good, 15.18×), KTN CDH-26-253 (Good, 14.30×), KTN CDH-26-239 (Good, 11.07×) … +61 more

Near-miss	Avanti GoldAGC	AuOrogenic	MSDD0153 ✓ ⚠	4.6 ◉	1.94 g/t	8.9	8.9	0.08
Near-miss	RPX GoldRPX	AuOrogenic	SD-26-660A ✓	4.26 ◉	2.05 g/t	8.7	8.7	0.12
Near-miss	SLAM ExplorationSXL	CuMagmatic	GW26-33 (incl.)*	4.9 ◉	2.61Eq CuEq	12.8	17.0	1.34 (Cu)
Near-miss	New Break ResourcesNBRK	Au	NBR-26-30*	5.5	1.57 g/t	8.6	8.6	0.50
Near-miss	Pelangio ExplorationPX	AuOrogenic	SPDD26-011 ✓	4.9 ◉	1.81 g/t	8.9	8.9	0.23

✓ 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 16, 2026
REE AuEq requires NdPr% disclosure; "N/A" if basket not specified. Deposit type shown under metal symbol.

Not Screened

High Tide Resources (HTRC · CSE · C$30M) — Labrador West, Canada. Best intercept: 128.9 m of 30.2% FeT (26LB0071) and 179.6 m of 26.7% FeT. Iron — no GT threshold defined in the current framework.

PTX Metals (PTX · TSX-V · C$20M) — Shining Tree, Ontario. Phase 1 completion (6 holes / 1,209 m at Ronda); assays pending — no results to screen.

Goliath Resources (GOT) — holes GD-26-414/426/439/450 in today's release are AuEq re-reports of gold assays already published Aug 10/21; only the new Au-only hole GD-26-478 is tabulated. Coverage note: all 17 in-window releases were read in full (4 subagent batches); nothing carried to the unread backlog.

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