{"id":1017284,"date":"2025-07-23T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorationpuma.com\/?p=1017284"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:53:22","slug":"puma-exploration-and-kinross-gold-start-the-2025-drilling-program-at-williams-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorationpuma.com\/fr\/puma-exploration-and-kinross-gold-start-the-2025-drilling-program-at-williams-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Puma Exploration and Kinross Gold Start the 2025 Drilling Program at Williams Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rimouski, Qu\u00e9bec – July 23, 2025<\/strong> \u2013 Puma Exploration Inc. (TSXV: PUMA, OTCQB: PUMXF) (the \u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cPuma\u201d) has initiated a 3,500 metres drill program on its Lynx Gold Zone (\u201cLGZ\u201d), part of the Williams Brook Gold Project in Northern New Brunswick. This initial 3,500 metres of drilling at the Lynx Gold Zone is part of the fully funded $2M exploration program and 5,000-metre drilling program devised in collaboration with Kinross Gold for 2025. The program is designed to follow up on drilling information and results gathered by Puma from 2021 to 2023 and is aimed at intersecting new gold mineralization, delineating lithological contacts and providing more insights on structural patterns. The current drilling plan covers an area of 700 metres by 480 metres by 225 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puma\u2019s President and CEO, Marcel Robillard, commented, \u201cWe\u2019re excited to see the drill turning again at the Lynx Gold Zone with our partner Kinross Gold. We anticipate that our 2025 drilling program will not only demonstrate the quality of the deposit at Lynx but also highlight the potential of the entire 40,000 ha project.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the initial 3,500-metre program at Lynx, a subsequent 1,500-metre program will target the best prospects on the property, based on the results of the ongoing 2025 trenching, stripping, surface channel sampling and the current drilling program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figure 1: Location of the main gold zones at the Williams Brook Gold Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 1. Drill arriving on site<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LYNX GOLD ZONE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Lynx Gold Zone (\u201cLGZ\u201d), discovered in 2020 by high-grade surface sampling, was subsequently confirmed to extend to depth by drilling. The high-grade gold mineralization at Lynx is characterized by finely disseminated gold in quartz (veins, veinlets, stockworks, breccias) affected by pervasive supergene alteration. With only 16,123 metres of drilling, the gold mineralized and alteration envelope at the Lynx Gold Zone currently measures 750 metres along strike, 100 metres in width, and 175 metres in depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights of drilling programs at the Lynx Gold Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, the inaugural 2,300 metres drilling program returned 5.55 g\/t gold over 50.15 metres<\/strong> from surface, including two high-grade gold veins with 9.88 g\/t gold over 8.60 metres<\/strong> and 46.94 g\/t gold over 3.85 metres <\/strong>in hole <\/strong>WB21-02  (see <\/em>September 15, 2021,<\/em><\/a> News Release)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n