Gorilla Gold Mines Ltd has intersected 7.0m at 12.6g/t Au from 392.7m in drill hole LVEX173 at the Lakeview deposit, expanding high-grade mineralisation at depth within the Comet Vale Gold Project in Western Australia.

The drill result forms part of an ongoing growth and exploration campaign at Comet Vale, which sits within Gorilla Gold’s North Kalgoorlie Hub and operates alongside multi-rig drilling across the wider asset portfolio. In August 2025, the company initiated a multi-rig drilling and metallurgical testing campaign across the Lakeview, Sovereign, and Cheer prospects at Comet Vale. Later that year, in October 2025, Gorilla Gold implemented an employee incentive scheme tied to group resource growth horizons targeting 3.0 million ounces and 5.0 million ounces across its Western Australian projects.

“This is an exciting development at Lakeview, following on from the maiden resource for the Lakeview discovery in December 2025 Gorilla has been awaiting approvals to drill from positions that allow us to reach certain parts of the system that were previously inaccessible. These approvals have come through, and this drilling has demonstrated nice widths and grades at depth in LVEX173.” 

— Charles Hughes, Chief Executive Officer

Alongside the drilling results, Gorilla Gold received the final underground mining permit for the Sovereign Deposit, fully permitting the deposit for underground activities.

In addition, metallurgical test work utilizing a coarse grind size of 150 microns across 18 samples from the Sovereign, Cheer, and Lakeview deposits yielded an average gold recovery of 94.6% from gravity and leach extraction after a 48-hour leach. The testing returned an average gravity recoverable gold figure of 42.3%, alongside an average gold recovery of 90.1% after 8 hours.

Gorilla Gold continues drilling across the North Kalgoorlie Hub targeting resource growth, with news-flow expected in the weeks ahead.

Read the full announcement: Comet Vale Update