Happy Friday! Pour the double-double, dust off the core boxes, and let's see who actually hit something this week.

The tape finally caught a bid — gold clawed back over $4,000, copper and silver bounced, and the dollar took a breather.

But the real fireworks were in the core shack, where Heliostar dropped a near-100-metre gold hit the jaded among us had to read twice.

Add a slick airborne survey in BC and a chunky silver-copper intercept in Peru, and it's a proper Friday.

🥇 Gold (spot) — $4,040/oz 📈

🥈 Silver (spot) — $58.20/oz 📈

🔌 Copper — $6.02/lb 📈

☢️ Uranium (U₃O₈ spot) — $85.60/lb 📈

🍁 TSX-V Composite — ~963 📈

💵 U.S. Dollar (DXY) — 101.43 📉

A relief bounce, not an all-clear: the board's green today, but copper is still pinned near a seven-week low, and the whole move leans on a softer dollar.

What happened. Heliostar Metals $HSTXF ( ▲ 7.72% ) dropped a genuine eye-popper from its 100%-owned Ana Paula project in Guerrero, Mexico: 99.8 metres grading 10.90 g/t gold from just 50.5 metres down in the High Grade Panel.

That's roughly 1,090 gram-metres in a single hole — the kind of intercept that doesn't need a promoter's help to sound good.

Why it happened. This isn't a lucky wildcat — it's infill and down-dip step-out drilling doing its job.

The hit landed alongside expansion holes pushing the zone north, south and southwest, all still open.

Heliostar is now 95 holes and 32,678 metres into a 35,000-metre program, much of it aimed at fattening the inferred ounces in its PEA mine plan.

What it means for your position. High-grade near-surface is the cheapest ounce a developer can own — it cuts strip, feeds early payback, and hands the PEA economics a tailwind before a single permit gets stamped.

The risk here isn't the rock; it's the calendar and the capital. A 35,000-metre program and a build decision both cost money, so watch the treasury and the next raise — monster holes have a way of being chased by monster financings.

👉 See the assays

Before you spend hundreds of dollars a metre punching holes, it pays to know where to point the rig. GoldHaven Resources $GOH.CSE ( ▲ 2.56% ) just wrapped a district-scale airborne survey over its Magno critical-minerals project in BC's Cassiar district — a tidy case study in how cheap data de-risks expensive drilling.

So what.

Survey news is a setup, not a payoff — but it tells you GoldHaven is being disciplined about where it drills.

Mark the calendar for the target list and the first holes; that's when this gets real.

👉 Dig in

Down in Peru, Aftermath Silver $AAGFF ( ▲ 4.09% ) pulled 30.0 metres of 77 g/t silver plus 2.93% copper from its Phase 3 program at the Berenguela silver-copper-manganese deposit. Roll the copper into silver-equivalent, and that's a meaty polymetallic interval — the kind of dual-metal hit that lets a junior pitch the silver bulls and the copper-supply crowd in the same deck.

So what.

Berenguela's whole appeal is optionality: silver for the momentum traders, copper for the structural story.

The caveat is the usual one for a development-stage polymetallic — recoveries, met work, and capex will determine whether those silver-equivalent headline grades survive a feasibility study.

👉 See the details

Gold's been hogging the headlines, but here's the quiet tell: at roughly $4,040 gold and $58 silver, one ounce of gold now buys about 69 ounces of silver.

The long-run average sits closer to 60, so either gold's rich, or silver still has room to run.

Keep your grades high and your dilution low.

We'll see you back here next week. ⛏️