ESGold

10/20/2026

ESGold has now surpassed 4,000 metres of drilling at Montauban, completing more than 80% of the planned 5,000-metre program and moving beyond the historic mine area into southern and deeper targets.

This is an important shift in the program.

The early holes helped ESGold better understand the geology around the former mine workings. The current drilling is beginning to test how that system may continue beyond and below what was historically explored, including deeper holes designed to broaden the geological picture beneath Montauban.

Core logging continues to identify quartz-carbonate veining, alteration and visible sulphides, while laboratory assays remain pending and will ultimately determine metal grades and the significance of those intervals.

At the same time, progress continues on the production side. Nineteen containers of processing equipment are currently on the water from China, with the remaining eight scheduled to follow, supporting the next stages of installation, integration and commissioning at the permitted Montauban facility.

Drilling is moving deeper. Assays are pending. The remaining equipment is moving toward site.

Both sides of the Montauban strategy continue to advance.

Read the full release here: https://esgold.com/esgold-surpasses-4000-metres-drilled-at-montauban-expanding-drilling-beyond-the-historic-mine/

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10/16/2026

Montauban starts with an advantage most junior mining projects spend years trying to create.

The material is already out of the ground. It is already crushed. And historical processing left gold and silver behind in the tailings.

That gives ESGold a very different path forward.

Rather than starting with a new mine build, the Company is focused on recovering value from existing material through a fully permitted 1,000-tonne-per-day processing facility, while also addressing a long-standing environmental liability at the site.

With the mill infrastructure in place, Montauban is moving from development toward production.

And beyond the tailings, drilling is now underway across the broader property.

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10/13/2026

CEO Gordon Robb recently sat down with Andy Millette in Atlanta to discuss where the Company stands today, what investors should be watching next, and how the broader gold environment fits into ESGold’s strategy.
What stands out at Montauban right now is not any single milestone. It is how many parts of the story are beginning to converge at once.

The processing facility is moving through installation and commissioning, while the drill program is generating the first modern exploration data across a system that has not been systematically tested this way before. With assays pending and additional commissioning updates ahead, the next several months should begin filling in some of the biggest remaining pieces of the Montauban story.

That combination is what makes this stage particularly important for ESGold: a potential near-term path toward operations, alongside an exploration program designed to determine how much larger the opportunity may be beyond the historic mine.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqDkBtkiFb4

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Recorded on October 9, 2026 at an in-person interview in Atlanta, G...

10/13/2026

The progress at Montauban is becoming increasingly tangible.

Major processing equipment is arriving and entering installation and commissioning.

A 5,000 metre diamond drilling program is underway.

The expanded ANT survey and updated 3D model now provide a property scale exploration framework across approximately 70 km².

These are very different milestones, but together they tell the same story.

ESGold is moving beyond planning and into a period where progress can increasingly be measured through equipment on site, metres drilled, core recovered and systems commissioned.

Production development and exploration are now advancing side by side.

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10/09/2026

Montauban starts with something most mining projects do not have: material already sitting at surface.

Historical mining left behind tailings that still contain gold and silver, creating an opportunity to recover value from material that has already been mined and crushed.

ESGold’s strategy is to process those tailings through its fully permitted 1,000-tonne-per-day facility while also addressing a longstanding environmental liability at the site.

That creates a very different development story.

Less focus on building a conventional mine from scratch. More focus on processing existing material, advancing commissioning, and moving toward near term operations.

At the same time, the broader Montauban property is now being actively explored for its longer-term potential.

Near-term operations. Longer-term discovery.

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10/08/2026

There is an important difference between ordering equipment and commissioning a processing plant.

ESGold is increasingly moving into the second phase.

The Falcon Gravity Concentrator and industrial thickeners are now at Montauban and moving through installation, integration and commissioning. The broader processing circuit includes grinding, leaching, clarification, Merrill-Crowe recovery and doré production.

Each component installed, connected and tested brings the overall system another step forward.

There is still work to complete, but the transition from construction toward commissioning and operational preparation is well underway.

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10/06/2026

There is no shortage of historical information at Montauban.

The important step now is confirming and expanding that understanding with modern exploration.

ESGold's current drilling program is designed to test mineralization documented through historical work, evaluate continuity between historical holes and generate modern geological, analytical and QA/QC data.

Historical estimates are not current mineral resources.

The work underway today is about generating the modern information needed to better understand what is actually there and determine what further work may ultimately be required for a current resource evaluation.

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10/02/2026

At Montauban, Major processing equipment has been manufactured, inspected and approved. Many pieces are already on site, while additional key components are moving through delivery, installation and integration.

That matters because there is a big difference between announcing a project and physically assembling one.

ESGold has the 20,000-square-foot mill building, permitted capacity of 1,000 tonnes per day, and the major processing systems required to bring the operation together.

The next phase is about ex*****on: getting equipment on site, installing it properly, connecting the circuit and advancing through commissioning.

This is what the transition from development toward operations looks like.

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10/01/2026

What does Ambient Noise Tomography actually tell ESGold?

ANT is a passive geophysical technique that helps image geological differences below surface.

At Montauban, ESGold has combined the expanded ANT data with historical drilling, geochemistry, lithology and structural interpretation to build a much broader three-dimensional picture of the property. The ANT-2 model provides useful geological constraint from approximately 86 metres to about 1.2 kilometres below surface.

ANT features are not mineralization on their own. Their value increases where they overlap with favourable geology, historical mineralization and geochemical indicators.

The result is a better roadmap for deciding where to explore next.

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09/29/2026

Montauban is moving forward on several fronts at the same time.

Major processing equipment continues to arrive at site and move into installation and commissioning.

Diamond drilling is underway across the historic mine area.

And ESGold's expanded ANT survey and updated 3D geological model are creating a broader framework for future exploration across approximately 70 km².

This is the transition ESGold has been working toward: processing development and exploration advancing in parallel.

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