First Nordic Metals announce results to date (14 of 39 holes) from its 2025 diamond drill program at the Aida target, located within the Company's 100%-owned Paubäcken project in Västerbotten County, northern Sweden.
Taj Singh, CEO of FNM, comments: "We are encouraged by this first batch of results, with notable grade-width combinations seen in many of the gold intercepts. The identification of multiple parallel mineralized zones adjacent to the Central Zone (original discovery) is particularly compelling; not only does it build on cumulative strike length, but any future development could potentially be shared across the zones. The area around the Central Zone remains the only part of Aida with meaningful drill density; significant potential exists to both the north and south, and even with wide-spaced step-outs of up to 500 m apart, we intercepted gold mineralization in every hole along the main corridor. With assays pending from 25 additional holes, we are only beginning to outline the scale of this system."
The 2025 Aida drill program was designed to systematically expand known mineralization within the Aida structural corridor along strike to the north and south, and at depth. The program comprised 39 diamond drill holes totaling 10,304 meters.
The Aida structural corridor is a broad, anastomosing, complex network of structures interpreted to be a second order splay off the first order Gold Line structure. Gold mineralization intercepted along the structural corridor is hosted primarily within the sheared margins of mafic volcanic units, with minor mineralization hosted within subordinate volcaniclastic and greywacke units.
The Aida Target is located 40 km south of the Company's resource-stage Barsele project (in joint venture with Agnico Eagle Mines Limited), and 4 km northeast of the operating Svartliden mill that is currently processing ore from Sweden's newest gold mine, Fäbodtjärn (owned and operated by Botnia Exploration AB).
