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Athena Gold Corporation (OTCQB: AHNRF) generates a steady flow of exploration and corporate news as it advances its precious and base metal projects in North America. Company releases focus on technical results, financing activities and project-level milestones, giving investors and sector followers insight into how its portfolio is evolving over time.
News coverage for Athena Gold often highlights exploration updates from its flagship Laird Lake gold project in Ontario’s Red Lake Gold District. These updates include surface sampling results, new gold showings such as the Rigby discovery, interpretations of geophysical data and plans or permits for upcoming drill programs. The company also reports on geochemical and structural work used to refine high-priority targets across the property.
A second major news theme is the Excelsior Springs gold-silver project in Nevada’s Walker Lane Trend. Athena summarizes exploration work conducted under an earn-in option by Mammoth Minerals Limited, including diamond drilling campaigns, rock-chip sampling, airborne magnetics, LiDAR and structural interpretations. Releases describe high-grade gold and polymetallic results along trends like the Buster Trend and Blue Dick Trend, as well as the definition of intrusive complexes and caldera-style features.
In addition to technical updates, Athena Gold issues news on non-brokered private placements and offering amendments. These announcements detail the structure of flow-through and non-flow-through financings, use of proceeds for exploration and working capital, and the tax treatment of flow-through expenditures under the Income Tax Act (Canada). Together, these items provide context on how the company funds its exploration programs.
By following this news feed, readers can track Athena Gold’s exploration progress at Laird Lake, Excelsior Springs and Oneman Lake, monitor financing developments, and see how technical interpretations and drill results shape the company’s project pipeline.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) has mobilized crews for a fully funded, ~5,000-metre, ~ten-hole maiden diamond drill program at its Laird Lake project in Red Lake, Ontario, with drilling beginning imminently on high-priority geophysical and geochemical targets.
The program targets BIF, Balmer and Confederation assemblages, will test multi-km conductors, and plans core assays for gold plus copper, nickel and platinum-group elements. The company completed a 9.9-for-1 share consolidation; post-consolidation shares outstanding are 35,820,061.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) approved a 9.9-for-1 share consolidation, reducing issued common shares from 354,618,607 to approximately 35,820,061, with a record date of April 2, 2026 pending Canadian Securities Exchange approval.
The consolidation leaves the trading symbol unchanged, assigns post-consolidation CUSIP CA04684R2046, adjusts options and warrants proportionately, and uses rounding rules for fractional shares (round up at 0.5).
Management says the restructuring tightens the capital structure ahead of a fully funded maiden drill program at Laird Lake in Red Lake and that further drill mobilization news will follow.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) provided an exploration update on Excelsior Springs, Nevada, reporting new assay results from partner Mammoth Minerals that expand the 7 km long Buster Trend.
Key results include 33.54m @ 1.25 g/t Au from surface (incl. 9.15m @ 3.18 g/t and 3.05m @ 7.70 g/t), 13.72m @ 1.15 g/t Au, and 7.62m @ 2.1 g/t Au. RC drilling continues along strike and down-dip. Athena remains a significant (>5%) shareholder of Mammoth. Athena also granted 2,020,000 options at CDN$0.06 and issued 100,000 shares to Wabauskang First Nation.
Athena (OTCQB:AHNRF) completed the acquisition of Last Bounty, gaining a 100% interest in the Forester Gold Project near Orla's Musselwhite mine on March 13, 2026. Athena issued 42,000,000 common shares at CAD $0.08 each (≈CAD $3.36M), representing ~12% of the company on a non‑diluted basis.
The Consideration Shares carry a statutory hold period of four months and one day. The transaction was arm's length, with no finder's fees paid and no new insiders created at closing. Management plans to mobilize rigs soon at permitted Laird Lake targets.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) received permits to begin a maiden ~5,000 metre diamond-drilling program at its Laird Lake project in Ontario's Red Lake district. Drill contractors are selected and targets refined using reprocessed SkyTEM magnetic and EM data to test conductive targets G1–G6.
The program will test geophysical and geochemical anomalies, assay for gold plus copper, nickel and PGEs, and follows historical work including a reported high-grade grab up to 373 g/t Au. Athena also signed an exploration agreement with Wabauskang First Nation and agreed to issue 100,000 shares at C$0.065, subject to regulatory approvals.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) agreed to acquire a 100% interest in the 4,900-hectare Forester Gold Project via an all-share deal dated Feb 25, 2026. Athena will issue 42,000,000 shares (deemed C$0.08) representing ~12% of the company on a non-diluted basis.
Forester lies <30 km southeast of Orla's Musselwhite mine, hosts historical assays up to 147 g/t Au, historical shallow drilling with notable average grades, and carries a 2% NSR (1% repurchaseable for C$2M).
Athena Gold (CSE:ATHA / OTCQB:AHNRF) will attend the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from March 1–4, 2026. The company invites existing and prospective investors to visit Booth #2149 for meetings and updates.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) reported exploration updates from the Excelsior Springs project (Nevada) and Laird Lake project (Ontario). Athena remains a >5% shareholder of Mammoth Minerals, which reported shallow high-grade gold intercepts at the Buster Trend and expanded the Blue Dick silver-polymetallic zone.
RC drilling is underway at Excelsior Springs with assays expected in ~four weeks. A ~5,000m, eight-hole diamond program is planned at Laird Lake; permits remain pending after a Species at Risk plan was completed.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) will attend the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC) at the Vancouver Convention Centre on January 25–26, 2026 and invites investors to visit Booth #212. The company expects to present its exploration progress and engage with existing and prospective investors during the event.
The VRIC is a 25-year industry forum that typically attracts over 5,000 mining investors, features more than 120 speakers and a marketplace of over 300 mining investment opportunities.
Athena Gold (OTCQB:AHNRF) closed the third and final tranche of a non-brokered private placement, raising a total of CDN $3,500,028.99 through the sale of flow-through and non-flow-through units.
The third tranche raised CDN $502,002.98 via 7,142,900 flow-through units at CDN $0.07 and 33,333 non-flow-through units at CDN $0.06. FT and NFT warrants are exercisable at CDN $0.09 for 24 months and include an acceleration clause tied to a CDN $0.14 10-day VWAP trigger. FT proceeds will be spent on Laird Lake and Oneman Lake exploration and renounced as Canadian Exploration Expenses with an effective date no later than December 31, 2025.