en.Wedoany.com Reported - Canadian mining company Nuvau Minerals (TSX-V:NMC) plans to carry out a total of 17,500 meters of drilling at its Matagami camp project in Quebec, targeting multiple zinc-copper and gold targets. A second drill rig is expected to begin operations in early July, with a third rig scheduled to start in the fall.
This drilling campaign covers several priority areas, including follow-up drilling at the Daniel volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) target and the Thunderwood gold target, as well as first-pass drill testing of the Airport and ED-1 geophysical targets. Additionally, Nuvau will advance exploration at the Lotto gold target, which originated from the company's regional gold-till sampling program, where one sample interval yielded over 2,000 gold grains per 10 kilograms of sample.
CEO Christina McCarthy stated that the drilling program reflects the company's camp-scale approach following its 100% acquisition of the Matagami claims earlier this year. McCarthy added that the 2026 plan embodies this approach, advancing multiple priority zinc-copper VMS targets while also expanding the company's growing gold exploration pipeline.
Regarding specific targets, the Airport target will test a geophysical anomaly located within a favorable volcanic sequence along a structural corridor that hosts the historic Perseverance mine, near existing infrastructure and never before drilled. At the Daniel target, the company will conduct follow-up drilling on the Daniel-25 zone, a high-grade VMS lens discovered by Glencore in 2015, which has seen limited exploration activity since 2019 despite positive historical results.
The ED-1 VMS target will undergo first-pass drilling to test priority targets identified through geological interpretation and multiple geophysical datasets, an area historically underexplored due to forest and wetland cover. Drilling at Thunderwood will build on recently completed winter activities that have confirmed multiple mineralization styles and quartz veins.
Nuvau Minerals controls a total of 1,380 square kilometers of claims in the Matagami camp and has access to permitted mining infrastructure, including an option on a mill with a processing capacity of 3,000 tonnes per day.
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