Golden Cariboo Resources Ltd. has provided a comprehensive summary of its 2025 exploration activities at the Quesnelle Gold Quartz Mine Property in British Columbia, highlighting both technical achievements and strategic advancements that position the company for expanded operations in 2026. The company drilled a total of 1,729.79 meters across eight surface diamond drill holes during its two-phase spring and fall program, focusing primarily on expanding gold mineralization at the Halo zone while testing various geochemical and structural targets.
The exploration program encountered early technical challenges when drilling in argillite rock formations, resulting in four holes being lost either short of or within the mineralized Halo zone. Despite these difficulties, the company achieved several significant milestones. A key development was the implementation of PhotonAssay™ technology as part of the regular assay protocol, which represents a technological advancement in gold analysis. According to a news release dated August 12, 2025, reanalysis of drill hole QGQ24-20 using this technology verified and increased gold grades by 5.9% compared to traditional fire assay methods, returning 0.56 grams per ton gold over 475.4 meters.
Perhaps the most promising discovery came from the Km Uno Zone, located approximately 2 kilometers southeast of the primary Halo zone. Initial samples from this area yielded significant results including 1.1 grams per ton gold with 8.0 grams per ton silver, as detailed in a news release dated September 9, 2025. These findings align with airborne resistivity data, ground conductivity anomalies, and a strong gold-silver-arsenic soil anomaly, suggesting potential for additional mineralization outside the main target area.
Drill hole QGQ25-23 intersected 0.56 grams per ton gold over 99.84 meters from 182.20 meters depth and terminated in mineralization at the Halo zone, as reported in a news release dated December 17, 2025. The company has engaged MSALABS in Prince George, British Columbia to prepare and conduct PhotonAssay™ analysis for both gold and silver, with the proximity of the laboratory to the property potentially expediting turnaround times for future assay results.
Currently, samples from drill hole QGQ25-25 are being analyzed by MSALABS, while holes QGQ25-26 to 27 are being prepared for shipping, and QGQ25-28 is being logged with plans to continue drilling in January 2026. The company suspended drilling operations on December 18, 2025, with intentions to resume early in the new year to test both the northern extension of the Halo zone and down-dip mineralization of several Mobile Metal Ion gold-in-soil anomalies.
Building on the momentum from the 2025 program, Golden Cariboo is preparing what it describes as an ambitious and technically robust exploration strategy for 2026. The company intends to significantly scale up drilling and trenching activities while broadening its regional understanding of the district-scale geology across its extensive 94,899-hectare mineral land package. This expansion comes at a time when gold exploration in established mining districts like British Columbia's Cariboo region is gaining renewed attention from investors seeking exposure to precious metals.
The technical information in the company's announcements has been reviewed and approved by Jean Pautler, an independent consultant and Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 standards. The property's location along favorable geological corridors adjacent to significant fault systems, combined with historical mining activity in the region dating back to the 1865 discovery of the Quesnelle Quartz gold-silver deposit, provides context for the current exploration efforts. The geological setting shows strong similarities to the Spanish Mountain gold deposit located 120 kilometers southeast along the same geological trend, which belongs to a class of deposits that includes some of the world's largest gold resources.
