Stakeholder Gold Corp. has returned final diamond drill assay results for hole BA2601, completing a fully mineralized 498-metre discovery hole at the Loki Critical Mineral Zone within its 100%-owned Ballarat project in the Yukon Territory's White Gold District.

The assays confirm mineralization throughout the full 498-metre interval. Data demonstrate that copper, nickel, cobalt, and platinum-group-element mineralization extends through much of the upper hole, hosted in the same mineralized pyroxenite intrusion identified on August 18, 2026.

Standout upper-hole intercepts include 3 metres from 110 to 113 metres grading 1,650 ppm copper, 266 ppm nickel, and 127 ppm cobalt, which includes 1 metre grading 2,390 ppm copper, 412 ppm nickel, and 158 ppm cobalt. The upper hole also delivered platinum-palladium credits, including 2 metres grading 316 ppb Pt+Pd. Reported intervals represent drill-core lengths, and true widths remain undetermined.

Stakeholder holds 100% ownership of a 1,140-claim, 22,700-hectare land package spanning 20 kilometres of the Coffee Mine Project's Northern Access Route. To fund Canadian exploration, the company closed a flow-through private placement raising $700,400 on August 7, 2026, and awaits a regulatory decision on its Class 3 Mining Land Use Permit application for an expanded diamond drilling program.

"Our first drill hole into Loki confirms a large ultramafic intrusion carrying copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum and palladium - a critical mineral suite found on almost all the world's critical mineral lists," stated Christopher Berlet CEO and Director of Stakeholder.

"Geophysics has now also confirmed that large, untested conductive anomalies are located nearby and within the intrusive structure itself. Our next steps are to: refine the geophysical targets that have already been identified, drill test the conductive anomalies found near to our first metal discovery hole and continue the work required to identify similar structures along the full 35-km trend of the Loki ultramafic intrusion which is found on the southern section of Stakeholder's 100% titled land position in the center of the rapidly evolving White Gold District.",

— Christopher Berlet, CEO and Director of Stakeholder

Read the full announcement: Stakeholder Confirms Broad Copper-Nickel-Cobalt-PGE Mineralization Through the Full 498-Metre BA2601 Discovery Hole as 3D Inversions Define a Major New Drill Target at Loki