Goliath Resources (TSXV: GOT) has stretched its Golden Gate zone another 320 metres to the northeast, the latest in a series of step-outs that keep pushing the boundaries of the company’s Surebet discovery faster than the market seems willing to price in.
The results, released Monday, came from two holes collared north of the main Surebet zone. Hole GD-26-414 returned 9.87 grams per tonne gold over 5.00 metres, including a 0.75-metre interval grading 65.65 g/t, and also clipped 2.81 g/t over 4.00 metres in the Surebet zone on its way down.
The second hole extended the strike length of Golden Gate. GD-26-420 cut 6.51 g/t gold equivalent over 5.73 metres, including 36.27 g/t over 0.97 metres, and it was that intercept that confirmed the northeastern extension.
Golden Gate now measures roughly 1.6 kilometres east-west by 1.5 kilometres north-south and hosts 18 lodes up to 14 metres thick. It remains open both laterally and at depth, which has become something of a refrain at Surebet.
“The goal of this 2026 drilling campaign is expansion and the directional drilling being utilized is paying off with the step outs being successful,” said Roger Rosmus, founder and chief executive. “Grass roots high-grade gold systems tend to get challenging to grow. But Surebet discovery is the opposite — we are challenging the geology and having no problems growing the system with aggressive step outs.”
Rosmus added that after more than 400 holes, the system still has no defined edges.
The company is 44 holes into a 98-hole, fully funded program that is targeting roughly 50,000 metres this season using seven rigs. It has drilled 23,863 metres so far in 2026, with visible gold logged in 20 of the 35 holes completed. Last year’s campaign totalled 64,364 metres.
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Stifel, which has a buy rating and a C$4.25 target on the stock, used Monday’s release to flag the widening gap between what the drill bit is finding and what the share price reflects. Analyst Cole McGill noted the company announced more than 800 metres of lateral expansion in the past week alone, “with the market yawning.”
That disconnect is the crux of Stifel’s argument. The firm carries a 4.2-million-ounce exploration target across the property but estimates the market is currently crediting roughly 1.3 million ounces, which is about half of the 2.59 million ounce Surebet and Bonanza portion alone that Stifel estimates.
The bank also pointed out that Surebet’s first 150 holes look statistically similar to the first 150 at Great Bear’s Dixie deposit acquired in 2022 for US$1.45 billion, with just a 4 percent difference on grade-thickness.
Goliath Resources last traded at $1.61 on the TSX Venture.
