Mercado Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has granted an aggregate of 3,785,000 incentive stock options to certain directors, officers, and consultants of the Company. The Options are exercisable at a price of $0.38 per share until December 5, 2030, vest immediately, and are subject to the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange and the terms of the Company's stock option plan. The Company has also entered into a services agreement with Peak Investor Marketing Corp. . Peak has agreed to provide marketing services to the Company for an initial 12-month term . Peak is a Vancouver-based full-service marketing and consulting firm focused on the junior mining sector. Peak is an independent arm's-length entity and will assist Mercado with marketing strategy and plan...

Saga Metals is pleased to announce, further to its news release dated Nov 12, 2025, the closing of its "best efforts" private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$6,000,000, which includes the exercise in full of the $1,000,000 agent's option. Pursuant to the Offering, the Company sold 7,761,362 units of the Company at a price of C$0.44 per Unit and 5,170,000 flow-through units of the Company at a price of C$0.50 per FT Unit. Red Cloud Securities Inc. acted as sole agent and bookrunner in connection with the Offering. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one common share purchase warrant . Each FT Unit consists of one common share of the Company ...

Sego Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that the drilling in the South Gold Zone has been completed. The drill holes are those recommended by SRK Consulting Canada, Figure 1. Alkalic Porphyry Copper-Gold mineralization that occurs at Miner Mountain encompasses near-surface, disseminated gold mineralization in the South Gold Zone and deeper porphyry structural controlled copper-gold mineralization in the Cuba Zone. The drill core is now being logged and sampled with first samples ready to ship to the lab. The South Gold Zone diamond drill holes are now being logged and sampled with first samples ready to ship to AGAT Laboratories Calgary, Alberta To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/1056/277056_image1.jpg Figure 1....

Canadian Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that at a special meeting of its shareholders held on December 5, 2025, shareholders overwhelmingly approved the special resolution authorizing the previously announced business combination with McEwen Inc. to be completed by way of statutory plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act . The Arrangement was approved by 99.998% of the votes cast by shareholders present in person or represented by proxy at the Meeting. In addition, as required by Multilateral Instrument 61-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators , the Arrangement was also approved by 99.996% of the votes cast by disinterested shareholders, after excluding the 79,681,855 votes held by "interested parties" . The total votes cast in favour of the Arrange...

HIGHLIGHTS Consolidated FY2026 production guidance: 26,000 to 30,000 gold-equivalent ounces . Guanaco Mine : 15,000-17,000 GEOs primarily from the heap-reprocessing project. Casposo Mine : 11,000-13,000 GEOs, based on six months of operations using Casposo-owned ore. During the other six months, the Casposo Plant is scheduled to process Hualilan ore under quarterly toll campaigns agreed with Challenger Gold under the toll-processing-agreement. Austral Gold Ltd. , an established gold producer, advises that it has prepared consolidated production guidance for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2026 for its two wholly owned producing mines in Argentina and Chile. Guanaco Mine - FY2026 Production Guidance Production for FY2026 is forecast at 15,000-17,000 GEOs, primarily from min...

Critical Elements Lithium is pleased to announce the closing of its previously announced "bought deal" private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of C$7,000,000.20, which includes the full exercise of the underwriter's option. Pursuant to the Offering, the Corporation sold 7,500,000 common shares of the Corporation at a price of C$0.40 per HD Share and 6,666,667 common shares of the Corporation that were sold to charitable purchasers and issued as "flow-through shares" within the meaning of subsection 66 of the Income Tax Act at a price of C$0.60 per FT Share. Red Cloud Securities Inc. acted as sole underwriter and bookrunner in connection with the Offering. The Corporation intends to use the net proceeds of the Of...

Usha Resources Ltd. , a North American mineral acquisition and exploration company, is pleased to provide the following corporate updates. Director Resignation Navin Kumar Varshney has resigned as a Director of the Company, effective immediately. The Company extends its deepest gratitude to Mr. Varshney for his extraordinary contributions, guidance, and leadership since co-founding the Company in 2018. Over the past seven-plus years, Navin has been instrumental in building Usha from inception into a promising lithium-focused explorer, providing steadfast strategic insight, technical expertise, and unwavering commitment through every stage of growth, including the successful advancement of the White Willow Lithium-Tantalum Project and multiple key acquisitions and financings. ...

New Strategic Focus on Growing 680,000 ounces of Historical Gold Resources in Québec and Ontario Exploits Discovery Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed the sale of a 100% interest in substantially all of its mineral claims in central Newfoundland to New Found Gold Corp. . This sale was originally announced on September 8, 2025. "We have transformed our Newfoundland land position into a strategic stake in New Found Gold that, based on recent share prices, represents roughly $11 million of value for our shareholders while maintaining meaningful long-term upside through both equity and a royalty," said Jeff Swinoga, President and CEO. "At the same time, we have also repositioned Exploits as a gold growth company anchored by approximately 680,000 ounces of historical ...

New Found Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the Company has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of a 100% interest in certain mineral claims in Newfoundland and Labrador previously held by Exploits Discovery Corp. . The Claims adjoin New Found Gold's Queensway Gold Project and increases the size of the Project by up to 31%, to a total of 230,225 hectares. Keith Boyle, CEO of New Found Gold, commented, "With the Queensway expansion, New Found Gold has consolidated a district-scale land package encompassing over 110 kilometres of strike along two major fault zones, the Appleton and the JBP. With our focused work over the past several years on a 5 kilometre segment of the Appleton, we have outlined a significant initial mineral resource with...

Minaurum Gold is pleased to announce its plans to expand the Phase II resource-expansion drill program at the Alamos Silver Project from 25,000 m to 50,000 m, and in addition has issued a stock option grant. "Driven by exceptional institutional interest in our ongoing financing, we are excited to announce plans to expand our Phase II resource-expansion drill program," said Darrell Rader, President and CEO. "Drilling continues to deliver high-grade silver intercepts, and the enhanced 50,000-metre Phase II program positions us to test a greater number of vein-zone targets and further grow the mineralized footprint, work that will support a major resource update planned for 2026. The resource update will build on the maiden resource estimate whic...

Ares Strategic Mining is pleased to provide a comprehensive update on the construction and operational advancements across its Lost Sheep Fluorspar Project in Juab County, Utah. These developments mark critical progress in bringing North America's only permitted fluorspar mine into full-scale industrial production. Over the past weeks, Ares has completed major milestones underground and above ground, advancing both mine readiness and plant infrastructure in tandem. Key Underground Infrastructure Now Operational The Company has finalized several enhancements to support safe, efficient ore extraction: Secondary Ventilation Door Sealed: Enhances underground airflow and supports compliance with MSHA ventilation standards. Raise 1 Prepared for Mining: Equi...

Foraco International SA , a leading global provider of mineral drilling services, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two long-term drilling contracts with Tier-One gold mining customers in the United States, with a combined value exceeding US$60 million. The contracts encompass a broad scope of mine development and resource-definition drilling, including surface coring, deep directional drilling, and reverse circulation services. The programs will be executed across several projects in the state of Nevada, one of the world's most prolific and technically challenging gold-mining jurisdictions. Operations have already commenced and will continue to ramp up through the first quarter of 2026. Up to 10 drill rigs will be mobilized to deliver the contracted work. "Thes...

Omineca Mining and Metals is pleased to report that placer gold recovery has begun at the Wingdam underground paleoplacer project. D&L Mining reports that they have entered the paleochannel and have begun processing placer gold bearing gravels from crosscut 3A. Placer gold is being recovered through Omineca's water washplant and gold shaker table. Initial placer gold recoveries resemble the size and shape recovered from Omineca's 2012 test crosscut. The initial amounts of placer gold recovered also correlate to those from the 2012 crosscut as expected at the periphery of the channel. Placer gold recoveries will be fully tabulated, subject to quality assurance and quality control by a Qualified ...