Antler

Guardsmen Resources discovered a compelling porphyry copper-moly system south of Smithers in an area of recent snowpack melt and glacial recession. Prior to our discovery there had been no previous exploration in the central part of the claim group where there is now beautifully exposed bedrock. The property is currently accessible by helicopter.

The Antler property is west of Little Whitesail Lake and south of Coles Lake in central British Columbia, Canada, approximately 120 km south of the town of Smithers. The property consists of nine contiguous mineral claims that cover 6,508.5 hectares. All the claims are owned 100% by Guardsmen Resources Inc. and are in good standing until September 30, 2030.

The property is situated within the Stikine Terrane near its western boundary with the Coast Plutonic Complex. It is underlain primarily by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group basalt flows and volcaniclastic rocks, and Late Cretaceous granodioritic and granitic intrusions.

The 2025 field program was designed to follow up on the reconnaissance findings from the previous year. The focus was on expanding the footprint of Cu-Mo ± Ag mineralization south of Antler Lake, as well as developing a geological understanding of the property through detailed outcrop, structural, and alteration mapping. This work was supplemented with an airborne geophysical survey, petrographic study, and spectral mineralogical study. In total, 122 rock and 17 channel samples were collected, 273,435 m2 of bedrock was mapped, 14 petrographic samples were studied, 122 rocks were analyzed for their spectral mineralogy, and 282 line-kilometers of airborne geophysical survey were flown.

This program delineated six closely spaced zones of Cu-Mo ± Ag mineralization over a 660m-by-450m area that is open in all directions. The mineralization and alteration occur within leuco-monzogranite, as well as surrounding volcanic and granitic rocks. The mapped alteration pattern demonstrates a Cu-Mo pervasive phyllic (sericite-clay ± pyrite) central core which grades outwards into propylitic (chlorite-epidote) style in the surrounding volcanic and intrusive rocks.

Molybdenite occurs as small-grained disseminations to coarse-grained blebs, fracture linings and in veinlets and stockworks with or without chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite occurs in veinlets and stockworks with or without molybdenite. Rock sampling produced impressive metal enrichment with assays including: 1.7% Mo (Antler Main), 1.3% Cu (Antler NW), and 1.6% Cu and 322 g/t Ag (Beam). This follows a pattern of an inner Mo-rich core transitioning to a Cu ± Ag-rich halo with typical grades on the order of 0.1 to >1% Cu, 0.01 to >0.1% Mo, and 5 to >50 g/t Ag.

In addition, an exceptionally high-grade copper zone (Copper View) was discovered two km east of the main mineralized area. Copper View consists of sheeted chalcopyrite-pyrite-quartz stringers and veins up to 20 cm thick emplaced along shallowly dipping boundaries between andesitic flows of the Hazelton Group. Individual samples graded up to 26% Cu and 177 g/t Ag.

In late August 2025, a helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey was flown over the west have of the property. The geophysical survey shows a magnetic low that is coincident with the main mineralized area and a strong magnetic high occurring directly to the east. The high-grade Copper View veins occur on the opposite side of this magnetic high indicating potential a relationship between these zones and suggesting that the hydrothermal system may extend over 2.5 kilometers.

In mid-September 2025, five adjoining Camp View claims were purchased to expand the property eastward. They cover 15 known polymetallic vein and Cu+/-Mo porphyry occurrences that were the subject of a small data compilation and prospecting program conducted in 2024 by the previous tenure holder.

The 2024-2025 fieldwork has discovered a classic calc-alkalic Cu-Mo porphyry system centred south of a small glacial lake in the central part of the property. Priority drill targets have been determined, and a five-year exploration permit application has been submitted for approval.