LinQ Minerals: Advancing a Large-Scale Gold-Copper System at Gilmore

LinQ Minerals (ASX:LNQ) is advancing exploration at its 100%-owned Gilmore Gold-Copper Project in New South Wales, which hosts a Global Mineral Resource Estimate of 516Mt containing ~3.7Moz Au and ~1.2Mt Cu.

The project covers ~597km² across a 60km belt containing +20 known prospects and 6 mineral resource deposits. Gilmore is located within the Macquarie Arc, with the project hosting copper-gold porphyry and epithermal gold mineralisation.

A 516Mt resource base

The Gilmore resource base comprises multiple deposits across the project rather than a single mineralised occurrence.

The Global Mineral Resource Estimate incorporates the project's sulphide porphyry resources and the Gidginbung resource. The company reports 6 JORC resources across Gilmore, with the resources including copper, gold and molybdenum.

Within the Central Zone, the project includes the Mandamah, Culingerai and Estoril resources. The company's July 2026 presentation identifies the Central Zone as extending across >17km, with additional prospects including Monza and Donnington.

The broader Gilmore Project therefore combines an established resource base with multiple mineralised prospects across the tenement package.

Monza adds a current drilling focus

Recent exploration activity has focused on the Monza prospect within the Central Zone, where LinQ has reported multiple copper-gold intersections from its maiden drilling programme.

Hole MZACD005 returned 208m at 0.61% CuEq from 38m, including 5m at 5.36% CuEq.

Hole MZACD003 returned 226m at 0.70% CuEq from 47m, including 28m at 1.85% CuEq.

Hole MZACD004 returned 136m at 0.70% CuEq from 47m, including 17m at 1.58% CuEq.

Previous drilling at Monza also returned 150m at 1.62% CuEq from 65m, including 12.7m at 13.8% CuEq.

The 14 July 2026 announcement stated that the Monza results indicated the system remained open along strike and downplunge to the northwest. Assay results for a further 5 holes were pending at the time of the announcement.

Monza forms part of a broader mineralised corridor

The Central Zone contains a series of copper-gold deposits and prospects along a mineralised corridor extending >17km.

The existing resources include:

●      Mandamah — 41Mt @ 0.50% CuEq

●      Culingerai — 43Mt @ 0.42% CuEq

●      Estoril — 33Mt @ 0.37% CuEq

Monza sits within this broader system alongside Estoril, Culingerai and Mandamah, with Donnington and other prospects also identified along the trend.

The company has also identified an 800m strike between Monza and Estoril where previous aircore drilling identified anomalous copper-equivalent responses that have not yet been drill tested.

Gilmore South adds further resource scale

The Southern Zone includes the Gidginbung and Dam resources. The July 2026 presentation reports resource estimates for both deposits, with Gidginbung's sulphide resource reported at 20.8Mt containing 10Kt Cu and 670Koz Au, and Dam reported at 34.4Mt containing 110Kt Cu, 490Koz Au and 1,000t Mo at the higher cut-off. The presentation also reports a combined 55.2Mt across these 2 resources at that cut-off.

A +30,000m drilling programme

LinQ's July 2026 presentation outlines a +30,000m drilling programme across the Gilmore Project.

The programme includes drilling across established resource areas and priority exploration targets. At Monza, the current programme has already produced the latest results, with further assays pending as of the 14 July 2026 announcement.

The Gilmore Project therefore combines a reported 516Mt Global Mineral Resource Estimate containing ~3.7Moz Au and ~1.2Mt Cu with ongoing drilling across multiple zones and prospects.

For LinQ, the next stage of activity remains focused on the company's planned drilling programme and the release of further results from work already completed at Monza.