Vancouver, BC West Red Lake Gold Commences 3,000 Metre Drill Program at Fork Deposit West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (“West Red Lake Gold” or “WRLG” or the “Company”) (TSXV: WRLG) (OTCQB: WRLGF) is pleased to announce a fully funded infill drilling program at its 100%
November 26, 2025
Vancouver, BC
West Red Lake Gold Commences 3,000 Metre Drill Program at
Fork Deposit
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (“West Red Lake Gold” or “WRLG” or the “Company”) (TSXV:
WRLG) (OTCQB: WRLGF) is pleased to announce a fully funded infill drilling program at its 100%
owned Fork Deposit located approximately 250 metres (“m”) southwest from its Madsen Mine
in the Red Lake Gold District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
“Once considered a somewhat diffuse, intermediate -grade portion of the satellite resource
inventory at Madsen, the core of Fork has been re-envisioned as a high-grade near-mine resource
expansion target that is a priority for immediate advancement,” stated Shane Williams, President
and CEO. “The shallow nature of the deposit will allow for efficient definition drilling from surface
and, with its high grades and proximity to existing underground development, it is easy to
envision this core zone of Fork becoming part of the production pipeline at Madsen , based on
successful infill drilling results.”
“The Madsen Mine shows clear potential to become a sizeable and long -lived operation, with
several satellite deposits not yet considered in the mine plan, multiple untested exploration
targets, and a 1.5-million-ounce indicated resource1 that is wide open for expansion at depth.
Fork is the first opportunity we are advancing to make good on that potential. As an unmined
and near-surface deposit sitting just 250 metres from Madsen, Fork offers a non-remnant zone
of mineralization that coul d be accessed within a few months of development and sequenced
into the mine plan with ease, providing additional optionality and ounces in the near term. With
Madsen nearing commercial production in Q1 of 2026 we are ready to actively pursue a hub-and-
spoke growth model at Madsen. Simultaneous surface drilling programs at Fork and Rowan take
us in that direction and we will continue to evaluate and develop additional high -grade gold
opportunities within the Red Lake district.”
OVERVIEW:
1 See Technical report entitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report and Prefeasibility Study for the Madsen Mine, Ontario,
Canada”, prepared by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. and dated January 7, 2025, available on the Company’s
website and on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. The 1.5 million ounce indicated resource only considers the Austin,
South Austin, and McVeigh zones at Madsen.
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• The drill program at Fork will consist of approximately 3,000 m of NQ diameter diamond
drilling from surface to inform a construction decision on bringing this adjacent resource
area into consideration for near-term production at Madsen (initial mine design concept
is illustrated in Figure 1).
• Infill drilling will be focused on a shallow, high -grade, low -plunging zone of gold
mineralization that was recognized during a re-evaluation of the Fork deposit by WRLG in
2024 (Figure 2).
• The zone trends north -south and has been defined by previous drilling over an area of
400 m by 250 m and shows potential for further expansion down plunge to the south.
Average thickness of the zone is conservatively estimated at approximately 2 m based on
existing core length intercepts.
• The shallow nature of this target will allow for systematic and efficient infill and expansion
drilling from surface with holes averaging 170 m depth.
• The extension of underground development towards Fork will also open significant
exploration potential and underground drilling opportunities along the main structural
trend from Madsen towards the past -producing Starratt -Olson Mine which historically
produced ~164,000 ounces of gold between 1948-1956.
The Fork deposit currently contains an Indicated mineral resource of 20,900 ounces (“oz”)
grading 5.3 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold (“Au”), with an additional Inferred resource of 49,500
oz grading 5.2 g/t Au. West Red Lake Gold announced the interpretation of a high -grade core
within this resource in the Company’s December 10, 2024 news release (news release available
here).
FORK DRILLING HIGHLIGHTS (HISTORIC):
• Hole RUM-08-49 Intersected 13.05m @ 13.97 g/t Au, from 107.65m to 120.7m, including
3.63m @ 30.79 g/t Au, from 110.37m to 114.00m. Also including 1.97m @ 32.55 g/t Au,
from 118.73m to 120.70m.
• Hole PDM04-318 Intersected 9.3m @ 8.14 g/t Au , from 128.1m to 137.4m, including
0.7m @ 85.70 g/t Au, from 128.1m to 128.8m. Also including 0.6m @ 21.3 g/t Au , from
136.8m to 137.4m.
• Hole RUM-08-68 Intersected 1.3m @ 50.48 g/t Au, from 95.7m to 97.0m, including
0.2m @ 169.09 g/t Au, from 95.8m to 96.0m. Also including 0.4m @ 53.27 g/t Au, from
96.2m to 96.6m.
• Hole PG14-011 Intersected 3.5m @ 17.18 g/t Au. from 152.5m to 156.0m, including 1.6m
@ 33.80 g/t Au, from 154.4m to 156.0m.
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FIGURE 1. Conceptual Fork deposit mine design, shown relative to the Madsen Mine and past-
producing Starratt-Olson Mine (above) and close up (below), with access driven from Level 3
of the McVeigh area of the Madsen Mine. Note these are provided to illustrate the proximity
of the Fork deposit to the Madsen Mine and the initial mine design concept; Fork is not part of
the Madsen Mine Pre -Feasibility Study (“PFS”) and mining at Fork has not been proven
economic according to a Preliminary Economic Assessment, PFS, or Feasibility Study.
TABLE 1. Significant intercepts (>1 g/t Au) from historic drilling at Fork Target.
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Hole ID Target From (m) To (m) Length (m)* Au (g/t)
PDM04-311 Fork 209.50 210.50 1.00 17.42
Incl. 209.50 210.00 0.50 12.45
PDM04-312 Fork 213.00 216.00 3.00 5.49
Incl. 214.50 215.00 0.50 12.15
PDM04-313 Fork 196.90 198.10 1.20 13.32
PDM04-315 Fork 221.30 221.80 0.50 2.06
PDM04-318
Fork
128.10 137.40 9.30 8.14
Incl. 128.10 128.80 0.70 85.70
Also Incl. 136.80 137.40 0.60 21.30
PG14-006 Fork 85.00 86.80 1.80 14.58
Incl. 85.00 86.00 1.00 22.50
PG14-011 Fork 152.50 156.00 3.50 17.18
Incl. 154.40 156.00 1.60 33.80
PG15-037
Fork
133.90 146.00 12.10 3.85
Incl. 133.90 135.50 1.60 8.54
Also Incl. 143.50 144.50 1.00 8.89
RUM-07-21 Fork 209.00 211.00 2.00 7.51
Incl. 210.00 211.00 1.00 13.00
RUM-07-26 Fork 196.00 197.00 1.00 8.71
RUM-07-38 Fork 243.00 244.00 1.00 12.04
RUM-08-46 Fork 134.72 138.70 3.98 7.93
Incl. 137.10 138.70 1.60 18.48
RUM-08-49
Fork
107.65 120.70 13.05 13.97
Incl. 110.37 114.00 3.63 30.79
Also Incl. 118.73 120.70 1.97 32.55
RUM-08-66 Fork 119.00 120.49 1.49 21.27
Incl. 119.75 120.00 0.25 125.19
RUM-08-68
Fork
95.70 97.00 1.30 50.48
Incl. 95.80 96.00 0.20 169.09
Also Incl. 96.20 96.60 0.40 53.27
RUM-08-74 Fork 132.00 134.19 2.19 3.58
RUM-08-75 Fork 190.45 195.38 4.93 3.84
Incl. 194.40 195.38 0.98 10.46
RUM-08-86 Fork 70.13 72.00 1.87 1.97
RUM-09-98 Fork 226.78 228.44 1.66 5.75
*The “From-To” intervals in Table 1 are denoting overall downhole length of the intercept. True thickness has not
been calculated for these intercepts but is expected to be ≥ 70% of downhole thickness based on intercept angles
observed in the drill core. Internal dilution for composite intervals does not exceed 1m for samples grading <0.1 g/t
Au.
TABLE 2: Drill collar summary for holes reported in this News Release.
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Hole ID Target Easting Northing Elev (m) Length (m) Azimuth Dip
PDM04-311 Fork 434672 5645517 381 390.00 255 -45
PDM04-312 Fork 434672 5645517 381 275.00 259 -49
PDM04-313 Fork 434663 5645539 381 245.00 267 -50
PDM04-315 Fork 434663 5645539 381 312.00 258 -55
PDM04-318 Fork 434614 5645510 382 239.00 262 -44
PG14-006 Fork 434530 5645625 384 306.00 92 -76
PG14-011 Fork 434580 5645445 379 363.00 241 -49
PG15-037 Fork 434378 5645399 380 225.00 105 -48
RUM-07-21 Fork 434675 5645524 380 679.88 270 -50
RUM-07-26 Fork 434651 5645459 378 494.90 274 -50
RUM-07-38 Fork 434676 5645399 377 432.00 270 -50
RUM-08-46 Fork 434623 5645592 382 388.26 268 -59
RUM-08-49 Fork 434645 5645639 378 405.00 265 -58
RUM-08-66 Fork 434594 5645559 385 231.00 270 -65
RUM-08-68 Fork 434578 5645442 378 264.00 280 -45
RUM-08-74 Fork 434578 5645442 378 219.83 245 -58
RUM-08-75 Fork 434586 5645269 380 276.00 310 -45
RUM-08-86 Fork 434584 5645585 381 240.00 270 -45
RUM-09-98 Fork 434582 5645253 380 375.00 300 -52
DISCUSSION:
The Fork deposit lies within two concordant shear zones spaced 100 -150 m apart. These
structures strike north-north-easterly and dip about -60°. The upper lens is known as the Main
Zone and occurs along a shear zone that is continuous to the southwest with the shear zone that
hosts the DV and CK Zones. The distribution of gold within this shear zone is controlled by the
intersection with the contacts of minor ultramafic sills and iron formation units within the basalt.
The lower lens has been referred to as the Fork Footwall Zone (and it occurs within the Russet
Lake Shear Zone (Baker, 2017). Here the Russet Lake Shear Zone is wholly within ultramafic
volcanic rocks of the Russet Lake Ultramafic and gold mineralization i s interpreted to be
associated with the intersection of the shear with internal flow contacts. Significantly, the Fork
Footwall Zone occurs within the same structural/stratigraphic position as the 8 Zone which occurs
about 1.8 km down plunge to the northeast.
A third resource domain (North -South Domain) has been modeled between the Fork Footwall
Zone and Fork Main Zone. It is not clear geologically how this relates to the modeled structures
but may be a short second-order splay.
The Fork deposit is cut by late, discordant felsic, intermediate, and mafic dikes as in the mine.
The mineralized body is curvilinear and is weakly folded by steeply southeast plunging F2 folds.
Gold is predominantly associated with deformed quartz veins hosted within an envelope of highly
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strained and hydrothermally altered rock controlled by shear zones that developed oblique to
the host volcanic stratigraphy. Less commonly, gold is found in replacement-style disseminations
within altered basalt along and proximal to contacts with interflo w iron formation or ultramafic
sills. Geochemically, altered rocks at the Fork deposit are sodium -depleted as at the Madsen
deposit. The Fork deposit has been drill tested over a 600 m strike length and to a vertical extent
of 375 m depth. The mineralized zones are typically 1 m to 5 m thick. The deposit is located
approximately 350 m from existing underground development in the West Ramp.
The Fork Footwall target is the sparsely drilled southwestern extension of the Fork Footwall Zone
that particularly targets the intersection of the host Russet Lake Shear Zone structure with the
Russet Lake ultramafic and overlying Balmer basalt contact. T his 300 m long target has been
tested by 11 drill holes and remains an active target.
High resolution versions of all the figures contained in this press release can be found at the
following web address: https://westredlakegold.com/december-10th-news-release-maps/
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FIGURE 2. Fork Vein Long Section Showing High-Grade Historic Intercepts from Drilling Completed Between 2004 and 2017. Existing
underground development at Madsen shown along right margin of the figure approximately 250 m from the Fork resource.
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QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROL
The Madsen Mine deposit presently hosts a National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure
for Mineral Projects (“NI 43 -101”) Indicated resource of 1.65 million ounces (“Moz”) of gold
grading 7.4 g/t Au within 6.9 Mt, and an Inferred resource of 0.37 Moz of gold grading 6.3 g/t Au
within 1.8 Mt. Mineral resources are estimated at a cut-off grade of 3.38 g/t Au and a gold price
of US$1,800/oz. Mineral resources as stated are inclusive of mineral reserves. Mineral resources
that are not mineral reserves d o not have demonstrated economic viability. The Madsen Mine
also contains Probable reserves of 478 thousand ounces (“koz”) of gold grading 8.16 g/t Au within
1.87 Mt. Mineral reserve estimates are based on a gold price of US$1,680/oz. Please refer to the
technical report entitled “NI 43 -101 Technical Report and Prefeasibility Study for the Madsen
Mine, Ontario, Canada”, prepared by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. and dated January 7, 2025 (the
“Madsen Report”). The Madsen Resource Estimate has an effective date of December 31, 2021,
and excludes depletion of mining activity during the period from January 1, 2022, to the mine
closure on October 24, 2022, as it has been deemed immaterial and not relevant for the purpose
of the Madsen Report. A full copy of the Ma dsen Report is available on the Company’s website
and on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
The technical information presented in this news release has been reviewed and approved by
Will Robinson, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for West Red Lake Gold and the Qualified
Person for exploration at the West Red Lake Project, as defined by NI 43 -101 “Standards of
Disclosure for Mineral Projects”.
ABOUT WEST RED LAKE GOLD MINES
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. is a mineral exploration company that is publicly traded and
focused on advancing and developing its flagship Madsen Gold Mine and the associated 47 km2
highly prospective land package in the Red Lake district of Ontario. The highly productive Red
Lake Gold District of Northwest Ontario, Canada has yielded over 30 million ounces of gold from
high-grade zones and hosts some of the world's richest gold deposits. WRLG also holds the wholly
owned Rowan Property in Red Lake, with an expansive property position covering 31 km2
including three past producing gold mines - Rowan, Mount Jamie, and Red Summit.