
Mineralized Zone Extended to Surface Now Reaches Over 200 M Vertically, Drill Program Increased to 25,000 M
Onyx Gold Corp. (TSX-V: ONYX) (OTCQX: ONXGF) is pleased to announce drill results for five (5) additional drill holes from the Company’s drill program at the Argus North Zone, a newly identified gold zone located on its 100% owned Munro-Croesus Project, 75 km east of Timmins, Ontario.
The results reported today are from five step-out drill holes completed on a cross-section located 50 metres east of the Argus North discovery-hole section. This follows the June 2025 release of four drill holes from the discovery section, which included a highlight intercept of 91.0 metres grading 1.8 grams per tonne “g/t” gold, with a higher-grade interval of 32.0 metres of 4.0 g/t Au in hole MC25-168 (see Company news release dated June 26, 2025).
Highlights
“These latest results from Argus North continue to highlight strong gold grades over broad widths and confirm that the zone remains open for expansion,” said Brock Colterjohn, President & CEO. “We are particularly encouraged by the mineralization intersected essentially at surface as this enables mechanical stripping to expose and sample the zone in outcrop: another useful exploration tool. We are mobilizing an excavator to site now and are look forward to the additional insights we can gather from surface work.”
“With results from just nine drill holes reported to date at Argus North, we’re already defining a zone with notable grade and continuity that remains open along strike and down-plunge. Based on these results, we’ve expanded the drill program to further test this emerging zone and to explore additional high-priority targets across the broader Munro-Croesus project through the second half of the year.”
Discussion of 2025 Argus North Results
The Argus North Zone is located on the western half of the Munro-Croesus project, 150 m north of the regional Pipestone Fault, a major structural corridor known to host significant gold deposits. Hole MC24-163, the discovery drill hole at Argus North reported earlier this year, returned 69.6 m grading 3.4 g/t Au, including 34.5 m grading 5.4 g/t Au, including 9.5 m grading 13.9 g/t Au (see Company news release dated April 10, 2025). Argus North is situated 100 m north of the east-west trending main Argus Zone, which is a separate 750 m x 200 m near-surface bulk tonnage target (e.g. 1.0 g/t Au over 63.3 m and 0.5 g/t Au over 136 m).
Mineralization at Argus North is hosted within a strongly brecciated structural zone with 3-10% fine-grained disseminated pyrite and distinct pyritic stringers that extend into the host mafic variolitic basalts. Halos of strong albitization, strong silicification, and locally moderate sericitization are associated with the mineralized zones, often intruded by 1 to 7 m thick quartz ± feldspar porphyritic intrusions. Drilling to date indicates an east-southeast strike and a steep southerly dip to the Argus North structural zone, which may represent a secondary splay off the regional scale Pipestone Fault. Gold mineralization at Argus North has been delineated between surface and 200 m vertical depth, 50 m in an east-west direction, and remains open along strike and down-plunge.
The five drill holes reported in this news release are all located on the same north-south cross-section, 50 m east of previously reported drill holes MC24-163/168/171 (see Figure 1 and Figure 2) with approximate 50 m step-outs up-dip and down-dip. The drilling to date has continued to return promising results with holes MC25-178, MC25-179 and MC23-180 all intersecting 50-to-67-meter widths of consistent gold mineralization as reported below and in Table 1:
Next Steps
The Company has completed 26 drill holes totalling ~9,000 m to date as part of its fully funded Phase 1 drill program at the Argus Zone. Ongoing plans include step-out drilling along strike on 50 m to 100 m spaced cross-sections designed to extend the limits of the known gold mineralization.
The Company’s Board of Directors has approved a 150% increase in the size of the Program from 10,000 to 25,000 m based on the strong results to date at Argus North. Additional drilling will continue to systematically step out east and west along the key prospective variolitic basalt flows immediately north of the Pipestone Fault and to target other high-priority targets over the large 109 km2 Project area.
In addition, the Company plans to excavate the near-surface mineralization intersected in the top of hole MC25-180 using mechanical stripping to complete detailed mapping and sampling of outcrop. The Company also plans to complete ground-based direct-coupled induced polarization geophysical surveying to infill the 200 m spaced gridlines completed in winter of 2021-2022 over Argus Main and Argus North.
The Munro-Croesus Project
The Munro-Croesus Project is located along Highway 101 in the heart of the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada’s premier gold mining jurisdiction (Figure 3). This large, 100% owned land package includes the past-producing Croesus Gold Mine, which yielded some of the highest-grade gold ever mined in Ontario. Extensive land consolidation from 2020-2025 has unified the patchwork of patented and unpatented mining claims surrounding the Croesus Gold Mine into one largely coherent package and enhanced the project’s exploration potential.
The Project covers 109 km2 of highly prospective geology within the influence of major gold-bearing structural breaks. Bulk-tonnage gold deposits located in the immediate region include the Fenn-Gib gold project being developed by Mayfair Gold Corp. that contains an Indicated Resource of 4.31 Moz at 0.74 g/t Au and an Inferred Resource of 141 koz at 0.49 g/t Au, and the Tower Gold Project being developed by STLLR Gold Inc. that contains an open pit Indicated Resource of 4.46 Moz at 0.92 g/t Au and an Inferred Resource of 8.29 Moz at 1.09 g/t Au1.
Figure 1 – Cross-Section Highlighting Drill Holes Reported in this Release – Looking East
Figure 2 – Plan Map Highlighting Argus North Zone Drill Holes Reported in this Release
Figure 3 – Location of the Munro-Croesus Gold Project, Ontario
Table 1 – Significant Assay Results from 2025 Drilling Completed at the Argus North Zone
Target | From | To | Length | Au |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (g/t) |
Argus North | ||||
MC25-173 | 26.8 | 39.0 | 12.2 | 0.5 |
Including | 26.8 | 27.4 | 0.6 | 4.3 |
And Including | 37.0 | 38.0 | 1.0 | 1.8 |
And | 219.4 | 240.5 | 21.1 | 0.5 |
Including | 219.4 | 230.1 | 10.7 | 0.8 |
Including | 225.0 | 230.1 | 5.1 | 1.1 |
And | 259.9 | 296.2 | 36.3 | 0.4 |
Including | 259.9 | 261.8 | 1.9 | 3.7 |
And Including | 295.2 | 296.2 | 1.0 | 3.5 |
And | 324.2 | 325.9 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
MC25-175 | 6.0 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
And | 34.0 | 35.5 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
And | 57.0 | 59.5 | 2.5 | 1.1 |
Including | 58.5 | 59.5 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
And | 169.3 | 170.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
And | 247.0 | 248.1 | 1.1 | 12.0 |
And | 289.0 | 291.0 | 2.0 | 1.6 |
Including | 289.0 | 290.0 | 1.0 | 2.2 |
And | 309.5 | 311.0 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
MC25-178 | 71.9 | 124.1 | 52.2 | 2.2 |
Including | 91.0 | 123.2 | 32.2 | 3.0 |
Including | 91.0 | 104.0 | 13.0 | 3.8 |
And including | 118.0 | 123.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
And | 147.0 | 208.3 | 61.3 | 1.5 |
Including | 151.0 | 182.6 | 31.6 | 2.0 |
Including | 162.0 | 168.6 | 6.6 | 4.2 |
And including | 180.0 | 182.6 | 2.6 | 4.7 |
And Including | 193.9 | 207.2 | 13.3 | 1.9 |
Including | 193.9 | 199.0 | 5.1 | 2.4 |
MC25-179 | 13.8 | 73.0 | 59.2 | 0.3 |
Including | 13.8 | 48.0 | 34.2 | 0.4 |
Including | 15.8 | 18.8 | 3.0 | 1.4 |
And Including | 58.0 | 61.0 | 3.0 | 1.4 |
And | 101.0 | 167.8 | 66.8 | 1.4 |
Including | 115.7 | 138.5 | 22.8 | 3.3 |
Including | 115.7 | 125.7 | 10.0 | 4.4 |
Including | 118.7 | 122.7 | 4.0 | 6.6 |
And Including | 133.5 | 138.5 | 5.0 | 3.8 |
MC25-180 | 6.1 | 56.5 | 50.4 | 1.9 |
Including | 32.0 | 56.5 | 24.5 | 3.4 |
Including | 32.0 | 35.0 | 3.0 | 9.1 |
And Including | 43.0 | 46.0 | 3.0 | 5.1 |
And Including | 52.5 | 56.5 | 4.0 | 5.9 |
*Intersections are reported as drilled width; true width is estimated to be 70-90% of drilled width. |
About Onyx Gold
Onyx Gold is an exploration company focused on well-established Canadian mining jurisdictions, with assets in Timmins, Ontario, and Yukon Territory. The Company’s extensive portfolio of quality gold projects in the greater Timmins gold camp includes the Munro-Croesus Gold property, renowned for its high-grade mineralization, plus two additional earlier-stage large exploration properties, Golden Mile and Timmins South. The Golden Mile 140 km2 property is located 9 km northeast of Newmont’s multi-million-ounce Hoyle Pond deposit in Timmins. The Timmins South 187 km2 property is located to the south and southeast of Timmins and surrounds the Shaw dome structure.
Onyx Gold also controls four properties in the Selwyn Basin area of Yukon Territory, which is currently gaining significance due to recent discoveries in the area. Onyx Gold’s experienced board and senior management team are committed to creating shareholder value through the discovery process, careful allocation of capital, and environmentally/socially responsible mineral exploration.
Additional Notes:
Starting azimuth, dip and final length (Azimuth/-Dip/Length) for the five drill holes reported today are noted as follows: MC25-173 (000/45/414), MC25-175 (000/52/399), MC25-178 (000/45/372), MC25-179 (000/45/312) and MC25-180 (000/45/228).
Samples of drill core were cut by a diamond blade rock saw, with half of the cut core placed in individual sealed polyurethane bags and half placed back in the original core box for permanent storage. Sample lengths typically vary from a minimum 0.2-meter interval to a maximum 1.5-meter interval, with an average 0.5 to 1.0-meter sample length. Drill core samples were delivered by truck in sealed woven plastic bags to ALS Geochemistry laboratory facility in Timmins, Ontario for sample preparation with final analysis at ALS Geochemistry Analytical Lab facility in North Vancouver, BC. ALS Geochemistry operate meeting all requirements of International Standards ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 9001:2015.
Gold is determined by fire-assay fusion of a 50-gram sub-sample with atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Samples that return values >10 ppm gold from fire assay and AAS are determined by using fire assay and a gravimetric finish. Various metals including silver, gold, copper, lead and zinc are analyzed by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy, following multi-acid digestion. The elements copper, lead and zinc are determined by ore grade assay for samples that return values >10,000 ppm by ICP analysis. Silver is determined by ore-grade assay for samples that return >100 ppm. All ALS Geochemistry sites operate under a single Global Geochemistry Quality Manual that complies with ISO/IEC 17025:2017. ALS Geochemistry follows the quality management and operational guidelines set out in the international standards ISO/IEC 17025 – “General Requirement for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories” and ISO 9001 – “Quality Management Systems”.
The Company maintains a robust QA/QC program that includes the collection and analysis of duplicate samples and the insertion of blanks and standards (certified reference material).
Ian Cunningham-Dunlop, P.Eng., Executive Vice President for Onyx Gold Corp. and a qualified person as defined by Canadian National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this release.
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