Montreal, Quebec — Beauce Gold Fields (Champs D’Or en Beauce) (TSX Venture: “BGF”), referred to as “BGF” or the “Company,” referred to as “BGF” or the “Company,” is pleased to report that, following the unexpected discovery of a gold-mineralized fault line in step-out drill hole GR-25-08 announced on September 11, 2025, the Company has re-examined drill cores from previous programs that display similar black argillite and sulfide lithologies. Selected cores from the 2025 and 2023 campaigns have now been sent for assay.
Patrick Levasseur, President and CEO of Beauce Gold Fields, commented: “This fault-hosted discovery confirms the presence of a new gold-bearing environment on the property. The strong association of gold with coarse, euhedral pyrite in black shale, particularly along fractures, fold hinges, and faults, significantly expands the exploration potential beyond the Saddle Reef structures. Assaying cores with similar lithologies could quickly add new targets and advance our understanding of this system.”
The summer diamond drill program in Beauceville, Quebec, intersected gold-bearing structures within the antiform Saddle Reef. One step-out drill hole testing an IP anomaly revealed a major fault zone hosting gold bearing mineralization. Drill hole GR-25-08 intersected strongly folded graphitic black argillite enriched in sulfides and cut by a major fault zone. Assays returned 0.8 g/t Au over 9.5 m, including 2.3 g/t Au over 1.0 m. This unexpected result highlighted the potential for gold enrichment in similar drill cores cutting black shale horizons. The Company interprets that certain faults cutting graphitic argillite horizons may host gold enrichment. To further evaluate this potential, sections of cores from twelve 2025 holes and five 2023 holes with similar lithologies will be re-examined and assayed.
Core Sampling and Assays
- 2025 Program (Giroux & Grondin): 12 holes, 712 samples
- 2023 Program (Grondin): 5 holes, 208 samples
Total: 920 core samples re-evaluated and/or submitted for analysis
- 2021 Program (Saint-Simon-les-Mines) 14 holes will be re-examined and assayed .
A reinterpretation of geophysical surveys conducted by INRS in 2018 identified a major fault line running parallel to the Saddle Reef and the paleoplacer channel. A 2021 report by Dr. Marc Richer Laflèche (INRS) recommended several follow-up holes along this fault, some of which remain untested. Fourteen drill holes from 2021, with lithologies similar to hole GR-25-08, will be re-examined and re-assayed.
QA/QC
The drill program followed strict QA/QC protocols. All drilling recovered HQ cores. The selected 2025 and 2023 drill cores were split in half using a diamond saw. Half of the core was sampled and sealed in clean plastic bags before being shipped for assay. Standards and blanks were inserted on site. The remaining half of the core was replaced in core boxes and is stored at the Company’s core shack in Saint-Simon-les-Mines, Quebec. Samples were sent to MSALABS, Val-d’Or, Quebec. The entire samples were dried and crushed up to 1 kg to 70% -2mm and split into 500g samples. Each sample underwent gamma ray analysis for gold by photon assay instrument.
Jean Bernard, BSc, Geo, a qualified independent person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical content of this release.
Beauce Gold Fields is a gold exploration company focused on placer to hard rock exploration in the Beauce region of Southern Quebec.
