Vancouver, British Columbia — February 11, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Gold Finder Resources Ltd. (TSXV: GLD) (OTCQB: GLDFF) has announced results from its latest field program on Block A of its 100%-owned West Madsen property in the Red Lake Gold Camp.
Emerald Geological Services completed a prospecting and soil sampling program in the fall, targeting two areas near the western and eastern property boundaries. These areas were previously explored during the summer, according to a Gold Finder news release from Sept. 9, 2025.
The program included the collection of 45 grab samples and 194 “A” horizon soil samples. Six infill soil sampling lines were completed in Area 1 in the western part of the property, and four southern extension soil sampling lines were completed in Area 2 in the eastern part of the property. Prospecting was then carried out at several targets across the property.
Area 1 covers the area from Tack Lake to the western property boundary with Athena Gold’s Laird Lake property. Athena previously reported a bonanza-grade grab sample of 373 g/t Au and the identification of new gold-in-till anomalies. During Gold Finder’s fall program, six north-south lines of “A” horizon soil sampling were completed as infill lines to the summer survey, each 500 meters long and spaced 100 meters apart with 25-meter sample station spacing. These were designed to test the southern half of the survey area from the summer, where anomalies of 228 ppb Au and 109 ppb Au were obtained. The two highest anomalies obtained from the most recent sampling were 51 ppb Au and 39 ppb Au, both located along the same east-west trend as the 228 ppb Au anomaly, north of an east-west linear magnetic high.
Area 2 covers an area near the eastern Property boundary, where 2020 soil sampling yielded anomalies up to 106 ppb Au, and where 2024 drillholes WM-24-03 and WM-24-04 intersected ultramafic flows. During the fall program, four north-south lines of “A” horizon soil sampling were completed as southern extensions of the summer survey lines, which had yielded two anomalies of 76 ppb Au close to the southern extreme of the summer survey. The highest value obtained from the most recent sampling was 37 ppb Au near the south end of the extension lines.
Prospecting was carried out at several target areas across the property during the fall program. No significant gold anomalies were obtained from the 45 grab samples collected. However, one sample (C270024) returned 0.19% chromium (Cr) and 0.10% nickel (Ni) from an altered ultramafic outcrop in the eastern part of the Property, proximal to one of the 76 ppb Au soil sample anomalies from the summer program. Another sample (C270043) returned 386 ppm molybdenum (Mo) from mafic outcrop with quartz veining in the eastern part of the Property. It is unknown whether Mo may be a pathfinder for Au mineralization in this area.
According to Greg Lytle, President of Gold Finder, the 2025 field programs concentrated on both the western and eastern boundaries of the Property, aiming to trace major structural and mineralized corridors that extend from neighbouring claims onto their ground. He said the company has confirmed significant gold mineralization in the central part of Block A, east of Tack Lake, as well as beneath Tack Lake itself. He added that the company’s 2025 initiatives successfully uncovered new gold anomalies at the Property’s extremities and identified key rock units, which will guide their drill target development work in 2026.
The West Madsen Gold Project covers 5,988 hectares in the Red Lake Gold Camp. Block A adjoins the Madsen Gold mine property, owned by West Red Lake Gold Mines, which declared commercial production on January 12, 2026.
Gold Finder has observed the same Balmer-Confederation contact in outcrop approximately 1.5 km west of the eastern claim boundary and identified it within an ~8-km corridor of disrupted regional magnetics that traverses Block A from the Madsen mine property.
Gold Finder’s exploration work, focused on Block A, has included geophysical interpretations, regional mapping and prospecting, rock sampling, a soil-gas-hydrocarbon SGH survey, and approximately 11,100 metres of diamond drilling over 28 holes.
Diamond drilling has identified gold anomalies in both Balmer and Confederation Assemblage rocks. 2020 drilling intersected 14.4 g/t Au over 0.5 meters in strongly altered Balmer mafic volcanic rocks (hole WM-20-05), and 2021 drilling intersected 0.16 g/t Au over 195 m, including 0.51 g/t Au over 10.90 m from felsic intrusive rocks of the Confederation Assemblage (hole WM-21-22). Follow-up drilling to the latter intersection in 2024, 100 meters along strike to the southwest, intersected 0.28 g/t Au over 15 meters from the felsic intrusive rocks and 0.85 g/t Au over 9.44 meters from silicified metasediments in the hanging wall to the felsic intrusive rocks (hole WM-24-05).
Source: Gold Finder Resources Ltd.
