b'SUDBURY GOLDadvanced permitting, including advanced exploration, closure plans, baseline studies and other requirements that come with it.By 2021, the advanced groundwork was laid. This enabled Inventus to take a much larger sample and begin the early stages of large-diameter drilling (PQ, or P-size), a type of large-diameter diamond core drilling that collects much larger, more representative rock samples than standard methodsa near necessity in nugget effect deposits like Pardo. Three years later, Whymark took the helm as president of the company and made PQ drilling the ongoing method for defining grade and building reliable data for resources at the site. The industry standard is using NQ-size core drilling, but what we do differently is that we do PQ, afterbulk sample has shown that even at96-per-cent return over cost, says which we send the entire piece of corea pilot scale, mineralization could beWhymark, So we essentially to the lab. extracted and processed to generatedoubled our money.cash flow. The shallow depth of drilling RECENT RESULTS required to intersect the flat-lyingNEXT STEPS2025 has been a milestone yeargold mineralization allows for rapidToday, Inventus is moving from for the Pardo Project. In December,and cost-effective resource definitionproving the Pardo concept to scaling the company announced that adrilling, an effort currently ongoingproduction and establishing a 5,000-tonne 007 North bulk samplewith the companys Phase 2 compliant resource base. It currently recovered 427 ounces of golddrill program. has a 10,000-tonne bulk sample from 4,674 dry tonnes, yielding aat its mill and plans to process an reconciled head grade of 3.04 gptThe cost of the bulk sample wasadditional 30,000 tonnes by mid-and a metallurgical recovery of 94approximately $1.2 million CAD, and2026, beginning with 10,000 tonnes per cent. In its recent report, thethe sale of the recoverable ounces at the start of the year. These company stated: The 007 Northwas $2.35 million CAD. This is afuture activities will be conducted using cash flow from bulk sampling to support further resource growthdrilling.At the same time, Inventus is working toward a full production permit while continuing to use toll milling rather than building an on-site mill, keeping capital costs lower. Were working on a production permit now and hopefully have that done by the end of next year, says Whymark. We see bulk samples generating cash flow, so we dont have to keep raising capital and diluting our shareholders.Sixteen years, and Inventuss instincts are paying off. After initial challenges, legal hurdles and technical pivots, the junior mining exploration firm is on its way to turning a rare discovery into one of the provinces most significant paleoplacer goldendeavours. 12 ONTARIO PROSPECTOR WINTER 2025/26'