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| When a deposit closes not because the ore runs out — but because the price collapses — the gold doesn’t go anywhere.
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| That’s exactly what happened at Contact Lake in northern Saskatchewan...
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| ...And it’s why Trident Resources Corp. (ROCK.V; TRDTF.OTC) has become one of the most closely watched junior gold companies in Canada right now.
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| Cameco Corporation operated the Contact Lake mine from 1994 to 1997, pulling out approximately 190,000 ounces at a robust average grade of 6.16 g/t gold with nearly 95% recoveries.
Then the gold price plummeted to around $300 per ounce and the economics simply no longer worked. Cameco shut it down — and their own internal reports acknowledged that substantial gold resources remained unmined at closure.
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| Gold is now well above $4,000 per ounce. Every high-grade ounce in a safe jurisdiction is being revalued.
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| And deposits that were uneconomic in earlier cycles are suddenly among the most strategically relevant assets in the market.
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| The Zone That Was Never Touched
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| Cameco’s mining focused on two zones: BK-1 and BK-2. The BK-3 zone was left almost entirely alone.
That’s where Trident has been drilling. And the results have been remarkable.
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| Trident is targeting gold mineralization in the previously unexplored BK-3 zone of Contact Lake – and has been incredibly successful thus far.
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| Consider this: Hole CL26036 returned 15.11 g/t gold over 51.83 meters — including 20.69 g/t over 28.69 meters within the Bakos Shear Zone, and 1,055 g/t gold over half a meter inside that interval.
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| It is the best drill result in Trident’s history, and one of the strongest gold intercepts reported anywhere in North America in the week it was released.
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| Trident’s winter program was the first exploration work at BK-3 in 30 years.
The geological style, the grade and the open-ended nature of the mineralization are now drawing comparisons between Contact Lake and other landmark high-grade discoveries in Canada — among them the Dixie Project in Red Lake and Eskay Creek in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle.
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| Every Hole Has Hit Gold
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| What makes this program particularly compelling isn’t just the headline result. It’s the consistency.
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| Every single one of the 29 holes completed during the 2026 winter program has intersected gold mineralization. Every one.
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| The program was originally designed for 10,000 meters. The results were so strong that Trident expanded it to 13,000 meters mid-program.
Here’s a snapshot of what the drill bit has returned:
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- CL26036: 15.11 g/t gold over 51.83 meters from 256.0 meters, including 1,055 g/t gold over 0.50 meters
- CL26028: 4.61 g/t gold over 38.48 meters, including 19.07 g/t over 4.25 meters near surface
- CL26025: 11.97 g/t gold over 10.70 meters, including 39.26 g/t gold
- CL26032: 5.07 g/t gold over 21.50 meters, including 10.62 g/t over 9.50 meters
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| And another 15 additional holes from the same program are still awaiting assay results.
The news flow here is far from over.
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| Much More Than An Explorer...
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| Here’s what separates Trident from most junior gold stories: The company already has substance.
The November 2025 mineral resource estimate across the company’s four deposits in the La Ronge Gold Belt totals approximately 897,000 ounces Indicated and 1.13 million ounces Inferred so far.
That’s more than 2 million ounces of gold in the ground across North Lake, Preview SW, Preview North and Greywacke.
But here’s the decisive point: Contact Lake is not included in that resource base.
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| Not a single ounce from the mine area that just returned one of the best drill results in Canada this year is in the official resource count.
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| Every intercept from the winter program represents potential growth above and beyond what the market is currently valuing.
The company already has a defined resource, a strong cash position and a tight share structure — and Contact Lake sits on top of all of that as an additional high-grade driver that hasn’t yet been priced in.
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| Not Just A Deposit
— An Entire District
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| Contact Lake is the flagship, but Trident’s story is considerably larger.
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| The company controls approximately 100,000 hectares across the La Ronge Gold Belt — and a total of more than 160,000 hectares in Saskatchewan — assembled through the merger of Eros Resources, MAS Gold and Rockridge Resources.
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| The belt has a long history of high-grade gold production.
The neighboring Seabee-Santoy operation has produced over 1.4 million ounces at nearly 8 g/t over its life. That’s the regional context Trident is operating in.
The portfolio includes Greywacke Lake, a road-accessible gold system with over 160 drill holes and grades locally reaching 10 g/t, sitting 30 kilometers northeast of Missinipe along Highway 102.
It also includes the newly acquired Reindeer Project — 27,930 hectares along the same structural corridor that hosts the Seabee mine.
And then there’s Knife Lake — an advanced copper-cobalt project carrying an historical resource of 3.8 million tonnes at 1.02% copper-equivalent Indicated.
Copper and cobalt aren’t peripheral metals. They’re among the most strategically relevant materials for AI data centers, power grids, defense infrastructure and the broader industrial buildout underway across North America.
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| Investors buying Trident for gold leverage also receive that optionality at no extra cost.
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| Trident’s massive portfolio consists of multiple projects in the gold-rich La Ronge Gold Belt, surrounded by significant mining and energy infrastructure.
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| Saskatchewan itself ranks first in Canada and seventh worldwide in the Fraser Institute’s 2024 mining jurisdiction attractiveness ranking, which is a distinction that matters to institutional capital.
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| The Opportunity At This Moment...
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| You see...this is still early.
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| The best intercept in company history was just released in late April.
Fifteen more holes are pending.
A summer and fall program targeting an additional 20,000 to 25,000 meters is set to begin shortly, part of a planned 30,000 to 40,000 meter campaign for 2026.
And Trident is fully funded to see it all through.
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| The company carries approximately C$28 million in working capital and closed an oversubscribed C$18.6 million bought deal financing earlier this year — with the overallotment option fully exercised.
The market cap sits at roughly C$150 million against fully 2 million ounces in existing resources and a growing body of high-grade drill results that haven’t yet been incorporated into any resource estimate.
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| And Contact Lake, the asset now generating the most attention, isn’t yet in that resource at all.
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| Those who wait for a finished resource expansion often pay a very different price if the program succeeds. The greatest leverage usually comes before that.
Timing is critical. And the time to look at Trident Resources is now.
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