Sterling Metals Corp. reports exploration developments for Canadian copper projects, with recurring updates centered on drilling, assay results, geological targeting, and project-level corporate activity. The company advances the Soo Copper Project in Ontario, where news has focused on the MEPS Discovery, copper and gold assays, bornite and covellite mineralization, porphyry copper targets, and data-driven exploration methods.
Sterling also describes a broader Canadian exploration portfolio that includes the Adeline Project in Labrador, a sediment-hosted copper belt with silver credits. Company updates commonly address field programs, geophysical and core-scanning work, exploration infrastructure, and capital or portfolio actions tied to its mineral exploration strategy.
Sterling Metals (SAGGF) appointed Albert Contardi Non-Executive Chairman, replacing Mark Goodman, who will remain a director of the company.
Richard Patricio was also elected to the board at the annual and special shareholder meeting held on October 26, 2026. Patricio is President and Chief Executive Officer of Mega Uranium and serves on several company boards. Contardi is President of CFT Financial Corporation and has over 15 years of legal, investment and capital markets experience.
Sterling Metals (SAGGF) extended the higher-grade core of its MEPS copper zone westward with new drilling results at Soo Copper in Ontario. Hole SC-26-27 returned 44.1m grading 1.02% copper equivalent (CuEq), including 18.2m at 2.02% CuEq, within 187.36m at 0.34% CuEq starting at 18.64m depth. Corresponding copper grades were 0.96%, 1.92% and 0.32%. CuEq combines copper and other metals into a copper-based grade.
Hole SC-26-28 intersected 271.0m at 0.21% CuEq, including 0.19% copper. It encountered more gabbro, a less favourable host for copper accumulation, and its trajectory moved away from the higher-grade corridor. Sterling has completed 53 holes totalling more than 22,000m in 2026, exceeding its minimum 20,000m program. Drilling remains active, and the company has no current plans to stop, citing location-related cost advantages and a lack of seasonal shutdowns.
Sterling Metals (SAGGF) reported new drill results from the MEPS Zone at its Soo Copper Project in Ontario, extending the core MEPS Copper Zone to approximately 700m within a 1.3km by 600m copper-mineralized footprint. Hole SC-26-26, collared about 300m west of the discovery area, intersected 397.19m grading 0.37% CuEq from bedrock to end of hole, including 200m at 0.53% CuEq, 101.9m at 0.81% CuEq and a higher-grade interval of 13.25m at 1.82% CuEq. Hole SC-26-25 cut 128m grading 0.31% CuEq, including 24m at 0.86% CuEq. Both holes intersected copper-bearing porphyry-style veins in potassically altered volcanic and felsic rocks, supporting geological continuity. Drilling is part of a minimum 20,000m 2026 program, and both the MEPS Copper Zone and broader footprint remain open for further expansion.
Sterling Metals (SAGGF) reported new drill results from four holes at the MEPS Zone on the Soo Copper Project, extending the mineralized strike by 300 metres to over 1.3 kilometres. The work is part of an ongoing 20,000 metre drill program near Batchewana Bay, Ontario.
Flagship hole SC-26-16 cut 450.92 m grading 0.30% CuEq from 17.18 m, including 101 m at 0.50% CuEq and 12 m at 1.70% CuEq. It also intersected a granite porphyry stock from 306.0 m, returning 162.1 m at 0.32% CuEq, with the final 3 m showing molybdenum up to 2,080 ppm (1.16% CuEq). Hole SC-26-15 delivered 436.75 m at 0.30% CuEq from 14.25 m, plus a 26 m molybdenum-rich interval at 0.79% CuEq. Hole SC-26-17 returned 284.75 m at 0.29% CuEq, including 9.97 m at 1.31% CuEq. Sterling indicates the copper-molybdenum porphyry system remains open to the east and at depth.
Sterling Metals (OTCQB: SAGGF, TSXV: SAG) has closed its court-approved acquisition of QcX Gold (TSXV: QCX) via a plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). QcX shareholders received one Sterling share for every 4.81026 QcX shares, reflecting an exchange ratio of 0.20789, resulting in the issuance of 4,922,249 Sterling shares.
Sterling also issued 1,649,399 warrants and 299,361 options to replace QcX securities on equivalent economic terms. Post-transaction, existing Sterling and former QcX shareholders own approximately 90.4% and 9.6% of Sterling, respectively. The deal consolidates a land package exceeding 35,000 hectares in the Batchewana Copper Belt, expanding Sterling’s district footprint by about 40% and adding multiple copper and gold exploration targets around the Soo Copper Project. QcX shares are expected to be delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange around September 1, 2026, and Sterling will seek to end QcX’s reporting issuer status. Former QcX CEO Albert Contardi has joined Sterling’s board of directors.
Sterling Metals (TSXV:SAG, OTCQB:SAGGF) reported that QcX Gold shareholders approved the previously announced plan of arrangement under the BC Business Corporations Act at QcX’s August 18, 2026 meeting. Closing remains subject to customary conditions, including stock exchange and regulatory approvals, and is expected on or around August 25, 2026.
Sterling also signed an access agreement dated August 17, 2026 with an arm’s length owner of mineral claims in Ontario, granting exploration access. As consideration, Sterling will issue 210,000 common shares and 250,000 warrants exercisable at $1.23 for two years, subject to TSX Venture Exchange and other approvals. Securities will carry a four‑month‑and‑one‑day hold period.
Sterling Metals (OTCQB:SAGGF, TSXV:SAG) reported new drill results from hole SC-26-13 at the MEPS Zone on the Soo Copper Project near Batchewana Bay, Ontario. The hole cut 445.0 m grading 0.40% CuEq from 22.0 m, including 203.10 m at 0.51% CuEq from 40.9 m depth.
Higher-grade intervals include 9.50 m at 2.34% CuEq from 74.0 m and 16.25 m at 2.31% CuEq from 176.0 m, plus 7.4 m at 1.49% CuEq from 459.0 m. SC-26-13, collared ~140 m east of SC-26-10, extends higher-grade copper mineralization about 100 m east and the molybdenum-rich breccia about 50 m east, within a copper-mineralized footprint now traced over more than one kilometre. Sterling has completed 38 holes for 17,250 m of its minimum 20,000 m 2026 drill campaign and has deployed GeologicAI core-scanning technology to improve targeting.
Sterling Metals (OTCQB:SAGGF, TSXV:SAG) reported new 2026 drill results from the MEPS Zone at its Soo Copper Project in Ontario. Flagship hole SC-26-10, drilled near-vertically from 4.0 m depth, cut 497.55 m of 0.41% CuEq, including 358.0 m of 0.50% CuEq from 44 m, with multiple higher-grade copper intervals such as 24.65 m of 1.94% CuEq and 8.50 m of 4.74% CuEq.
Immediately below the high-grade copper zone, SC-26-10 confirmed a molybdenum-rich breccia returning 57.0 m of 0.81% CuEq averaging 1,077 ppm Mo, extending mineralization more than 100 m deeper. Step-out holes SC-26-11 and SC-26-12 intersected broad, lower-grade copper envelopes of 317.2 m at 0.25% CuEq and 477.0 m at 0.23% CuEq, respectively. According to Sterling, 33 holes totaling about 16,000 m have now been completed toward a minimum 20,000 m campaign aimed at defining near-surface copper-dominant and underlying molybdenum-dominant sulphide zones at MEPS and testing additional district targets.
Sterling Metals (TSXV:SAG, OTCQB:SAGGF) reported assay results from three additional 2026 drill holes (SC-26-07/08/09) at the Soo Copper Project near Batchewana Bay, Ontario. The holes, testing the northwest and west extents of the MEPS Zone, intersected broad, near-surface copper mineralization ranging from 247.0 m to 305.1 m, grading approximately 0.30%–0.34% CuEq. Higher-grade sub-intervals include 26.0 m at 0.64% CuEq in SC-26-07, 38.2 m at 0.53% CuEq in SC-26-08, and 12.7 m at 0.94% CuEq in SC-26-09, with individual samples up to about 6.5% CuEq. Sterling reports a strong correlation between copper mineralization and IP chargeability anomalies, supporting its exploration model. The company is drilling the 30th hole of its 2026 program, having completed about 15,000 m of a minimum 20,000 m campaign and over 25,000 m since spring 2025.
Sterling Metals (OTCQB:SAGGF) reported assay results from the first six holes of its 2026 drilling program at the Soo Copper Project near Batchewana Bay, Ontario.
Highlights include broad, near-surface copper-equivalent intervals up to 503.9m of 0.26% CuEq and discovery of a deeper high-grade molybdenum zone, within a multi-phase porphyry stock traced along a ~1.4 km corridor. The company has drilled over 12,000m in 22 holes toward a minimum 20,000m 2026 campaign and reports a new surface copper outcrop discovery ~1.2 km west of the MEPS Discovery.