Forge Resources Corp. has intersected visible gold within the Payoff Zone and concluded its 2026 diamond drilling campaign at the Alotta project in Yukon’s Dawson Range Gold Belt.

The 2026 program totaled 2,792 metres across six diamond drill holes spanning the Severance, Payoff, and Commission zones. Prior to the 2026 field season, Forge Resources had completed 11 widely spaced diamond drill holes totaling 4,081.91 metres at the Payoff and Severance zones since 2023.

Drilling equipment has now been demobilized from the property, and all core samples have been submitted to ALS Laboratories for analysis. Assay results remain pending.

At the Payoff Zone, drill hole ALT-26-020 intersected a 1-centimetre-wide quartz vein hosting visible gold at a depth of 217 metres. The interval sits within a broader zone of chlorite, biotite, and silica alteration featuring quartz-pyrite veinlets, stringers, and local massive sulphide veins containing pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite.

Meanwhile, Phase 2 deep porphyry exploration hole ALT-26-021 at the Commission Zone reached a depth of 651 metres, extending beyond previous deep drilling at the zone that reached 565 metres in hole ALT-26-018. Hole ALT-26-021 encountered chlorite-silica alteration and quartz-pyrite veining in the upper 250 metres, followed by secondary biotite, magnetite, and chlorite alteration alongside abundant sheeted and stockwork quartz veining with molybdenite mineralization from 300 metres downhole to the end of the hole.

“Intersecting visible gold at Payoff, together with the extensive porphyry-style alteration and mineralization we encountered over the full length of our deep hole at Commission, makes this one of our most encouraging seasons yet at Alotta. With all six holes completed and the rig safely demobilized, our focus now turns to the assay results from ALS, which we look forward to receiving and interpreting over the coming weeks. The Company would like to thank our field team and partners for another safe and productive program in the Yukon.”

— PJ Murphy, CEO of Forge Resources

The Alotta project consists of 230 mineral claims covering 4,723 hectares located 50 kilometres south-east of the Casino porphyry deposit.

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