Fulcrum site visits to support advancing Kirkland Lake tailings projects
Fulcrum Metals plc (AIM: FMET), a company pioneering the use of innovative cyanide free technology to recover precious and critical metals from mine waste, is pleased to provide an update on the Company’s highly prospective Teck Hughes and Sylvanite tailings projects in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Following the appointment of AP Kane & Associates Ltd as consultants to the Kirkland Lake tailings projects, Ryan Mee Fulcrum CEO, and Andrew Kane, Principal of AP Kane & Associates, will be on-site overseeing exploration work at both Teck Hughes and Sylvanite between 19th and 23rd October 2025.
Objectives of the site visits include
· Assess work being conducted by the Augur drill team at Teck Hughes
· Engage in meetings with government departments on permitting expedite production at Teck Hughes
· Review environmental work-streams at Teck Hughes
· Meeting with potential site contractors for advancing Teck Hughes
· Examine synergy opportunities to develop the Sylvanite and Teck Hughes projects as a regional tailing processing hub
· Outline next steps for advancing the Sylvanite project
Ryan Mee, Chief Executive Officer of Fulcrum, commented:
“These site visits are important as we integrate Andrew, who brings more than 30 years of Ontario mining industry experience including senior roles with Ontario Ministry of Mines, into our Kirkland Lake projects.
Our focus is on building momentum towards bringing Teck Hughes closer to a production ready state and to address potential synergies with the nearby Sylvanite project whilst exploring additional cross-sector growth opportunities.
I look forward to updating investors on developments from the site visits.”
Teck Hughes characterisation program underway
Fulcrum is conducting an auger drill program to provide detailed data for minerology to support a Mineral Resource Estimate (“MRE”), a major step in advancing the Teck Hughes project towards production. Photon gold assays have been returned for 94 augur drill holes which have provided best assay results of 1.62g/t over 0.8 metres, best hole results of 1.02g/t over 4.75 metres from surface and the deepest hole measured is 12.4 metres. As announced by the Company on 15 October 2025, the samples are now at Actlab for comparative Gold Fire Assay and ICP-MS Ultratrace 4 multi-element assay for critical mineral and rare earth potential review including Silver, Gallium and Tellurium. Additional augur drill holes are planned to delineate the bottom of the tailings and provide core for deeper drill holes over 6 metres for further analysis.
Phase 3 testing is also underway with Extrakt and their proprietary cyanide free leach and solid-liquid separation TNSTM technologies will provide detailed metallurgical data to process the tailings. This includes optimising and scaling up resource recovery, maximising yield and process efficiency, tailings dewatering and recovery of water and reagents. Results of the Phase 3 test work are expected in or around December 2025 for review and analysis by Fulcrum.
These workstreams are running in parallel and provide the basis for a MRE, a 43-101 technical report and a phase 4 PFS level economic assessment with Extrakt.
Teck-Hughes Gold Tailings Project Background
Historic sampling and auger drilling campaigns were conducted at the Project, the first in 1980 and the most recent between 2018 and 2022 which produced a non-compliant resource estimate.
From this work 95 auger samples were collected and assayed at Actlab in Timmins. Based on the data from this sampling, along with that of the drill programme from 1980, an estimate of the tonnage was calculated over the north, west and northeast arm of the tailings totaling 6,531,300 tonnes of material at 0.66g/tonne Au for 138,460 ounces contained Au. This estimate remains to be verified by Fulcrum.
Sylvanite Gold Tailings Project Background
A 1986 report filed on the property estimated a tailings resource of 4.52 million tons (4.14 million tonnes) grading 0.015 oz/ton Au (0.47g/t Au) containing 67,051 ounces of gold. This estimate remains to be verified by Fulcrum.
In 2008 a 30m x 25m sampling grid was established with drilling to the base of tailings to obtain samples for assay and recovery test work – 1.22m sample length in 149 holes totaling 926.6m – with a maximum tailings thickness of 12.2m was reported. An average grade of 0.541g/t Au was reported in the 20 holes fully sampled and assayed.
Map of Teck Hughes and Sylvanite Gold Tailings Projects in Kirkland Lake
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