VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 27, 2026 /CNW/ - Goldsky Resources Corp (TSXV: GSKR) (FNSE: GSKR SDB) (OTCQX: GSKRF) (FRA: HEG0) ("Goldsky Resources" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an operational update on its ongoing 2026 winter diamond drilling program at the Company's 100%-owned Rajapalot Gold-Cobalt Project in Northern Finland.
Figure 1. Drilling update from the Rajapalot project 2026 winter drilling campaign. To date, a total of 6,073 metres of drilling has been completed from 31 drillholes. A total of 4,727 metres of infill drilling has been completed from 23 drillholes, while a total of 1,346 metres of Target Test drilling from 8 drillholes. (CNW Group/Goldsky Resources Corp.)
Figure 2: Drillhole photograph taken of drillhole PAL0406 from the Palokas Au-Co zone of mineralization from Rajapalot, where visible gold is observed at 111m downhole depth. Gold grains have formed alongside the salvages of a pyrrhotite-quartz vein. (CNW Group/Goldsky Resources Corp.)
Figure 2: Drillhole photograph taken of drillhole PAL0406 from the Palokas Au-Co zone of mineralization from Rajapalot, where visible gold is observed at 111m downhole depth. Gold grains have formed alongside the salvages of a pyrrhotite-quartz vein. (CNW Group/Goldsky Resources Corp.)
Figure 2: Drillhole photograph taken of drillhole PAL0406 from the Palokas Au-Co zone of mineralization from Rajapalot, where visible gold is observed at 111m downhole depth. Gold grains have formed alongside the salvages of a pyrrhotite-quartz vein. (CNW Group/Goldsky Resources Corp.)
31 drill holes for 6,073 metres core drilled
61% of the planned 10,000 metre winter drilling program completed
Four diamond drill rigs currently operating on site
Drilling progressing at Palokas, South Palokas and Raja deposits, with one rig focused on target-test drilling
First assay results expected in March, with steady results anticipated thereafter
Drilling on schedule for completion in April 2026
No safety incidents reported to date
DRILLING UPDATE
As of February 26, 2026, the Company has completed 31 drill holes for 6,073 metres of drilling (1,210m NQ2 and 4,863 m HQ), representing approximately 61% of the planned 10,000 metre winter drilling program.
Drilling is being conducted with four diamond drill rigs. Three of the drill rigs are focused on a planned 8,000m of infill drilling designed to upgrade confidence of the currently defined Raja and Palokas Au-Co Inferred Resource envelopes, while a fourth rig is conducting target-test drilling on priority regional exploration targets.
Drill core from 2 holes has been cut and submitted for assay at CRS laboratories Oy, an additional 6 holes are being cut at Palsatech Oy. First assay results are expected in the coming weeks.
At current productivity rates, drilling is forecast to conclude in April 2026.
Russell Bradford, CEO of Goldsky Resources, comments:
"The drilling at Rajapalot has progressed to plan and we expect first assay results next month. I am pleased to say with the progress we are making we should complete our drilling program in April.
Following the recently announced agreement to become the 100% owner of the Barsele Project, the Company recently undertook a highly successful strategy session for our 2026 work programme. These deliverables include completing a Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Barsele project in Q4 2026 and an extensive drilling campaign on the Barsele deposit. I look forward to giving the market more updates as we progress in our business alignment to achieve our objectives for 2026 including closing the Barsele transaction in Q2."
CORPORATE UPDATE
Goldsky Resources will be attending the upcoming Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, where the team has a full schedule of meetings with investors, strategic partners, and industry stakeholders. With strong momentum behind its exploration initiatives, Goldsky Resources will utilize PDAC as a key platform to showcase project updates, discuss growth plans, and build new relationships within the global mining community. The company's leadership will be engaged throughout the event, reflecting both strong market interest and our commitment to advancing our portfolio through active collaboration and capital markets engagement.
At a recent strategic meeting session held by Goldsky management, the leadership team came together to define the Company's future direction and execution plan on the Barsele project. The intensive session focused on aligning long-term vision with an execution plan that will be used to manage our goals for 2026. The plan clearly defined what was required in both deliverables and management capability to progress the Barsele project through a significant drilling campaign and all related studies which will show the benefits to progress the project to the next level for all stakeholders.
The Rajapalot Deposit
At Rajapalot, mineralization is regarded as orogenic in nature. All examples of gold-cobalt mineralization are consistently located within highly-sheared and foliated wall-rocks adjacent to strongly hydrothermally altered, northwest to north dipping shear-zones. Mineralization is typically encountered as disseminated to semi-massive sulfide lenses (predominantly pyrrhotite and lesser pyrite and cobaltite), hosted within strongly deformed and altered, mafic volcanic and volcaniclasitic stratigraphy of the upper portions of the Paleoproterozoic-aged Kivalo Group of the Peräpohja Greenstone Belt. Prospects with high-grade gold and cobalt mineralization at Rajapalot occur across a 3 km (east-west) by 2 km (north-south) area within the larger Rajapalot project area measuring 4 km by 4 km with multiple mineralized boulders, base-of-till (BOT). Gold-Cobalt mineralization at Rajapalot has been drilled to over 640 meters below surface at both South Palokas and Raja prospects, and mineralization remains open at depth across the entire project.
Rajapalot Mineral Resource
An Inferred Mineral Resource ("MRE") has been calculated for the Rajapalot project (effective date August 26, 2021) and is based on an 'underground only' mining scenario containing 9.8 million tonnes @ 2.8 g/t gold ("Au") and 441 ppm Co, equating to 867 thousand ounces ("koz") gold and 4,311 tonnes of cobalt.
Zone
Cut-off
(AuEq¹)
Tonnes
(kt)
Au
(g/t)
Co
(ppm)
Au
(koz)
Co
(tonnes)
Palokas
1.1
5,612
2.8
475
501
2,664
Raja
1.1
2,702
3.1
385
271
1,040
East Joki
1.1
299
4.5
363
43
109
Hut
1.1
831
1.3
428
36
355
Rumajärvi
1.1
336
1.4
424
15
142
Total Inferred Resources
9,780
2.8
441
867
4,311
Rajapalot Inferred Mineral Resource Effective August 26, 2021
The independent geologist and Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101 for the mineral resource estimates is Mr. Ove Klavér (EurGeol). The effective date of the MRE remains unchanged to the Previous MRE (August 26, 2021, available on SEDAR as filed by the previous owner, Mawson) and will be restated in the PEA technical report when it is filed.
The mineral estimate is reported for a potential underground only scenario. Inferred resources were reported at a cut-off grade of 1.1 g/t (AuEq1 Au g/t + Co ppm /1005) with a depth of 20 meters below the base of solid rock regarded as the near-surface limit of potential mining.
Wireframe models were generated using gold and cobalt shells separately. Forty-eight separate gold and cobalt wireframes were constructed in Leapfrog Geo and grade distributions independently estimated using Ordinary Kriging in Leapfrog Edge. A gold top cut of 50 g/t Au was used for the gold domains. A cobalt top cut was not applied.
A parent block size of 12 m x 12 m x 4 m (>20% of the drillhole spacing) was determined as suitable. Sub-blocking down to 4 m x 4 m x 0.5 m was used for geologic control on volumes, thinner and moderately dipping wireframes.
Rounding of grades and tonnes may introduce apparent errors in averages and contained metals.
Drilling results to 20 June 2021.
Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability.
Technical Background, Data Verification and Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Four diamond drill rigs from Comadev Oy and Arctic Drilling Company Oy, all with water recirculation and drill cuttings collection systems, were used in this drill program. Core diameter is NQ2 (50.7 mm) and HQ (63.5 mm). Core recoveries are excellent and average close to 100% in fresh rock. After photographing and logging in Mawson's Rovaniemi facilities, core intervals of between 0.5 to 2 metres are taken, then half-sawn by independent contractors Palsatech Oy in Kemi and. The remaining half core is retained for verification and reference purposes. Analytical samples are transported by commercial transport from site to the independent contractor CRS Minlab Oy ("CRS") facility in Kempele, Finland. Samples were prepared and analyzed for gold using the PAL1000 technique which involves grinding the sample in steel pots with abrasive media in the presence of cyanide, followed by measuring the gold in solution with flame AAS equipment. Samples for multi-element analysis (including cobalt) are pulped at CRS, then transported by air to MSALABS in Vancouver, Canada and analyzed using four acid digest ICP-MS methods. All the foregoing laboratories are independent of the Company. The quality assurance and quality control program of Mawson consists of the systematic insertion of certified standards of known gold content, duplicate samples by quartering the core, and blanks placed within sample runs in interpreted mineralized rock. In addition, CRS inserts blanks and standards into the analytical process. In addition to the sample preparation and security measures described above, data verification procedures are well integrated into the Company's quality assurance and quality control program. Routine ongoing checking of all data is undertaken prior to being uploaded to the database. This will be followed by independent data verification audits at exploration milestones throughout the Rajapalot project's development. Dr. Fromhold (see "Qualified Person" below) has also reviewed the qualifications and analytical procedures of the above-mentioned laboratories, photographs of drill cores, and the PEA in connection with verifying the exploration information presented herein.
All maps have been created within the TM35/Finland Uniform Coordinate System (EPSG:2393). Tables 1 in Schedule "A" hereto provide collar and assay data. Due to the typically low angles of drill intercepts, the true thickness of the mineralized intervals are interpreted to be approximately 80-90% of the drilled thickness.
QUALIFIED PERSON
The technical and scientific information in this news release was reviewed, verified and approved by Dr. Thomas Fromhold, an employee of Fromhold Geoconsult AB, and Member of The Australian Institute of Geosciences (MAIG, Membership No. 8838). Dr. Fromhold is a "qualified person" as defined under NI 43-101. Dr. Fromhold is not considered independent of the Company under NI 43-101 as he is a consultant of the Company.
ABOUT GOLDSKY RESOURCES CORP
Goldsky Resources is a publicly listed gold exploration company, consolidating assets in Sweden and Finland. The Company's flagship asset is the Barsele gold project in central Sweden, in which it has entered into a transaction to become the 100% owner from Agnico Eagle. Barsele is host to an Indicated Mineral Resource of 7.88 Mt grading 1.27 g/t Au containing 320,781 oz Au and an Inferred Mineral Resource: 28.75 Mt grading 1.98 g/t Au containing 1.83 Moz Au. Goldsky Resources owns a district-scale license position surrounding Barsele totalling approximately 80,000 hectares on Sweden's Gold Line greenstone belt comprised of two additional projects (Paubäcken, Storjuktan).
Additionally, in central Finland, Goldsky Resources is the 100%-owner of a district-scale position covering the entire underexplored Oijärvi greenstone belt, including the Kylmäkangas deposit, the largest known gold occurrence on this belt. Goldsky Resources is also the 100% -owner of the Rajapalot gold cobalt project situated in northern Finland, which has an Inferred Resource of 9,780kt containing 867 koz Au @ 2.8 g/t Au & 4.3 kt Co @ 441 ppm Co (NI 43-101 Technical Report ON A Preliminary Economic Assessment Of The Rajapalot Gold-Cobalt Project, Finland. Effective Date: 19 December 2023. Prepared for Mawson Finland Ltd by SRK Consulting (UK) LTD. SRK Qualified Person Christopher Bray Beng (Mining), MAusIMM(CP), Ove Klaver, MSc (Geology), Eur.Geol., Eemeli Rantala, MSc (Geology), P.Geo., Craig Brown, B.E. (Chem), GradDipGeosci, FAusIMM, Mathieu Gosselin, Beng (Mining), P.Eng.).
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Russell Bradford, CEO & Director
For further information contact:
Investor Relations Neil MacRae SVP, Corporate Development [email protected]
Tavistock PR (media contact) Jos Simson/Saskia Sizen [email protected]
The Company's certified adviser on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market is Augment Partners AB, [email protected].
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No securities regulatory authority has reviewed or approved of the contents of this news release.
Forward-looking Information: This news release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's intentions, beliefs, or current expectations about and targets for the Company's future results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, performance, prospects, anticipated growth, strategies and opportunities and the markets in which the Company operates. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and may be identified by words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "intend", "may", "plan", "estimate", "will", "should", "could", "aim" or "might", or, in each case, their negative, or similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this news release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that they will materialize or that the assumptions on which they are based are correct. Because these statements are based on assumptions or estimates and are subject to risks and uncertainties, the actual results or outcome could differ materially from those set out in the forward-looking statements as a result of many factors. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies, and other important factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied in this release by such forward-looking statements. The Company does not guarantee that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements in this news release are free from errors and readers of this news release should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements in this news release. The information, opinions and forward-looking statements that are expressly or implicitly contained herein speak only as of the date of this news release and are subject to change without notice. Neither the Company nor anyone else undertake to review, update, confirm or to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that arise in relation to the content of this news release, unless it is required by law or applicable exchange rules.
Schedule "A" – Tables and Figures:
Hole Number
Hole Size
Purpose
Northing (TM35)
Easting (TM35)
Elevation (mRL)
Azimuth
Dip
Hole Depth (m)
PAL0428
HQ
Infill
7369358
408569
175
47.0
-78.0
310
PAL0427
HQ
Infill
7370831
408325
174
72.0
-52.0
290
PAL0426
NQ2
Target Test
7370398
408926
174
150.0
-45.0
137
PAL0425
HQ
Infill
7370584
408197
174
89.0
-76.5
280
PAL0424
HQ
Infill
7369352
408571
175
150.0
-66.5
236.5
PAL0423
NQ2
Target Test
7370354
409272
176
155.0
-45.0
188
PAL0422
HQ
Infill
7370831
408325
174
82.0
-51.5
293.3
PAL0421
HQ
Infill
7369352
408571
175
140.0
-55.0
223.5
PAL0420
HQ
Infill
7370584
408197
174
115.0
-66.5
250.3
PAL0419
NQ2
Infill
7370920
408470
174
131.0
-63.0
209
PAL0418
HQ
Infill
7370839
408550
174
82.0
-80.0
134.6
PAL0417
HQ
Infill
7369294
408631
173
89.6
-70.4
212.5
PAL0416
NQ
Target Test
7369184
407841
177
147.0
-45.0
180
PAL0415
HQ
Infill
7370736
408481
174
206.3
-70.0
212.5
PAL0414
HQ
Infill
7370584
408197
174
99.0
-60.5
251.7
PAL0413
HQ
Infill
7369256
408720
173
54.8
-83.0
170.7
PAL0412
HQ
Infill
7370734
408481
174
162.2
-69.5
148.5
PAL0411
HQ
Infill
7369264
408723
173
233.9
-75.5
158.5
PAL0410
NQ2
Target Test
7369893
408309
176
185.0
-60.0
173
PAL0409
HQ
Infill
7370798
408490
174
152.1
-74.5
233.1
PAL0408
HQ
Infill
7370582
408275
174
137.1
-64.6
190.8
PAL0407
HQ
Infill
7369264
408723
173
236.0
-55.5
151.7
PAL0406
HQ
Infill
7370796
408489
174
71.8
-77.3
161.5
PAL0405
NQ2
Target Test
7370343
407817
172
159.8
-49.6
158
PAL0404
HQ
Infill
7370499
408215
175
95.8
-66.1
182.3
PAL0403
HQ
Infill
7370796
408491
174
70.1
-58.7
155.2
PAL0402
HQ
Infill
7370748
408684
174
115.3
-54.9
149.2
PAL0401
NQ2
Target Test
7369184
408337
175
78.2
-71.1
170.3
PAL0400
HQ
Infill
7370501
408297
175
112.9
-56.5
121.4
PAL0399
HQ
Target Test
7370557
408334
174
117.5
-76.0
164.4
PAL0398
NQ2
Target Test
7370485
410134
163
124.5
-45.0
175.05
Table 1: Collar information for all completed holes at Rajapalot for this winter drilling season. Collar data presented is in Finnish national grid 'TM35'.
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