Red Canyon Resources Ltd. has completed its auger drilling and expanded soil geochemistry programs at the 100% owned Osiris Copper-Gold Project in central British Columbia.

The campaign involved 31 truck-mounted auger drill holes designed to test target areas beneath glacial till cover ranging from two to 20 metres thick. Two holes at the northern end of the Nautilus target intersected altered hornblende porphyry, with one hole returning quartz veining containing pyrite and chalcopyrite.

The Osiris project forms the central and northern part of the Inzana project area, located approximately 35 kilometres west-southwest of Centerra Gold’s Mount Milligan copper-gold mine. Field portable X-ray fluorescence analyses of soil samples outlined a north-northwest-trending zone of anomalous copper and porphyry-indicator elements extending more than two kilometres from the Camp Main area, where the company completed eight diamond drill holes totaling 2,079 metres earlier in the year.

“At Nautilus, we are particularly encouraged by the scale of the preliminary pXRF results. Despite significant glacial till cover, our expanded soil program has outlined a broad copper and porphyry-indicator geochemical trend across multiple areas within the 3.5 km by 3.5 km magnetic feature. The northern portion of Nautilus has emerged as a new area of focus, where multiple magnetic features coincide with elevated geochemistry, and auger drilling has now identified altered porphyritic rocks, including chalcopyrite mineralization.”

— Wendell Zerb, Chairman and CEO

To build on these findings, Scott Geophysics is scheduled to begin an expanded induced polarization survey at Nautilus in mid-September, covering approximately six additional line-kilometres. Laboratory assay results for both the auger and soil samples are anticipated during the fourth quarter of 2026.

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