Engineer Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX-V: EAU | OTC: EGMLF | WKN: A3EEVJ) has announced that its 2026 Phase I exploration program is now underway on its wholly owned Engineer Gold Project, located 30 kilometres southwest of Atlin in northwestern British Columbia. The property spans 18,319 hectares and includes the historic Engineer Gold Mine, the TAG Property, the Wann River Prospect, and numerous other mineral occurrences.
The Phase I program consists of soil and rock sampling at the Engineer Mine, soil geochemistry, and an in-depth core review and resampling at the TAG Property. The company is fully permitted to follow up with a Phase II program that includes diamond drilling, excavator trenching, and induced polarization geophysical surveys in the Engineer Mine area. Phase II plans will be announced once finalized.
The Engineer Project hosts multiple styles of mineralization, including high-grade epithermal gold-silver veins, polymetallic veins, and structurally controlled bulk tonnage style gold systems. The Phase I program at the Engineer Mine is designed to expand high-grade gold mineralization and adjacent bulk tonnage targets along strike of previously identified structural corridors, Shear A and Shear B, which have been traced by geophysics and geochemistry for over three kilometres south of the past-producing mine.
At the TAG Property, located six kilometres north of the Engineer Mine, Phase I work includes a rigorous core review and infill core sampling program. Between 2006 and 2008, a total of 11,520 metres of diamond drilling in 69 holes was completed at TAG (ARIS reports #30931 and #29581). Recent on-site core re-examination indicated that several drill intercepts crossing the identified mineralized trend were not fully sampled, and samples were not collected adjacent to those hosting significant gold values. Once the infill and expanded drill core sampling is completed, a detailed model of the TAG results will be produced to target areas for potential expansion of gold mineralization and to facilitate an updated resource estimate for TAG. Additional soil geochemical sampling will also be completed at TAG, as prior sampling returned anomalous gold and silver values uphill from known mineralization, suggesting the potential for a subparallel second mineralizing structure.
The company also highlighted the Wann River Prospect, located four kilometres south of the Engineer Mine, which represents a highly prospective, underexplored orogenic gold target associated with the Llewellyn Fault. Historic diamond drilling of 17 holes in 2011 returned numerous gold and silver intercepts, including 11.3 g/t Au and 76.2 g/t Ag over one metre in hole WR030211 (BC ARIS Report #32478).
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Linda Dandy, P.Geo., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
