Junior Miner Expands Red Lake Footprint with Strategic Acquisition, Stock Rallies

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

With mining stocks extending their bullish momentum, a junior miner’s acquisition announcement this morning has sent its share price surging.

As mentioned, shares of BTU Metals Corp. (TSX-Venture: BTU) (OTCQB: BTUMF) are rallying to start the day as the company announced this morning that they have secured a 100% interest in the Dixie East property, located just 5.5 kilometers east of Kinross’s (TSX: K) (NYSE: KGC) world-class Great Bear Dixie gold project near Red Lake, Ontario. The newly acquired land package stretches almost 10 kilometers along structural trends associated with the renowned Dixie deposit. Despite its favorable geology, the ground has seen virtually no exploration for LP Fault-style gold mineralization, with limited historic drilling over 30 years ago focused only on base metals.

Geological indicators at Dixie East are highly encouraging, featuring felsic tuffs, sericite schists, quartz-feldspar porphyries, shearing, quartz veins, and sulphide mineralization, including zinc and copper values. These formations resemble those found at Kinross’s Dixie project, where the LP Fault extension trends directly toward BTU’s ground. With royalty interests in nearby properties and the Dixie East project now in hand, BTU is preparing initial exploration work once the transaction receives final approval, with further updates expected as a geological model takes shape.

Paul Wood, CEO, commented: "We are excited to have just acquired a new significant gold exploration project not far from the east end of the Great Bear project in an area that we think may include the easterly extension of some of the underexplored large-scale structures related to the LP Fault gold mineralization as well as other regional structures that have gold potential. We are also pleased to see Kinross making good progress on their initial drilling program on our Dixie Halo project and are looking forward to informing the market as results come in."

Shares of BTU were last trading up 22.22% at $0.055, while U.S. listed shares (BTUMF) were unchanged at $0.0325 in mid-morning trading.

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