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Pour the double-double and dust off the core boxes: a Golden Triangle discovery just keeps getting bigger, a pipeline giant is doubling down on the Permian, and a battery-storage company just decided it wants to be an oil and gas driller instead.

Six stories, a real head-scratcher of a Dashboard number, and a stat that will make you wonder why anyone still drills in West Texas without checking the pipe capacity first. Let's dig in.

What happened: $GOTRF ( ▲ 11.46% ) Goliath Resources' 2026 drill program at the Surebet target on its Golddigger property in BC's Golden Triangle has expanded the Golden Gate Zone footprint 38%, from 0.85 to 1.17 square kilometres, and the Bonanza Zone 19%, from 1.27 to 1.51 square kilometres. Every hole this season has hit quartz-sulphide mineralization tied to high-grade gold, and both zones remain open at depth and along strike.

Why it happened: this program is backed by Eric Sprott and Rob McEwen money, two names who don't chase moose pasture. A footprint that keeps growing hole after hole, in one of the hottest corners of the Golden Triangle, is exactly the kind of drill season that turns into a resource estimate instead of just a promotional deck.

What it means for your position: an expanding footprint with everything still open is a green light to keep watching, not a green light to chase the stock on a single headline. The real test comes when the assays convert into an actual resource number.

Skeptic's footnote: Goliath only surfaced a thin OTC ticker on this tool (no TSXV home-listing match), so watch your spread and liquidity here as much as the geology.

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Trident Resources Corp (TSXV: ROCK) kicked off a 6,600 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and radiometric survey over its Reindeer Gold Project in Saskatchewan's La Ronge Gold Belt, flown by Special Projects Inc. It's part of a district-scale targeting push that runs alongside the company's flagship Contact Lake drill program.

So what: airborne geophysics is the cheap, fast first pass that tells a junior where to actually point the drill in an underexplored belt, instead of guessing off outcrop and old assessment files. Paired with an active drill program next door, it reads like a company trying to build a real district, not just one deposit.

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$NXGCF ( ▼ 1.77% ) NexGold Mining reported fresh infill results from the Goldlund Deposit, part of its Goliath Gold Complex in Ontario: 84.30 g/t gold over 1.0 metre, 3.08 g/t over 17.0 metres, and 4.80 g/t over 5.6 metres. The company liked what it saw enough to expand its program from 25,000 to 35,000 metres.

That kind of grade sitting inside an already de-risked, largely permitted complex is the kind of quiet continuity story that can sneak into a resource update before anyone's paying attention.

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What happened: $ENB.TSX ( ▲ 0.03% ) Enbridge agreed to buy Salt Creek Midstream's crude oil gathering business for US$600 million cash: 100% of the Orla and Wink North systems and half of Delaware Crossing, roughly 500 miles of Permian gathering pipe with 420,000 barrels a day of capacity, tying directly into Enbridge's Ingleside Energy Center, the largest crude export terminal in the US.