Beauce Gold Fields Announces Follow-up Drilling Program at Grondin Zone
Montréal, Québec — February 9, 2026 — Leads & Copy —
Beauce Gold Fields (TSX-V: BGF) will begin a follow-up diamond drilling program at the Grondin Zone in March 2026. The program includes up to 1,500 meters of diamond drilling to test selected targets along the direction and depth within the antiform gold structure of the “Saddle Reef” type identified at the Grondin Zone.
Patrick Levasseur, president and CEO of Beauce Gold Fields, said the follow-up drilling at Grondin is a logical step given the robustness of the company’s geological model and the continuity of gold mineralization intersected to date. He added that this program aims to better define the “Saddle Reef” structure in depth and along its extension, and to deepen the understanding of the scale and continuity of the system.
Drilling targets were refined using the company’s recently completed 3D geological model, which integrates data from the 2023 and 2025 drilling campaigns. Previous drilling confirmed a continuous mineralized corridor at Grondin that remains open laterally and at depth, justifying step-out and deeper drilling.
The upcoming program will focus on:
- Testing the depth extensions of known mineralized zones
- Evaluating length continuity beyond already drilled sections
- Further analysis of structural controls associated with the “Saddle Reef” type antiform geometry
The Grondin Zone has been the subject of systematic exploration by Beauce Gold Fields since 2023, including several diamond drilling campaigns, geophysical surveys, geological mapping, and limited bulk sampling.
Drilling in 2023 and 2025 confirmed structurally controlled gold mineralization associated with a “Saddle Reef” type antiform geometry. The mineralization has been traced over several hundred meters and remains open in both length and depth.
The Grondin Zone is part of the company’s overall exploration strategy to identify the primary sources (bedrock) of the Beauce’s historical gold placers. Drilling to date has confirmed the presence of gold mineralization along the “Saddle Reef” structure over a distance of approximately 4 kilometers from the Grondin Zone. Subsequent induced polarization (IP) surveys as well as an integrated geological interpretation have defined a “Saddle Reef” type antiform structural corridor of approximately 8 kilometers, providing a large-scale exploration framework.
Based on geological, structural and geochemical observations, the company interprets this antiform structure as one of the probable sources of gold mineralization that contributed to the historical placers of the Saint-Simon-les-Mines paleo channel. Results from the next drilling program will be published as they become available.
Jean Bernard, B.Sc., geo., an independent qualified person according to Regulation NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical content of this release.
Champs d’Or en Beauce Inc. (BGF) is a gold exploration company focused on exploration in the Beauce region of southern Quebec. The company’s flagship property is the St-Simon-les-Mines gold project site, the site of Canada’s first gold rush, prior to the Klondike rush in the Yukon. The Beauce region was home to some of eastern North America’s largest historical placer gold mines that were active from 1860 to the 1960s. It has produced some of the largest gold nuggets in Canadian mining history (50+ oz) (Source Sedar+: Beauce July 4th 2018, Report 43-101)
Champs d’Or en Beauce’s objective is to trace the old placer gold sites back to the bedrock source in order to discover an economic gold deposit.
Beauce Gold Fields is currently exploring newly discovered antiform systems that may have contributed to the development of the vast Beauce gold placers. The Company’s geological model suggests that placer gold in the Beauce Gold paleochannel, including the famous large nuggets of the 19th century, formed in tension quartz pockets within the stratified dome antiform axes, exemplified by Saddle Reef formations. Notable global Saddle Reef formations include the Bendigo goldfields in Australia (over 60 million ounces) and the high grade Dufferin deposit in Nova Scotia.
Source: Beauce Gold Fields
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