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Boreal Gold Reports 15.54 g/t Gold over 2.41m in Drill Hole GR-26-149 Including 81.5 g/t Gold over 0.41m in the High-Grade Gold Rock Vein West of Snow Lake, Manitoba

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Boreal Gold Reports 15.54 g/t Gold over 2.41m in Drill Hole GR-26-149 Including 81.5 g/t Gold over 0.41m in the High-Grade Gold Rock Vein West of Snow Lake, Manitoba

 

 

 

 

Boreal Gold Inc. (CSE: BGLD)  is pleased to announce 15.54 g/t over 2.41m in Drill Hole GR-26-149 in the high-grade Gold Rock Vein during the Phase 4 winter/spring 2026 drill program on its 100% owned 2922-hectare North Star Gold Project located approximately 36 km west of Snow Lake, Manitoba. (Boreal Gold (BGLD) News Release April 7 and July 29, 2026).

 

At the north end of the Gold Rock Vein on Cross-section 63+90N beneath drill holes GR-08-05, GR-08-06, GR-08-51 and GR-08-52 and GR-08-53 at depth:

 

GR-26-149 assayed 15.54 g/t gold over 2.41m from 85.17m to 87.58m including 25.7 g/t gold over 1.41m from 85.17m to 86.58m and also including 81.5 g/t gold over 0.41m extending the high-grade Gold Rock Vein to approximately 60m vertical depth on this section. This selective infill drill hole intersected over 30 specks of visible gold in drill core.

 

GR-26-150 assayed 1.61 g/t gold over 1.27m from 103.7m to 104.97m including 10.45 g/t gold over 0.17m from 104.2m to 104.37m extending the high-grade Gold Rock Vein to approximately the 80m vertical depth on this section. This drill hole was drilled beneath drill hole GR-26-149 in order to extend gold mineralization at a deeper depth. Although drill hole GR-26-150 did not report the spectacular values of GR-26-149 above it; the shear remained strong and the biotite alteration, that accompanies the gold mineralization on the property, remained intense.

 

Drill Hole Rock Type From-To (m) Width (m) * Au(g/t)
GR-26-149 Gold Rock Quartz Vein and Stringer Zone Average 85.17-87.58 2.41 15.54
Includes 85.17-86.58 1.41 25.7
Includes 85.67-86.08 0.41 81.5
GR-26-150 Gold Rock Quartz Vein Average 101.5-102.04 0.54 4.28
GR-26-150 Gold Rock Quartz Vein Biotite Shear Zone Average 103.7-104.97 1.27 1.61
Includes 104.2-104.37 0.17 10.45

 

* Please note that the true width is 85-90% of the core length.

 

Completed Drill Program at Gold Rock

 

Boreal Gold is pleased to announce that it has completed 10 HQ drill holes totalling 1326m on the Gold Rock Quartz Shear Zone this past winter and spring. Due to the late start in April and the spring thaw, many swamp holes could not be drilled due to ground conditions. These holes are now postponed to a later date for a winter drill program. Every drill hole during this drill program GR-26-144 to GR-26-153 intersected the Gold Rock Shear Zone where alteration remained strong. Not all holes intersected spectacular results. 50 m spacing in nuggety gold veins is a hit and miss phenomena in these types of vein structures. Gold values and vein development at North Star are subject to a number of factors which are: rheology (susceptibility to fracture and quartz infill) of the host rock, subsequent shearing, re-shearing and brecciation, folding, iron content which helps the redox reaction to precipitate the gold, the proximity to porphyry sills and sources of sulphides. The North Star – Gold Rock structures is a long-lived event as evidence by multiple types of intrusions along and in the shear structure, two ages of crack and seal in the quartz veins (one with anthophyllite as possibly syn peak metamorphism and a subsequent biotite ferrodolomitic alteration and a later breccia event. Long lived systems tend to be productive especially when associated with porphyries. Management is very please with the results of this program, in that high-grade gold is still being intersected and the shear zone and alteration remains robust and is still growing at depth.

 

GR-26-149 was very encouraging, this selective infill drill hole intersected over 30 specks of visible gold in drill core. Drill hole GR-26-150 drilled down plunge from this hole intersected vuggy pyrite and pyrrhotite. All core samples have been delivered to SRC Laboratories in Saskatoon, with some assays that still pending. The recent drilling on the Gold Rock Vein was done with a view of understanding the potential size of the deposit and to follow the gold shoots to this extent it was only partially successful as not all desired holes to determine the extent of the vein were completed. Future drilling will concentrate on completing the 2026 program of undrilled holes and further defining the extent of the gold shoots at Gold Rock. In addition, more detailed infill drilling at North Star is needed to offset the coarse gold nugget effect with the aim to add poorly defined resources into a better category to increase the global resources and to drill more veins and new targets between the two deposits. Ultimately the plan is to drill off enough tonnes that the combined resource of the North Star and Gold Rock Vein Structures, as well as any new discoveries with sufficient grade, will warrant to bring it to a prefeasibility study. This objective will require a few additional drill programs which are diligently and carefully being planned.

 

Now that 153 drill holes have been drilled into the high-grade Gold Rock Vein and following these initial encouraging results, a new NI 43-101 report with a resource estimate on the Gold Rock Vein structure should be undertaken since no NI 43-101 has been done on the Gold Rock Vein over its last 4 drill programs beginning in 2008 to present. A new global NI 43-101 resource estimate should also be undertaken for both the North Star and Gold Rock structures to reflect present day gold prices. The last NI-43-101 resource estimate on the North Star vein was completed in 2005 using a 7.0 g/t cut-off grade (September 23, 2005, Wayne W. Valliant, Foran Mining Corporation NI 43-101 Report, filed on SEDAR+) when gold was $300 US to $400 US per ounce. Now gold is hovering around $4000/oz US or greater than $5500/oz Canadian today and silver over $60/oz US or greater than $85/oz Canadian today. In the case of the North Star Vein however it may be more prudent to drill a few infill drill holes and to use the larger HQ core size as we did at Gold Rock to get a more representative grade because of the coarse gold nugget effect that characterizes the deposits and then carry out a new resource estimate based on the infill drill findings and using a different cut off grade.

 

The Property Group

 

The North Star Property Group consists of three contiguous properties which are: the North Star Gold Property, which includes the North Star Mining Lease; the Gold Rock Mining Lease and the Sewell Lake Critical Metals Property. The Sewell Lake Property is contiguous and contains the same felsic volcanic stratigraphy with HudBay Minerals Rail Zone Copper Deposit to the south and the former Dickstone Copper Zinc Mine to the North.

 

The North Star and Gold Rock properties host a series of deposits along the same 2.5 km long structure. The North Star near the north end of the shear is roughly 2 to 4 meters wide with a grade averaging from face sampling around 0.29 oz gold/ tonne (Foran Mining Corporation (FOM) Press Release May 25, 2004 and Boreal Gold (BGLD) Press Release April 17, 2025. The Gold Rock at the north end of the shear consists presently of at least two zones 0.5 to 3 m (2 to 10ft) wide, but is higher grade on average than North Star. There has not been a lot of drilling in between the two deposits which are approximately 1 km apart on the same structure. Also on this group are a number of parallel but narrower gold structures both to the west and to the east. The West Vein is parallel and immediately west of the North Star Deposit and the Richard Vein parallel and North East of the Gold Rock are most notable of these structures. Important intersects of the West Vein are 26.75 g/t Au over 1.1 m from drill hole NS-04-57, 76.18g/t Au over 0.7 m in drill hole NS-03-45, 30.68 g/t Au over 1.0 m in drill hole NS-03-02 and 191.70 g/t Au over 0.2 m in drill hole NS-05-87 (September 23, 2005, Wayne W. Valliant, Foran Mining Corporation NI 43-101 Report, filed on SEDAR+). The Richard vein in the 2010 drilling returned values of 15.65 g/t Au over 1.5 meters in drill hole GR-10-115 and 14.41 g/t Au over 3.3 meters in drill hole GR-10-114 (Voyageur Mineral Explorers Corp. Press Release April 28, 2010).

 

In 2003 Foran Mining Corporation carried out extensive work on the property under then President and CEO, Stephen Masson. After the acquisition of Foran’s McIlvenna deposit the property was shelved in favour of the larger project. In 2007 Copper Reef Mining Corporation under Stephen Masson, after leaving Foran in 2006, acquired the property from Foran where it carried out three more drill programs, mainly on the Gold Rock Vein and Richard Vein, as well as completed an VTEM Airborne Magnetic and EM Survey over the entire North Star Group. After 2012, Copper Reef found it difficult to raise funds for the project, due to market conditions and much lower gold prices than we currently have.

 

Drilling Going Forward Should Commence in the Next Couple of Weeks

 

Now that the winter drilling (2026) has been completed at the North Star property in Snow Lake, Manitoba, Boreal Gold will now focus on exploring the Fay Lake property in Flin Flon, Manitoba both with drilling and geological mapping and prospecting. Having completed the cutting of the drill and chopper pads, Boreal will commence drilling approximately a 1,000-metre drill program on the Fay Lake Property. The drill program at Fay Lake will target the Redwin volcanic massive sulphide (“VMS”) horizon as well as high-grade gold quartz veins found in trenches (Pearson, J. September 04, 2024 NI 43-101 Technical Report) proximal to or within the Redwin horizon.

 

The Koscielny Lake showings at the far east of the Fay Lake Property south of Puffy Lake hosting 1-1.5 m wide quartz veins cutting gabbro and iron formation will also be tested with two drill holes. Sampling last fall returned grades up to 9 g/t gold with historic drilling reporting mineralized quartz containing pyrite and visible gold (V.G. in the lithologic descriptions) was intersected in 6 drill holes by A.L Parres in 1950 (A.F. 90520) (Heine 2003, Mineral Deposit Series Report No. 30).

 

The large Fay Lake Property (2719 Ha) is located between Hudbay’s Vamp Lake Deposits and Minnova’s Puffy Lake Gold Mine which was covered by a new airborne EM survey. The Fay Lake properties contain the 3.5-kilometer long Redwin Deposit horizon (now completely mapped), with significant gold and copper along a similar gold rich VMS horizon hosting Hudbay’s Vamp Lake deposits as well as other gold showings (mapping in progress) similar to Puffy Lake Mine style mineralization. Line cutting a grid extension towards Puffy Lake accompanied by detailed mapping and prospecting will also take place concurrently with the Fay Lake summer drill program with a focus both on gold structures similar to Puffy Lake which flank quartz pebble conglomerates and following the extension of a separate gold mineralized quartz feldspar porphyry (Fay showing) which is open to the east.

 

Boreal Gold is now at a stage where it poised to bring real growth by drilling the selected targets on its Fay Lake Property and the subsequent drill programs on the North Star Group following its completed acquisition. Boreal focussing more on gold is on the backdrop of rising gold and silver prices that are at record levels with gold hovering around $4000/oz US or greater than $5500/oz Canadian today and silver over $60/oz US or greater than $85/oz Canadian today.

 

About Boreal Gold Inc.

 

Boreal Gold Inc. is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a specific focus on mineral properties in northwest Manitoba and northeast Saskatchewan, Canada. All of the Company’s properties are currently at the exploration stage. The Company has assembled a portfolio of base metal and precious metal prospects in strategic locations in the Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

 

The Company employs QA/QC protocol on all aspects of its analytical procedures. Core samples are sawn and one half of the HQ core is restored to the core boxes for future reference and one half sent for analysis. The rock samples were placed in standard plastic bags which were then placed into rice bags that were wired shut for shipment. The rice bags were delivered to SRC Laboratories in Saskatoon. Samples of veining or mineralization are taken in approximately 50 cm intervals or less.

 

Commercially prepared standards representing 3 ranges of gold grades are inserted at intervals of 1 in 10 samples. A blank rock is inserted every 20 samples.

 

Sample preparation and analytical work is conducted at SRC laboratories in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (certification ISO/IEC 17025:2017) utilizing the gravimetric overlimit analysis (method Au 9).

 

Qualified Person

 

Stephen L. Masson, M.Sc., P.Geo. is the “Qualified Person” as defined by NI 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects for this property has confirmed the visual descriptions, supervised the Quality Control and all aspects of the exploration program. Mr. Masson acts as a consulting geologist for the company. He has reviewed the drill core and confirms the visual descriptions while logging some of the drill holes from this winter’s 2026 program.

 

Posted July 30, 2026

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