Adamera Expands Max Copper-Gold Target Exploration
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Adamera Minerals Corp. has expanded its exploration efforts at the Max Copper-Gold Target on its 100%-owned South Hedley Property in southern British Columbia. The company has completed three additional induced polarization (IP) lines, bringing the total number of lines surveyed to five. Each line has detected the chargeability anomaly, which coincides with high copper and gold in soil samples.
The latest line, L2200, has revealed anomalous chargeabilities in the immediate vicinity of the highest copper and gold in soil values recorded to date. These values include 1,450 parts per million (ppm) copper and 1.34 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. The chargeability anomaly spans 3 to 4 kilometers in width along individual north-south survey lines and 1.6 kilometers in strike length. The survey lines are spaced 400 meters apart, and the survey is being conducted along 5 kilometers using a pole-dipole array at 100-meter dipole spacing.
The objective of the IP survey is to define the limits of the chargeability anomaly and the extent of the Max copper-gold target. Results from the fifth line, L1400, show chargeability weakening to the west, which the company interprets as a possible western limit of the anomaly. The anomaly remains open to the east, and the survey will move east of L3000, starting with line L3400.
The coincidence of chargeability and copper-gold in soil was first reported on the initial survey line and is now carried across much of the strike length defined to date. An additional 2,000 soil samples were collected during the 2026 program to provide more complete coverage along the IP survey lines. Results for the 2026 soil samples are pending.
Mark Kolebaba, President and CEO of Adamera, stated, "Identifying up to 1,450 ppm copper and 1.34 g/t gold in soil at the Max Target is the point at which we first recognized a possible significant copper-gold target on the property. The coincidence of anomalous chargeabilities with the geochemistry is strong evidence consistent with sulphide mineralization."
The Max Copper-Gold Target lies within the Quesnel Trough, a porphyry copper-gold belt in southern British Columbia. The target is located 18 kilometers from the producing Copper Mountain mine and 18 kilometers from the historic Nickel Plate gold mine near Hedley. A 3 by 2 kilometer copper±gold-in-soil anomaly forms a distinctive horseshoe pattern, a geochemical signature consistent with mineralized porphyry systems. The copper anomaly remains open, and the 2026 soil sampling is intended to help determine its extent.
Recent ground magnetic surveying has defined a 3 by 3 kilometer magnetic high coincident with the copper-gold soil anomaly, interpreted as a buried intrusive body with a modelled top at approximately 110 meters depth beneath the volcanic cover. Small outcrops of diorite-composition intrusive rocks carrying anomalous copper have been identified within the magnetic feature near zones of chargeability.
The IP data indicate the chargeability response persists below 300 meters depth and appears to originate beneath the volcanic cover rather than within it. Coincident resistivity data show the anomaly is hosted in moderate-to-elevated resistivity rock rather than a low-resistivity conductor, a pattern consistent with disseminated sulphides in resistive host rock.
Adamera plans to shift the IP survey east of L3000, starting with line L3400, with additional lines as required to close off the anomaly eastward. New data from L2200, L1800, and L1400 will be submitted for inversion modelling. The company also intends to process the 2,000 soil samples collected in 2026 along the IP survey lines and across the open margins of the copper-gold soil anomaly. Additional samples are planned on the north end of L2200 where the chargeability increased and remains open.
The company will advance the pending drill permit application to test the IP chargeability anomaly and other resulting targets. Adamera is targeting critical metals in the U.S. and copper-gold in southern British Columbia. In Washington State, the company is advancing a tungsten portfolio intended to support a secure domestic supply for U.S. markets. In Canada, Adamera is exploring the South Hedley Copper-Gold Project and maintains additional gold projects in its portfolio.