# Evergold Updates on Drilling and Exploration Plans for Golden Lion in Toodoggone, British Columbia *2026-05-21T07:00:00-04:00* Evergold Updates on Drilling and Exploration Plans for Golden Lion in Toodoggone, British Columbia _**Highlights:**_ - _First drilling at Golden Lion since 2021, with 4,000 meters in 12 holes planned_ - _Drilling to focus on Golden Lion Main Zone (GL1), where final 2021 holes returned best-ever intercepts - GL21-024 66 m of 1.36 g/t gold and 11 g/t silver and GL21-025 11.3 m of 5.4 g/t gold and 62 g/t silver (see News _[_November 16th, 2021_](https://www.evergoldcorp.ca/news/evergolds-golden-lion-drilling-yields-the-highest-grades-yet-seen-on-the-property-multiple-high-grade-intercepts-including-28-m-of-104-gt-gold-651-gt-silver-11-zinc-4-lead-within-113-m-of-54-gt-gold-62-gt-silver-3-zinc-1-)_)_ - _Geophysics, geochemistry and mapping to target a large-scale copper system in the north_ - _Drilling starts in June, with all contractors and technical staff committed_ **TORONTO, ON / [ACCESS Newswire](https://www.accessnewswire.com/)/ May 21, 2026 / ****Evergold Corp. (TSXV:EVER) ("Evergold" or the "Company") **is pleased to outline its 2026 exploration program at the Golden Lion Property ("GL" or the "Property"), located in the Toodoggone district, British Columbia. The 2026 program, set to begin in June, represents a revitalization of Golden Lion, with a significant advancement of its ‘GL1' gold-silver zone in the south and emerging copper potential in the north. [**CLICK HERE: **View Video of CEO & President Alex Walcott Discussing Drilling and Exploration Plans for Golden Lion](https://pr.report/lrn6) **Exploration Program Details** _Drill Program_ - 4,000 meters across 12 holes targeting extensions of the GL1's best-ever drill intercepts - Drilling will test a 2 km long west-northwest trending gold-silver-soil anomaly first outlined by Newmont - Holes will test the GL1 structure beneath peak geochemical values - Targets coincide with resistivity anomalies which run parallel to known mineralized trends - Mineralization at GL1 comes to surface and has only been drilled to a depth of 250 meters - Mobilization scheduled for June, under the direction of Project Manager Taylor Quinn MSc., who brings extensive Golden Lion and Toodoggone district experience [**CLICK HERE: **View Figure 1: Map View of Proposed Drill Holes at Golden Lion](https://pr.report/lrn7) _**Targeting a Large-Scale Copper Mineralizing System: "Copper King"**_ The northern GL property hosts a large, coherent copper-gold geochemical anomaly in an area previously referred to as "Copper King," with features typical of porphyry-style mineralization, including: - Highly anomalous copper-in-stream sediment samples collected across three adjoining drainages spanning roughly 30 sq km - Corroboration from three Regional Geochemical Survey stream sediment samples collected by the Provincial Government in the 1990s from the same area, returning copper values in the 90th to 99th percentile for B.C. - Provincial assessment reports from the 1970s documenting drillholes that encountered extensive copper mineralization from limited ridgetop drilling within the anomaly To advance copper-gold exploration in the Copper King area, Evergold plans the following work to run concurrently with its 2026 GL1 drilling: - A property-scale MobileMT airborne geophysical survey to map conductivity features potentially associated with porphyry mineralization, combined with airborne magnetic surveying to complete geophysical coverage over the northern property - Geological mapping, prospecting, and soil and stream sediment sampling, focused primarily on the broad and underexplored northern area, with further delineation of existing anomalies in the south - Follow-up ground geophysical surveys (IP/AMT, 12-15 line-km) later in the season to better define potential mineralizing systems and structures [**CLICK HERE: **View Figure 2: Historical Copper Silt Samples (Copper King Area, Golden Lion)](https://pr.report/lrn8) **Golden Lion Property Overview** The Golden Lion property, with the recently-acquired Copper King inlying claims, now includes more than 12,500 hectares of mineral tenures. The Golden Lion claim block lies approximately 9 km north of Thesis Gold's road-accessible Ranch property, and 40 km north of the Sturdee River airstrip. Although undocumented exploration dates as far back as the 1930s in this part of the Toodoggone, little systematic exploration was undertaken on the property until Newmont's work between 1982 and 1984 culminated in 2,475 m of diamond drilling. There was a further hiatus in systematic exploration Evergold's work between 2019 and 2021, which included 4,825 m of drilling. Almost all of the drilling on the Property has been focused on the Golden Lion Main zone (GL1), where the Claw Mountain fault, likely a reactivated syn-mineral feature, hosts intermediate sulfidation epithermal mineralization. The GL1 zone is character