The First Assay
Friday Drill Digest
TSX · TSX-V · CSE · NYSE-A · Nasdaq  ·  July 17, 2026
0 companies  ·  0 qualifying holes  ·  0 jurisdictions

No assay releases crossed the wire this morning — every Friday item on the JMN feed was corporate: Li-FT spudding at Adina-Galinée, Cantex raising with Crescat, SSR closing the Hod Maden sale, Blue Lagoon past C$10M of Dome Mountain revenue. The one in-window assay release, Nobel Resources at Cuprita in Chile, returned a best of 4.0 m at 0.106% Cu — roughly a fiftieth of the copper screen’s entry bar, and a fair reflection of a hole the company itself says was collared on the edge of the chargeability anomaly rather than in it. Both markets are open; this is a genuinely empty morning rather than a holiday, so the week in review below is the issue.

No qualifying intercepts
The screen ran clean against an empty window — nothing was filtered out on a technicality. Nobel’s Cuprita hole was the only new assay table published, and it fails the copper grade-thickness test decisively (best GT 0.42 %·m against a Good threshold of 20). Thursday’s heavy tape — Vizsla Copper, ATERRA, Onyx, Thunder, Allied Critical Metals, TomaGold and Vior — was captured in yesterday’s sheet and is not double-counted here.
Week in Review — July 13 to July 17
Top 10 by AuEq·m, one row per hole. Metals priced on different bases — AuEq is a common yardstick, not a valuation.
DayRatingCompanyMetalHoleGTAuEq·m
TueExceptionalMetals Creek MEKAuTOG-26-761,137.81,137.8
ThuGreatAllied Critical ACMWO₃Bo_13/2617.9575.1
WedExceptionalAmerican Eagle AECuNAK26-83392.5522.9
TueExceptionalAuro Metals AUROAuDSB-59400.1418.8
TueExceptionalSitka Gold SIGAuDDRCCC-26-128389.8389.8
TueExceptionalAbraSilver ABRAAgDDH 26-03624,111327.1
TueExceptionalMontage Gold MAUAuBGDD26-090314.6314.6
TueExceptionalAlkane Resources ALKAuBD468108.7274.5
TueExceptionalOrosur Mining OMIAuMAP107258.8258.8
WedGreatAztec Minerals AZTAuTR26-30170.4257.5
Tuesday carried the week: seven of the top ten. Metals Creek’s TOG-26-76 — 9.85 m of 115.51 g/t Au including 0.50 m at 2,050 g/t with visible gold — is an order of magnitude clear of everything else, and against a ~C$7.4M market cap it printed a GT/MCap of 154×, the highest this archive has recorded. Treat that ratio as a flag for attention, not a valuation: it is one hole, on a 50/50 JV, in a company small enough that any single number distorts.

Allied’s tungsten sits second on AuEq·m but only rates Great — the WO₃ AuEq is computed at spiked spot APT (US$3,300/mtu) while the rating is set on a through-cycle ~US$1,000/mtu basis. The gap is deliberate. AbraSilver’s 24,111 g/t·m is an Ag-unit figure and is not comparable to the gold and copper rows above it.
Not Screened
Nobel Resources (NBLC · TSX-V) — Cuprita, Chile. Best intercept: 4.0 m of 1,059 ppm (0.106%) Cu, within 21.0 m of 504 ppm. Screened and failed on Cu grade-thickness (GT 0.42 %·m vs Good >20); shown here for completeness because it was the window’s only assay table. Mo excluded — no AuEq conversion.
THE FIRST ASSAY
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Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · APT $3,300/mtu
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