Origen Resources Inc. reports mineral-exploration developments across a portfolio focused on rare earth elements, lithium, gold-silver, and precious and base metals. Company updates center on Brazilian rare earth exploration in Piauí State, the Los Sapitos Lithium project in Argentina, the Wishbone gold-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, and southern British Columbia projects including Broken Handle and Bonanza.
Recurring news themes include mineral property agreements, staking and land-position changes, due diligence work, soil and rock sampling, LiDAR surveys, induced-polarization geophysics, technical-services arrangements, board appointments, shareholder voting matters, governance updates, capital-structure disclosure, and operating and financial results.
Origen Resources (OGGNF) has granted consultants incentive stock options to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,400,000 common shares. The options are exercisable at $0.06 per share for five years, with an effective grant date of October 20, 2026.
The grants will be in accordance with the company's Stock Option Plan and will carry the required four-month hold period legend under CSE and regulatory policies.
Origen Resources (OGGNF) has completed discovery-ridge mapping and collected 328 soil samples at its Picos rare earth project in Brazil.
The airborne geophysical survey is underway and is expected to finish this week. A second soil-sampling phase is scheduled to begin in the coming days, adding 113 samples for a planned total of 441. A ground-based radiometric survey is scheduled alongside it. Origen plans to combine the airborne and ground data to interpret geological features and prioritize further exploration across its Picos holdings.
Origen (OGGNF) will proceed with an acquisition of a 70% interest in Brazil’s Campo De Cima rare-earth project. The 33,075-hectare claim package spans Bahia and Piauí states. Field due diligence confirmed anomalous soil results in an approximately 4 km by 6 km target area. Seven of 33 vendor samples returned elevated values, with a peak of 282 ppm TREO+Y, a measure of total rare-earth oxides plus yttrium oxide.
After entering a definitive agreement, Origen will pay the vendor $100,000 USD and issue 2,000,000 shares. A further $100,000 USD and 4,000,000 shares are due on the agreement’s second anniversary. Origen must spend $1,500,000 on exploration within two years of the due diligence period’s completion. After that two-year period, the parties will form a 70/30 joint venture, and the vendor will retain a 2% royalty. Origen plans to mobilize exploration crews after regulatory approvals.
Origen Resources (OGGNF) reports that purchaser 1600292 B.C. has mobilized an exploration crew to the Wishbone Gold-Silver Project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle, ahead of a planned 2027 drill program.
The work over the next two weeks will focus on an induced polarization survey over the Windy and Rat zones to refine multiple high-priority drill targets identified by a 2025 survey. On September 8, 2026, Origen agreed to sell its 100% Wishbone interest to the Purchaser for 4,000,000 common shares at a deemed value of $0.25 per share, for deemed consideration of $1,000,000, plus a 1% net smelter return royalty. The Purchaser has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts, at its sole cost, to complete a Canadian Securities Exchange listing by July 30, 2027, with Origen retaining exposure to future project upside through its shareholding and royalty.
Origen Resources (OGGNF) agreed on September 8, 2026 to sell its 100% interest in the Wishbone Gold-Silver Project to private company 1600292 BC Ltd. for $1,000,000 in the purchaser’s common shares and a 1% net smelter return (NSR) royalty.
The shares will be issued immediately before the purchaser’s anticipated IPO and priced at the IPO financing level. The purchaser must complete its IPO within 11 months of signing the definitive agreement or the transaction will terminate, with a hard deadline of July 31, 2027. Completion is subject to regulatory, corporate and other customary conditions. Origen states that the deal crystallizes value for Wishbone while preserving indirect upside through its equity interest and royalty as it reallocates capital toward its Brazilian rare earth and other core projects.
Origen Resources (CSE: ORGN, OTC: OGGNF) appointed Mark Riccio, CFA, as a Strategic Advisor. Riccio has 25 years of global financial markets experience focused on mining, commodities and strategic investment, including senior roles at Macquarie Group, Denham Capital and Merrill Lynch, and direct experience in Brazil’s rare earth sector.
Origen highlights his prior role as asset manager and board member of Brazilian rare earths company Serra Verde while at Denham Capital, calling this directly relevant to its expanding rare earth element (REE) portfolio in Brazil. Riccio is currently CEO and founder of Commoditize and co-founded Nova Royalty. Origen remains focused on advancing its Brazilian REE acquisitions alongside projects in Argentina and British Columbia.
Origen Resources (OTC: OGGNF) has elected to participate in the Canadian Securities Administrators' Semi-Annual Financial Reporting Pilot (SAR Pilot) under Coordinated Blanket Order 51-933. Participation exempts Origen from filing interim financial reports and MD&A for its first and third fiscal quarters.
Origen, which has a March 31 year-end, will continue to file audited annual financial statements and a semi-annual interim report for its second quarter, including related MD&A and officer certifications, within required timelines. The board approved the move to reduce administrative and compliance burdens and to reallocate executive time and capital to core operations and growth initiatives. Origen confirms it meets all SAR Pilot eligibility criteria, including most recent annual revenues of $10 million or less.
The company plans to skip filing an interim report and MD&A for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, with the next scheduled filing being semi-annual financial statements for the six months ending September 30, 2026. Origen remains focused on its new Brazilian rare earths acquisition and holds 100% interests in lithium and precious/critical metal projects in Argentina and British Columbia.
Origen Resources (OTC:OGGNF) has applied to acquire Rare Earth Elements rights over an additional 7,865 hectares in Piaui, Brazil, bringing its total land position to 76,479 hectares.
According to Origen, permitting and planning have begun for a 2,695 line‑km airborne radiometric survey, supported by ground mapping and sampling at the Picos and Campo de Cima REE projects.
Origen (OGGNF) closed a non-brokered private placement on April 17, 2026, raising $500,000 by issuing 10,000,000 units at $0.05 each. Each unit includes one share and one-half warrant exercisable at $0.075 for 18 months.
Proceeds will fund the newly acquired REE project areas in Piaui, Brazil, plus working capital and exploration. One placee subscribed for the full offering, exceeded 10% ownership and became an insider. Securities carry a statutory hold period of four months and one day.
Origen (OTC: OGGNF) entered an LOI to acquire a 33,075-hectare REE claim package in Bahia and Piauí, Brazil, expanding its district footprint to over 68,000 ha.
Highlights include a ~4x6 km anomalous REE zone with peak 282 ppm TREO+Y, an exclusive 150-day due diligence, IACD target model, SGS laboratory analyses, and proposed terms to earn 70% (payments, 6,000,000 shares, and $1.5M exploration commitment within two years).