TDG Gold Announces Major Expansion and New Discovery in British Columbia
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – TDG Gold Corp has released the remaining drilling results from its 2025 exploration programs at the Aurora West Zone, revealing substantial expansion of the mineralized area and the identification of a promising new porphyry-style target. The company's Greater Shasta–Newberry Project, located in the Toodoggone District of British Columbia, continues to demonstrate significant potential for district-scale mineralization.
Continued Expansion Confirms Emerging Scale of Aurora West
The Phase I drilling program has successfully demonstrated the emerging scale of the Aurora West Zone, which now extends approximately 1,000 metres along strike. The Phase II northern step-out drill hole TDG25-020 represents the largest expansion completed to date, marking a meaningful extension of Aurora West Zone mineralization.
Key drilling results include:
- TDG25-020 intersected mineralized intervals grading 1.02 grams per tonne gold and 0.43% copper over 14.0 metres
- The same hole returned 0.57 g/t gold and 0.29% copper over 24.0 metres within a broader interval of 86.3 metres grading 0.49 g/t gold and 0.23% copper
- These results extend mineralization approximately 350 metres down-dip from previous drilling
The Aurora West Zone has now been continuously identified along a north–south trend of approximately 1,000 metres, underscoring the size and continuity of the mineralized system identified during this initial phase of exploration.
New Porphyry-Style Discovery North of Aurora Complex
In addition to the Aurora West expansion, exploratory drilling has led to the discovery of a substantial new area of interpreted altered porphyritic intrusions approximately 600 metres north of the currently defined Aurora West Zone. This discovery was intersected in drill holes TDG25-014 and TDG25-018.
The new target area features:
- Interpreted altered porphyritic intrusions
- Associated quartz-sericite-pyrite altered rocks
- Intervals of anomalous gold and copper concentrations
- Significant visual QSP alteration intersections
This discovery further supports the district-scale potential of TDG's Greater Shasta–Newberry Project and represents an exciting new exploration target for the company.
Technical Details and Geological Context
The mineralized interval in TDG25-020 returned diluted gold and copper grades due to the presence of interpreted late, mafic compositional dykes at this specific drill location. Company officials note that at this early stage of exploration, individual drill holes are expected to reflect local geological conditions, and nearby step-outs may encounter materially different results where intrusive dilution is less pronounced.
TDG25-020 was terminated within mineralized compositionally andesitic rocks, providing valuable geological information about the deposit's characteristics and potential for further expansion.
The discovery of additional interpreted porphyry-style alteration north of the Aurora Complex represents a significant development in understanding the full potential of the Greater Shasta–Newberry Project area.
