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Emperor Metals has reported a high-grade gold intercept at its Duquesne West gold project in Quebec's Duparquet camp, with drill hole DQ26-45 returning 35.9 metres at 3.1 g/t gold from 478.3 m to 514.2 m, including a 24.7-metre interval grading 4.0 g/t.
"DQ26-45 demonstrates that multiple high-grade gold lenses hosted within a broader low-grade auriferous system can materially increase in both thickness and grade," said CEO John Florek. The hole was collared roughly 75 to 80 metres down dip of Kinross's 2002 hole DQ02-10, which was previously known to have intersected mineralization in the same target area.
The new intercept came back during the company's 2025-2026 exploration season at Duquesne West, which integrates 15,000 metres of new drilling with 8,000 metres of targeted resampling of historical core for a combined 23,000 metres of additional data feeding into the geological model. Assay results received to date represent 16 of the 47 holes drilled so far, accounting for roughly 35-40% of the current drilling program and only about 20% of the total assays expected from the broader season. Approximately 6,500 metres of results have been reported, against roughly 15,300 metres of drilling completed; the program remains well below budget for the work done.
In addition to extending the high-grade system at depth, Emperor said the drilling has identified free gold within the mineralized system — a characteristic that had not previously been recognized or systematically targeted on the property. The company described the results as supporting both the continuity of the high-grade system at depth and the broader bulk-tonnage opportunity at Duquesne West.
The Duquesne West property sits about 32 km northwest of Rouyn-Noranda and 10 km east of Duparquet, in the southern portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt. Emperor optioned the property in October 2022 from Duparquet Assets Ltd., a 50%-owned subsidiary of Globex Mining Enterprises. The company has applied AI and machine-learning techniques to reinterpret the existing geological model, an exercise it says is now revealing gold trends unrecognized by previous operators and pointing to potential resource expansion along significant gold-endowed structural zones.
Emperor Metals is a junior gold exploration and development company focused on the southern Abitibi greenstone belt in Quebec, where it is also advancing the Lac Pelletier project under a separate purchase agreement.