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Tectonic Metals Announces Phase Two Drilling at Flat Gold Project, Alaska
Phase Two Drilling Underway with a Planned Target of 9000 Metres of Core and RC Drilling VAN...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tectonic Metals Announces Phase Two Drilling at Flat Gold Project, AlaskaPhase Two Drilling Underway with a Planned Target of 9000 Metres of Core and RC Drilling VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / September 25, 2025 / Tectonic Metals Inc. (\"Tectonic\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV:TECT)(OTCQB:TETOF) today announced an update on the 2025 Phase Two drill program at the Company's flagship Flat Gold Project (\"Flat\") in southwestern Alaska. Flat covers 99,840 acres of predominantly Native-owned land belonging to Doyon, Ltd. (\"Doyon\"), one of Alaska's largest Native Regional Corporations and Tectonic's second-largest shareholder.Flat is emerging as a potential tier-one, free-milling, heap-leachable gold mining opportunity strategically located near one of the world's largest undeveloped gold deposits, the Donlin Gold Project.Highlights of the 2025 Phase Two Drill ProgramProgram Timeline: Phase Two drilling commenced on August 15 and is scheduled to continue through late October 2025.Three-Rig Program: Two diamond core rigs and one reverse circulation (RC) rig are currently operating with a target of +9,000m of drilling. When combined with Phase One, Tectonic expects to complete over 16,000 metres in 2025, the largest drill campaign in both Company and project history.Chicken Mountain Priority: Systematic delineation drilling at Chicken Mountain to support a Maiden Mineral Resource estimate.Alpha Bowl Expansion: Follow-up and step-out drilling building on Alpha Bowl's 2024 discovery hole (65.5 m at 1.2 g/t Au, including 6.1 m at 6.0 g/t Au and 1.5 m at 21.7 g/t Au) and the first 2025 Phase One assay result announced September 10, 2025 (41.15 m at 2.23 g/t Au, including 21.34 m at 4.00 g/t Au with 4.57 m at 13.25 g/t Au)Exploration Upside: Select drilling on new targets as warranted, with additional field mapping and prospecting.Year-Round Operations Initiative: Significant investment in logistics and infrastructure to enable an early spring 2026 restart and lay the foundation for year-round operating capacity.Environmental Stewardship: Development of an integrated Environmental Baseline Study program in support of long-term planningPeter Kleespies, Vice President of Exploration, commented:\"Phase One at Flat delivered on every objective, with over 7,700 metres drilled across multiple intrusion targets, and our very first hole of the 20...