Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - May 27, 2025) - Alpha Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: ALEX) ("Alpha" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the initiation of its 2025 drill program at its 100% owned, 514km2 Kerkasha concession in Eritrea. Reverse Circulation and Diamond Drilling will continue to expand the known mineralization at the Aburna orogenic gold system, step out to test additional gold targets over the wider 7.2 km x 2.0 km Aburna area, as well as advancing the exploration at the Anagulu Copper-Gold porphyry prospect and the Tolegimja VMS prospect.
A Reverse Circulation (RC) rig has recently arrived on site and a Diamond Rig (DD) is being prepared. RC drilling is expected to commence during May 2025.
A Rotary Air Blast (RAB) program is currently underway.
The RAB drilling is focused initially on the Aburna Gold Prospect and will sample the hard rock/soil interface in areas of thick soil cover. Additional RAB drilling is planned for areas with thick soil cover at the Anagulu Copper-Gold Porphyry prospect and the Tolegimja VMS prospect. Alpha is currently conducting a minimum of 10,000m RAB programme at Aburna and Anagulu, which is approximately 1/3 complete.
The RC and DD drill program at Aburna is designed with three purposes;
to infill and extend known mineralization at the Hill 52, Central and Northeast prospects hosted within N45E trending folded metavolcanics,
test potential mineralization on N10E trending structures related to the regional scale Aburna fault which cross cuts the regional N45E fabric, and
to step out and test known targets on a regional scale over the Aburna Prospect. Some RC holes will serve as pre-collars for deeper DD holes.
At the Anagulu prospect, drilling will follow up on the 2024 programme, testing the potential for underlying cupola style Copper Gold mineralization.
The plan for 2025 is to complete a minimum 8,000m programme of DD/RC at Aburna, with an additional 2,000m targeting Anagulu. The first phase of drilling at Aburna consists of 12 drillholes (1,755m) and is summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Initial RC drill collars at Aburna.
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Figure 1: Proposed drillholes in the first priority grouping at the Aburna Gold Prospect.
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About Alpha
Alpha (TSXV: ALEX) is an exploration company that is rapidly advancing a number of important gold and base metal discoveries across its 100% owned, 514 km2 Kerkasha Project in Eritrea.
The Aburna Gold Prospect is an exciting new gold discovery where recent drilling has confirmed a high- grade mineralized system, with grades including 18m @ 15.33 g/t Au, 16 m @ 14.07 g/t Au, 9 m @ 10 g/t Au and 23 m @ 6.74 g/t Au.
The Anagulu Gold-Copper Prospect includes recent drilling intersections of 108 m @ 1.24 g/t Au and 0.60% Cu and 49 m @ 2.42 g/t Au and 1.10% Cu within a porphyry unit mapped over at a >2 km strike length.
The Company is managed by a group of highly experienced and successful mining and exploration professionals with long track records of establishing, building and successfully exiting a number of world class gold and base metal discoveries in Eritrea and across the wider Arabian Nubian Shield.
For further information go to the Alpha webpage at www.alpha-exploration.com or contact:
Tim Livesey
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Alpha Exploration Ltd.
Email: tim@alpha-exploration.com
Tel: +44 207129 1148
Qualified Person
All scientific and technical information in this press release, including the results of the Aburna drill program and how these results relate to the ongoing exploration at the Kerkasha Project has been reviewed, verified, and approved by Chris Bargmann CGeol FGS, consultant for Alpha and a "qualified person" for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
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