# FORTUNE BAY FILES NI 43-101 UPDATED PEA TECHNICAL REPORT FOR THE GOLDFIELDS PROJECT, SASKATCHEWAN

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/fortune-bay-files-ni-43-101-updated-pea-technical-report-for-the-goldfields-proj--148e6776-9499-4d8c-88af-30a294d5a871

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/FOR/news/5363148464725552/fortune-bay-files-ni-43-101-updated-pea-technical-report-for-the-goldfields-proj

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2025-10-29T19:10:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Fortune Bay Corp.

- Ticker: FOR

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Saskatchewan

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: None reported

- Document categories: Economic study, Resource update

- Extracted: 2026-09-17 23:07:03 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.80 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Fortune Bay has filed an updated NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment \(PEA\) for the Goldfields Project in Saskatchewan. The base case study, using a gold price of US$2,600/oz, reports an after-tax NPV \(5%\) of C$610 million and an IRR of 44% with a 14-year mine life.

Reasoning: The updated PEA demonstrates robust economics and a high-confidence resource base \(97% Indicated\), significantly de-risking the project's development pathway.

- Positive factor: Strong base case economics \(44% IRR, C$610M NPV\)

- Positive factor: High sensitivity to gold price \(NPV jumps to C$1.25B at US$3,650/oz\)

- Positive factor: High resource confidence \(97% Indicated\)

- Positive factor: Expedited permitting pathway via existing EIS

- Negative factor: Preliminary nature of PEA \(Class 4\) implies higher uncertainty than PFS/DFS

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**PEA Only**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Only Class 4 / Initial Assessment economics available. Not bankable.

Why it applies: The document is an updated Preliminary Economic Assessment \(PEA\).

Evidence · text

> Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment \("Updated PEA"\) technical report

**High IRR**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Post-tax real unlevered IRR in the strong tier or better.

Why it applies: The base case IRR of 44% is in the strong tier.

Evidence · text

> an after-tax IRR of 44%

**Indicated Resource**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Reasonable geological confidence based on adequate drilling; continuity can be assumed. Basis for Probable Reserves.

Why it applies: The mine plan incorporates 97% Indicated resources.

Evidence · text

> mine plan incorporates 97% Indicated resources

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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