Stewart, British Columbia — January 6, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Decade Resources Ltd (TSXV: DEC) is exploring the silver potential of its Del Norte property in BC’s Golden Triangle. Decade Resources can earn an additional 20% interest by carrying the property to commercial production.
The Del Norte property, optioned in January 2020 from Teuton Resources Corp., allows Decade to earn up to a 55% interest by spending $4 million over five years. Decade has earned the 55% interest in the property. The property is 34 kilometers east of Stewart, BC, and covers the contact of felsic volcanic rocks of the Hazelton Group and sedimentary rocks of Salmon River Formation, the same horizon that hosts the Eskay Creek mine 60km north of Stewart, BC.
A deformation corridor along this contact features argillites and lapilli tuffs, brecciated and sheared with quartz-carbonate-sulphide cemented breccias, replacement zones, and veins. Breccia fragments, mostly argillite, are angular, ranging from less than 1 cm to 10 cm across. Mineralized zones contain sulphides including pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and tetrahedrite mineralization, with sections mineralized by fine acicular arsenopyrite. Mineralization occurs within a pyrite-rich, graphitic black mudstone horizon within black matrix lapilli tuffs with dacite lapilli tuff sub-intervals. Fracturing and faulting have resulted in quartz and sulphide deposition, creating black graphitic gouge, crushed sulphides, and quartz fragments.
Within this deformation corridor related to thrust faulting, there are at least 3 distinct silver-gold rich veins and breccias: the Kosciuszko (K-zone), Argo/ LG and Eagles Nest zones. Widths on these veins and breccia can be up to 10-12 m over lengths exceeding 1.2 km. Zones appear to occur along a number of splays associated with the thrust faulting along the volcanic-sedimentary contact.
Highlights of some of the 2020 and 2021 results previously released in drilling are as follows:
4. 5 g/t gold and 754 g/t silver over 1.8 m in DDH-DN20-01 on the Kosciuszko zone.
5. 3 g/t gold and 35.88 g/t silver over 6.2 m in DDH-DN20-10 on the Eagle’s Nest zone.
6. 03 g/t gold and 597.39 g/t silver over 4.95 m in DDH-DN20-18 on the LG/Argo zone.
7. 5 g/t gold and 815.98 g/t silver over 2.46 m in DDH-DN20-20 on the LG/Argo zone.
8. 13 g/t gold and 815.98 g/t silver over 4.27 m in DDH-DN21-09 on the LG/Argo zone.
9. 56 g/t gold and 391.27 g/t silver over 7.01 m in DDH-DN21-12 on the LG/Argo zone.
10. 28 g/t gold and 1091.6 g/t silver over 9.91 m in DDH-DN-21-10 on the LG/Argo zone.
11. 43 g/t gold and 1039.95 g/t silver over 10.98 m in DDH-DN-21-15 on the LG/Argo zone.
Acanthite (silver sulphide with 87.1% silver content-silvery streaks) associated with sphalerite, galena and pyrite in DDH-21-10.
Highlights of surface sampling is shown below for the 2020-21 period including some historic sampling 800 m SW of the LG/Argo zone:
Eagle’s Nest Zone Sampling
Sample
Sample
Ag
Au
Number
Type
g/t
g/t
KKM-37
Grab
20.1
13.8
KKM-44
Grab
2190
11.2
ENKM-76
Grab
5220
22.7
ENKM-77
0.6 m chip
675
15.9
ENKM-76
0.4 m chip
957
66.9
A20-180
0.2 m chip
82.2
47.3
New Zone Sampling
A20-75
Grab
1520
22.2
Sampling of Float Below New Zone
A20-188
Float
395
1.93
A20-189
Float
121
1.38
A20-199
Float
280
4.32
Kosciuszko/SP Zone
Chip Line
3.8m
411.12
6.12
including
1.4m
1100
15.6
Chip Line
2.0 m
242.95
2.2
including
1.0 m
484
4.26
Zone 800 m SW of Eagle’s Nest
A20-133
Grab
649
12.4
A20-137
Grab
18.1
10.7
ERK 895**
Grab
2678.6
4.98
ERK 896**
Float
4232.2
13.59
** Historic sample collected by E. Kruchkowski in 1994 sampling. ARIS report 23832
Grab samples are solely designed to show the presence or absence of any mineralization and to characterize the metal tenor in this mineralization. Grab samples are by definition selective and not intended to provide nor should be construed as a representative indication of grade or mineralization at the project.
Samples from the 2020-21 program were assayed by MSA Labs in Langley BC and the historic assays from 1994 by Activation Labs in Kamloops BC.
The Company plans to further define areas for drill pads with the continued ablation of glacial ice in the areas of the mineralized structures. In areas of structures exposed by melting ice, chip sampling to determine grade of these zones. In addition, sampling will include:
Exploration in the vicinity of Samples ERK 896.
New zone discovered in 2024 below the Kosciuszko (K-zone) zone approximately 1 m wide assaying 6.59 g/t gold and 946 g/t silver as well as 6.78 g/t gold and 5184 g/t silver.
Along strike of the Kosciuszko (K-zone) zone between it and the AP zone.
Along strike of the Eagles Nest zone.
Quartz-sericite zones with values of 30.9 g/t Au and 80 g/t Ag.
The sampling will include high angle personnel in order to test these zones.
Ed Kruchkowski, P.Geo., President of Decade Resources Ltd., is the Qualified Person and has reviewed and approved the technical contents of this release. Gary Assaly can be reached at 604-377-7969.
Source: Decade Resources Ltd
