NevGold intercepts 53.7% antimony surface sample in Nevada

Issued on behalf of NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU) (OTCQX: NAUFF) (Frankfurt: 5E50) A pile of leftover rock that a gold miner walked past in 1990 is turning into one of the highest-grade antimony stories in America — right as Washington pours billions into breaking China’s grip on the metal. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Equity Insider Market Commentary - Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones somebody already dug up and left behind. In 1989 and 1990, a gold mining operation at Golden Butte in Nevada stripped away the rock sitting on top of the ore it actually wanted, piled it off to the side, and never processed it.

That pile — the Pre-Strip Dump — sat untouched for more than three decades. NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU) (OTCQX: NAUFF) (Frankfurt: 5E50) just sampled it, and the numbers are striking: surface grades up to 53.7% antimony, six samples over 10% antimony, and fourteen samples grading better than 2% antimony. To put 53.7% in plain terms: more than half the rock, by weight, is antimony.

That is not a trace anomaly you chase with a thousand metres of drilling. That is high-grade material sitting at surface, in a pile that has already been moved once. Why antimony, and why now Antimony is not a metal most investors thought about two years ago.

They think about it now. It is a critical mineral with no easy substitute in flame retardants, military munitions, night-vision optics, and increasingly in next-generation batteries and solar-panel glass. And the supply chain has been, until very recently, dominated by a single country.

China historically controlled the lion’s share of global antimony — mining, refining, and processing. In December 2024, Beijing escalated a series of export controls into an outright ban on antimony shipments to the United States. The ban caused real shortages and drove Western antimony prices to record highs