# Grande Portage Resources Secures Drilling Contractor for 2026 Program at the New Amalga Gold Project and Provides Project Update

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/grande-portage-resources-secures-drilling-contractor-for-2026-program-at-the-new--3e99deff-42b8-4efc-9152-0844e39db4c1

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/GPG/news/7978264774927716/grande-portage-resources-secures-drilling-contractor-for-2026-program-at-the-new

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-02-25T10:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Grande Portage Resources Ltd.

- Ticker: GPG

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Southeast Alaska

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Silver

- Document categories: Resource update, Permitting, Other

- Extracted: 2026-08-23 14:54:10 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Grande Portage Resources has secured a drilling contractor for its 2026 program at the New Amalga Gold Project in Alaska, focusing on resource definition and geotechnical characterization. The company also provided an update on its mineral resource estimate and its progress toward completing a Preliminary Economic Assessment \(PEA\).

Reasoning: The company is advancing the New Amalga project through strategic drilling and permitting milestones, supported by a high-grade gold-silver resource, though the resource figures themselves are a restatement of previous data.

- Positive factor: High-grade Indicated resource

- Positive factor: Strategic progression to development planning

- Positive factor: Permit obtained from US Forest Service

- Positive factor: Low-CAPEX underground development concept

- Negative factor: Resource is a restatement of July 2024 data

Facts used in scoring: 4

## Classification and evidence

**NI 43-101**

Story-specific tag

Definition: No canonical definition is currently available.

**PEA**

Story-specific tag

Definition: No canonical definition is currently available.

**Underground Mining**

Story-specific tag

Definition: No canonical definition is currently available.

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 4. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Resource Estimates (4)

### indicated

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gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: GPG

#### Resource Data

- Category: indicated
- Tonnes: 4726000
- Grade: 9.47
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Contained Metal: 1438500
- Contained Unit: ounces

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2024-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: High-grade indicated gold resource, though restated from July 2024.

- Positive factor: High grade \(9.47 g/t Au\)

- Negative factor: Historical data

Evidence · text

> Indicated Resource of 1,438,500 ounces of gold at an average grade of 9.47 g/t Au \(4,726,000 tonnes\)

### inferred

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gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: GPG

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 1813000
- Grade: 8.85
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Contained Metal: 515700
- Contained Unit: ounces

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2024-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Inferred gold resource restated from July 2024.

- Positive factor: Solid grade \(8.85 g/t Au\)

- Negative factor: Historical data

- Negative factor: Inferred category

Evidence · text

> Inferred Resource of 515,700 ounces of gold at an average grade of 8.85 g/t Au \(1,813,000 tonnes\)

### indicated

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silver

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: silver
- Ticker: GPG

#### Resource Data

- Category: indicated
- Tonnes: 4726000
- Grade: 5.86
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Contained Metal: 891600
- Contained Unit: ounces

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2024-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Indicated silver resource restated from July 2024.

- Positive factor: Significant silver byproduct

- Negative factor: Historical data

Evidence · text

> Indicated Resource of 891,600 ounces of silver at an average grade of 5.86 g/t Ag \(4,726,000 tonnes\)

### inferred

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silver

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: silver
- Ticker: GPG

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 1813000
- Grade: 7.33
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Contained Metal: 390600
- Contained Unit: ounces

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2024-07-17T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Inferred silver resource restated from July 2024.

- Positive factor: Significant silver byproduct

- Negative factor: Historical data

- Negative factor: Inferred category

Evidence · text

> Inferred Resource of 390,600 ounces of silver at an average grade of 7.33 g/t silver \(1,813,000 tonnes\)

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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