-- West Red Lake Gold Mines (WRLG.V) Monday provided drill results from its 100% owned Madsen Mine located in the Red Lake Gold District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
The company said recent drilling success from the Austin 904 "demonstrates the potential for discovery of additional high-grade lenses of gold mineralization in the main Austin Zone very similar to those that have already been delineated in the South Austin 4447 area during the 2025 campaign." It is anticipated that the 904 Complex will continue to be a primary focus of drilling at Madsen for the remainder of 2026 with initial production from this area expected in the first half of 2027.
Hole MM26D-13-4881-031 intersected 5.35 metres (m) at 215.46 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au), from 135.10m to 140.45m, including 2.95m at 388.90 g/t Au, from 136.00m to 138.95m. Hole MM26D-13-4881-034 intersected 4.05m at 50.34 g/t Au, from 135.5m to 139.55m, including 0.5m at 390.36 g/t Au, from 137.05m to 137.55m.
It also said hole MM26D-13-4881-018 intersected 3m at 61.70 g/t Au, from 122.5m to 125.5m, including 0.5m at 61.70 g/t Au, from 123.5m to 124.0m. The company said these intercepts were complemented by multiple occurrences of visible gold spatially associated with quartz veining and strong silicification.
"For historic comparison, the High-Grade Zone discovery by Goldcorp Inc. in Red Lake was initially established on nine holes with a weighted average grade of 311 grams per tonne gold, uncapped, over 2.3 metres - we already have multiple results received to date out of 904 that exceed these grades and thicknesses," said West Red Lake Gold Mines vice president of Exploration Will Robinson. "Additionally, our definition drills have only begun testing the upper 30 metres of the currently modeled 200 metre by 200 metre mineralized panel in 904 - which is believed to be fully intact and has had no historic mining."
Shares of the company closed unchanged at $0.99 on Friday on the TSX Venture Exchange.