GoldVenture Weekly

Drilling has been temporarily paused at the 100%-owned Esperanza copper-gold-molybdenum project in southern Peru while matters relating to the project's authorization are addressed. The maiden drill program had commenced on September 20, 2026. DLP says it is working with Peruvian legal and technical advisors and the relevant authorities to obtain the necessary confirmations, has no reason to believe the matters cannot be resolved, and intends to recommence drilling as soon as practicable.

A non-brokered private placement closed for aggregate gross proceeds of $750,000, Harfang Exploration Inc. (TSXV: HAR) said from Montreal on July 24, 2026. The release describes the offering as non-brokered.

Step-out drillhole CDH013 at the Cobrasco copper-molybdenum project in Chocó, Colombia returned 322m at 0.51% Cu, 70ppm Mo and 1.6g/t Ag from 74m, including 200m at 0.65% Cu and 84ppm Mo from 82m and 44m at 0.81% Cu and 110ppm Mo from 204m. Collared 350m northwest of Pad 3, the hole extends the drill-defined mineralized footprint to approximately 1,300m x 550-700m. CDH012 returned 12m at 0.41% Cu from 350m. Assays are pending for three further holes, with a fourth in progress.

The 2026 drill program at the Surebet discovery on the 100%-owned Golddigger Property in B.C.'s Golden Triangle has concluded, with 48,443 meters drilled in 97 holes over 94 days using 7 rigs, and all holes intersecting quartz-sulphide mineralization. The Surebet footprint increased 12% to 2.01 km2 from 1.8 km2, with the Bonanza Zone expanded from 1.27 km2 to 1.51 km2, the Golden Gate Zone from 0.85 km2 to 1.17 km2, and a new Big Bulk Zone identified. Assays remain pending for 83 holes.

Expansion drilling on the Lupe Vein at the Columba silver project in Chihuahua, Mexico returned 232 gpt silver, 0.3% lead and 0.6% zinc over 24.00 meters from 407 meters in CDH-26-258, and 250 gpt silver, 1.4% lead and 0.8% zinc over 11 meters in CDH-26-257, plus 759 gpt silver over 6.02 meters in CDH-26-256. More than 30,000 meters of the staged 60,000-meter program is complete, with Lupe outlined over about 520 meters of strike and 450 meters vertically and open. Drilling has moved to the Julieta, Santo Niño and Toro veins.

Infill drilling at the Bench Target on the Tower Mountain Property, 40 kilometres west of Thunder Bay, Ontario, returned 496.0 metres averaging 0.271 g/t Au from surface to end-of-hole in TM26-214, including 111.0 metres averaging 0.514 g/t Au. TM26-212 intersected 592.5 metres averaging 0.144 g/t Au, with mineralization from 376.5 metres to end-of-hole at 600 metres, ending in 84.0 metres averaging 0.442 g/t Au; TM26-211 returned 396.0 metres averaging 0.110 g/t Au. Weighted average drilled grades across six holes are 10% above the 2026 MRE model, with a resource update targeted by year-end.

Underground definition drilling at the 100%-owned Madsen Mine in Ontario's Red Lake district returned 5.3m at 176.04 g/t Au, including 1m at 925.52 g/t Au, from hole MM26D-14-4929-025 in the Austin 904 complex, and 4.5m at 128.32 g/t Au, including 1m at 566.81 g/t Au, at South Austin. Austin 955 holes included 6.85m at 35.72 g/t Au and 12.8m at 7.93 g/t Au. Drilling targeted near-term mining inventory, with the complexes potentially added to the mine plan in 2027.

Trenching at the Skull epithermal zone on the Moose Lake antimony project in New Brunswick's Bathurst Mining Camp returned antimony assays above the 1% detection limit in trenches SKT26-01 and SKT26-08, plus up to 1.965 g/t gold and 73.50 g/t silver from trenches SKT26-03 and SKT26-04. The breccia zone has been traced over 242 meters with 8 trenches, with 14 grab samples reported and antimony assays pending on 3 samples. The excavator has moved 3,800 meters southeast to the Moose Lake zone.

Diamond drilling began at the 100%-owned Esperanza copper-gold-molybdenum project in southern Peru, with the first hole collared on September 20, 2026, the first drilling ever on the 22,500-hectare property. The maiden program comprises roughly 3,000 metres in seven holes: four shallow holes to a maximum 150 metres each testing a 300 m x 700 m near-surface copper oxide zone, followed by three 800-metre holes targeting the porphyry core beneath a 5.0 km x 2.5 km magnetic anomaly. Assays will be reported as received.

Drill hole SBM26-09 at the Rainbow Block Project in Butte, Montana intersected 0.82 meters (2.7 feet) of copper-bearing massive sulfide on the Black Rock Copper Vein from 662.15 to 662.97 meters downhole, grading 8.20% CuEq (6.22% Cu, 207.1 g/t Ag, 0.27% Zn). True width is estimated at 50% to 60% of downhole length. The intercept lies about 30 meters below a historical Anaconda unmined copper-silver block. Assays for the Rainbow, Boston and Jersey Blue veins are pending, and follow-up hole SBM26-10 has been started from surface.

Drill hole HW-26-015 at the HWY 37 Project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle returned 8.8 m grading 20.33 g/t Au, 937.6 g/t Ag, 2.98% Cu, 11.08% Zn and 0.99% Pb (38.50 g/t AuEq) from 462.0 m, within 27 m of 13.61 g/t AuEq from 461.0 m to 488.0 m, in a polymetallic vein containing visible gold on the margin of the Hank porphyry target. This is the season's first assay, with the remainder of the hole pending. As of September 17, 2026, 17 holes totalling about 9,500 m have been drilled or are in progress in the Hank-Mary District. Kingfisher also added 30 km² adjacent to Forrest Kerr, bringing total tenure to 1,165 km².

Drill hole FOX26-003 at the Fox Zone on Geiger Energy's Aberdeen Project in Nunavut's Thelon Basin intersected five zones of uranium mineralization over an 89.8 metre interval from 41.0 to 130.8 metres, with downhole radioactivity up to 15,022 cps; assays are pending. FOX26-002 returned extensive clay, sooty pyrite and hematite alteration and was stopped at 404 metres. All three holes at the 1.3-kilometre Fox target, on the Andrew Lake Fault near Orano's Kiggavik deposits, hit mineralization or alteration.