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| There are companies in the Quesnel Terrane and Toodoggone mining district with bigger market caps and less to show than Pacific Ridge Exploration.
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| That's not a knock on the competition. It's an observation about an opportunity.
Pacific Ridge Exploration (PEX.V; PEXZF.OTC) sits on a substantial and growing copper-gold resource at its flagship Kliyul copper-gold project.
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| They also just returned one of B.C.'s best porphyry copper-gold drill intercepts from their RDP copper-gold project and are now gearing up for a significant drill program in one of the most strategically important mining corridors in Canada.
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| Yet its market cap sits at only about C$13 million.
Now consider this: Peers with comparable resource bases are trading at valuations six to eight times higher.
Discrepancies like that have a way of correcting. (And with drills about to turn, that correction could come soon.)
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| A Resource That Commands Respect
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| The Kliyul Main Zone (KMZ), just one target area at Kliyul, isn't a whisper of a deposit. It's a substantial, well-defined porphyry copper-gold resource:
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| An independent resource estimate finalized in July 2025 showed fully 334 million tonnes grading 0.33% copper-equivalent, holding 2.42 billion pounds of copper-equivalent or 5.7 million ounces of gold-equivalent in the inferred mineral resource category.
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| A nice resource for any company...but it’s just a beginning as the resource remains open for expansion in multiple directions.
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Pacific Ridge's KMZ is comparable in tonnage and grade to peers trading at six to eight times its current market cap.
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| And there’s plenty of room to grow the overall resource at Kliyul: resource expansion drilling at KMZ and testing other targets in the six-kilometer-long porphyry copper-gold trend.
Kliyul covers over 92 square kilometers in the prolific Quesnel Terrane, close to a 230-kilovolt power line and the Omineca resource road.
Infrastructure proximity matters enormously at this stage of a project's life. Kliyul has it.
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| And More:
One Of B.C.'s Best Intercepts At RDP
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| The facts show that Kliyul alone should be worth far more than Pacific Ridge’s current market value.
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| But again, it’s just the start: Forty kilometers to the west of Kliyul, at the southern end of the Toodoggone Mining District, RDP is quietly putting up eye-popping numbers.
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| The standout: drill hole RDP-25-011, which returned 112.2 meters of 1.35% copper-equivalent, including eye-catching high-grade intervals of 22.2 meters of 2.20% copper-equivalent near surface, 32.0 meters of 2.06% copper-equivalent at 85 meters depth and 19.0 meters of 2.68% copper-equivalent at 346 meters.
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| That is the best intercept ever recorded at RDP, surpassing the project's previous best result and ranks among B.C.'s best porphyry copper-gold intervals of 2025.
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| The 2025 program also confirmed that the mineralization at the eastern magnetic lobe is hosted in a steeply-dipping tabular body and, critically, that the western magnetic lobe also hosts copper-gold mineralization.
Two confirmed mineralized lobes, with a porphyry center interpreted to sit between them.
That center has never been drilled — but the geophysical case for it is compelling enough that Pacific Ridge has built its entire 2026 RDP program around testing it.
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| The interpreted porphyry center at RDP's Day target sits between two confirmed mineralized lobes and has never been drilled.
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| What makes this target particularly compelling is what it could represent.
Management believes a higher-grade core may sit between these two lobes —something that infill drilling could not only confirm, but potentially elevate the overall grade profile.
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| The Hottest District In Canada
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| Location is often the difference between a project that attracts strategic interest and one that languishes.
Pacific Ridge's projects sit in the right place.
The broader region has attracted significant investment from major mining companies, drawn by large new discoveries and the growing global appetite for copper from politically stable jurisdictions.
The Toodoggone mining district, where RDP is situated, has drawn particular attention from producers looking to grow copper exposure in exactly that kind of environment.
B.C. has exactly that reputation. And the Quesnel Terrane, which hosts Kliyul, has a long track record of producing world-class copper-gold porphyry deposits.
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| Kliyul and RDP sit at the heart of that story.
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| Both projects are 100% owned, both are producing results and both are heading into 2026 with more ground to test than a single season can fully explore.
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| The Story The Market Has Missed
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| A company with this kind of ground, in this kind of district, trading at a fraction of what peers command.
The question is, what created this opportunity in the first place?
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| Recent financings, completed after a share consolidation, introduced a wave of new shares into the market. Combined with warrant selling and high liquidity, they capped the stock’s momentum.
The market simply hasn't caught up with what Pacific Ridge has been quietly building.
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| That pressure is now largely behind it.
What helps is who's behind the company: Pacific Ridge is a Fiore Group company, and that association carries real weight in B.C. mining circles — capital markets acumen, deal flow and a network that opens doors others can't.
The pieces are in place: strong ground...a substantial resource...supportive backers...and a clean share structure.
For months, the company remained largely quiet during volatile market conditions. Now it’s stepping back into the market with an announcement regarding its 2026 drill plans that will lead to a steady pipeline of news.
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| The 2026 Season:
Everything To Play For
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| Pacific Ridge heads into the 2026 field season with a hit list of some of the most compelling untested targets in Canada’s hottest exploration district.
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| At RDP, the drill will go straight at the interpreted porphyry center sitting between two confirmed mineralized lobes.
At Kliyul, three new targets along the six-kilometer mineralized trend will be tested for the first time. Each one carries its own geological rationale and its own discovery potential.
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| Together they represent some of the most exciting targets that Pacific Ridge — or any company in the region — plans to test.
Add it up and you have a summer of news flow: mobilization, first assays, follow-up results…
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| …All against the backdrop of a resource that is already significant and a district that the world's biggest copper miners are paying close attention to.
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| Momentum Is Building
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| Pacific Ridge is not a story that needs a turnaround.
The fundamentals were always there: a real resource…compelling drill results…highly prospective ground in a world-class district. What it needed was momentum.
The news cycle is beginning now. The company's 2026 drilling announcement is the opening act.
Peers are trading at valuations six to eight times higher.
For investors seeking copper-gold exposure in Canada's hottest exploration district, backed by a credible management team and a respected industry group, Pacific Ridge presents a compelling case that the market has yet to fully price in.
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