Juggernaut Exploration Announces High-Grade Gold Assays from Goldswarm Discovery
Vancouver, British Columbia — October 27, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Juggernaut Exploration Ltd. has announced significant new assay results from surface samples collected at its Goldswarm Discovery, part of the Big One property in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle. The results include assays up to 239.02 grams per tonne (g/t) of gold, equivalent to 7.68 ounces per tonne (oz/t) of gold.
The Goldswarm Discovery, a newly identified gold, silver, and copper system, has confirmed extensive gold mineralization across an area measuring 550 meters by 500 meters. This area remains open and is considered drill-ready. The discovery is located in the northwestern section of the 3-square-kilometer Big One property.
Data gathered during the 2026 field season, along with information from previous years, will be instrumental in designing the inaugural drill program for Goldswarm, scheduled for 2027.
The Gold Swarm Discovery itself spans a 3-kilometer area with significant gold potential, featuring 100 exposed gold-rich polymetallic veins. These veins extend for 450 meters, reach up to 4.5 meters in width, and exhibit up to 700 meters of vertical relief, with the system remaining open.
Mineralization in the central 550m x 500m zone consists of densely packed, stacked gold-mineralized veins containing galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite, enveloped by a broad area of strong propylitic alteration. The primary high-grade BigBoa vein within the Goldswarm system shows consistent high-grade gold mineralization on the surface for 450 meters of strike, with 20 samples assaying 5 g/t AuEq, including 15 samples at 15 g/t AuEq. This vein also remains open.
Additional surface sampling in 2026 yielded grab samples with assays up to 239.02 g/t Au (7.68 oz/t Au). Channel cuts have returned assays up to 4.51 g/t AuEq over 4.36 meters, including 3.68 g/t Au, 11.45 g/t Ag, 0.21% Cu, 0.41% Pb, and 0.21% Zn.
Within the Goldswarm Discovery, a total of 21 samples assayed 10 g/t AuEq, 29 samples assayed 5 g/t AuEq, and 37 samples assayed 1 g/t AuEq. The planned 2027 drill program will involve multiple holes targeting the high-grade gold mineralization observed in the stacked veins and surrounding alteration zone on the surface along a 500-meter strike length, which remains open.
Manuele (Lele) Lazzarotto, President and COO of Juggernaut Exploration, stated that the 2026 season confirmed consistent high-grade gold mineralization on the surface across the 550m x 500m area at Goldswarm, providing strong drill targets for the fully funded 2027 program. He highlighted that advancements in geological understanding, resulting from previous drilling, suggest a promising geological footprint across the Big One property, including pervasive propylitic alteration and mineralization that strongly indicates proximity to a buried porphyry source.
Updates from the Eldorado System’s Motherlode Zone include drill hole BO-26-29 intersecting 2.57 g/t Au over 3.00 meters, with a higher-grade interval of 6.08 g/t Au over 1.26 meters. Other intervals from the Motherlode Zone yielded 0.67 g/t Au over 4.00 meters, including 2.32 g/t Au over 1.00 meter.
Drilling at the Motherlode Zone revealed broad intervals containing numerous, closely spaced quartz-sulphide veins within strongly altered granodiorite rock, with alteration intensity appearing to increase with depth. Pervasive propylitic alteration outside the veins and shear zones has been confirmed in all drill holes intersecting the Whopper, Big Mac, and Motherlode zones, suggesting proximity to a buried porphyry source.
Notable intervals previously confirmed include drill hole BO-26-4 from the Big Mac Zone, which intersected 3.20 g/t Au over 4.02 meters, including 10.76 g/t Au over 1.09 meters. Drill hole BO-26-11 intersected 3.08 g/t Au over 5.03 meters, including 6.97 g/t Au over 2.00 meters.
Based on the 2026 drill results, gold in the veins from the Whopper and Big Mac zones appears to be coarse-grained and sporadic, although the veins, shear zones, and associated alteration are more consistent. Visible gold and coarse-grained, free-milling gold up to 150 microns have been identified in surface samples.
The Eldorado System, a district-scale project, covers 22 square kilometers and remains wide open. Grab samples from this system have assayed up to 263.70 g/t AuEq (8.48 oz/t AuEq), with assays of 256.60 g/t Au, 546.00 g/t Ag, 0.43% Cu, 0.41% Pb, and 0.01% Zn. These results were from 400 mineralized veins, some up to 10 meters wide, hosted in shear zones up to 50 meters wide, exposed over 500 meters with 1 kilometer of vertical relief.
Of the 527 samples collected within the Eldorado System between 2024-2026, 41% (219 samples) assayed 1 g/t AuEq or higher. Within the Gold Swarm Zone, 73% (37 out of 51 samples) collected during the same period assayed greater than 1 g/t AuEq.
Gold samples up to 256.60 g/t (8.25 oz/t), silver samples up to 2810 g/t (90.34 oz/t), and copper samples up to 14.40% were collected on the Big One property. A petrographic study by the Colorado School of Mines confirmed that gold occurs as relatively pure, free-milling gold particles up to 150 microns. Fluid inclusion studies indicated high-pressure fluid generation, suggesting a magmatic origin, potentially porphyry-related.
The polymetallic veins, alteration signatures, geochemical pathfinder elements, and geophysical anomalies strongly suggest the presence of a large, buried gold, silver, and copper-rich porphyry feeder source or similar magmatic source at depth. Detailed mapping indicates that mineralization at Eldorado and Gold Swarm is linked to a Jurassic to Cretaceous transpressional system and intrusive sources, coeval with magmatic events that formed nearby multi-million-ounce porphyry deposits.
The district-scale system exhibits widespread porphyry-style propylitic alteration, with the final alteration phase occurring concurrently with mineralization. This suggests a potential vector towards the source of the mineralization. Mineralized veins and shear zones were emplaced during and after the Jurassic period, forming a major structural corridor at Big One. Geochemical signatures and textures of the gold-mineralized veins along the 15 km Highway of Gold corridor surrounding Deeker Glacier indicate that the mineralization is part of one district-scale gold system.
The overall geochemistry of the mineralized veins is clean, lacking deleterious elements such as mercury or arsenic. A 5-year drill permit, valid until March 31, 2031, will enable the Company to define mineralization extent at depth and understand the system’s geometry and drivers for a future resource calculation.
The Big One property is situated in a region known for hosting precious metal and porphyry deposits, including nearby systems at Galore Creek, KSM, Shaft Creek, Brucejack, and Trophy and Sphal Creek. The property’s geology, characterized by extensive propylitic alteration, untested geophysical anomalies, strong geochemistry, key structures, and porphyry-style mineralization, is considered favorable for hosting such deposits.
The Big One property is accessible year-round via helicopter from the Glenora/Telegraph Creek Road or the Galore Creek Road. The Canadian government has committed $20 million to extend/improve the Galore Creek Road, bringing it closer to the property. The property is also near the Scud River airstrip.
Exploration on the Big One property qualifies for the Critical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit (CMETC).
Source: Juggernaut Exploration Ltd.
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