Hayasa Metals Announces Urasar Final Drill Results

Original announcement by tmx on

Company
Hayasa Metals Inc.
Ticker
HAY
Exchange
TSX
Region
Armenia
Primary commodity
Gold
Secondary commodities
Copper, Zinc
Document categories
Drill results, Other
Extracted
2026-09-18 03:22:58 UTC

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Minestarters Atlas analysis

Summary

Hayasa Metals has released final drill results from its 2024 Urasar campaign, reporting low-level gold mineralization across several prospects. While the grades were lower than anticipated, the results confirm a large mineralized system with a 15 km strike extent and provide targeting data for the upcoming 2025 program.

Reasoning: The final drill results for the 2024 campaign show low-grade gold mineralization and failed to meet management's high expectations, though they confirm a large-scale system and provide targeting for 2025.

Positive factors

  • demonstrates large mineralized system with 15km strike extent
  • UDD-04 shows highest average copper geochemistry to date
  • QA/QC protocols (standards, blanks, duplicates) disclosed

Negative factors

  • results were lower than expected given surface geochemistry
  • most holes returned only low-level mineralization
  • many samples near or below detection limits

Facts used in scoring: 2

Classification and evidence

QA/QC Disclosedpositive

Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods (blanks, standards, duplicates).

Why it applies: Release mentions insertion of standards, blanks, and duplicates every ten samples and use of ALS laboratory.

Evidence · text

“In addition, a known standard, blank or duplicate was inserted every ten samples for QA/QC purposes.”

Nearology Playneutral

Value premise rests on proximity to a known deposit rather than own results.

Why it applies: Management discusses targeting based on historic Soviet drill tracks and adits.

Evidence · text

“the existence of historic Soviet exploration adits”

Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

Drill Results (2)

UDD-08Urasar · zincGrade: 0.28Grade Unit: %Intercept: 11 mView all details
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Identity

Hole ID
UDD-08
Project
Urasar
Commodity
zinc
Region
armenia
Reported Region
armenia
Ticker
HAY

Geometry

Grade
0.28
Grade Unit
%
Intercept
11 m

Classification

Program
exploration
Sample Type
drill

Location

Location
Brick House
Loc. Source
document

QA/QC

QA/QC Disclosed
Yes
QA/QC Methods
standards, blanks, duplicates

Review

Needs Review
No
Interp. Status
scored
Historical
No

Dates

Event date
2025-03-11T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: A modest zinc intercept reported in a gold-focused program.

Positive factors

  • intercept contains samples over 0.5% Zn

Evidence · text

“Hole UDD-08 drilled at the Brick House prospect returned 11m of 0.28% Zn, including two samples over 0.5% Zn.”

Tags used in scoring

QA/QC Disclosedpositive

Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods (blanks, standards, duplicates).

Why it applies: qaqc_disclosed is true

Cut-off Undisclosednegative

High-grade interval reported without stating the cut-off grade used for compositing.

Why it applies: no cutoff_grade was stated

UDD-04UrasarView all details
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Identity

Hole ID
UDD-04
Project
Urasar
Region
armenia
Reported Region
armenia
Ticker
HAY

Classification

Program
exploration
Sample Type
drill

Location

Location
Oxide Basin
Loc. Source
document

QA/QC

QA/QC Disclosed
Yes
QA/QC Methods
standards, blanks, duplicates

Review

Needs Review
No
Interp. Status
scored
Historical
No

Dates

Event date
2025-03-11T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Qualitative mention of high copper geochemistry without specific numeric grade/width for the hole.

Positive factors

  • highest average copper geochemistry of any hole to date

Evidence · text

“particularly hole UDD-04 at Oxide Basin, which also returned the highest average copper geochemistry of any of the holes to date.”

Tags used in scoring

QA/QC Disclosedpositive

Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods (blanks, standards, duplicates).

Why it applies: qaqc_disclosed is true

Cut-off Undisclosednegative

High-grade interval reported without stating the cut-off grade used for compositing.

Why it applies: no cutoff_grade was stated

How Atlas produces this analysis

Minestarters Atlas uses automated extraction to summarize mining announcements, identify reported measurements, and classify supporting evidence. Sentiment reflects the extracted narrative and classification rules; it is an interpretation, not a reported measurement. Evidence quotes and context are provided where available. Missing data, low-confidence results, and review flags indicate limitations. Check the original publisher announcement before relying on an interpretation.