Auriginal mobilizes second rig at Roger; plans $2.0 million Phase 2 drill program

Highlights: An additional $2.0 million, 6,000-m definition drilling program has been budgeted for late summer or fall. Planning for the expanded program will commence upon completion of the Phase 1 program and receipt of the remaining assay results. Drilling to date has shown good depth and strike continuity of the Roger porphyry Cu-Au system as well as extensions to the interpreted VMS horizon.

A second drill has been mobilized to the property to fast track the current program and to test the SW continuation of the Roger porphyry Cu-Au resource above the 500 m vertical level and to test the continuity of the VMS horizon. Strong assays of 1.55 g/t Au, 41.2 g/t Ag, 0.18% Cu over 4.2 m and 1.64 g/t Au, 11.7 g/t Ag, 0.29% Cu and 0.11 % Zn over 4.0 m were returned from the VMS intersections so far. Multiple gold intersections have so far been returned from the porphyry zone, the best of which returned 4.01 g/t Au over 2.8 m including 5.39 g/t over 1.5 m, 32.6 g/t Au over 1.2 m and 12.2 g/t over 1.1 m .

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 16, 2026) - Auriginal Mining Corp. (TSXV: AUME) (" Auriginal " or the " Company ") is pleased to report that a second drill has been mobilized to the Roger project to fast track our Phase 1 drill program and prepare for definition drilling of the newly expanded porphyry Cu-Au mineralized system and to better define VMS mineralization intersected to date. Planning for the $2.0 million, Phase 2 program will commence upon receipt of all assay results from the current program and is anticipated to start in late summer or early fall. "Drilling to date has supported our view of an expanded porphyry Cu-Au resource at Roger below the deepest historical drilling on the property and has confirmed the presence of an overlying gold-rich VMS horizon," said Peter Cashin, Auriginal's CEO.

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