Juggernaut Exploration has started its first drill campaign at the Big One property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.
The 2026 programme will consist of 10,000m of drilling and focus on a newly discovered gold, silver, and copper-rich system, intersecting areas where visible gold has been identified in grab samples from the Whopper, Big Mac Zone and Gold Dome zones. Grab samples from these veins have assayed 43.94g/t AuEq, 113.92g/t, and 139.21g/t respectively.
Manuele (Lele) Lazzarotto, President and COO of Juggernaut Exploration, stated the company is targeting high-grade veins/shears seen on the surface, containing visible gold and coarse-grained free milling gold, as well as sulphides containing high-grade silver and copper.
He noted that drill holes are designed to test the subsurface to greater depths for additional veins and shears not exposed on the surface, and to test indications of a large causative mineralizing source at depth.
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"We are excited to be the first to drill this district scale gold-rich system initially targeting the most extensive high-grade veins/shears seen on surface containing gold visible to the naked eye," Lazzarotto said. "The geometry and number of widespread veins/shears identified by surface mapping strongly indicates that we can expect to see the same laterally and at depth in the 22Km2 Eldorado System.
"In addition to being designed to intersect the veins exposed on surface, a number of drill holes are also designed to test the subsurface to greater depths for the presence of additional veins and shears that are not exposed on surface. This maiden drill campaign will also test indications of a large causative mineralizing source at depth. We believe there is strong potential to see occurrences of visible gold in drill core as the program progresses. We will certainly have a better understanding of this district scale system once this inaugural drill program is completed."
The Big One property is accessible year-round via helicopter from the Glenora/Telegraph Creek Road at the Barrington Mine and the Galore Creek Road.
The Canadian government committed CAN$20 million to extend the Galore Creek Road to within 15km of the Big One property. The property is 2km west of the Scud River airstrip.
