# Zephyr Provides Dawson Gold Update

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zephyr-provides-dawson-gold-update--2c0726a6-b2cf-4ac1-b1e7-1bd68d559108

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/ZFR/news/5316484941807511/zephyr-provides-dawson-gold-update

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2025-11-04T12:45:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Zephyr Minerals Ltd.

- Ticker: ZFR

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Colorado, USA

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Lithium

- Document categories: Resource update, Permitting

- Extracted: 2026-08-24 18:46:53 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.40 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Zephyr Minerals has completed a water well drilling program to support a mining permit resubmission for the Dawson Gold Property in Colorado. The company is also planning exploratory trenching and intends to re-evaluate its 2013 Inferred Resource using a lower cut-off grade to capitalize on current high gold prices.

Reasoning: The update focuses on permitting progress and the strategic re-evaluation of a stale resource estimate in a much higher gold price environment, though the core resource data remains historical.

- Positive factor: Significant gold price increase \($4,000/oz vs $1,300/oz\) provides upside for resource expansion via lower cut-off

- Positive factor: Permitting milestones progressing with water well program completion

- Positive factor: Exploratory trenching program planned to target surface erosion from Windy Gulch

- Negative factor: Resource estimate is stale \(effective July 2013\)

- Negative factor: Current resource is 100% Inferred

Facts used in scoring: 4

## Classification and evidence

**Inferred Resource**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Speculative category — limited drilling, geological continuity assumed but not confirmed. Cannot support economic studies alone.

Why it applies: The Dawson Gold Deposit resource is stated as 100% Inferred.

Evidence · text

> The Dawson Gold Deposit hosts an Inferred Mineral Resource

**Stale Estimate**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Effective date is >2 years old — data currency concern, may not reflect current geological understanding.

Why it applies: The resource estimate effective date is July 19, 2013, which is over 2 years old.

Evidence · text

> The current resource estimate for the Dawson Gold Deposit was completed on July 19, 2013

**NI 43-101 Compliant**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Resource estimate prepared in compliance with NI 43-101 \(Canada\) — high reporting standard.

Why it applies: The resource estimate was prepared in accordance with NI 43-101.

Evidence · text

> prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101

## Extracted facts

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

## Resource Estimates (4)

### inferred

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zephyr-provides-dawson-gold-update--2c0726a6-b2cf-4ac1-b1e7-1bd68d559108#fact-resource-facts-0)

gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: ZFR

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 343000
- Grade: 12.11
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Contained Metal: 133500
- Contained Unit: oz
- Cutoff Grade: 5

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2013-07-19T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: This is a restatement of a 2013 resource estimate; it is highly speculative \(Inferred\) and lacks recent drilling updates.

- Negative factor: Stale data \(2013\)

- Negative factor: 100% Inferred

Evidence · text

> Inferred Mineral Resource... of 343,000 tonnes grading 12.11 g/t for 133,500 ounces of gold at a 5 g/t cut-off

### inferred

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zephyr-provides-dawson-gold-update--2c0726a6-b2cf-4ac1-b1e7-1bd68d559108#fact-resource-facts-1)

gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: ZFR

#### Resource Data

- Category: inferred
- Tonnes: 343000
- Grade: 10.55
- Grade Unit: g/t
- Contained Metal: 116300
- Contained Unit: oz
- Cutoff Grade: 5

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2013-07-19T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Restatement of the 2013 resource using a 40 g/t top cut.

- Negative factor: Stale data \(2013\)

- Negative factor: 100% Inferred

Evidence · text

> 116,300 ounces of gold at 10.55 g/t with a 40 g/t top cut

### Fact 3

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zephyr-provides-dawson-gold-update--2c0726a6-b2cf-4ac1-b1e7-1bd68d559108#fact-resource-facts-2)

gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: ZFR

#### Resource Data

- Grade: 5.8
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical bedrock trenching result from 2017.

- Positive factor: Significant width

- Negative factor: Historical result

Evidence · text

> Previous bedrock trenching conducted in 2017 at Windy Gulch returned 5.8 grams per tonne \(g/t\) gold over 31.7 meters

### Fact 4

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/zephyr-provides-dawson-gold-update--2c0726a6-b2cf-4ac1-b1e7-1bd68d559108#fact-resource-facts-3)

gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: ZFR

#### Resource Data

- Grade: 7.6
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2025-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical trenching result from 2017.

- Positive factor: High grade

- Negative factor: Historical result

Evidence · text

> a trench located approximately 40 meters downslope returned 7.6 g/t gold over 11.9 meters

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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