North Star Gold Company (Private search engine: Nuclear Suppliers Group) provided an exploration and development update on the 100% owned Miller Copper Gold property, located approximately 18 km southeast of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
While Northstar continues to develop the high-grade Cam Copper volcanic massive sulphide (VMS) project and associated surgical mining initiatives with Novamera Inc., the company is also preparing to renew expansion drilling at the nearby Allied Gold Zone later this year.
The progress of Northstar’s planned Allied Gold Zone comes amid a significant rise in gold prices and increased exploration activity at the southern Kirkland Lake camp, including continued drilling by Kirkland Lake Discoveries Corp. At KL South Property, immediately adjacent to Northstar’s Miller copper and gold property.
Northstar believes that the renewed success and interest in exploration across the region, coupled with gold prices that have more than doubled since consideration of the company’s 2022 SRK exploration target, materially reinforces the importance and strategic value of the Allied Gold District and the broader Miller Intrusive Complex gold system.
Allied Gold Zone Highlights: SRK Consulting (Canada) previously completed a 3D exploration target study for the Allied Zone and Vein 1 zone at the Miller Property, which determined an upper conceptual exploration target estimate of approximately 250,000-500,000 ounces near-surface gold grading 1.39-2.04 g/t Au.
The exploration target remains open along strike, dip and at depth, with several additional untested syenite-associated gold targets identified throughout the property.
Northstar’s previous drilling within the Allied Gold Zone intersected extensive intervals of near-surface gold mineralization, including 6.6 g/t gold at a depth of 117.0 metres, 4.0 g/t gold at a depth of 50.6 metres, 1.43 g/t gold at a depth of 118.5 metres, and 1.2 g/t gold at a depth of 107.3 metres.
The high-grade Au-Cu feeder structures crossed during drilling included 4.71 g/t Au and 0.51% Au at a depth of 6.4 meters and 9.41 g/t Au and 1.03% Au at a depth of 3.0 metres.
A high-resolution UAV magnetic survey in 2023 identified an order-of-magnetic magnetic anomaly more than 1 km deep (“SM-01”) underlying the allied gold zone, which was interpreted as a deeper Cu-Au intrusive source system.
Allied Gold Zone Drilling Plans: Northstar recently began targeting depth and depth extensions of the Allied Gold Zone and associated Au-Cu feeder structures within the Miller Intrusive Complex.
The proposed 2026 drilling program is expected to focus on expanding the near-surface allied gold zone; testing deep structural feed zones made of copper and gold; Follow up drilling in the Independence Fault area; Follow-up drilling in the Planet and Meilleur Syenite zones within the Miller Intrusive Complex; and evaluation of new geophysical and magnetic targets generated from previous UAV magnetic, geological and intellectual property modeling programmes.
In conjunction with the development of the Allied Gold Zone, Northstar continues to collaborate with consortium partners Novamera Inc. and Micon International Limited and DIGITAL to evaluate and advance the company’s Cam Copper Zone 2 Surgical Mining™ initiative towards potential near-term development and production.
Recent drilling and geophysics programs at Cam Copper have confirmed the presence of high-grade VMS copper mineralization including 14.8% copper at a depth of 2.45 metres; 21.7% copper over 1.35 metres; 3.05% Cu, 5.9 g/t Au, 22.9 g/t Ag, 0.45% Mo over 3.07 metres; 13.95% Cu, 0.62 g/t Au and 32 g/t Ag over 0.56 m and 350 m long, 200 Siemens EM conductor reflecting the south-eastern extension of the VMS horizons in the Cam Copper Zone.
The Miller Copper and Gold Estate clearly hosts two potentially complementary development opportunities, consisting of the near-term high-grade copper mineral development opportunity at Cam Copper and the district-hosted gold system centered on the Allied Gold Zone and the intrusive Miller Complex.
“Northstar remains fully committed to advancing the Cam Copper surgical mining opportunity, which we believe represents a unique near-term critical mineral development opportunity,” said Brian P. Fowler, Northstar’s president and CEO. “At the same time, the company believes that the market has largely overlooked the importance of the allied gold area in today’s gold price environment.”
“Much of the exploration and modeling work in the Allied Gold Zone was completed when gold was trading near $2,000 per ounce. With gold prices now at historically high levels and renewed exploration success occurring directly adjacent to the Miller property, Northstar believes this is an important opportunity to advance and potentially unlock additional value from the Allied Gold Zone through renewed drilling.”
“A few small exploration companies in the Kirkland Lake area currently have the opportunity to develop near-term significant minerals and a large-scale gold exploration ecosystem hosted within the same wholly-owned property.”
Copper cam zone 2 surgical miningTM The pilot is progressing under a definitive turnkey surgical mining services agreement with Novamera Inc. and a collaborative consortium with Novamera, Micon International Limited and DIGITAL – Canada’s global innovation group for digital technologies, under a Master Project Agreement announced on November 24, 2025.
This collaboration focuses on deploying Novamera’s data-driven mining solutions and Surgical Mining™ technology to enable efficient, low-impact extraction of high-grade copper resources.
Northstar is progressing toward issuing a Notice to Proceed under the agreement by obtaining the necessary permits and financing for the project. The company commissioned Micon to prepare an NI 43-101 Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimate for the Cam Copper Project to formally assess Area 2’s reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction before any production or development decision is made.
Northstar continues to strengthen its financing base through a mix of equity and non-dilutive sources. The company and consortium partners have been approved to receive up to $4.0 million in co-investment financing from DIGITAL.
This funding supports the Cam Minerals Copper Surgical Mining Project, part of a broader initiative worth approximately $11 million. Since late December 2025, Northstar has raised cumulative gross proceeds of $1,905,700 in non-intermediate constant dollars, streaming significant metals through advanced equity offerings.
Under the Master Project Agreement, Northstar has applied for and expects to receive short-term reimbursement for eligible project expenditures from DIGITAL
The above exploration target estimates highlight the exploration potential in the Allied Gold Zone and the Cam Copper 2 zone on the Miller Copper and Gold property. Quantity and degrees are purely conceptual in nature. It remains uncertain whether mineral resources will be identified on the property.
Northstar’s primary exploration focus is developing and expanding the bulk tonnage gold telluride system of the near-surface allied gold zone and recently discovered high-grade VMS copper mineralization at the 100% Miller-owned flagship copper-gold property. The company is also developing the Cam Copper project using innovative Surgical Mining™ technologies in collaboration with Novamera Inc.
In addition, Northstar has three other 100%-owned exploration properties in Northern Ontario: the Rosegrove property (1,150 hectares), the Bryce Gold property (4,650 hectares, including Britcanna Lease) and the Temagami-Milestone Cu-Ni-Co property.
The company is actively looking for partners to leverage these additional assets.
