お知らせ • Jul 21
Big Gold Identifies High-Priority Gold Exploration Targets At Martin Kenty Following Completion Of Historical Data Compilation
Big Gold Inc. has completed the historical data compilation and target-generation review at its 100%-owned Martin Kenty Project in the Kenora Mining Division of northwestern Ontario. The review, which commenced on May 27, 2026, was developed to identify numerous prioritized gold exploration targets and compiled historical drill intercepts, including 96.56 g/t Au over 0.38 metres at the Penn Showing and 31.00 g/t Au over 0.49 metres in the Heronry area. The compilation, led by Morgan Verge, P.Geo., reviewed and digitized all publicly available assessment reports covering the Martin Kenty Project, including historical drilling records, airborne geophysical surveys, regional geological mapping, regional and property-scale geochemical surveys, and other relevant exploration datasets. Historical work on the ground was carried out by operators including Noranda Exploration, Canadian Nickel, Barrier Reef Resources, Granges Exploration, Rio Algom Exploration, Wasabi Resources and Vanity Capital between 1975 and 2017. The integrated datasets were used to identify areas of coincident geological, geochemical and geophysical significance, allowing exploration targets to be ranked from high to lower priority based on overall prospectivity. The ranked target set, together with the compiled historical drill intercepts, is intended to guide the Company's planned summer 2026 field program and future drill planning. Among the most significant compiled intercepts is 96.56 g/t Au over 0.38 metres from 28.56 metres downhole in historical hole 70449 at the Penn Showing, hosted within a quartz-carbonate vein enclosed by a mineralized wall-rock envelope containing pyrite, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite, with 12 specks of visible gold noted in the historical log. A second notable intercept returned 31.00 g/t Au over 0.49 metres from 37.26 metres downhole in historical hole 70471-0 in the Heronry area, from a smoky grey, pyrite-rich, chloritic quartz-carbonate vein parallel to foliation, surrounded by a gradational light green to white fuchsite alteration halo. Other notable Penn Showing historical intercepts returned 24.90 g/t Au over 0.26 metres, 5.45 g/t Au over 1.46 metres, 5.30 g/t Au over 0.49 metres and 5.12 g/t Au over 0.61 metres. All publicly available assessment reports for the Project - historical drilling records, airborne geophysical surveys, regional geological mapping, and regional and property-scale geochemical surveys - were reviewed and digitized where appropriate, spanning operator records from 1975 to 2017. The intercepts in Table 1 are historical results reported in assessment filings by previous operators. They pre-date National Instrument 43-101 and the Company's involvement with the property. Big Gold has not independently sampled, twinned or otherwise verified the historical drill holes, and the original sample preparation, analytical and quality-assurance/quality-control procedures cannot be confirmed. The Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to verify the historical results, and the Company is not treating them as current, verified exploration results. Verification would require confirmatory work such as core review or twinned drilling, which the Company may undertake as part of future programs. The Company also advises that an agreement with a field exploration contractor for the planned summer 2026 field program at Martin Kenty is at an advanced stage, with execution expected in the coming weeks. The planned program will follow up the ranked targets generated by the compilation on the ground, with the objective of refining target priorities and helping to determine locations for potential future drilling. No agreement has been executed as of the date of this news release, and the program remains subject to final terms, permitting and financing. The compilation integrated these datasets to identify areas of coincident geological, geochemical, and geophysical significance, allowing exploration targets to be ranked from high to lower priority based on their overall prospectivity. These high-grade historical intersections confirm the presence of gold-bearing hydrothermal mineralization on the property and were incorporated, together with geological, geochemical, and geophysical datasets, into the project's exploration target ranking to guide future exploration and drill planning. Historical exploration at the Martin Kenty Project has identified multiple occurrences of gold mineralization through surface sampling and prospecting programs completed by previous operators and the Company. During Big Gold's 2022 exploration program, grab samples returned values of up to 8.37 g/t Au and 8.04 g/t Au, helping define priority exploration areas associated with favorable intrusive and structural settings prospective for gold mineralization.