Torr Metals Confirms Large, Structurally Controlled Copper-Gold System at Bertha with Strong Vectoring Toward Untested Northeast Target
Edmonton, Alberta–(Newsfile Corp. – January 21, 2026) – Torr Metals Inc. (TSXV: TMET) (“Torr” or the “Company“) is pleased to report results from its Phase I 2,733 metre (m) drill program at the Bertha Target within the Company’s 332 km² Kolos Copper-Gold Project in south-central British Columbia. The program successfully confirmed the presence of a large, structurally-controlled hydrothermal copper-gold-silver system and, importantly, defined coherent geological and geophysical vectors toward a high-priority, untested copper-gold target to the northeast (Figure 1, Figure 2).
Drilling delineated broad zones of anomalous copper mineralization spatially associated with hydrothermal magnetite, brecciation, and strong northwest-striking and north-south trending structural controls (Figure 1, Figure 2). These zones are flanked by 68 discrete native copper occurrences that locally define higher-grade intervals (Table 2) and are closely associated with hydrothermal magnetite-epidote veining, collectively defining a laterally extensive hydrothermal-copper system spanning greater than 350 m in strike and 580 m vertical depth (Figure 2).
Notably, the deepest hole drilled toward the northeast (25-KO-07) intersected the first structurally controlled gold mineralization reported from the Bertha area, returning 0.24 g/t Au over 3 metres (337-340 m). The appearance of gold at depth, together with increasing pyrite content and supergene overprinting of phyllic alteration toward the northeast, is interpreted to define a coherent geochemical and mineralogical vector toward a more proximal, gold-bearing magmatic-hydrothermal porphyry source in that direction, where it remains open and is coincident with a broad, northeast-trending, untested induced polarization (IP) chargeability anomaly identified at approximately 250 metres depth (Figure 1, Figure 2).
“The 2025 drill program did exactly what it was designed to do as the inaugural test of a previously untested, large-scale porphyry system,” said Malcolm Dorsey, President and CEO of Torr Metals. “In systems of this type, it is uncommon for initial drilling to directly intersect the sulphide-bearing core, and our results are consistent with expectations for early-stage porphyry exploration on a brand new target. The structural controls, system geometry, and style of supergene alteration and copper mineralization encountered to date continue to support an alkalic porphyry model analogous to an early-stage New Afton-style system prior to discovery of its core. While drilling has not yet intersected the source intrusion, the program has confirmed significant scale to the peripheral hydrothermal copper system and established coherent vectors that all strengthen toward the northeast; including increasing alteration intensity and gold content, brecciation and veining, improved structural architecture, and a buried chargeability anomaly. Taken together, these factors are interpreted to indicate increasing proximity to a more proximal and potentially sulphide-rich portion of the porphyry system relative to the areas drilled to date. These results materially reduce geological uncertainty and define a new, untested northeast-trending chargeability target, which will be further refined through planned IP expansion in spring 2026 prior to fully funded Phase II drill targeting.”
