Kingfisher Metals Corp. announced on June 17, 2026 the commencement of its fully funded 2026 exploration program at the HWY 37 and Forrest Kerr projects, located within the Golden Triangle of British Columbia.
Beyond the Headline
Kingfisher Metals Corp. announced on June 17, 2026 the commencement of its fully funded 2026 exploration program at the HWY 37 and Forrest Kerr projects, located within the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. The 2026 program is anchored by a 15,000 m, three-rig diamond drill campaign designed to test priority porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au-Ag targets. The first drill is now on site at the HWY 37 Project, with the first hole of the 2026 program expected to be collared within the next one to two days at the Hank porphyry Cu-Au target area, which hosts discovery hole HW-25-011 that returned 425 m of 0.15% Cu, 0.21 g/t Au, and 2.2 g/t Ag (0.40% CuEq).
The 2026 program will also include ground-based induced polarization (IP) geophysics in the Hank-Mary District as well as regional target areas, airborne mobile magnetotelluric (MMT) and magnetic surveys covering the entire Forrest Kerr Project, expanded LiDAR coverage, and a targeted surface mapping and geochemistry campaign across the Company’s 1,135 km² Golden Triangle land package.
The HWY 37 property is in close proximity to major projects including Galore Creek, Red Chris, Saddle North, KSM+Treaty+Brucejack, Eskay Creek and Shaft Creek. The Company reports that the Hank to Mary District on HWY 37 is the largest geochemical anomaly in the Golden Triangle within a junior-exploration project. The overall mineralized system at Hank-Mary is 12km long with 6 porphyry centres identified in addition to the Hank epithermal Au-Ag deposit. The scale is comparable to the Sulphurets District, which includes Iron cap, Mitchell, East Mitchell, Sulphurets, Kerr and Brucejack. The 6-km-long Hank area is highlighted by reportedly one of the largest high-strength gold anomalies in BC, the surface expression of which is considered to be caused by a multistage porphyry-epithermal system that is fully intact – a rarity in BC.
Will be an interesting program to follow, although much more drilling will be required to fully evaluate these extensive targets.
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Hank-Mary District – 12km long target zone (Company presentation slide 10)
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Hank target zone with intact porphyry-epithermal system (Company presentation slide 11).
