Azarga Metals mobilizes drill rig to Marg, Yukon

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / August 10, 2026 / AZARGA METALS CORP. (" Azarga Metals " or the " Company ") (TSXV:AZR) is pleased to announce that the drill rig and supporting equipment has been mobilized for its 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 later this month and is designed to test multiple high-priority exploration targets identified through previous drilling, geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and geochemical sampling (see news release dated June 23, 2026 ). Diamond drilling is expected to focus on expanding known mineralized zones 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 prospecting several historic 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, with potential for further fold-related duplications at depth within the sequence.

Gordon Tainton President and CEO commented: " The team has been working hard to prepare the Marg Project camp over the past month and we are excited to begin this season's drill campaign, the first conducted by the Company. We expect drilling to commence later this month, primarily focusing on 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 re