Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 25, 2026) - Gold Hunter Resources Inc. (CSE: HUNT) (OTCQB: HNTRF) (WKN: A2QPAL) ("Gold Hunter" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the commencement of drilling for its inaugural 2026 drill program, targeting up to 10,000 metres at the Great Northern Project, Newfoundland (the "Program"). Gold Hunter is a Newfoundland-focused gold exploration company exploring this district-scale project, a consolidated 26,237-hectare land package with known gold mineralization, established infrastructure, and a fully funded inaugural drill campaign.
Highlights
Drilling commences on the Company's fully funded inaugural 2026 diamond drill program of up to 10,000 metres at the district-scale Great Northern Project.
The Program will target high-priority areas defined through the Company's data-driven workflow, including a district-scale geophysical survey and a machine-learning targeting analysis of vast historical data, which was completed in 2025, identifying multiple areas of interest along the Doucers Valley Fault Structure.
Diamond drilling and infrastructure support is being provided by MCL Drilling, based in Deer Lake, Newfoundland, approximately 85 kilometres south of the project.
The Program is being led by VP of Exploration, Rory Kutluoglu, and managed by Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd., a senior geological consulting firm with almost 40 years of experience managing large, complex drill programs.
Figure 1. Overview location map of the Great Northern Project in the White Bay area of northwest Newfoundland, along the Doucers Valley Fault Structure.
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Program Details
The Program is structured around three strategic pillars:
Regional exploration along the gold-bearing structural splays of the Doucers Valley Fault, which extend up to 10 kilometres from the main corridor, on the property;
On-trend drilling at the Thor Deposit and across the Viking Block; and
Verification drilling of the Rattling Brook historical estimate.
The Thor Deposit hosts a mineral resource estimate of 879,000 tonnes Indicated at 1.79 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold ("Au") (51,000 ounces Au) and 67,000 tonnes Inferred at 1.97 g/t Au (4,200 ounces Au), as detailed in the NI 43-101 Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimate for the Thor Deposit, Viking Project, White Bay Area, Newfoundland (effective July 12, 2024). Target prioritization has been informed by the Company's 2025 district-scale geophysical survey, along with data compilation and interpretation by the technical team, and further supplemented by a machine-learning targeting analysis completed by Windfall Geotek.