The First Assay — September 25, 2026

⚑ Hole of the Day

◉ Shallow · From 24m ★ Discovery · New Zone Canada · Stable Porphyry-Au

Ashley Gold’s Tak Patents step-out returned the best interval the company or property has produced to date: 60.0 m grading 3.333 g/t Au from just 24 m downhole — wide, shallow, open-pit-scale mineralisation in a quartz-feldspar porphyry stockwork, with a 0.65 m core at 229 g/t Au (grade capped at 40 g/t pending statistical review) showing the system still carries real bonanza structure inside the bulk envelope. At GT 200 on a C$6.6M market cap, that is a 30.3x GT/MCap — by a wide margin the cheapest way today’s newsflow priced this scale of gold, and it dwarfs Lundin Gold’s and Torex’s far larger absolute intercepts once market cap is weighed in (both sub-0.08x on multi-billion-dollar caps). Ranks #30 of 748 Au results by AuEq·m in the available local archive (Sept 4–24). This is Ashley’s first qualifying day since Sept 23, so no active streak. Eastern step-out drilling outside the historic 67Z zone — watch for the follow-up assays the company has flagged as still pending on adjacent holes.

GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5

Au and AuEq metrics shown; ratios are on hugely different market-cap bases and not directly comparable across issuers.

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

Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 7 of 16

Rating	Company	Metal	Hole	m	Grade	GT	AuEq·m	GT/MCap
Exceptional	Lundin GoldLUG	AuEpithermal-LS	BLP-2026-553* ~	3.0 ◉	204.26 g/t	623.0	623.0	0.03x
Exceptional	Torex Gold ResourcesTXG	AuSkarn	SST-491 ✓	35.0 ◉	14.32 g/t	501.2	501.2	0.08x
Exceptional	Torex Gold ResourcesTXG	AuSkarn	MLND-025 ✓	42.5 ◉	10.61 g/t	450.9	450.9	0.07x
Exceptional	Torex Gold ResourcesTXG	AuSkarn	MLND-024 ✓	40.6 ◉	10.05 g/t	408.0	408.0	0.06x
Great ★	Ashley Gold CorpASHL	AuPorphyry-Au	TAK-26-16*	60.0 ◉	3.333 g/t	200.0	200.0	30.30x
Great	Lundin GoldLUG	AuEpithermal-LS	BLP-2026-483-D1* ~	4.2	28.05 g/t	117.8	117.8	0.01x
Great	Lundin GoldLUG	AuEpithermal-LS	CHT-2026-495* ~	13.1 ◉	6.53 g/t	85.2	85.2	0.00x

↗ View all 16 intercepts in Google Sheets +9 not shown: TXG LS-517 (Exceptional, 0.06x), TXG MLE26-025 (Exceptional, 0.05x), TXG MLUI-005 (Exceptional, 0.05x), TXG MLE26-035D (Exceptional, 0.03x), TXG MLUI-013 (Exceptional, 0.03x), TXG SST-484 (Great, 0.02x), LUG BLP-2026-483-D2 (Great, 0.00x), LUG BLP-2026-475-D5 (Great, 0.00x), LUG ALE-2026-529 (Great, 0.00x)

✓ True width stated in PR  ·  * Drilled width — TW not determined  ·  ◉ From ≤200m (shallow)
~ Moderate jurisdiction risk
GT thresholds — Au: Good >10, Great >50, Exceptional >200 g/t·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · GT/MCap uses C$ mkt cap at September 25, 2026

Grade × Width Scatter — AuEq g/t vs Interval (m)

Bubble size ∝ AuEq·m. Axes linear.

Not Screened / No Assay Data

Also on the wire today with no drill assay data — financings, AGMs, personnel, program starts and metallurgical (not drill) results: Tocvan (TOC, column-leach metallurgy), New Age Metals (NAM, surface prospecting/grab samples), District Metals (DMX, year-end results), Sirios Resources (SOI, program start), REV Exploration (REVX, program start), UraniumX (STMN, program planning), HM Exploration (HM, program update), Soma Gold (SOMA, personnel), White Gold (WGO, PEA filing), AngloGold Ashanti (AU, personnel / site visit), Core Silver (CC), Terra Clean Energy (TCEC), Standard Uranium (STND, AGM), Vinland Lithium (VLD), Orosur Mining (OMI), Rush Gold (RGN), Largo (LGO) — all financings/AGM notices.

Week in Review — Sept 21 to Sept 25

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