New Age Metals Identifies Six Anomalies and Five Drill Targets in River Valley Mustang Survey

By Mining Hub News Desk
1 September 2026, 10:21 a.m. EDT 2 min read
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Location of the River Valley Platinum Group Metal project in relation to the Sudbury metallurgical complex. Source: New Age Metals Inc.

New Age Metals Inc. has reported the results of a 2026 three-dimensional resistivity and induced polarization survey completed over the Mustang Zone at its 100%-owned River Valley Platinum Group Element Project, located approximately 100 kilometres east of Sudbury, Ontario.

Carried out by Abitibi Geophysics using the DasVision system, the survey covered approximately 4.3 kilometres of the Mustang property, which New Age Metals acquired in August 2016. The program acquired 24,781 apparent resistivity and chargeability measurements from 109 autonomous receivers and 354 validated current injections. Integration of the resistivity, chargeability, and Metal Factor models with existing geological data successfully delineated six geophysical anomalies, labelled RVM-01 through RVM-06. Several of these anomalies are interpreted as shallow-to-moderate depth targets potentially associated with disseminated to semi-massive sulphide mineralization.

The survey confirmed the known Mustang mineralization geophysically, with a broad conductive and chargeable zone in the northern part of the survey area showing a spatial relationship with known platinum group metal, copper, and nickel mineralization. In addition, the survey identified two new chargeability trends beyond the currently defined zone: Trend 2, located to the south near the interpreted footwall contact of the River Valley Intrusion, and Trend 3, located southwest of known mineralization within the interior of the intrusion. Abitibi Geophysics has designed five priority drill targets over selected anomalies for follow-up evaluation.

New Age Metals is advancing a program of ground-truthing and geological mapping ahead of future diamond drilling. Concurrently, New Age Metals is undertaking a summer/fall program to complete the second phase of PLATSOL metallurgical work at the River Valley Project, while integrating exploration datasets to rank and prioritize targets for future diamond drilling at the Mustang Zone.

“The 2026 DasVision 3D IP survey has done exactly what we set out to achieve – it has confirmed the known Mustang mineralization geophysically and, importantly, has identified new chargeability trends beyond the currently defined zone. Six anomalies and five priority drill targets from a single geophysical program is a strong result for the first systematic work completed on this 4.5-kilometre trend in over two decades. We look forward to advancing ground-truthing and target prioritization so we can move toward drill testing at Mustang.”

— Harry Barr, Chairman and CEO

Read the full announcement: New Age Metals Reports Results of 2026 3D Induced Polarization Survey at the Mustang Zone, River Valley PGM Project, Ontario