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Scorpio Gold Drills 0.62 G/T Gold Over 62.21 Metres From 230.43 Metres Within Manhattan Caldera, at Black Mammoth

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Scorpio Gold Drills 0.62 G/T Gold Over 62.21 Metres From 230.43 Metres Within Manhattan Caldera, at Black Mammoth

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights
• Hole 26MN-069 returned:
o 0.62 g/t gold over 62.21 metres (“m”) from 230.43 m, including 3.17 g/t gold over 4.94 m from 236.92 m at Black Mammoth.
o Mineralization found in hole 26MN-069 is hosted within volcanics of the Manhattan Caldera — similar to the setting at the Round Mountain Gold Mine, where broad zones of gold mineralization occur within volcanic units.1
• Hole 26MN-072 returned:
o 6.04 g/t gold over 4.86 m from 308.23 m, including 15.99 g/t gold over 1.78 m from 308.23 m;
o 0.91 g/t gold over 15.79 m from 368.65 m, including 16.43 g/t gold over 0.73 m from 379.23 m at Black Mammoth.
• Holes 26MN-069 and 26MN-072 follow the two initial Black Mammoth holes 25MN-053, that returned 0.75 g/t gold over 24.69 m from 230.12 m, and 25MN-057, which returned 1.02 g/t gold over 40.23 m from 195.68 m.

Scorpio Gold Corp. (TSX-V: SGN) (OTCQB: SRCRF) (FSE: RY9) is pleased to announce results from two step-out holes of the Phase Two drill program at the Manhattan District Project, Nevada, USA: 26MN-069 and 26MN-072, see Figure 1. The results are tabulated in Table 1 and discussed below. Scorpio Gold has drilled 79 drill holes to date from its Phase Two diamond drilling program, 25MN-011 through 25MN-045, 26MN-046 through 26MN-089, for a grand total of 23,065 m. With the results herein, Scorpio Gold has reported assays on 60 of these (25MN-011 through 25MN-045 and 26MN-046 through 26MN-069 and 26MN-072), totalling 19,694 m, and assays are pending from 19 holes (26MN-071 and 26MN-073 through 26MN-089), totalling 3,371 m. The pending results will be reported as they become available.

“As we continue to build momentum at Zanzibar, we are now seeing similarly strong results emerging from Black Mammoth, where all four drill holes completed to date have intersected broad intervals of gold mineralization in an area that had never previously been drilled. What is particularly encouraging is that much of this mineralization is hosted within the volcanics of the Manhattan Caldera — similar to the setting at Round Mountain, where broad zones of gold mineralization occur within volcanic units.

We believe this is particularly significant because it opens the potential for much larger zones of mineralization within the caldera environment, where both the volcanic units and associated vein systems are carrying gold. Historically, these volcanics were not a primary mining focus in the Manhattan District, and the widths and continuity we are now seeing at Black Mammoth suggest the potential for a much broader mineralized system than previously recognized. Alongside our continued success at Zanzibar, these results reinforce our view that multiple growth fronts are emerging across the Manhattan District, with additional drilling and pending assays continuing to demonstrate the district-scale upside potential at Manhattan,” said Harrison Pokrandt, VP Exploration for Scorpio Gold.

 

Figure 1. Surface Plan Map of drill results, with highlights noted. Map Inset area shown in Figure 3.

 

Drill holes 26MN-069 and 26MN-072 are 50 m step-outs, at Black Mammoth, to the west and east of hole 26MN-053, see news release dated March 19, 2026. Both drill holes tested greater than 250 metres beyond the Inferred Resource Constraining Pit (“IRCP”), targeting new mineralization outside of the 2025 MRE block model at ~210 and 250 metres below surface respectively, see Figures 2 and 3. For further details see “Mineral Resource Estimate and NI 43-101 Technical Report, Manhattan Property, Nye County, Nevada” with an effective date of June 4, 2025, on Scorpio Gold’s website at https://wp-scorpiogold-2025.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/media/2025/10/Scorpio-Gold-Manhattan-Mineral-Resource-Estimate-43-101-FINAL-2025-10-23.pdf.

 

 


Figure 2. Geology Surface Plan Map of Target Areas, with untested strike lengths through the Ordovician Zanzibar Formation associated mineralization noted. Map Inset area shown in Figure 3.

 

Figure 3. Inset Surface Plan Map of Black Mammoth Target Area, with drill hole traces projected to surface and result highlights noted.

 

Table 1. Results from the current batch of drill holes. Note: There is insufficient geological information to estimate a true width for the drill intercepts reported.

Black Mammoth Results:

26MN-069: This drill hole tested mineralization in the Black Mammoth area, to the northwest of Goldwedge. The drill hole contains three intervals hosted in Oligocene Round Rock Formation volcanic units, including 0.62 g/t gold over 62.21 m from 230.43 m in Ash and Lapilli Tuff, and Tuff Breccia (see Figure 4), including 3.17 g/t gold over 4.94 m from 236.92 m in a Rhyolite unit (see Figure 5); 0.39 g/t gold over 15.39 m from 303.19 m in Fault Breccia and Lapilli Tuff; and 0.47 g/t gold over 10.79 m from 323.27 m in Ash and Lapilli Tuff directly above the stratigraphic boundary with Ordovician Zanzibar Formation meta-sediments. Also, within Ordovician Zanzibar Fm meta-sediments is 0.69 g/t gold over 3.96 m from 353.33 m.

 

 


Figure 4. Drill hole 26MN-069, interval 260.3 m to 262.7 m, displaying volcanic units with Rhyolitic clasts within the Oligocene Round Rock Formation.

 

Figure 5. Drill hole 26MN-069, interval 236.9 m to 241.9 m, displaying a Rhyolitic unit within the Oligocene Round Rock Formation volcanics, with quartz-calcite-adularia epithermal veins.

26MN-072: This drill hole also tested mineralization in the Black Mammoth area, to the northwest of Goldwedge. The drill hole contains one significant interval hosted in Ordovician Zanzibar Formation limestone, of 6.04 g/t gold over 4.86 m from 308.23 m, including 15.99 g/t gold over 1.78 m from 308.23 m (see Figure 6). The drill hole also contains one significant interval hosted in Cambrian Gold Hill Formation meta-mud and siltstone, of 0.91 g/t gold over 15.79 m from 368.65 m, including 16.43 g/t gold over 0.73 m from 379.23 m.

All Black Mammoth intervals represent new mineralization outside the current IRCP, see cross-section A to A’ (Figure 7) and cross-section B to B’ (Figure 8).

 

 


Figure 6. Drill hole 26MN-072, interval 308.2 m to 310.0 m, displaying Ordovician Zanzibar Formation limestones with partially oxidized quartz-calcite-adularia epithermal veins.

 

 

Figure 7. Cross-section A-A’, showing gold grades with reported intervals highlighted.

 

Figure 8. Long-section B-B’, showing gold grades with reported intervals highlighted.

QA/QC

HQ sized diamond drill core samples were cut in halves, then bagged and secured with security tags to ensure integrity during transportation to the Reno, NV, Paragon Geochemical facility for preparation. For quality assurance, unmarked coarse blanks, unmarked certified reference materials, and requested laboratory duplicates were inserted into the sampling sequence. QA samples were systematically inserted into each batch of samples, amounting to approximately 10% of the run of samples. Samples were analyzed for gold using method PA-AU02 (~500 g), a two-cycle PhotonAssayTM analysis of crushed material (70% passing 2 mm). All Paragon Geochemical facilities comply with ISO 17025:2017.

About the Manhattan District

Manhattan, located in the Walker Lane Trend of Nevada, USA, is road accessible and lies approximately 20 kilometers south of the operating Round Mountain Gold Mine (https://www.kinross.com/operations/default.aspx#americas-roundmountain), which has produced more than 15 million ounces of gold. For the first time, the Company has consolidated Manhattan’s past-producing mines under a single entity that holds valuable permitting and water rights. Historically, Manhattan has produced approximately 700,000 ounces of gold from high-grade placer and lode operations dating from the late 1890s through to the mid-2000s.¹ The maiden mineral resource estimate (the “Maiden MRE”) covering the Goldwedge and Manhattan Pit areas of Manhattan is comprised of 18,343,000 tonnes grading 1.26 g/t gold for a total of 740,000 oz contained gold in the inferred category.²

A historical mineral resource estimate covers the Black Mammoth, April Fool, Hooligan, Keystone, and Jumbo areas of Manhattan and comprises 1,652,325 tonnes grading 5.89 g/t gold for a total of 303,949 oz contained gold.³ The deposit is interpreted as a low-sulfidation, epithermal, gold-rich system situated adjacent to the Tertiary-aged Manhattan caldera in the Southern Toquima Range of Nevada. A “Qualified Person” as defined in National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects has not done sufficient work to make the Historical MRE current, and the Company is not treating the Historical MRE as current.

Notes
• Adjacent Properties: The Company has no interest in, or rights to, any of the adjacent properties mentioned, including the Round Mountain Gold Mine, and exploration results on adjacent properties are not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Company’s properties. Any references to exploration results on adjacent properties are provided for information only and do not imply any certainty of achieving similar results on the Company’s properties.

• Historical Data: This news release includes historical information that has been reviewed by the Company’s qualified person. The Company’s review of the historical records and information reasonably substantiate the validity of the information presented in this presentation. The Company encourages readers to exercise appropriate caution when evaluating these data and/or results.

• Third-Party Mineral Projects: These deposits are cited solely for geological context. The Company cautions that these properties are not necessarily adjacent to, nor does the Company or have any interest in or control over them. Although certain geological features may be similar, there is no assurance that mineralization comparable to these deposits will be discovered on any of the Company’s properties. Information regarding the aforementioned deposits is taken from publicly available sources and technical reports believed to be reliable but has not been independently verified by the Company. The Company encourages readers to exercise appropriate caution when evaluating these data and/or results.

• Mineral Resource Estimate: All scientific and technical information relating to Manhattan pertaining to Maiden MRE contained in this news release is derived from the Technical Report dated April 23, 2026 (with an effective date of June 4, 2025) titled “Mineral Resource Estimate and NI 43-101 Technical Report” prepared by Matthew R. Dumala, P.Eng (BC) of Archer Cathro Geological (US) Ltd., Patrick Loury, M.Sc., CPG (AIPG) of Daniel Kunz & Associates, Annaliese Miller, LG (WA) of Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. and Art Ibrado, PhD, PE (AZ) of Fort Lowell Consulting PPLC. The information contained herein in respect of the Maiden MRE is subject to all of the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the Technical Report and reference should be made to the full text of the Technical Report, a copy of which has been filed with the applicable securities regulators and is available under the Company’s profile on www.sedarplus.ca.

• Historical MRE: A Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to make the Historical MRE current, and the Company is not treating the Historical MRE as current.

The Company considers the Historical MRE relevant as it demonstrates the presence of significant gold mineralization across multiple zones within Manhattan; however, its reliability is uncertain because it was prepared prior to the adoption of the current CIM Definition Standards and current QA/QC practices. The Historical MRE provides limited disclosure of assumptions, parameters, estimation methods, cutoff grades, and QA/QC protocols, and therefore these cannot be fully verified by the Company. The categories used in the historical estimate predate, and are not directly comparable to, current CIM Definition Standards, and the Company is not treating the Historical MRE as a current Mineral Resource Estimate. To upgrade and verify the Historical MRE in order to make it a current Mineral Resource Estimate, the Company would be required to undertake confirmatory drilling, modern QA/QC sampling, validation and digitization of historical datasets and updated geological modeling followed by the preparation of a new Mineral Resource Estimate in accordance with CIM Definition Standards and NI 43-101. The Company encourages readers to exercise appropriate caution when evaluating the Historical MRE.

All scientific and technical information relating to Manhattan pertaining to the Historical MRE contained in this news release is derived from the Technical Report dated May 1997 titled “Exploration and Pre-Production Mine Development, Manhattan District Project, Nye County” prepared by New Concept Mining, Inc. The information contained herein in respect of the Historical MRE is subject to all the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the Historical Technical Report and reference should be made to the full text of the Historical Technical Report.

• References: (1) Strachan, D. G., and Master, T. D., 2005: Update and Revision of the Gold Wedge Project Development, Nye County. Report prepared for Nevada; Royal Standard Minerals, Inc. and dated March 31, 2005; (2) Dumala, M. R., and Lowry, P., 2025: Mineral Resource Estimate and NI 43-101 Technical Report, Manhattan Property, Nye County, Nevada. Report prepared for Scorpio Gold Corporation and dated October 23, 2025 (with an effective date of June 4, 2025); and (3) Berry, A., and Willard, P., 1997: “Exploration and Pre-Production Mine Development, Manhattan District Project, Nye County”. Report prepared for New Concept Mining, Inc. and dated May 1997.

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1 The Company has no interest in, or rights to, the Round Mountain Gold Mine, and mineralization at Round Mountain is not necessarily indicative of mineralization at the Manhattan District. References to Round Mountain are provided solely for geological context regarding caldera-hosted volcanic mineralization systems.

Qualified Person

The scientific and technical information in this news release has been reviewed, verified and approved by Thomas Poitras, P. Geo., Chief Geologist of Scorpio Gold, a “Qualified Person”, as defined under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Verification included review of laboratory certificates, review of field logs and chain-of-custody records, inspection of blank/standard/duplicate performance, and review of collar and down-hole survey data. No limitations or failures to verify were identified.

About Scorpio Gold Corp.

Scorpio Gold holds a 100% interest in the Manhattan District located in the Walker Lane Trend of Nevada, USA. Scorpio Gold’s Manhattan District is ~4,780-hectares and comprises the advanced exploration-stage Goldwedge Mine, with a 400 ton per day maximum capacity gravity mill, and four past-producing pits that were acquired from Kinross in 2021 (see news release dated March 25, 2021 https://scorpiogold.com/news/scorpio-gold-closes-purchase-of-kinross-manhattan-property-nye-county-nevada/). The consolidated Manhattan District presents an exciting late-stage exploration opportunity, with over 140,000 metres of historical drilling, significant resource potential, and valuable permitting and water rights.

 

Posted May 8, 2026

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