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ONGold Resources has received exploration diamond drilling permits for its TPK project in northern Ontario, clearing the way for a 2026 drill program at the Gold Ridge area and giving the company permitted access to the Big Dam area for the first time.
The TPK project — short for Ti-pi-ha-kaa-ning — sits on the regional communities' winter road network, which connects directly to the Musselwhite mine access road north of Pickle Lake. The August-to-September drilling will focus on the Discovery Zone and West Discovery Zone within the Gold Ridge area, where the company's 2025 program returned high-grade gold, copper and silver mineralization. A ground electromagnetic and gravity geophysical survey is being run during the June field program to firm up additional targets in both zones.
The permits also cover the Big Dam area, where historical drilling by prior operators returned notable high-grade gold. Hole TPK-10-004, drilled into the Goose Lake Zone, intersected 25.9 g/t gold over 13.5 m, including narrower hits of 46.0 g/t over 0.5 m, 139.4 g/t over 1.7 m, 749.0 g/t over 0.3 m, and 127.0 g/t over 0.7 m. ONGold has previously cited those numbers with reference to a February 2018 release from prior operator Northern Superior Resources.
The 2025 work at Gold Ridge highlighted at least two mineralized corridors within what the company interprets as an intrusive-associated, orogenic-style gold-copper system. In the West Discovery Zone, holes GR-25-012 and GR-25-013 returned 3.06% copper, 60.3 g/t silver and 1.5 g/t gold over 1.5 m, including a tighter 0.4 m interval grading 11.10% copper, 218 g/t silver and 4.45 g/t gold. In the Discovery Zone, hole GR-25-011 returned 19.39 g/t gold over 8.2 m, including 359 g/t gold over 0.3 m. Historical 2012 drilling at the Discovery Zone hit 4.62 g/t gold over 5.5 m and, in a separate hole, 13.4 g/t gold, 2.93 g/t silver and 153 ppm copper over 1.9 m, including 41.5 g/t gold over 0.6 m. A southwest-trending glacial till and boulder geochemical dispersal train roughly 4 km by 10 km originates in the Gold Ridge area and has returned values up to 727 g/t gold, 111 g/t silver and 4.1% copper.
The program is designed to follow up on the 2025 results and to test the geometry, continuity and structural controls of the Gold Ridge system. ONGold plans to test both east-northeast and east-trending mineralized corridors associated with the Discovery and West Discovery zones, while also chasing the bedrock source of the high-grade gold seen in regional till and boulder geochemistry. The company says the permits were issued following continued engagement with local Indigenous communities.
ONGold Resources holds exploration assets across northern Ontario and northern Manitoba, including the district-scale Monument Bay gold and tungsten project, the TPK project, the Domain gold project and the October gold project.