お知らせ • May 28
Miata Metals Corp Announces Additional Drill Results from Its Sela Creek Gold Project in Suriname
Miata Metals Corp. announced additional drill results from its ongoing, 25,000 m diamond drilling program at its Sela Creek Gold Project in Suriname. The 2026 drill program continues to systematically delineate what Miata believes is an emerging district-scale gold system at Sela Creek. Ongoing drilling at Jons Trend and Big Berg has consistently expanded the footprint of mineralization. The additional drilling combined with refined geological modeling confirms continuity across a broad structural corridor and demonstrates the presence of multiple growing zones of mineralization within the project area. All drill holes intersected gold mineralization, further confirming the scale and continuity of the mineralized system at Sela Creek. Jons Trend continues to expand with step-out drilling, confirming broad zones of mineralization, along strike, across strike, and at depth. Southeastern step-out holes 26DDH-JT-011, -012 and -013 confirm continuity of mineralization along the southeastern extension of Jons Trend. Refined geological modeling allows the Company to target effectively and efficiently at both Jons Trend and Big Berg and reveals strong continuity of mineralized zones. Big Berg drilling now confirms continuity both along plunge and across a broad mineralized envelope. Drillholes 26DDH-JT-011, JT-012 and JT-013 targeted the east-southeastern extension of Jons Trend, following up on the mineralized corridor identified by earlier drilling and testing the cross-sectional width of mineralization. The holes successfully intersected multiple high-strain mineralized zones characterized by strong shearing, silica flooding, biotite and chlorite alteration, and dense shear-hosted veining. Drillhole 26DDH-JT-014 was drilled into an untested part of Jons Trend, between the main northwestern discovery zone (approximately 150 m NW of -014) and the central Jons Trend discovery zone (i.e., DDH-JT-008, 100 m to the SE). 26DDH-JT-015 was drilled to the far west-northwest part of the Trend, testing the cross-sectional width of the mineralization. 26DDH-JT-011, drilled approximately 150 m southeast of discovery hole JT-008, intersected 10.5 m at 1.05 g/t Au, 22.75 m at 0.75 g/t Au, and 6.0 m at 1.06 g/t Au. 26DDH-JT-012, drilled approximately 100 m southeast of discovery hole JT-008, intersected 12.0 m at 0.95 g/t Au and 5.5 m at 1.44 g/t Au. 26DDH-JT-013 intersected a newly identified zone of strong shearing and alteration at the east-northeastern edge of the trend, returning 4.5 m at 1.74 g/t Au. 26DDH-JT-014 upper zone intersected 25.1 m at 1.71 g/t Au, including 11.0 m at 3.35 g/t Au, including 1.0 m at 21.31 g/t Au. The southeastern holes continue to return strong gold grades and width, reinforcing the continuity of the Jons Trend system and highlighting additional expansion potential along strike. Refined geological modeling using over 15,000 structural data points from oriented diamond core drilling highlights repeating mineralized vein zones that are continuous along strike and down-dip. The geological modeling forms the basis of improved drill targeting at Jons Trend, where the drill hit rate is close to 100% and almost every drill hole has yielded multiple mineralized intersects. Follow-up drilling at Big Berg tested the extension of the discovery zone, both down plunge and up-plunge of fold axes hosting relatively flat-lying extensional veins. The follow-up drilling comprised a series of holes spaced approximately 50 m apart; Holes 26DDH-BB-005 to -007 were drilled approximately 50 m south of the Big Berg discovery zone (down-plunge of the interpreted fold axes), while 26DDH-BB-008 was drilled approximately 50 m north-northwest of the discovery zone (up-plunge of fold axes). The drilling successfully intersected multiple zones of veining and altered metasedimentary rocks containing visible gold and disseminated sulfide mineralization. The results indicate that Big Berg is expanding from the discovery area and is developing as a well-defined mineralized center with a broader surrounding gold halo. The southern fence of drilling returned 26DDH-BB-005 intersected 13.0 m at 1.09 g/t Au from 50 m, 16.68 m at 1.39 g/t Au from 102 m. 26DDH-BB-006 intersected 14.14 m at 1.11 g/t Au from 91.46 m. 26DDH-BB-007 intersected 7.5 m at 1.90 g/t Au from 41 m, 7.25 m at 1.50 g/t Au from 111 m. 26DDH-BB-008, drilled northwest of the discovery zone, intersected 13.5 m at 0.91 g/t Au from 40 m. Many of the Big Berg intercepts are interpreted to be greater than 90% true width, supporting the interpretation of a broad flat-lying and continuous mineralized body. Together with the results from Jons Trend, the Big Berg holes support the interpretation that Sela Creek contains multiple mineralized centres within the same emerging district-scale gold system. One drill remains active on Big Berg and Jons Trend, while another drill rig is currently testing several zones in the Puma Area, where 2025 drilling has intersected 18 m at 2.70 g/t gold in 25DDH-SEL-025 and 5.3 m at 8.25 g/t gold in 25DDH-SEL-030. A second stage of drilling at the Stranger target comprising 508.40 m of drilling in five drill holes, 26DDH-STR-001 through 005, did not yield results that warrant further follow-up. Drill core samples are analyzed for gold at FILAB Suriname, a commercial certified laboratory under ISO 9001:2015. Samples are crushed and pulverized to 85% passing 88 µm prior to analysis using a 50 g fire assay (50 g aliquot) with an Atomic Absorption (AA) finish. For samples that return assay values over 5.0 grams per tonne (g/t), another cut was taken from the original pulp and fire assayed with a gravimetric finish. Samples with coarse visible gold or returning an assay value over 10.0 grams per tonne (g/t), metallic screen analysis is conducted on the coarse reject material. Miata Metals inserts certified reference standards, as well as blanks and ¼ core duplicates, in the sample sequence for quality control and assurance.
