en.Wedoany.com Reported - Goliath Resources Limited has commenced its 2026 drilling program at the high-grade Surebet gold discovery, located within the company's 100%-owned Golddigger property in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia, Canada. This fully funded drill program will consist of approximately 50,000 meters of systematic drilling, aimed at expanding known mineralization along strike and at depth, and testing the Motherlode magmatic gold source.
As of 2025, every drill hole completed within the 1.8-square-kilometer Surebet discovery area has successfully intersected mineralization. Of the 386 holes drilled, 355 (92%) have encountered visible gold (VG-NE). Five high-grade gold zones have been identified (Bonanza, Surebet, Golden Gate, Whopper, Eldorado), comprising 46 distinct stacked veins/vein sets, all of which remain open. Key intercepts include: 8.35 g/t AuEq over 23 meters in the Bonanza zone, 21.08 g/t AuEq over 23 meters in the Surebet zone, 34.52 g/t AuEq over 39 meters in the Golden Gate zone, 32.67 g/t AuEq over 4 meters in the Whopper zone, 13.93 g/t AuEq over 5.75 meters in the Eldorado zone, and 12.03 g/t AuEq over 10 meters in a gold-rich dike. Metallurgical testing has demonstrated gold recoveries of 92.2% using a combination of gravity and flotation, with silver at 86.5%, lead at 94.2%, and zinc at 96.9%; gravity alone achieved a gold recovery of 48.8% at a crush size of 327 microns.
Expansion drilling will focus on extending the footprint of the Bonanza and Golden Gate zones to the east, northeast, and southwest, extending the Surebet zone to the west, and testing litho-structural features associated with magnetic anomalies that strongly indicate a magmatic intrusive gold source of Motherlode origin.
Goliath founder and CEO Roger Rosmus stated that the team accomplishes a year's worth of work each drilling season, and the 100% drill hole intersection rate with 92% encountering VG-NE makes the Surebet system a unique high-grade gold system. VG-NE is widely distributed across three rock packages, and as drilling progresses toward the valley bottom, geochemical signatures and VG-NE become coarser and more abundant, suggesting the system may still be at a relatively high level. Key targets for 2026 include tracing stacked veins along strike to expand the Surebet and Bonanza veins, while simultaneously testing the potential source corresponding to large coincident geophysical anomalies.
Research completed by the Colorado School of Mines has confirmed a common magmatic source for the high-grade gold system across the three rock packages, providing Surebet with untapped discovery potential. An updated geological model and drill core relogging program are underway to better define shear zones and veins.
The Golddigger property is 100% owned, encompassing 91,518 hectares, located within the Eskay Rift in the Golden Triangle, near the Red Line geological trend. The property area was recently expanded from 66,608 hectares to 91,518 hectares, controlling 56 kilometers of the Red Line. The property is near tidewater, accessible by barge to Prince Rupert (190 kilometers south), and adjacent to infrastructure in the town of Kitsault, including a permitted mill and high-voltage power.
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