The First Assay
Tuesday Drill Digest
TSX · TSX-V · CSE · July 7, 2026
16 companies
51 qualifying holes
6 jurisdictions
The busiest tape in this scan's history: 16 companies posted 51 qualifying intercepts across six jurisdictions, with Canadian projects supplying nine of the sixteen names. The headline is unambiguous — Radisson's record 316 g/t Au over 5.1m at O'Brien is the best gold GT this archive has ever logged — but the day's real signature is breadth: four Exceptional results in four different metals (Au, Ag, Cu, Sb), including Marimaca's 660m copper manto at Pampa Medina and Silverco's 11,330 g/t·m silver bonanza at Cusi.
⚑ Hole of the Day
▾ Deep · From 823m
★ Discovery · New Zone
Canada · Stable
Orogenic
Radisson Mining RDS TSX-V · C$430M
O'Brien Gold Project, Abitibi, Canada
OB-26-385W4: 5.1m of 316.31 g/t Au from 823m
incl. 1.0m of 1,603.95 g/t Au — highest assay in project history
GT
1,613 g/t·m
Exceptional
AuEq·m
1,613.2
Au basis
GT/MCap
3.75×
(Au)
Deposit
Orogenic
A metre running 1,604 g/t inside 5.1m of 316 g/t from 823m downhole — the highest assay O'Brien has ever produced and the best gold result in this archive's 30-day history by roughly 4×. The address matters more than the number: the intercept sits in Pontiac metasediments in the hanging wall, outside the current 2.3 Moz resource, clustered with previously reported unmined hits — a candidate new very-high-grade zone rather than a one-off vein clip. At 3.75× GT/MCap on a ~C$430M cap this is discovery-scale value even at Radisson's size; grades at ~700m vertical are underground territory, consistent with the 15+ g/t stopes the historic mine ran. Disclosure is clean — 3.0 g/t cut-off, true widths 30–80% of core length stated. Watch follow-up wedges off the 385 pilot and the July 14 technical webinar.
GT/MCap Spotlight — Top 5
Au and Cu metrics are on different price bases — not directly comparable across metals. Silverco's 26× tops the sheet but is an AgEq bonanza inflated by unit scale; the best clean gold ratio is Graycliff at 17.8× — on a ~C$4M micro-cap, so treat with care. Radisson's 3.75× at a C$430M cap is the more meaningful figure.
SICO UGCU26-08 Ag
26.05×
GRAY Hole B Au ◉
17.84×
TUD CBS-26-08 Ag
5.48×
FFF LH26-02 Au ✓
4.03×
RDS OB-26-385W4 Au ✓ ★ HOTD
3.75×
◉ From depth ≤200m (shallow) · ⚠ High jurisdiction risk · ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk · ✓ True width stated · ★ HOTD
Today's Qualifying Intercepts — Top 10 of 51
| Rating | Company | Metal | Hole | m | Grade / COG | GT | AuEq·m | GT/MCap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exceptional ★ | RadissonRDS | AuOrogenic | OB-26-385W4 ✓ | 5.1 | 316.31 g/t / 3.0 g/t | 1613.2 | 1613.2 | 3.75 |
| Great | RadissonRDS | AuOrogenic | OB-26-384W1 ✓ | 3.9 | 46.22 g/t / 3.0 g/t | 180.3 | 180.3 | 0.42 |
| Great | West Red LakeWRLG | AuOrogenic | MM26D-12-5110-013* | 3.85 ◉ | 43.38 g/t / n/s | 167.0 | 167.0 | 0.66 |
| Great | West Red LakeWRLG | AuOrogenic | MM26D-12-5110-048* | 3.10 ◉ | 53.87 g/t / n/s | 167.0 | 167.0 | 0.66 |
| Great | TroilusTLG | AuPorphyry-Au | 87-26-507* | 164 | 0.95 AuEq g/t / n/s | 155.8 | 155.8 | 0.15 |
| Great | Quartz MountainQZM | AuEpithermal-LS | 26-14* | 163.9 | 0.72 AuEq g/t / n/s | 118.0 | 118.0 | 2.88 |
| Great | GraycliffGRAY | Au | Hole B* | 7.3 ◉ | 10.51 g/t / n/s | 76.7 | 76.7 | 17.84 |
| Exceptional | SilvercoSICO | AgEpithermal | UGCU26-08* | 10.3 | 1,100 g/t / n/s | 11330 | 136.6 | 26.05 (Ag) |
| Exceptional | MarimacaMARI | CuSed-hosted | SPRD-08B* | 660 | 0.41 % / n/s | 270.6 | 372.7 | 0.25 (Cu) |
| Exceptional | Critical OneCRTL | Sb | HWL-2026-007* | 4.17 | 27.35 % / n/s | 114.0 | 332.5 | 1.27 (Sb) |
↗ View all 51 intercepts in Google Sheets
+41 not shown: WRLG ×5 (all Great), TUD CBS-26-08 (Great · 5.48×), ZNG [email protected]% Zn+Pb (Great), MMET discovery [email protected] (Great), CAM ×2 (Great), MARI SPRD-07 (Great), RDS ×4, +26 more Good
Near-Miss
| Near-miss | Group ElevenZNG | AgSed-hosted | 26-3552-54* | 4.7 | 67 Ag, 0.88% Cu / n/s | 315 | 10.1 | 0.94 (Ag) |
| Near-miss | Tudor GoldTUD | AuPorphyry-Au | CBS-26-08* | 3.0 ◉ | 2.57 g/t / n/s | 7.7 | 7.7 | 0.02 |
| Near-miss | 55 NorthFFF | AuOrogenic | LH26-03 ✓ | 2.69 | 2.83 g/t / n/s | 7.6 | 7.6 | 0.63 |
| Near-miss | 55 NorthFFF | AuOrogenic | LH26-05 ✓ | 1.0 | 5.66 g/t / n/s | 5.7 | 5.7 | 0.48 |
ZNG 26-3552-54 is the first test of the deeper Cu-Ag horizon at Ballywire, 275m from the nearest such test — polymetallic score 0.93, just under the line.
✓ True width stated in PR · * Drilled width — TW not determined · ◉ From ≤200m (shallow)
⚠ High jurisdiction risk · ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk · n/s = COG not stated
GT thresholds — Au: Good >10, Great >50, Exceptional >200 g/t·m · Ag: Good >500, Great >2,000, Exceptional >10,000 g/t·m · Cu: Good >20, Great >40, Exceptional >150 %·m · Sb: Good >5, Great >20, Exceptional >60 %·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · Sb $30,000/t · GT/MCap uses C$ mkt cap at July 7, 2026
Top-10 shows all four Exceptional results; per-company cap (3) applied to the gold overflow. Deposit type shown under metal symbol.
⚠ High jurisdiction risk · ~ Moderate jurisdiction risk · n/s = COG not stated
GT thresholds — Au: Good >10, Great >50, Exceptional >200 g/t·m · Ag: Good >500, Great >2,000, Exceptional >10,000 g/t·m · Cu: Good >20, Great >40, Exceptional >150 %·m · Sb: Good >5, Great >20, Exceptional >60 %·m
AuEq: Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t · Sb $30,000/t · GT/MCap uses C$ mkt cap at July 7, 2026
Top-10 shows all four Exceptional results; per-company cap (3) applied to the gold overflow. Deposit type shown under metal symbol.
Not Screened
Allied Critical Metals (ACM · CSE · ~C$389M) — Borralha, Portugal. Best intercept: 13m of 1.00% WO₃ incl. 3m of 4.15% WO₃ — first hole at the new Venise Breccia, a second breccia system outside the current resource and PEA. Tungsten — no GT threshold or AuEq conversion in the current framework.
Dakota Gold (DC · NYSE American) — Richmond Hill, South Dakota. Pre-feasibility oxide heap-leach assays. US-listed only — outside the TSX/TSX-V/CSE universe.
Dakota Gold (DC · NYSE American) — Richmond Hill, South Dakota. Pre-feasibility oxide heap-leach assays. US-listed only — outside the TSX/TSX-V/CSE universe.
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Au $3,200/oz · Ag $33/oz · Cu $13,700/t
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