Inventus Provides Year-End Review and 2026 Outlook

The most recent news (December 22, 2025) provides a year-end wrap-up and 2026 outlook. Key achievements in 2025 include the extraction of 15,000 tonnes of bulk sample material from the Pardo Gold Project. Of this, 4,674 tonnes were processed, yielding a reconciled head grade of 3.04 g/t gold with a high metallurgical recovery of 94%. The company completed 296 holes (3,751 metres) of drilling, largely focused on grade control. For 2026, Inventus plans to process the remaining 10,128 tonnes of the bulk sample by late January, release a maiden NI 43-101 resource estimate, and advance a two-stage development strategy to move the project toward production.

The news is material and positive as it provides the first concrete evidence of economic viability for the Pardo project’s unique "paleoplacer" mineralization. - Grade Reconciliation: Reconciling at 3.04 g/t Au is critical. Paleoplacer deposits often suffer from "nugget effect" issues; proving consistent grade over a 4,674-tonne sample de-risks the geological model significantly. - Economic Proof of Concept: The December 1, 2025, release noted a 96% return over cost for the first sample, generating $2.35M in revenue against $1.2M in costs. This confirms the project can generate cash flow even in the exploration/advanced development stage. - Operational Scale: Demonstrating a 10,000 tonne-per-month extraction capability indicates that the transition to small-scale production is a matter of permitting and processing capacity rather than geological constraints. - Projection Accuracy: The company has largely followed through on the 2025 plan outlined in May 2025, though the total tonnage processed (4,674) is behind the initial goal of 45,000 tonnes over 12 months. The bottleneck appears to be third-party milling availability rather than site extraction.

Inventus Mining Corp. is focused on the Pardo Gold Project, located 65 km northeast of Sudbury, Ontario. The project is a 100%-owned "paleoplacer" deposit, where gold is hosted in ancient conglomerate reefs similar to the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The mineralization is shallow (mostly within 20 metres of surface) and flat-lying, allowing for low-cost, open-pit quarry-style mining.