The First Assay — September 28, 2026

⚑ Hole of the Day

▾ Deep · From 360m Infill · Resource Canada · Stable

232.5 metres averaging 0.450 g/t Au from 360m depth, including a higher-grade 33.0m core at 1.383 g/t Au — the sixth hole of an infill program converting Inferred ounces to Indicated at Tower Mountain, Ontario. This is a wide, moderate-grade intrusion-hosted system rather than a bonanza vein: width is doing the work, not grade, and the company's own six-hole aggregate (2,040.5m @ 0.445 g/t Au) is running roughly 12.5% above the modelled grade. Deep hole (from 360m) means no open-pit read-through — this is underground resource-conversion economics, not a discovery story. On raw GT it narrowly out-points Austral Gold's Guanaco hit (104.6 vs 104.5 AuEq·m) — about as close as this selection procedure gets. At a C$55.53M market cap, 1.88× GT/MCap is the second-best on the sheet today, trailing only Eastport's copper hit. Ranks #146 of 845 Au intercepts in the trailing local archive — solidly mid-table on grade, but a program worth watching given the aggregate result. No prior qualifying history in the local archive (first appearance).

GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5

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

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

Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 10 of 45

Rating	Company	Metal	Hole	m	Grade	GT	AuEq·m	GT/MCap
Exceptional	B2GoldBTO	Au	26GSE749Z2*	21.23	19.12 g/t	405.9	405.9	0.04
Exceptional	B2GoldBTO	Au	26GRL239*	9.4 ◉	26.49 g/t	249.0	249.0	0.02
Exceptional	B2GoldBTO	Au	26GSE746Z2*	10.6	21.72 g/t	230.2	230.2	0.02
Great ★	Thunder GoldTGOL	Au	TM26-217*	232.5	0.45 g/t	104.6	104.6	1.88
Great	Austral GoldAGLD	AuEpi-HS	RC-1186*	95 ◉	1.10 g/t	104.5	104.5	1.01
Great	Austral GoldAGLD	AuEpi-HS	RC-1197*	20 ◉	3.12 g/t	62.4	62.4	0.60
Great	OsiskoOM	CuPorphyry-Cu	30-1243 ✓	211.5 ◉	0.59 %	124.8	124.8	0.08 (Cu)
Great	OsiskoOM	CuPorphyry-Cu	30-1236 ✓	86.5	1.36 %	117.6	117.6	0.07 (Cu)
Great	GladiatorGLAD	CuSkarn	CPG-173*	62 ◉	1.34 %	83.1	83.1	0.28 (Cu)
Great	Eastport CriticalEVI	Cu	NAKDD25-006*	110.8 ◉	0.43 %	47.6	47.6	2.68 (Cu)

↗ View all 45 intercepts in Google Sheets +35 not shown: BTO +7 more (best 26GSE749 Exceptional); DC +15 more (best RH26C-463c Good); OM +6 more (best 30-1246 Great); GLAD +3 more (best CPG-171 Great); AGLD +4 more (best RC-1196 Good)

Near-Miss	Osisko MetalsOM	Cu	30-1247 ✓	57.9	0.31 %	17.95	17.9	0.01
Near-Miss	Gladiator MetalsGLAD	Cu	CPG-156*	24	0.69 %	16.56	16.6	0.06
Near-Miss	Osisko MetalsOM	Cu	30-1242 ✓	41.5	0.39 %	16.19	16.2	0.01
Near-Miss	Osisko MetalsOM	Cu	30-1244 ✓	42.5	0.38 %	16.15	16.1	0.01
Near-Miss	Gladiator MetalsGLAD	Cu	CPG-162*	17	0.90 %	15.30	15.3	0.05
Near-Miss	Osisko MetalsOM	Cu	30-1238 ✓	49.5	0.30 %	14.85	14.8	0.01

✓ 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 28, 2026
REE AuEq requires NdPr% disclosure; "N/A" if basket not specified. Deposit type shown under metal symbol.

Not Screened

Solitario Resources Corp. (XPL/SLR · NYSE American/TSX · C$85.2M) — Cat Creek copper-molybdenum porphyry project, Colorado, USA. Two holes logged visual molybdenite over up to 382.9m with trace pXRF copper; no lab assays returned. Visual/pXRF intercept only — lab assays expected in 2-3 months, no GT threshold applicable to unassayed visual logging.

Talisker Resources Ltd. (TSK · TSX · C$254.7M) — Mustang Mine (M1 Vein), Bralorne Gold Project, BC, Canada. Underground face/channel samples averaging 27.88 g/t Au across a 36m strike length (0.61m average true width), including a 229.0 g/t Au face sample. Channel/face sample, not a drill hole — outside this newsletter's drill-results scope.

Xcite Uranium Inc. (XRI · CSE · C$26.6M) and Green Canada Uranium Corp. (GCUC · TSXV) both reported downhole gamma anomalies today (peak 2,281 cps and 3,806 cps respectively) — below the Radiometric Watch inclusion bar (off-scale or peak ≥10,000 cps) and not described as probe-saturated by either issuer, so neither is carried as a leading indicator this run.

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