Kingfisher Metals has advanced its fully funded 2026 exploration program at the HWY 37 and Forrest Kerr projects in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, completing over 4,500 metres of diamond drilling across seven holes with three rigs currently active.

The company previously outlined a 15,000-metre diamond drill program across the properties. Field crews mobilized in late May, and Kingfisher has completed four holes—including an attempt to re-enter historical hole HW-25-011 that was abandoned at 983.5 metres due to difficult conditions, achieving a 24.5-metre extension where visual observations indicated porphyry alteration continues to the end of the hole.

Among the active rigs, hole HW-25-015 intersected an 8.35-metre interval of massive to semi-massive sulfide vein containing sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, carbonate, and quartz from 462.45 to 470.8 metres. Hole HW-25-012, collared approximately 350 metres northeast of HW-25-011, intersected a structural zone of elevated sphalerite and galena between 57 and 219 metres depth before transitioning into quartz-chlorite-pyrite stockwork and sheeted quartz veins. Hole HW-25-013 tested a structural feeder target near the Pits area over 406 metres, while hole HW-25-014 tested the Cash Porphyry target over 652 metres, encountering multiple newly identified diorite to syenite porphyry stocks.

Assay samples have not yet been returned from the laboratory. All visual core descriptions remain preliminary in nature, and true widths cannot be determined until assays are received and reviewed.

Alongside core drilling, crews have collected 2,452 soil geochemical samples within the Hank-Mary District and Mess Creek target. Ground-based induced polarization surveys have run since mid-July, while airborne MMT geophysical surveys are expected to commence across the projects during the week of August 11, 2026. Geological mapping across the Hank area is also complete, with the company planning additional drilling this season to test structural feeder targets at the Pits area and follow up on the Cash Porphyry target.

“The drill program is well underway at HWY 37 with multiple styles of mineralization tested. We are ahead of the drills with pad building and are set to continue testing the Hank Porphyry Cu-Au, Hank Intermediate Sulfidation and High Sulfidation Au-Ag targets as well as initial tests at the Flats area and following up at the Cash Target. We are encouraged so far by the diversity of alteration and mineralization seen, which is indicative of a large hydrothermal system at the greater Hank area.”

— Dustin Perry, President, CEO and Director

Read the full announcement: Kingfisher Metals Exploration Update