High Priority Reduced Intrusion-Related GOLD System (Rirgs) Drill Targets: Coincident Bismuth-Tellurium- GOLD Anomalies
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HIGH PRIORITY REDUCED INTRUSION-RELATED GOLD SYSTEM
(RIRGS) DRILL TARGETS: COINCIDENT BISMUTH-TELLURIUM-
GOLD ANOMALIES
March 18, 2026, Lode Gold’s (LOD:TSXV | LODFF:OTBQB)’s previous wholly owned subsidiary,
Gold Orogen Resources Inc (CSE:OROG) (the “Company” or “Gold Orogen”), is pleased to
announce exploration plans at Golden Culvert & WIN projects in Yukon. Gold Orogen (1475039 B.C.
Ltd.) is a pre-discovery exploration play with quality assets in Yukon and New Brunswick. Optionality
exists as assets are diversified on two mineral belts that are known to have prolific gold endowments.
The successful 2025 season was designed to further investigate targets across the 27 km mineralized
trend which were ranked after a property wide data compilation, airborne geophysics using the
SQUIDT system, and AI targeting using VRIFY’s DORA platform. SQUID T stands for Superconducting
Quantum Interference Device which is up to 10,000x more sensitive than conventional
magnetometers. The relationship between magnetic highs and lows helps to map out intrusive rocks
and the associated hornfelsed sediments surrounding them and when combined with geochemistry
can support identification of Reduced Intrusion Related Gold Systems (RIRGS).
Exploration plans for 2026 will focus on additional sampling and drilling of 3-5 high priority targets
with key geological and structural characteristics consistent with the Company’s exploration model.
The three RIRGS targets are Border, Steelhead and Stingray. The two orogenic targets are Spine and
Golden Dragon.
Border is the highest priority drill target and is situated on the WIN claim block (Figure 1).
Grab samples with grade up to 8.5 g/t Au with many others >1 g/t Au.
Sheeted quartz veins follow foliation over an area of roughly ~2 km x 300 m and occur at a
density of up to 10 veins/m (Figure 2).
Magnetic highs correspond to strongly hornfelsed rocks with elevated arsenic, tellurium and
bismuth.
Ranked highly in a broad range of VRIFY AI targeting exercises.
Spine is a new discovery from the 2025 field program and is situated at the south end of the Golden
Culvert claim block (Figure 3) and had received no previous sampling.
Grab samples with grade up to 0.111 g/t Au with visible galena and arsenopyrite.
3 stacked quartz veins up to 1 m wide dipping to the north (Figure 4).
Situated with linear magnetic high that extends 6 km northwest to the Golden Culvert target.
Ranked more highly using orogenic models in VRIFY AI targeting exercises.
Elevated bismuth evidenced in rocks at Stingray and Spine with SQUIDT overlay. (Figure 5).
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Stingray was identified as a potential RIRGS target based on the 2024 SQUIDT survey and is situated
1.2 km southwest of Spine and had received no previous sampling.
Grab samples with grade up to 0.114 g/t Au in a sample with abundant pyrite.
Sheeted quartz veins on Stingray near strongly silicified fault breccia (Figure 6).
Elevated bismuth and tellurium occur in a narrow shear zone associated with sheeted quartz
veins and fault breccia suggesting an association with a RIRGS.
Rarely appeared in any VRIFY AI targeting exercises.
Figure 1: Highest priority Border - Gold in rocks on
the WIN claim block with SQUIDT mag overlay.
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Figure 2: Sheeted quartz veins (~2 km x 300 m, up to 10 veins/m) within hornfelsed sediments
at the Border target. Confirmed elevated pathfinders: tellurium and bismuth.
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Figure 3: Lead in rocks at Spine (Grab samples with grade up to 0.111 g/t Au ) and Stingray
targets with SQUIDT overlay. Spine is a new 2025 discovery with visible stacked quartz veins up
to 1 m wide dipping to the north.
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Figure 4: Newly discovered quartz vein at the Spine target with visible galena and
aresenopyrite.
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Figure 5: Elevated bismuth evidenced in rocks at Stingray and Spine with SQUIDT overlay.
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Figure 6: Sheeted quartz veins on Stingray near strongly silicified fault breccia.
Additional prospecting will be carried out at the Steelhead target which has also shown elevated
bismuth and tellurium in preliminary sampling, and which was identified as a potential RIRGS target
in the 2024 SQUIDT survey.
The Golden Dragon and Camp targets have also shown elevated gold and tellurium values and will
be further investigated during the 2026 field season.
Qualified Person
The technical information contained in this press release was reviewed and approved by Gary Wong,
P .Eng., Vice President Exploration of Lode Gold Resources Inc., designated as a Qualified Person
under National Instrument 43-101.
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About Lode Gold
Lode Gold has key assets in Canada and United States.
Fremont Gold Mine Project (Fremont Gold Mining LLC) is a brownfield project in Mariposa,
California with 43,000 m drilled, 10,000 underground channel samples, 14 adits and 2 shafts.
Mining halted in 1942 due to the gold mining prohibition during WW II. It was mined at 10.7 g/t when
price was gold was $35 per oz. PEA was completed (link) in 2023. The PEA was based on 1.16 Moz
at 1.90 g/t Au within 19.0 Mt Indicated, and 2.02 MOz at 2.22 g/t Au within 28 Mt Inferred with a
composite cut-oƯ1. MRE (link) was updated in 2025; 92% of the ounces were left unmined. Average
true widths at 1g/t cut oƯ is 53m. Project sits on > 3,000 acres of 100% owned private and patented
land which is designated as OZ, Trump Administration Opportunity Zone (Special Tax Incentives).
Dingman Property is an orogenic deposit in Ontario, Canada with over 22,000 m drilled, with a
2013 PEA, MRE (link to report) : 376,000 oz at 0.94 g/t (M&I) and 47,000 oz at 0.71 g/t (Inferred.
About Gold Orogen
Gold Orogen (previously 1475039 B.C. Ltd, previously a subsidiary of Lode Gold Resources, is an
early-stage exploration pure play with quality assets in the Yukon and New Brunswick, Canada.
Optionality exists as assets are diversified on two mineral belts that are known to have prolific gold
endowment.
A 19.9% strategic partner was brought in and a joint venture was formed to create one of the largest
land packages in New Brunswick with mineral rights spanning 445km2.
The New Brunswick assets, McIntyre Brook and Riley Brook sit on a highly prospective belt that
has seen many exciting discoveries including Dalradian, New Found Gold and Calibre Mining.
Kinross- Puma surrounds McIntyre Brook.
In the Yukon, Golden Culvert/WIN sits on the southern end of the Tombstone Belt which in recent
years has seen extensive exploration success. It has Reduced Intrusion (RIRGS) targets and
sedimentary hosted orogenic mineralization. Over 4,500 m has been drilled with 50 gram meter
intercepts.
ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY
Wendy T. Chan
CEO & Director
+1(604) 977-GOLD (4653)
1 0.25 g/t for oxide, 0.45 g/t for open pit mineralization and 1.45 g/t for underground mineralization