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BARTEC GOLD DISCOVERY
Canada-based gold explorer LaFleur Minerals (CSE: LFLR) (OTCQB: LFLRF) (FSE: 3WK0) announced on October 5,2026 that the company has recently extended gold mineralization beyond its main Swanson Gold Deposit. Recent drill results include a new gold discovery at its Bartec Gold target, as well as positive results at other regional gold targets. News Release:
LaFleur Minerals Intersects 6.05 g/t Au over 8.00 Metres, Including 14.96 g/t Au over 3.00 Metres, Near Surface at Bartec Target and Identifies Additional New Targets at the Swanson Property
No One Expected To Find So Much Gold In The Abitibi Gold Belt
The Bartec Discovery and the three additional showings are located within LaFleur’s larger Swanson Gold Project in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Eastern Canada.
The Abitibi Belt spans across the Ontario–Quebec border and is celebrated as one of the world’s largest Archean greenstone belts (https://ibn.fm/DqDKC) as well as the largest gold-producing region in Canada.
The Abitibi Greenstone Belt is one of the great gold belts of the world. Over 300 million ounces of gold have been delineated along its two principal deformation zones alone. Gold discoveries in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt have long attracted investor attention. Stretching across Quebec and Ontario, the region hosts some of Canada’s most productive gold mines and has produced tens of millions of ounces over several decades.
Several new gold discoveries have been made in the Abitibi this year, heightening LaFleur’s excitement about its exploration program’s prospects. Nobody expected to find so much gold in the Abitibi belt. New discoveries include:
In addition, major miners such as Eldorado Gold, Iamgold, and Agnico Eagle are also aggressively advancing their advanced-stage gold deposits within the Abitibi Gold Belt.
LaFleur’s Swanson Gold Project is likewise located in Western Quebec near the town of Val d’Or in the heart of the Abitibi Gold Belt and surrounded by numerous major gold deposits and discoveries. The district-scale Swanson Gold Project’s location amidst all these gold deposits and discoveries gives the Swanson Gold Deposit outstanding gold-deposit prospectivity.
LAFLEUR MINERALS SWANSON GOLD PROJECT-DEMONSTRATED PROSPECTIVITY FOR NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES:
Among the company’s recent drill results, the Bartec target about 5 km from the Swanson Deposit includes a drill hole with a near-surface intersection of 6.05 grams per tonne of gold (g/t Au) over 8.00 meters, including 14.96 g/t Au over 3.00 meters, making it a new priority target for follow-up drilling to test the continuity of the mineralization along strike and down-dip because of its potential to increase total resources within the Swanson Gold Project, according to the company (https://ibn.fm/q3uTK).
The other two nearby targets, Jolin and Jackson, have revealed multiple mineralized zones within individual drill holes and extended gold mineralization approximately 1,200 meters west-northwest along strike, respectively.
“Bartec is the standout. … Bartec moves straight to the top of our follow-up drilling list,” CEO Andrew Elinesky stated in the Oct. 5 news release. The drilling at Bartec is the first modern-day hole analyzed at the showing since 1987 and was designed to validate and characterize the style of mineralization there.
For context regarding the company’s interest in the Bartec Target, reported historical intersections at Bartec (not verified by the company’s Qualified Person) included 3.4 g/t Au over 1.5 meters and 2.4 g/t Au over 0.7 meters (GM 05974), and 11.66 g/t Au with 6.86 g/t Ag over 0.2 meters at 110.2 meters downhole in hole 86-1 (GM 45030).
“We are very encouraged with these latest regional drilling results with several high-grade mineralized gold intervals with significant widths identified across the relatively underexplored regional trends at the Jolin, Bartec, and Jackson targets,” Vice President of Exploration Marc Ducharme added. “We are convinced that the Swanson Gold Project has the potential to host several large-scale gold deposits and our current drilling program is aligned on significantly expanding the existing mineral resource at the main Swanson Gold Deposit.”
LaFleur’s Oct. 5 news release supplements the company’s statement on Feb. 4 that outlined assay results from the initial 29 drill holes in its 64-hole regional drilling program exploring 16,331 meters (https://ibn.fm/Ne1dV).
LaFleur Minerals is well funded and plans to aggressively drill at its current Swanson Gold Deposit, which is the subject of a very positive PEA completed and announced on March 7, 2026 and the new Bartec and Jolin and Jackson targets, with a goal to publish an expanded 43-101 Gold mineral Resource in Q2 2027.
The latest news release also notes that efforts to finalize a previously announced proposal for a prepayment and gold doré offtake financing arrangement continues to advance.
Trafigura Canada Limited, the world’s largest private metal trader, sent representatives to visit the Swanson Project and the Beacon Gold Mill in August as part of its due diligence in the contemplated arrangement that would provide LaFleur with up to C$30 million. The news release states the parties are negotiating the terms of a definitive agreement, and the company will provide a further update once the terms are finalized, if they are finalized.
For more information, visit the company’s website at LaFleurMinerals.com.
NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to LFLRF are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/LFLRF
Qualified Person Statement:
All scientific and technical information contained in this article has been reviewed and approved by Louis Martin, P.Geo. (OGQ), Exploration Manager and Technical Advisor of the company and considered a Qualified Person for the purposes of NI 43-101.
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