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Alpha Exploration Announces Dr. Richard Sillitoe World-Renowned Economic Geologist Joins the Company as Advisor and Exploration Drilling Commences
Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - April 21, 2026) - Alpha Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: ALEX) ("Alpha" or the "Company") is pleased to announce Dr. Richard
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[{"type":"text","content":" Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - April 21, 2026) - Alpha Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: ALEX) (\"Alpha\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce Dr. Richard Sillitoe, one of the world's foremost experts on copper and gold deposits, has joined the Alpha team as a technical and strategic advisor. Dr Sillitoe will provide valuable insights and strategy from hands-on geological field observations and global experience in the exploration of similar mineralised systems. The Company also announces that an exploration drilling programme has commenced at its Kerkasha Project that will include approximately 6,000 metres at the Aburna Gold prospect and 4,000 metres at the Anagulu Copper-Gold prospect. This exploration phase, totalling some 10,000 metres, will include both reverse circulation (\"RC\") and core drilling. The main objectives of this work are to augment the known gold mineralization at Aburna, and test other new targets nearby in search of new discoveries. In addition, expand the Anagulu Copper-Gold porphyry prospect through further mineralised drill intercepts. Both prospects are located within its 100% owned, 514km² Kerkasha Project located in Eritrea (see Figure 1). The Aburna Gold prospect is a district-scale gold system covering an area at least a 7 km long and 2 km wide. Three prospects, Central, Hill 52, and Northeast have been the main focus for previous exploration and evaluation drilling. The large Aburna area of gold mineralization is also marked by extensive anomalous gold values in soil and shallow rotary air blast (\"RAB\") drill sampling, in places associated with artisanal workings. The Anagulu Copper-Gold porphyry prospect was discovered by the Alpha team through surface sampling and mapping with follow-up drilling. The exploration target footprint has been expanded by recent shallow RAB drilling, following up on termite mound sampling, to some 4 by 2km. These prospects, located only some 7 km apart, are two of three significant discoveries made by the Alpha team on the Kerkasha licence. John Wilton, CEO of Alpha, stated: \"We are delighted that Dr. Sillitoe has agreed to join our team. He first completed a drill core review of Alpha's copper-gold project in 2021 and confirmed its porphyry style of mineralisation. In January of this year, he spent 10 days in the field with the Alpha exploration team...