Backed by 1832 Asset Management and Macquarie and armoured with a CAD$20 million cash pile, GLAD is aggressively exploring its Whitehorse Copper Project – a past-producing and large skarn system that stretches across a 35km by 5km district with over 30 separate prospects that contain shallow, high-grade mineralization. It has total historical production of 10.5Mt at 1.5% Cu and 0.75g/t Au between 1967 and 1982, which likely represents a drop in the ocean compared to the 100Mt long-term resource target that GLAD has for the project – and the now validated formula of using IP chargeability and gravity anomalies to find skarn mineralization is the key to get there. Having just completed a 50,000m diamond drilling campaign last year, GLAD has already commenced an even larger program for 2026 and is well on the way to proving up an impressive resource, which post the 2026 drill season will be compared to the 38.6Mt at 2.02% CuEq belonging to CAD$3.03 billion EV Foran Mining Corporation (FOM.TO).
The flagship prospect Cowley Park has 3km of prospective strike, where over 400 drill holes have been through a 1,200m long, 450m wide and 300m deep section that is strongly mineralized and open in every direction, containing assays such as 98m at 1.49% Cu from 103m including 20m at 5.53% Cu from 145m, 89.61m at 1.89% Cu from 26.21m, 43.28m at 2.24% Cu from 93.27m, and 26m at 3.60% Cu from 103m including 11.52m at 7.54% Cu from 113.38m. The same geophysical anomalies seen here have been identified but in a much larger setting at the Great Southern prospect – where drilling is planned in the first quarter of 2026.
There are also the Little and Middle Chief prospects that have previously mined 121.5kt of copper, 225koz of gold and 2.84Moz of silver, which is where there are assays from unmined areas of 49.83m at 3.06% Cu from 70.26m, 54.10m at 2.05% Cu from 77.42m and 41.15m at 2.22% Cu from 87.48m. 12km North of here is the Arctic Chief prospect, a 2km long mineralized trend where GLAD recently hit 25m at 0.59% Cu, 1.24g/t Au and 4.59g/t Ag from 44m, including 14m at 0.82% Cu, 2.06g/t Au and 7.39g/t Ag from 55m, including 6m at 1.11% Cu, 4.06g/t Au and 13.23g/t Ag from 63m. There’s also the 7km long HAT trend, with assays such as 10.54m at 4.99% Cu from 124.39m and 9.63m at 1.14% Cu from 108.51m, including 2.93m at 3.13% Cu from 115.21m.
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- 35,000m of Drilling Commencing as GLAD Targets 100Mt High-Grade Resource at the Whitehorse Copper BeltThe target we are most excited about is set to be drilled alongside the final step to a maiden resource in a sweeping 35,000m drilling campaign that will begin this month at Gladiator Metals’ (ASX: GLAD) Whitehorse Copper Project, in one of Canada’s most prospective regions. GLAD is aiming to build Whitehorse into a 100Mt… Read more: 35,000m of Drilling Commencing as GLAD Targets 100Mt High-Grade Resource at the Whitehorse Copper Belt
- Initiation: High-Grade Significant Copper Resource On the Horizon for Gladiator Metals as Price Hits Record Above US$13,400/tThe code for modern exploration has been cracked at the Whitehorse Copper Project – a past-producing and large skarn system that stretches across a 35km by 5km district with over 30 separate prospects that contain shallow, high-grade mineralization – and total historical production of 10.5Mt at 1.5% Cu and 0.75g/t Au between 1967 and 1982,… Read more: Initiation: High-Grade Significant Copper Resource On the Horizon for Gladiator Metals as Price Hits Record Above US$13,400/t