Edmonton, Alberta — February 18, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Torr Metals Inc. (TSXV: TMET) reports encouraging results from reconnaissance rock grab samples collected in late 2025 from the Oscar Zone at its Filion Gold Project in northern Ontario.
The company’s 100%-owned 202 km² Filion Gold Project yielded assays of up to 13.1 g/t gold (Au) from 14 samples taken from an extensive historical trench network identified through LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging).
Six of the samples collected from outcrop and trench float returned >1 g/t Au, including three grading >7 g/t Au over a 140-metre strike length. This represents just 16% of the approximately 900-metre total strike extent of trenches originally excavated in the 1930s, the rest of which remain unsampled.
Historical records indicate minimal activity in the area since 1948. Although limited drilling is referenced in the broader corridor, no verifiable drill locations or assay results have been identified, leaving the trenched area effectively untested by modern drilling. The historical trenches are road-accessible via legacy exploration trails located 2.3 kilometres north of the Trans-Canada Highway 11 and approximately 37 kilometres northwest of Kapuskasing, the Project’s operational base.
Torr Metals believes the confirmation of high-grade gold mineralization validates historical reports and supports its interpretation of the Filion structural corridor as a significant, underexplored gold-bearing system.
The company says these results further demonstrate the strength of the structural architecture controlling gold mineralization and confirm Oscar as a potential bedrock source of one of two significant anomalous soil clusters identified in 2025. Soil assays from this cluster returned values of up to 1.04 g/t Au, accompanied by elevated arsenic (As), tellurium (Te), tungsten (W), bismuth (Bi), and sulfur (S); a geochemical signature characteristic of regional orogenic gold systems.
Torr Metals has consolidated and extended the Filion Gold Project to cover the entire ~60 kilometre (km) strike length of the Filion structural corridor to secure the full extent of this interpreted district-scale deformation system. The company notes that only about 8% of this corridor has been systematically explored using modern exploration methods, all of which has been carried out by Torr since first staking the project in October 2023.
Highlights from the exploration include the validation of the gold-bearing capacity of the Filion structural corridor, supporting the interpreted source of the 2025 Oscar gold soil anomaly, and materially enhancing the prospectivity of the Miller Zone soil anomaly (up to 1.32 g/t Au in soil) located 1.4 km west along the same first-order east-west structural system, which remains untested by documented drilling.
The company identified primary targets defined by east-west oriented linear magnetic anomalies, interpreted to delineate prospective lithological and structural boundaries within multi-kilometre deformation breaks (see Filion West, Central, and East zones; Figure 1). These corridors are locally intersected and disrupted by northeast-southwest structures, creating zones of structural complexity that may have focused strain and hydrothermal fluid flow, representing priority target areas for potential enhanced gold deposition.
High magnetic trends define magnetite-bearing stratigraphy and structural corridors, including localized deformation breaks interpreted as potential alteration or structural disruption zones of the high magnetic signature (Filion West, Central, and East targets areas; Figure 1, Figure 2). VLF/EM (Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic) geophysical surveys completed in 2025 delineated conductive features interpreted to represent shear zones, flanking resistive domains that may reflect silica flooding and/or intrusive bodies coincident with or marginal to high-grade surface mineralization, providing additional context for prioritizing drill targets.
Torr Metals President and CEO Malcolm Dorsey said the results highlight Filion’s capacity to potentially deliver a meaningful new gold discovery within a highly prospective orogenic gold district held by Torr. He added that high-grade rock grab samples of up to 13.1 g/t gold, coincident with undrilled geophysical and soil anomalies, reinforce the strength and continuity of mineralization at Oscar and along the broader 60-kilometre Filion structural corridor. Dorsey also noted the target’s proximity to the Trans-Canada Highway, with adjacent rail and power infrastructure.
Dorsey added that Filion provides the Company with significant strategic optionality while their primary focus remains at the Kolos Copper-Gold Project, where a fully funded Phase 2 drill program of up to 6,000 metres is scheduled to test newly defined, highly prospective copper-gold porphyry targets along Highway 5 in Q2 2026. The company sees potential to unlock additional value through disciplined advancement alongside its core copper-gold strategy, given that only a limited portion of the Filion structural corridor has been systematically evaluated using modern exploration methods.
The Filion structural corridor is interpreted as a first-order east-west (E-W) belt-parallel deformation system, consistent with dominant structural grain observed throughout northern Ontario greenstone belts (Figure 1). Such E-W corridors commonly define major deformation zones, stratigraphic contacts, and iron-formation-bearing packages capable of hosting long-lived gold systems.
Torr Metals has identified areas where the magnetic and structural grain transitions from E-W into NE-SW orientations, a geometry commonly associated with structural complexity and enhanced prospectivity.
The highest-grade sampling in the Oscar Zone to date is spatially associated with:
- Pyrite lenses with trace chalcopyrite associated with quartz veining, silica-sericite, carbonate chlorite, and fuchsite alteration. Native gold is noted in historical records but remains to be verified.
- Coincident with the margins of a high magnetic anomaly (ground geophysical survey), outlining magnetite-bearing metasediments, metavolcanics, and intermediate intrusions within a large-scale fold structure.
- Overprinting resistive zones interpreted as silica flooding (alteration), bounded by conductive shear features identified by VLF/EM.
Torr Metals’ 2025 VLF/EM survey outlines moderate to steeply dipping conductive shear structures, and adjacent low-conductivity (resistive) domains interpreted as either felsic intrusions (including quartz-feldspar porphyries and diorite bodies) and/or strongly silicified alteration corridors.
Source: Torr Metals
