Manhattan Gold extends Jaws gold system with shallow high-grade hits
Cashu Finance·5 min read
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TL;DR
- Manhattan Gold reported 15.24m at 5.35g/t Au within a 74.67m interval at Jaws.
- Drilling extended the system more than 290m northeast and to greater than 223m vertical depth, with 14 holes pending assay.
- The results remain exploration-stage: reported widths are downhole lengths, and the historical estimate is not JORC-compliant.
On 7 September 2026, Manhattan Gold Corporation Limited (ASX: MHC) reported new reverse-circulation drilling results from the Jaws target at its Hook Lake gold and polymetallic project in Nunavut, Canada. Manhattan Gold reported 15.24m at 5.35g/t Au within a 74.67m interval at Jaws. The result came from hole JWS26009 and was reported from 35.05m downhole, reinforcing a shallow mineralised zone that the company says is continuous from nearby drilling.
Drilling expands both grade and scale
A second hole, JWS26008, returned 51.82m at 1.88g/t Au from 47.24m, including 7.62m at 7.05g/t Au from 82.30m. The same hole also intersected 41.15m at 1.06g/t Au from surface and 24.38m at 1.15g/t Au from 204.22m, including 1.52m at 3.66g/t Au. The release says this confirms mineralisation from surface to more than 223m vertically below surface, extending the system well below the depth of much of the historic drilling.
Drilling extended the system more than 290m northeast and to greater than 223m vertical depth, with 14 holes pending assay. Hole JWS26010, drilled to test quartz veining northeast of earlier work, returned 7.62m at 0.72g/t Au from 38.10m, including 1.53m at 1.39g/t Au. Manhattan says the 2026 drilling has taken the drill-tested strike at Jaws to 588m.
Eric Sondergaard, Manhattan Gold’s technical advisor, said, These results materially strengthen the case for both scale and grade at Jaws.