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Kenorland Minerals has started its maiden diamond drill program at the Western Wabigoon gold project in northwestern Ontario, putting the drill bit into the W2 target — a 3-kilometre-long gold-in-till and heavy-mineral-concentrate (HMC) gold-grain anomaly the company describes as the priority target on the property.
The 2026 summer program — funded by partner Centerra Gold with an approved budget of $3.2 million — combines up to 3,650 m of drilling at W2 with additional HMC till surveys, mapping and prospecting at regional targets. Drill fences are spaced 250 m to 500 m apart and test a 2.5 km strike length of the target area, designed to follow up on systematic geochemical surveys completed in 2024 and 2025. Kenorland is operating the program and expects drilling to wrap up in late June.
The W2 target encompasses several multi-gram-per-tonne gold showings from past trenching and shallow drilling in an area historically known as the Sorry Mac trend. Surface work by Kenorland has confirmed bedrock gold mineralization with rock samples grading up to 7.75 g/t Au, significantly expanding the mineralized footprint identified by earlier operators.
W2 sits within an approximately 19-kilometre gold-in-till and HMC gold-grain trend along the major Manitou-Dinorwic Deformation Zone. The underlying geology is characterized by northeast- and north-northeast-trending structural lineaments associated with interpreted fold interference patterns within mafic-intermediate volcanic stratigraphy adjacent to the Bretz Lake felsic pluton. Bedrock gold mineralization at W2 is associated with strong deformation, silica-sericite-iron-carbonate alteration, quartz-iron-carbonate-arsenopyrite-pyrite veining and stockwork, and disseminated sulphide mineralization.
The Western Wabigoon property sits within the Western Wabigoon Subprovince of the Archean greenstone belt at an intersection of several major deformation zones. The Pipestone-Cameron, Manitou-Dinorwic and Helena-Pipestone deformation zones all converge in the northern part of the property. The Pipestone-Cameron structure hosts the Cameron orogenic gold deposit 30 km northwest of the property, and the Helena-Pipestone structure hosts the Rainy River deposit 50 km southwest.
The project is held under an earn-in agreement signed in June 2025, under which a subsidiary of Centerra Gold can earn up to a 70% interest by funding staged exploration and delivering a preliminary economic assessment. Once Centerra has earned in, the two companies will form a joint venture, with Kenorland carried through completion of a pre-feasibility study before contributing pro rata. Kenorland also retains a 2% net smelter return royalty on the project's claims.
Kenorland Minerals is a Vancouver-based project generator focused on early-stage exploration in North America. The company also holds a 4% NSR royalty on the Frotet project in Quebec, which is owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada. Frotet hosts the Regnault gold system — a greenfields discovery made by Kenorland and Sumitomo in 2020 that now contains an inferred resource of 14.5 Mt at 5.47 g/t Au for 2.55 Moz of gold.