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Maple Gold Mines has reported a fresh round of drill results from its Joutel gold project in Quebec, showing that high-grade gold mineralization along the past-producing Eagle-Telbel mine trend continues well beyond the historic underground workings and the 2026 mineral resource estimate.
Four shallow drill holes — each above 500 m vertical depth — were collared east of the Telbel Mine shaft to test up-plunge projections in under-explored areas. They cover a 350 m strike length and 450 m of vertical reach. Selected highlights from the new holes include 16.3 g/t gold over 1.3 m, within a broader 2.7 g/t gold over 10.2 m, in JO-26-13; 15.5 g/t gold over 2.0 m, within 7.4 g/t over 7.5 m, in JO-26-14; and 32.6 g/t gold over 0.8 m, within 14.0 g/t over 2.0 m, in JO-26-15.
"Joutel continues to demonstrate strong grade and continuity in previously under-explored areas, with the latest high-grade intercepts now extending gold mineralization up to 450 m beyond the historical Eagle-Telbel underground workings," said president and CEO Kiran Patankar. The new results, he said, support "Joutel's near-term resource expansion potential beyond the 2026 MRE," and the company expects to keep testing the high-grade system with aggressive, fully funded step-out drilling in the second half of 2026 and into 2027.
The mineralization at Joutel is hosted in a horizon termed the MICH — the uppermost cycle of the Joutel volcanic complex — along the southern branch of the regional Casa Berardi Deformation Zone in the Abitibi greenstone belt. The MICH carried the bulk of historical production from the Eagle, Eagle West and Telbel mines between 1974 and 1993. Gold mineralization in this round of drilling is associated with a zone of hydrothermal breccia hosted by felsic tuff that is underlain by the MICH and then by well-bedded, semi-massive pyrite. Anomalous gold is also present locally in the hanging-wall felsic tuff and in a continuous microgabbro intrusive in the footwall, which often carries grades above 1 g/t gold and occasionally above 20 g/t (as in JO-25-01 and JO-26-15).
Maple Gold has now drilled 22 holes totalling 10,870 m of the approved 12,000-m program at Joutel, with assays reported from 18 of those holes. The broader 2026 program — covering both Joutel and the company's adjacent Douay project — stands at 66 holes and roughly 30,500 m, or about 95% of the planned 32,000-m total. Drilling at Douay has focused on down-plunge extensions of the higher-grade Nika, 531, Douay West, Z10 and Porphyry West zones, while Joutel work has chased extensions along the entire Eagle-Telbel trend and tested 50-m-spaced step-outs in the east Telbel Mine area, following up on encouraging earlier results from holes JO-25-01, JO-25-05, JO-25-06, JO-25-07 and JO-26-11.
Maple Gold expects to continue advancing Douay and Joutel through 2026, with internal scoping, engineering and trade-off studies running alongside the already-released 2026 mineral resource estimate.