Azarga Metals launches 2026 drill program at Marg, Yukon

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 23, 2026 / AZARGA METALS CORP. (" Azarga Metals " or the " Company ") (TSXV:AZR) is pleased to announce that it has engaged Platinum Diamond Drilling Inc. to complete a diamond drilling program at the Company's high-grade, copper-rich Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (" VMS ") Marg project (the " Marg Project ") located in the prolific Keno Hill mining district of central Yukon Territory, Canada. The program is anticipated to commence in August 2026 and is designed to test multiple high-priority exploration targets identified through previous drilling, geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and geochemical sampling. Diamond drilling is expected to focus on expanding known mineralized zones while evaluating new targets with the potential to host significant copper, zinc, gold, silver, and lead polymetallic mineralization.

The initial phase of the planned program consists of over 3,000 metres of drilling across eight priority holes. Drilling will target extensions of previous mineralized intercepts, as well as several undrilled structural and geochemical anomalies identified during recent field programs. There is potential to extend the current areas defined by drilling that remain open towards the east, west and down-dip.

Within the Marg deposit there is one interpreted anticlinal fold hinge,, but potential remains for further fold-related duplications at depth within the sequence. Gordon Tainton President and CEO commented: "The MARG VMS deposit demonstrates exceptional exploration potential, and we are excited to begin this season's drill campaign, the first conducted by the Company. Our technical team has developed a focused drill program targeting extensions of the mineralized system from Azarga's maiden NI 43-101 resource estimate in August 2025, which estimated 4.3 Mt of indicated resource grading 2.9% CuEq and 10.0 Mt of inferred resource grading 2.3%