Generation Mining (GENM.TO) has kicked off the construction activities on its flagship Marathon copper-palladium project, but the company is also still working on its regional exploration program. The activities for 2026 have now been concluded as the company completed a regional soil sampling program with 1786 stations across 10 kilometers of strike length at the Four Dams, Lacobeer, Skipper and Boyer prospects.
This exploration program was designed to evaluate hanging wall copper potential, and to test targets that were identified in a 2024 exploration program. The company has already received the assay results of about half of the total amount of samples and based on those samples, the Lacobeer and Four Dams prospects appear to provide the most continuous coverage of soil assay results.
Generation Mining also completed geological interpretation work with Big Rock Exploration which has provided a new framework to evaluate copper mineralization within the Layered Series, which has seen very limited exploration. Historical activities at Skipper and Four Dams have shown evidence of copper mineralization within the Layered Series. At Four Dams, for instance, the drill bit encountered 38 meters at an average grade of 0.28% copper and 48 meters containing 0.31% copper in a 2013 drill program. Those drill results were never followed up on but Generation Mining will start working on a relogging and sampling program in the first quarter of next year.
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