TORONTO, ONTARIO — January 7, 2026 — Leads & Copy —
LAURION Mineral Exploration Inc. reported assay results from diamond drilling at the A-Zone/McLeod/CRK Zone at the Ishkōday Project. The project is located in the Beardmore–Geraldton Greenstone Belt of north-western Ontario, approximately 220 kilometers northeast of Thunder Bay.
Drill hole LBX25-095 was designed to test a segment of the A-Zone/McLeod/CRK Zone structural corridor supported by proximal historic drill holes 90-41 and 90-49, as well as modern LAURION drill holes LBX20-021 and LBX20-017. Drill hole LBX25-096, located approximately 52 metres east of LBX25-095, was designed to test the eastern continuation of the same structurally controlled mineralized corridor. Targeting for LBX25-096 was informed by proximal drill holes LBX12-006, LBX20-020, and LBX22-089, which intersected gold-bearing mineralization within the same stratigraphic and structural package.
The current drill program focuses on the A-Zone/McLeod/CRK Zone, a structurally controlled gold-base metal corridor. Historic and recent drilling demonstrate repeated gold, silver, zinc, and copper mineralization along strike and at depth.
According to Cynthia Le Sueur Aquin, President and CEO of LAURION, the results reinforce the company’s work at Ishkōday, which is a structurally controlled gold-zinc system with repeated mineralization along a coherent corridor. She added that the combination of higher-grade intervals within broader mineralized zones gives the company confidence in its targeting approach. The company’s focus remains on understanding continuity, structure, and scale as drilling continues.
Drill hole LBX25-095 intersected multiple gold-and-zinc-bearing intervals hosted within sheared and altered volcanic rocks consistent with the A-Zone/McLeod/CRK Zone geological framework.
Reported assay results include 2.60 m grading 1.84 g/t Au from 27.40 to 30.00 m, including0.60 m grading 7.25 g/t Au, 1.00 m grading 1.02 g/t Au from 45.30 to 46.30 m, and several broader intervals of lower-grade gold with elevated zinc. A mid-depth mineralized zone returned 3.50 m grading 1.40 g/t Au and 2.30% Zn from 162.50 to 166.00 m, including a higher-grade interval of 0.70 m grading 5.97 g/t Au, 18.4 g/t Ag, 0.22% Cu and 10.8% Zn from 163.05 to 163.75 m. Deeper in the hole, drilling intersected 4.50 m grading 2.00 g/t Au, 5.75 g/t Ag and 1.22% Zn from 188.00 to 192.50 m, including 0.50 m grading 3.30 g/t Au,17.8 g/t Ag and 6.84% Zn, 2.40 m grading 3.00 g/t Au, and 0.55 m grading 12.15 g/t Au,16.1 g/t Ag and 2.66% Zn.
Drill holeLBX25-096 subsequently intersected multiple gold-bearing intervals within this corridor, including 3.85 m from 38.70 m to 42.55 m grading 1.92 g/t Au, including a higher-grade interval of 0.55 m from 42.00 m to 42.55 m grading 9.59 g/t Au, and a shallow interval of 1.15 m from 8.35 m to 9.50 m grading 2.14 g/t Au, including 0.50 m from 9.00 m to 9.50 m grading 4.76 g/t Au.
All drill core is transported and stored inside the core facility located at the Ishkōday Project in Greenstone, Ontario. All core samples were shipped to the ALS facility in Thunder Bay, Ontario, which were then prepared by ALS Global Geochemistry in Thunder Bay and analyzed by ALS Global Analytical Lab in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Samples are processed by 4-acid digestion and analyzed by fire assay on 50 g pulps and ICP-AES (Inductively Coupled Plasma – Atomic Emission Spectroscopy). Over limit analyses are reprocessed with gravimetric finish.
Jean-Philippe Paiement, P.Geo, MSc, a consultant to LAURION and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, reviewed and approved the technical contents of this release.
Cynthia Le Sueur-Aquin – President and CEO
Tel: 1-705-788-9186
Douglas Vass – Investor Relations Consultant
Email: info@laurion.ca
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Source: LAURION Mineral Exploration Inc.
