The First Assay
Tuesday Drill Digest
TSX · TSX-V · CSE · NYSE-A · Nasdaq · September 29, 2026
11 companies
137 qualifying holes
4 jurisdictions
Gold dominated a busy Tuesday: 11 companies posted 137 qualifying intercepts across Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, the Yukon, Suriname, Côte d'Ivoire and Bolivia, with Kenorland's Frotet program (73.4 m of 2.24 g/t Au in 26RDD273, plus dozens of other composites) supplying nearly half the rows. Sirios' 6.5 m at 39.94 g/t Au at Cheechoo is the only Exceptional result from a company small enough to matter (1.93× GT/MCap); Equinox has five Exceptional-tier Musselwhite and Valentine holes but on a C$18.7B cap they barely register per dollar. Away from gold, BP Silver's Bolivian Cosuño feeder structure, Selkirk's Minto North copper-gold zone and Critical One's Howells Lake antimony each cleared their thresholds; all 13 candidate releases were read, with Equinox's PDF tables only partly recovered.
⚑ Hole of the Day
▾ Depth n/d (image table)
Extension · Step-out
Canada · Stable
Intrusion-hosted Au
Sirios Resources SOI TSX-V · C$134M
Cheechoo, Canada (Quebec)
CH26-337: 6.5m of 39.94 g/t Au*
incl. 2.0m of 129.00 g/t Au · plus 3.0m of 25.21 g/t Au
GT
259.6 g/t·m
ExceptionalAuEq·m
259.6
Au basis
GT/MCap
1.93×
(Au)
Peer rank
#45 of 862
Sirios' CH26-337 returned 6.5 m of 39.94 g/t Au, with a 2.0 m core of 129.00 g/t, from the Phase 1 expansion drilling at Cheechoo, an intrusion-hosted gold system in tonalite and wacke. That is a GT of 259.6 g/t·m, Exceptional on the Au scale, and on a C$134M cap it works out to 1.93× GT/MCap, the highest of any straight-gold result on the sheet. It is a step-out (Extension) hole from a completed 15-hole program, with a further 3.0 m at 25.21 g/t in the same hole. Caveats: the collar-depth table in the release is an image, so from-depths, and therefore the shallow/deep call, could not be extracted; true width is not disclosed; and most of the other Sirios rows are long, low-grade (0.30–0.62 g/t) summary intervals rather than new high-grade. By AuEq·m it ranks #45 of 862 Au intercepts archived since Sept 4 (top ~5%). Canada is a stable jurisdiction. Worth watching: the depth and orientation data behind Table 1, and whether the 129 g/t core is a narrow vein or a repeatable zone.
* Drilled widths — true width not determined.
GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5
Read with care: the top two are BP Silver's AgEq intercepts (Ag/Bi/Sb, C$63M cap) and the next three are TomaGold's polymetallic AuEq on a C$9M cap, so none are comparable with straight Au/Cu names. The best clean ratios are Sirios CH26-337 (1.93×), Emperor DQ26-37 (1.83×) and Kobo KDD0191 (1.13×).
BPAG CO-0013 AgEq ◉ ~
96.58×
BPAG CO-0012 AgEq ◉ ~
23.06×
LOT TOM-25-015 AuEq ✓
12.51×
LOT TOM-25-011EXT AuEq ✓
10.46×
LOT TOM-25-012EXT AuEq ✓
6.00×
◉ From depth ≤200m (shallow) · ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk · ✓ True width stated
Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 10 of 137
| Rating | Company | Metal | Hole | m | Grade | GT | AuEq·m | GT/MCap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exceptional | EquinoxEQX | AuOrogenic | MA-24-489* | 164.0 | 2.55 g/t | 418.2 | 418.2 | 0.02 |
| Exceptional ★ | SiriosSOI | AuIntrusion | CH26-337* | 6.5 | 39.94 g/t | 259.6 | 259.6 | 1.93 |
| Great | EmperorAUOZ | AuOrogenic | DQ26-37 ✓ | 32.0 | 5.9 g/t | 188.8 | 188.8 | 1.83 |
| Great | KenorlandKLD | AuOrogenic | 25RDD269* | 2.35 | 71.89 g/t | 168.9 | 168.9 | 0.98 |
| Great | KenorlandKLD | AuOrogenic | 26RDD273* | 73.42 | 2.24 g/t | 164.5 | 164.5 | 0.95 |
| Great | MiataMMET | AuOrogenic | 26DDH-JT-023 ✓ | 35.25 ◉ | 3.41 g/t | 120.2 | 120.2 | 0.93 |
| Great | TomaGoldLOT | AuPolymetallic | TOM-25-015 ✓ | 98.5 | 1.19 g/t AuEq | 117.2 | 117.2 | 12.51 |
| Great | BP SilverBPAG | AgAg-Bi-Sb | CO-0013* ~ | 3.0 ◉ | 1,328.8 g/t AgEq | 3,986.4 | 41.1 | 63.22 (Ag) |
| Great | SelkirkSCMI | CuCu-Au-Ag | 26SCM209* | 5.4 | 9.27 % Cu · 15.11% CuEq | 81.6 | 108.7 | 0.38 (Cu) |
| Great | Critical OneCRTL | SbSb-Au | HWL-2026-017* | 11.9 ◉ | 1.75 % Sb | 20.8 | 60.7 | 0.30 (Sb) |
↗ View all 137 intercepts in Google Sheets
+127 not shown by company: Kenorland ×59, Equinox ×15, Brixton ×12, Sirios ×11, Selkirk ×9, Miata ×8, TomaGold ×5, BP ×3, Critical ×2, Kobo ×2, Emperor ×1. Table shows one headline row per name (Au, Ag, Cu and Sb kept visible); Equinox's Musselwhite and Valentine holes are shown once.
Near-Miss (selected)
| Near-miss | EmperorAUOZ | Au | DQ26-47 ✓ | 7.7 | 1 g/t | 7.7 | 7.7 | 0.07 |
| Near-miss | KoboKRI | Au | KDD0190* | 5.0 | 1.99 g/t | 9.9 | 9.9 | 0.31 |
| Near-miss | KoboKRI | Au | KDD0188* | 7.0 | 1.28 g/t | 9.0 | 9.0 | 0.28 |
| Near-miss | BrixtonBBB | Au | THN26-383* | 0.5 | 17.28 g/t AuEq | 8.6 | 8.6 | 0.17 |
| Near-miss | BULGOLDZLTO | Au | KG-KP-5a* | 22.4 | 0.34 g/t | 7.6 | 7.6 | 2.62 |
Brixton THN26-383 is 0.5 m at 1,100 g/t Ag (17.28 g/t AuEq), narrow and near-miss on GT. Emperor DQ26-47: the release headline says 14.7 m at 0.5 g/t but its table shows 7.7 m at 1.0 g/t; the table value is used. BP Silver GT is on an AgEq basis (Ag/Bi/Sb) and Selkirk on CuEq, both as reported; Kobo's market cap (C$32.5M) is approximate.
✓ True width stated in PR · * Drilled width — TW not determined · ◉ From ≤200m (shallow) · ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk (BP Silver, Bolivia)
GT thresholds — Au: Good >10, Great >50, Exceptional >200 g/t·m · Ag: 500 / 2,000 / 10,000 · Cu: 20 / 40 / 150 %·m · Sb: 5 / 20 / 60 %·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · Sb $30,000/t · GT/MCap uses C$ market cap at September 29, 2026
GT thresholds — Au: Good >10, Great >50, Exceptional >200 g/t·m · Ag: 500 / 2,000 / 10,000 · Cu: 20 / 40 / 150 %·m · Sb: 5 / 20 / 60 %·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · Sb $30,000/t · GT/MCap uses C$ market cap at September 29, 2026
Not Screened
Equinox Gold (EQX · TSX / NYSE-A · C$18.7B) — Musselwhite and Valentine, Canada. Screened and archived from the JMN highlights and the extracted tables, but the underground composites table (Table 3) and the Valentine hole IDs/depths were not retrievable (PDF blocked), so 15 rows carry N/A depths and ~40 sub-3 m and sub-Good rows from Tables 2 and 4 were not archived individually. Table 4 values are an unverified extraction.
Star Copper (STCU · CSE · C$51.9M) — Star Main, British Columbia. Progress release only: holes S-073, S-074 and S-076 complete, S-079 in progress; no 2026 assays reported (S-076 results pending; ~60 m visual copper mineralization). Only a historic hole (S-037) is quoted.
BULGOLD (ZLTO · TSX-V · C$2.9M) — Lutila / Kopernica, Slovakia. Best interval 22.4 m at 0.34 g/t Au (GT 7.6) is shown as a near-miss above; the release headline is a geochemical/XRD model, not a new high-grade result.
Non-drilling or no-assay releases — Ashley Gold (phase IV operational update), Blue Lagoon (drilling start), Stallion Uranium (drilling recommenced), Golden Cariboo (inaugural NI 43-101 resource), Atlas Critical Minerals (graphite resource), NSJ Antimony (claims expansion), King Global (tailings sampling), Sankamap and Magna Terra (prospecting), Blade Resources (MT survey), NevGold (drill targets), Battery Mineral Resources (permit), Jaguar Uranium (EIA approval), Uranium Energy (fiscal results). No Radiometric Watch holes today.
Archive note — Kenorland, Miata and Sirios composites with GT below 10 g/t·m (near-miss band) were not archived individually; Sirios from/to depths sit in an image table.
Star Copper (STCU · CSE · C$51.9M) — Star Main, British Columbia. Progress release only: holes S-073, S-074 and S-076 complete, S-079 in progress; no 2026 assays reported (S-076 results pending; ~60 m visual copper mineralization). Only a historic hole (S-037) is quoted.
BULGOLD (ZLTO · TSX-V · C$2.9M) — Lutila / Kopernica, Slovakia. Best interval 22.4 m at 0.34 g/t Au (GT 7.6) is shown as a near-miss above; the release headline is a geochemical/XRD model, not a new high-grade result.
Non-drilling or no-assay releases — Ashley Gold (phase IV operational update), Blue Lagoon (drilling start), Stallion Uranium (drilling recommenced), Golden Cariboo (inaugural NI 43-101 resource), Atlas Critical Minerals (graphite resource), NSJ Antimony (claims expansion), King Global (tailings sampling), Sankamap and Magna Terra (prospecting), Blade Resources (MT survey), NevGold (drill targets), Battery Mineral Resources (permit), Jaguar Uranium (EIA approval), Uranium Energy (fiscal results). No Radiometric Watch holes today.
Archive note — Kenorland, Miata and Sirios composites with GT below 10 g/t·m (near-miss band) were not archived individually; Sirios from/to depths sit in an image table.
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