Sankamap Metals Inc. has completed its first drill hole at the 4,500-hectare Kuma Property in the Solomon Islands, with assay results currently pending.

The completed hole, designated KU26-001, formed part of an ongoing 2,000 to 3,000-metre drill program across the property. In a previous July update, drill hole KU26-001 had advanced to a depth of 840 metres. The current update confirms that the hole is finished and that drilling is now underway on the second hole, KU26-002.

Kuma forms part of Sankamap Metals’ flagship Oceania Project. In July 2026, the Solomon Islands Government approved the renewal of prospecting licences for both the Kuma and Fauro properties, securing uninterrupted exploration across 28,600 hectares.

“The team continues to advance drilling across the planned targets for this phase of the program and looks forward to receiving additional assay results. The Kuma lithocap extends for more than 2 kilometers, while the broader target corridor spans approximately 8 kilometers, highlighting the district-scale potential of the project and providing substantial opportunity for new discoveries within a largely untested mineral system. As the first systematic drill program ever conducted across the property, each hole is refining our understanding of the geological architecture, alteration zonation, and structural controls that define this extensive hydrothermal system.”

— John Florek, CEO

Drill hole KU26-001 tested a target beneath the mapped surface lithocap and intersected multiple zones of hydrothermal alteration, including intense clay alteration, abundant anhydrite veining, and pervasive pyrite mineralization.

“Our first drill hole confirmed that Kuma's extensive surface lithocap is underlain by a robust sulphide-bearing hydrothermal system characterized by intense clay alteration, pervasive pyrite, and abundant anhydrite. Hole KU26-002 is now testing a prominent coincident magnetic and conductive anomaly along the northern margin of the lithocap, where the geological and geophysical setting differs significantly from that encountered in KU26-001. The objective is to determine whether the hydrothermal system transitions from the pyrite and clay-dominant assemblage intersected in KU26-001 toward a magnetite-bearing intrusive center with potassic alteration, which would be consistent with the higher-temperature core of a large porphyry Cu-Au system. This iterative exploration approach is critical to vectoring toward the most prospective portions of the mineralized system and refining subsequent drill targets.”

— John Florek, CEO

Drilling on the second target continues as the company awaits outstanding assay data for KU26-001.

Read the full announcement: Sankamap Advances Kuma Drill Program with Second Target Underway