Trailbreaker Expands Footprint of High-Grade GOLD Structure at Atsutla GOLD Project, BC
TRAILBREAKER EXPANDS FOOTPRINT OF HIGH-GRADE GOLD STRUCTURE AT ATSUTLA GOLD
PROJECT, BC
January 8, 2026 – Trailbreaker Resources Ltd. ( TBK.V) (“Trailbreaker” or “the Company” ) is pleased to
announce results from its 2025 exploration program at the Atsutla Gold project in northwestern British
Columbia (BC). Detailed prospecting and mapping in the Highlands zone area has expanded the known
footprint of high-grade gold (Au) showings and led to discovery of new high-grade copper-gold-silver (Cu-
Au-Ag) showings on recently acquired claims.
Previous exploration at the Highlands zone led to discovery of a shallowly-dipping shear structure which
hosts high-grade gold-bearing quartz veins, returning assays up to 630 g/t Au. During the 2025 program,
the structure’s continuity was explored on recently acquired claims , expanding the Highlands zone
structural feature to a 1.0 km x 1.2 km area. A zone of high-grade copper and silver, the Highlands North
zone, was also discovered 1.1 km north of the high-grade gold showings.
Mineralization at the Highlands zone is related to a much larger system (Atsutla West), which includes the
Christmas Creek and Snook zones. Combined, this area covers 5.0 km x 4.3 km. Trailbreaker’s team
interprets the gold mineralization to be orogenic in nature, with multiple gold ± silver ± copper -bearing
shear zones related to larger faults occurring in the area.
Daithi Mac Gearailt, CEO of Trailbreaker, commented, “The Highlands zone contin ues to exceed our
expectations. To date we have not defined its extent, and its footprint expands with each campaign. It is
important to remember that this is a new discovery, where high-grade gold and silver have been discovered
at surface over multiple kilometers. It has never been drilled and is only one part of the story
at the Atsutla Gold project.”
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Figure 1: Gold mineralization in the Atsutla West project area.
Trailbreaker’s 100%-owned Atsutla Gold project is located 70 km south of the Yukon -British Columbia
border and 120 km northwest of the Village of Dease Lake, BC. The project covers over 40,000 hectares
(ha) of ground with very limited historic exploration.
The 2025 exploration program consisted of the collection of 147 soil samples and 77 prospecting grab
samples during late August and early September. Final assays were not received until late December due
to multiple re-analyses of high-grade gold, copper, and silver as well as additional QA/QC completed by
Bureau Veritas Labs. Table 1 (below) displays the ten highest gold values returned from these assays.
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Table 1: Ten highest gold values returned from rock grab samples taken during the 2025 program.
Sample
ID
Au
(g/t)
Ag
(ppm)
Sample
Weight
(kg)
Exposure Description
2013421 401.8 493 1.90 Float
Train of quartz vein slabs in gossanous talus soil scree. 10
cm X 40 cm pieces. Oxidized fractures. Dark brown blebs of
oxidized pyrite. Crumbles easily. No fresh sulphides.
2013418 221.6 264 1.37 Subcrop
Oxidized granitic zone in talus slope. 1 to 5 cm-long quartz
vein float, all located at the base of oxidized outcrop.
Crumbles easily. Fractures with oxidized pyrite stringers and
blebs (3%). Gossan zone appears to follow shear @ 094/77.
Vein orientation uncertain.
2013402 65.1 70.3 1.55 Outcrop
Pinch-and-swell quartz vein up to 20 cm wide with patchy
sulphides. Vein is foliated with 5% sulphides (pyrite,
chalcopyrite, and galena locally). Traced up cliff for 10 m.
Oriented at 200/40.
2013473 62.1 836 1.20 Subcrop
20 cm wide quartz vein in middle of 3 m wide gossan zone
on knoll. Vein is in place, but loose. Minor limonitic pyrite
and galena, trace malachite. Fairly competent.
2013472 55.2 45.5 0.97 Float
Abundant high-grade float in 1 m x 1 m area. Very local.
Vein is 5 cm wide. Foliated material through middle of vein,
some slickenslides. Limonitic pyrite.
2013469 17.0 1.9 0.70 Float
20 cm wide, 40 cm long quartz boulder with 1 inch seam of
limonitic pyrite. A few sporadic arsenopyrite blebs. Minor
cockscomb textures. Competent. Abundant similar material
in this area.
2013484 13.9 24.4 0.71 Float
High-grade quartz vein chips trailing up gossanous slide.
Traced up to source. Vein is 2 to 5 cm wide. Pyritic vugs,
trace limonitic pyrite.
2013471 10.4 26.2 0.82 Float
Gossan zone about 3 m wide. Sample is comprised of five
representative quartz chips from 3 m area. Vein is 2 to 6 cm
wide. Pyritic vugs. Oxidized fractures. Similar appearance to
high-grade vein.
2013422 10.1 8.2 1.17 Outcrop
Flat-lying oxidized decomposed quartz vein along cliff ledge.
In situ, traced for 5 m. Discontinuous. Similar appearance to
high-grade vein. No fresh sulphides.
2013490 9.3 3.1 0.29 Float
Quartz cobble about 8 cm wide with minor limonitic pyrite.
Possibly related to copper-bearing fractures occurring in this
outcrop. Further prospecting warranted.
The purpose of the program was to further delineate the Highlands zone shear structure by additional
prospecting in areas of previously discovered mineralization and on newly acquired claims to the west
and north of the known gold zones.
Gold at the Highlands zone is found within quartz veins ranging from 10 cm to 60 cm thick occurring within
a continuous, shallow -dipping shear structure. The gold-bearing quartz veins typically host galena and
arsenopyrite, but commonly have no visible sulphide minerals . During 2025, this structure was traced
along the side of a ridge for 1.0 km in a NE-SW direction (Figures 2 and 3). Rock samples taken from the
northeast corner returned assays up to 221.6 g/t Au, and rocks taken from the southwest corner returned
assays up to 9.32 g/t Au. The highest gold value returned , 401.8 g/t Au, 493 ppm Ag (Photo 1), was
obtained from a rock taken 140 m from the previously discovered high-grade showings. The structure was
traced for an additional 1.2 km to the west, onto newly acquired claims, where assays returned values up
to 4.83 g/t Au.
A newly discovered zone of high-grade copper, termed the Highlands North zone, yielded up to 1.65% Cu,
5.92 g/t Au, and 551 ppm Ag (from separate rocks) in an area 1.1 km north of the high-grade gold showing
at the Highlands zone. The high-grade copper values were returned from more steeply dipping quartz
veins from 20 cm to 80 cm thick, hosting chalcopyrite, bornite, malachite, azurite, and pyrite. Five rock
samples in this area returned assay values greater than 1% Cu, and eight samples returned values greater
than 100 ppm Ag (see Photo 3).
Reconnaissance soil sampling to the west of the Highlands North zone returned values up to 66 ppb Au,
suggesting potential for additional mineralization in this direction.
Statistical analysis of rock and soil sample assays in the Highlands zone show that gold correlates with
mercury (Hg), selenium (Se), lead (Pb), silver, antimony (Sb), copper, and arsenic (As). High bismuth (Bi)
values also occur, but are generally related to high-grade copper.
Figure 2: High-grade gold-bearing rock sample locations and interpreted structural features at the Highlands zone.
Photo 1 (left): Rock sample 2013421 was taken 140 m from the initial high-grade vein discovery. This rock returned
values of 401.8 g/t Au, 493 ppm Ag, >10,000 ppm Pb, 1,779 ppm Cu, and 1,867 ppm As. It is typical of much of the
high-grade vein material – incompetent, oxidized quartz with no visible sulphide minerals.
Photo 2 (right): Rock sample 2013473 was also taken in the main Highlands zone , 440 m southwest of 2013421.
This sample shows more competent quartz veining with trace pyrite, galena, and malachite. Assays returned
values of 62.1 g/t Au, 836 ppm Ag, >10,000 ppm Pb, 1,039 ppm Cu, 7,746 ppm As, and >2,000 ppm Sb.
Photo 3: Example of one of the steeper dipping high-grade copper veins found in the newly discovered Highlands
North area. A grab sample from this vein (2013406) returned 1.17% Cu, 0.43 g/t Au, 294 ppm Ag , 7,020 ppm Pb,
1,391 ppm Zn, and 449 ppm Bi.
Trailbreaker’s team has interpreted the shear structure delineated at the Highlands zone to be
continuous, with similar structures found at the Christmas Creek zone (1.5 km to the east), and the Snook
zone (4.5 km to the north). The total surficial footprint of this area is 5.0 km x 4.3 km. Figures 1 and 4
display mineralization across the Atsutla West ar ea. Rock sampling indicates potential for further shear -
hosted mineralized quartz veins at lower elevations along the slope, however much of this area is masked
by a thick talus apron (Figure 3) . Further rock sampling and geological mapping is warranted to test for
their presence.
Figure 3: Looking west towards the auriferous shear zone exposed along the ridge at the Highlands zone .
Figure 4: High-grade gold occurrences across the Atsutla West region are hosted in potentially continuous shear
structures within a 5.0 km x 4.3 km area.
The Highlands zone and greater Atsutla West area are fully permitted for drilling . During the 2025
program, the Trailbreaker team ground-truthed potential drill pads to test the shear structure. The Swan
target, situated 26 km to the southeast , is also fully permitted for drilling. The two areas represent
different deposit models: Atsutla West is an orogenic Au target while Swan is a porphyry Cu-Au-Ag target.
More about the Atsutla Gold project
The Atsutla Gold project is centered over the regional-scale Teslin-Thibert fault system which marks the
contact between the Quesnel and Cache Creek terranes. Gold mineralization is associated with Mesozoic
batholitic intrusions that are the predominant geological unit on the property. Since discovery in 2020,
Trailbreaker has outlined five significant zones of gold mineralization on the property, across a span of 26
kilometers. These are:
• Highlands Zone – A 2.0 km by 1.5 km area in the western Atsutla Gold project region, with veins
containing coarse visible gold assaying up to 630 g/t Au and 1,894 g/t Ag.
• Christmas Creek Zone – Gold-bearing quartz veins 1.5 km east of the Highlands Zone, with rock
samples assaying up to 102 g/t Au and 524 g/t Ag.
• Snook Zone – High-grade veins 3.5 km northeast of the Highlands Zone , with rock samples
assaying up to 53.3 g/t.
• Willie Jack Zone – 1.25 km long gold-in-soil anomaly with soil samples assaying up to 3.77 g/t Au
and rock samples up to 9.9 g/t Au.
• Swan Zone – A Cu-Au-Ag porphyry target defined by a 1.5 km x 1.5 km multi-element soil
geochemical anomaly (Au-Cu-Ag-As-molybdenum [Mo]-Sb-Bi), with rock grab samples grading up
to 11.7 g/t Au, 212 g/t Ag, and 0.81% Cu. The geochemical anomaly is coincident with a 2.1 km x
1.4 km donut-shaped chargeability high (defined by a 2024 induced polarization survey) as well
as a zone of elevated potassium marked by a magnetic low signature indicated from a 2024
airborne magnetic and radiometric survey.
Quality Assurance/ Quality Control (QA/QC)
Rock and soil samples were stored at the Atsutla camp for the duration of the program. At the program’s
conclusion, samples were flown out and then driven by Trailbreaker personnel to Bureau Veritas’ prep lab
in Whitehorse, YT.
Rock samples were prepared using industry-standard preparation methods, which involved crushing the
entire sample until 70% passed through a 2 mm screen. A resulting 250 g split was pulverized to > 85%
passing a 75-micron screen (Bureau Veritas prep code PRP70-250). Soil samples were prepared by drying
at 60° C and sieved to -80 mesh (prep code SS80).
After prep aration, the samples were sent to Bureau Veritas’ lab in Vancouver, BC. Rock samples
underwent 37-element analysis (analytical code AQ200). This package involves aqua regia digestion (1:1:1
HNO3:HCl:H2O) of a 0.5-gram split followed by ICP-ES/MS analysis. Rock samples also underwent gold fire
assay analysis (code FA350-Au). This package uses a 50-gram split, fire assay, and ICP-ES analysis. Samples
assaying >10 g/t Au or >100 g/t Ag underwent additional gravimetric analysis (codes FA550-Au and FA550-
Ag). Samples assaying >1% Cu underwent additional atomic absorption (AAS) analysis (code AR401).
Soil samples underwent analy tical package AQ201 which returns values for 37 elements. This package
involves aqua regia digestion of a 15-gram split followed by ICP-ES/MS analysis.
Bureau Veritas performs its own QA/QC procedure and is ISO 17025 certified. Blanks, duplicates, and
standard reference materials are sequentially inserted into the client’s sample stream to test for
contamination, uniformity of element distribution, and analytical accuracy.
About Trailbreaker Resources
Trailbreaker Resources is a mining exploration company focused primarily on mining -friendly British
Columbia and Yukon Territory, Canada. Trailbreaker is committed to continuous exploration and research,
allowing maintenance of a portfolio of quality miner al properties which in turn provides value for
shareholders. The company has an experienced management team with a proven track record as
explorers and developers throughout the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alaska and Nevada.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Daithi Mac Gearailt
President and Chief Executive Officer
Carl Schulze, P. Geo., Consulting Geologist with Aurora Geosciences Ltd, is a qualified person as defined
by National Instrument 43 -101 for Trailbreaker's BC and Yukon exploration projects, and has reviewed
and approved the technical information in this release.