Gladiator Metals Corp. Sept. 26 announced the restart of drilling at the high-grade Cowley Park prospect on the company's Whitehorse Copper project in Yukon, Canada.

"Gladiator is excited to recommence diamond drilling at the high-grade Cowley Park Copper Prospect. Over the summer, Gladiator's team has integrated surface mapping, historic drill hole datasets and planned regional geophysical surveys to identify potential controls on high-grade mineralisation within the deposit," said Gladiator Metals CEO Jason Bontempo. "This drilling is focused on better defining this high-grade mineralisation as well as testing its strike and depth extensions."

The Whitehorse Copper project is a 5,380-hectare (13,294 acres) copper-molybdenum-silver-gold skarn exploration project that lies roughly 10 kilometers (six miles) from city center.

This property covers 30 known prospective targets along a 35-kilometer (22 miles) by five-kilometer (three miles) stretch of the Whitehorse Copper Belt, which produced approximately 267.5 million pounds of copper, 225,000 ounces of gold, and 2.84 million oz of silver from 11.1 million tons of skarn ore milled between 1967 and 1982.

Disclosing its intention to option the property in late 2022, Gladiator has quickly mustered to update records with modern knowledge and paint a clearer picture of this past-producing property.

At the end of July, Gladiator announced the results of its maiden drilling program at Cowley Park but also its intention to resume drilling before the year was out. With over 4,000 meters remaining on its Class 1 permit, the company felt confident in its results to test strike and depth extensions of known mineralization.

Highlights from the maiden drilling include:

• 71 meters averaging 0.72% copper from a depth of 32 meters in hole CPG-001, including 20 meters averaging 1.43% copper.

• 113 meters averaging 0.79% copper from 19 meters in CPG-002, including 13 meters averaging 1.44% copper and 0.15% molybdenum.

The current drill program is designed to target extensions to identified high-grade mineralized trends through step-out drill holes located primarily to the south and southeast of identified mineralization, including following up on the most southeasterly hole to date, 19-CP-08, which cut 43.3 meters averaging 2.24% copper.

"We look forward to updating the market in the coming months with results from our summer field campaign, data compilation of historic drilling, further sampling assays from previously unlogged and unsampled core as well as results from Gladiator's drill campaign at Cowley Park," finished Bontempo.

In addition to the drilling, the company recently welcomed two new members to its management team.

"Gladiator has also boosted its management team through the appointments of Marcus Harden as President and Leneath Yanson as Community Relations Liaison," said the Gladiator CEO. "The strengthening of the team ensures that Gladiator can execute its core strategy with the aim of delineating a high-grade copper inferred resource at the Whitehorse Copper project in a framework that respects and benefits the local communities and stakeholders."