West Red Lake Gold Expands High-Grade Zone in South Austin with 36.85 g/t Au over 6.9m, 92.39 g/t Au over 2m and 8.79 g/t Au over 15.5m
Press Release
August 12, 2025
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (“West Red Lake Gold” or “WRLG” or the “Company”) (TSXV: WRLG) (OTCQB: WRLGF) is pleased to report drill results from its 100% owned Madsen Mine located in the Red Lake Gold District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
“The high-grade panel of gold mineralization the team is currently defining and expanding in South Austin has been delivering exceptional grades and thicknesses,” said Shane Williams, President & CEO. “Archaean lode-gold vein systems like Madsen are well known for having pockets of mineralization that are often discrete, very high-grade and require tight-spaced drilling to properly define. The success we are having in South Austin with the underground definition program underscores the importance of getting the drills deeper in the system and into high priority areas of the deposit so that additional high-grade pockets and lenses can be discovered, drilled off and integrated into the mine plan.”
The drill results featured in this news release are focused on the high-grade South Austin Zone, which currently contains an Indicated mineral resource of 474,600 ounces (“oz”) grading 8.7 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold (“Au”), with an additional Inferred resource of 31,800 oz grading 8.7 g/t Au.
These results further expand on the high-grade panel of gold mineralization within South Austin, which has been a key focus of definition drilling in 2025 (Figure 1). The results highlighted from drill bay 09-4300 have increased confidence in the eastern portion of the lens, while drilling from the 11-4420 drill station has helped to validate the lens down plunge to the east. Additional results from this area were previously announced on May 27, 2025, where drilling returned 61.51 g/t Au over 12.1m, 43.54 g/t Au over 8.35m and 24.61 g/t Au over 11.2m and on February 26, 2025, where drilling returned 114.26 g/t Au over 10.6m, 77.90 g/t Au over 3m and 24.48 g/t Au over 8.5m.
FIGURE 1. Long section highlighting Top Three intercepts announced in 2025 from infill drilling stations in South Austin Zone, including top three highlights from current press release. New South Austin high-grade panel has been outlined in red[1].
[1] Mineral resources are estimated at a cut-off grade of 3.38 g/t Au and a gold price of US1,800/oz. Please refer to the technical report entitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report and Prefeasibility Study for the Madsen Mine, Ontario, Canada”, prepared by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. and dated January 7, 2025. A full copy of the SRK report is available on the Company’s website and on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
SOUTH AUSTIN ZONE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Hole MM25D-11-4420-024 Intersected 6.9m @ 36.85 g/t Au, from 79.1m to 86.0m, Including 0.6m @ 12.17 g/t Au, from 79.1m to 79.7m, Also including 3m @ 81.23 g/t Au, from 82m to 85m. This high-grade intercept was complimented by visible gold spatially associated with quartz-carbonate veinlets (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Visible gold showings in hole MM25D-11-4420-024.
- Hole MM25D-11-4420-009 Intersected 2m @ 92.39 g/t Au, from 80.3m to 82.3m, Including 1m @ 183.79 g/t Au, from 81.3m to 82.3m. This high-grade intercept was complimented by visible gold hosted within an early, recrystallized blue-grey quartz vein (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Visible gold showings in hole MM25D-11-4420-009.
- Hole MM25D-09-4300-002 Intersected 15.45m @ 8.79 g/t Au, from 61.05m to 76.50m, Including 5.8m @ 18.57 g/t Au, from 69.0m to 74.8m.
- Hole MM25D-11-4420-026 Intersected 6.75m @ 17.31 g/t Au, from 84.25m to 91.00m, Including 1m @ 104.87 g/t Au, from 84.25m to 85.25m. This high-grade intercept was complimented by visible gold hosted within a deformed quartz veinlet (Figure 4).
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