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Tomingley Drilling Discovers New Mineralisation at McLeans
Significant drilling intercepts within the McLeans Inferred Resource hosted by the eastern andesite comprise:
PERTH, Australia, Nov. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alkane Resources Limited (ASX:ALK; TSX:ALK; OTCQX:ALKEF) (‘Alkane’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to announce the latest results for underground expansion and pre-mine grade control drilling around the existing resources at the Company’s Tomingley Gold Operations (‘Tomingley’) in Central New South Wales.
Alkane Managing Director Nic Earner said: “Most of Tomingley’s deposits are open at depth and along strike. This drilling further demonstrates not only the significant resource expansion potential across the mine site but the potential to discover other deposits.
“Our underground and surface drill programs throughout Tomingley continue. We look forward to continuing to add further resources and mine life.”
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Tomingley is an open pit and underground mining development with a 1Mtpa processing facility in operation since 2014. The development is located near the village of Tomingley, approximately 50 kilometres southwest of Dubbo in Central West New South Wales. Tomingley Gold Operations Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alkane.
Development at Tomingley has been based on the Wyoming One, Wyoming Three, Caloma, Caloma Two and Roswell gold deposits. To date, mining occurred underground at Wyoming One, Caloma, Caloma Two and Roswell deposits. Roswell stope ore production came on stream in April 2024 (See ASX Announcement dated 22 April 2024 and titled ‘Production Ore Extraction Commences at Roswell’) via an approximately 3 km decline from the Wyoming One open cut.
The Tomingley deposits are located within a tightly folded Ordovician volcano-sedimentary sequence that has been altered to a sericite-carbonate-albite-quartz-pyrite-arsenopyrite assemblage that is typical of orogenic lode-style gold deposits. Mineralised fluids are interpreted to have been focused by differential strain in and around andesitic volcanics due to the rheological competency contrast between the volcanics and the bounding volcaniclastic sediments. The brittle nature of the volcanics often leads to the development of shear-hosted sheeted quartz vein and breccia deposits within and adjacent to the andesitic bodies. Separately, thin carbonaceous mudstone strata appear to have been a focus for shearing and a chemical trap for gold.
Since underground mining commenced in 2018, extensive underground drilling has been employed to define ore reserves for extraction and maintain exploration to define additional resources. The most recent Reserves and Resources were summarised in the ASX Announcement dated 15 October 2025 and titled ‘NSW Resources and Reserves Statements FY25’.
The exploration focus at Tomingley is to define additional underground resources that lie outside the existing Resources and Reserves for the operation.
McLeans
The Inferred Resource at McLeans was estimated at 0.87 million tonnes grading 2.51g/t gold for 70,000oz (See ASX Announcement dated 2 May 2022 and titled ‘Roswell Mineral Resource up 37%’). The deposit is primarily hosted by one ‘brittle’ andesite with similar texture and geochemistry as the andesite that is host to most of the mineralisation at the Roswell deposit. The host andesite begins approximately 130m below the surface, is approximately 250m in strike length and remains open at depth. The andesite averages a thickness of 60m but thins to 25m along its upper and northern margins forming a ‘keel’. The mineralisation was interpreted to form three subvertical en échelon sheeted lodes. With high-grade ore shoots focused along the ‘keel’ that remains open at depth along the northern edge of the andesite.
In September, an underground drilling program comprising of 9 holes for a total of 3,247 metres was completed to improve the confidence at the McLeans Inferred Resource by infilling the drilling pattern to 40m x 60m. This drilling has discovered a second ‘western’ andesite with significant gold mineralisation that is located 150 metres west of the current McLeans resource estimation. Significant intercepts hosted by the Western Andesite include:
The nominal drilling pattern was reduced from 80m x 80m that the Inferred Resource was based on to 40m x 60m to help improve the confidence in the estimation at McLeans. Significant intercepts into the Eastern Andesite and the Inferred Resource include:
Further drilling is planned to test both the Eastern and Western Andesite hosts at McLeans and to include the discovered Western Andesite into the McLeans Resource Estimation.
Roswell
A significant portion of the Roswell underground Inferred Resources (408 kt grading 1.9 g/t Au – see ASX Announcement dated 15 October 2025 and titled ‘NSW Resources and Reserves Statement FY25’) is hosted in the Western Monzodiorite domain. An intensive underground diamond core drilling program targeting the Western Monzodiorite resource and its open extensions is in progress at Roswell. The drilling will improve the confidence of the Mineral Resource Estimation (MRE) and provide a basis for conversion to Ore Reserves.
Results have been received from 89 holes totalling 18,064 metres that are focused within the mid-portion of the monzodiorite domain infilling existing drilling to a nominal 15m x 20m grid spacing for the purpose of converting to an Indicated Resource. The drilling confirmed multiple wide, high-grade gold intercepts within the 30 m thick monzodiorite. The results received are a large part of the current drill program within the Western Monzodiorite and include best intercepts of:
Final results will be published when received and compiled.
Surface exploration drilling on the at Tomingley mine site will commence in November 2025. The diamond core drilling is planned to test the underground potential at Wyoming Three, extensions to mineralisation north of Caloma and to test a deep structural target (thrust splay identified by 2D seismic) beneath Roswell. Underground exploration drilling continues at Roswell.
Tomingley Mineral Resources
Apparent arithmetic inconsistencies are due to rounding
These Mineral Resources are wholly inclusive of Ore Reserves.
Tomingley Ore Reserves
Apparent arithmetic inconsistencies are due to rounding
The above tables were published in ASX Announcement dated 15 October 2025 and titled ‘NSW Resources and Reserves Statement FY25’.
True widths are approximately 80% of intercept width. Reported intercepts (>1.3g/t Au) are calculated using a broad lower cut of 1.0g/t Au although grades lower than this may be present internally (internal dilution).
True widths are approximately 80% of intercept width. Reported intercepts (>1.3g/t Au) are calculated using a broad lower cut of 1.0g/t Au although grades lower than this may be present internally (internal dilution).
This document has been authorised for release to the market by Nic Earner, Managing Director.
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Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK; TSX:ALK; OTCQX:ALKEF) is an Australia-based gold and antimony producer with a portfolio of three operating mines across Australia and Sweden. The Company has a strong balance sheet and is positioned for further growth.
Alkane’s wholly owned producing assets are the Tomingley open pit and underground gold mine southwest of Dubbo in Central West New South Wales, the Costerfield gold and antimony underground mining operation northeast of Heathcote in Central Victoria, and the Björkdal underground gold mine northwest of Skellefteå in Sweden (approximately 750km north of Stockholm). Ongoing near-mine regional exploration continues to grow resources at all three operations.
Alkane also owns the very large gold-copper porphyry Boda-Kaiser Project in Central West New South Wales and has outlined an economic development pathway in a Scoping Study. The Company has ongoing exploration within the surrounding Northern Molong Porphyry Project and is confident of further enhancing eastern Australia’s reputation as a significant gold, copper and antimony production region.
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As an Australian Company with securities listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Alkane is subject to Australian disclosure requirements and standards, including the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and the ASX. Investors should note that it is a requirement of the ASX Listing Rules that the reporting of ore reserves and mineral resources in Australia is in accordance with the 2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the JORC Code) and that Alkane's ore reserve and mineral resource estimates and reporting comply with the JORC Code.
Alkane is also subject to certain Canadian disclosure requirements and standards as a result of its secondary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), including the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (NI 43-101). Investors should note that it is a requirement of Canadian securities law that the reporting of mineral reserves and mineral resources in Canada and the disclosure of scientific and technical information concerning a mineral project on a property material to Alkane comply with NI 43-101.
Unless otherwise advised above, or in the relevant ASX announcements referenced, the information in this announcement that relates to exploration results, mineral resources and ore reserves is based on information compiled by Mr D I Chalmers, FAusIMM, FAIG (Alkane Technical Advisor) who has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in JORC Code and as a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. Mr Chalmers consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
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APPENDIX 1
JORC Code, 2012 Edition – Table 1 report – Roswell and McLeans October 2025
Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data
(Criteria in this section apply to all succeeding sections.)
Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results
(Criteria listed in the preceding section also apply to this section.)
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