Upside Gold Corp. has released preliminary exploration results from its Kena Gold-Copper Property in southeastern British Columbia, confirming multiple high-grade gold-silver-copper showings beyond existing historic resource boundaries and identifying 22 priority diamond drill targets. The company's initial surface rock geochemical sampling program, completed in July 2025, returned values up to 26.1 grams per tonne gold, 179 grams per tonne silver, and 1.68% copper, supporting the existence of a large, multi-zone mineralized system with strong expansion potential.
The exploration work focused on visiting historic showings, completing new geological traverses, and sampling road-cuts from recently constructed logging roads. According to CEO Sophy Cesar, the results support the company's exploration model and help define priority targets for follow-up diamond drilling beyond the existing lode gold bearing body. The property's gold mineralization is predominantly controlled by the Kena Deformation Zone, a northwestern trending major fault zone situated within and between the Silver King Porphyry intrusive and Elsie Volcanic rocks.
Three areas beyond the boundaries of the Kena lode gold body are considered particularly promising for follow-up exploration. The Lower and Upper Euphrates Au-Ag showings, which report historic production of 307 tonnes at 46.9 g/t Au and 249 g/t Ag, have recently become accessible following new logging road construction. The average analytical results from nine grab samples collected on-site reported 8.61 g/t Au and 31.6 g/t Ag, with no known drilling previously conducted in the area.
The Cat, Shaft, Dighem, and Princess Cu-Au-Ag showings are aligned along the east side of the Kena Gold lode gold body over a 1,200-metre strike length and are associated with a strong two-pronged induced polarization chargeability anomaly measuring 1.8 by 0.6 kilometres with coincident copper soil anomalies. Rock samples from these showings returned analyses of up to 1.68% copper, 5.41 g/t gold and 18 g/t silver, supporting historic reports of multiple high-grade occurrences. Historically, only five reconnaissance drill holes have been completed across this entire area.
The Kena Copper Zone and adjoining South Gold Zone trend along strike for three kilometres southeast from the Kena Gold lode gold body, covering extensions of similar geology associated with strong IP chargeability and broad coincident copper and gold soil geochemical anomalies. Historic drilling reports multiple wide intersections of good copper and gold values starting at or near surface, including 117 metres of 0.22% copper and 0.14 g/t gold, 88.69 metres of 0.13% copper and 0.21 g/t gold, and 210 metres of 0.17% copper and 0.13 g/t gold in the Kena Copper Zone.
The company's work supports the belief that this precious metal and copper mineralized system extends well into the southern half of the property, an area that has not previously undergone diamond drilling or detailed exploration. The Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia has historically been largely overlooked for gold and copper exploration, offering opportunities for both new discoveries and for the development of known historic prospects into potentially viable resource bodies.
All collected rock samples were shipped to ALS Canada Ltd laboratory in Kamloops and North Vancouver, B.C., an independent accredited testing laboratory conforming to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements. The qualified person inserted blind gold, silver and copper accredited analytical standards and quartz blanks with the submitted batch, with analyses including gold and 34 multi-element inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectroscopy analysis by four acid digestion.
The historical resource estimate for the property, disclosed in the technical report entitled NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties prepared by Sue Bird of Moose Mountain Technical Services, reports an indicated mineral resource of 32,146,000 tonnes at 0.544 g/t gold for 0.561 million ounces and an inferred mineral resource of 177,507,000 tonnes at 0.486 g/t gold for 2.77 million ounces. The qualified person for Upside Gold has not done sufficient work to classify this historical estimate as current mineral resources, and the company is not treating it as such.
For more information on Upside Gold Corp., please visit the company's website at https://www.upsidegoldcorp.com. The technical information in the release has been reviewed and approved by Trevor Boyd, P.Geo., vice-president of exploration and a qualified person under NI 43-101 standards.
