Sranan Gold Corp. (CSE: SRAN / FSE/Tradegate: P84) continues its series of hits on the Tapanahony project in Suriname with further high-grade gold intercepts! The company has just released the latest analysis results from the 2025 drilling program from the Randy’s Pit target area and emphasizes that the new data also underpins the continuity of the gold mineralization. At the same time, the transition to the new field season has already been completed: drilling was resumed in the Randy’s Pit target area in mid-January. The aim is to extend the high-grade zones along the 4.5-kilometer-long Poeketi Shear Zone (PSZ) to the north.
The core of the message lies in another high-grade interval: Sranan Gold reports an intercept of 10.88 g/t gold over 1 meter, contained in 10 meters with 1.36 g/t gold. Such “peak values” within broader mineralized intervals are not uncommon in orogenic gold systems and may indicate a pronounced structural control of gold distribution. For Sranan Gold, the results are both a conclusion and a starting point: a conclusion, because these are the final assays from 2025 – a starting point, because the company derives from them a justification for an expansion of the 2026 drilling campaign.
Randy’s Pit: Final assays support continuity over 900 meters
The latest drill sections come from three drill holes (25RADD-017 to 25RADD-019). In all drill holes, gold mineralization was encountered at the surface – according to the company, in weathered veins within saprolite. This is relevant insofar as it indicates mineralization that does not only start at great depth, but is already present near the surface.Randy’s Pit: Final assays support continuity over 900 meters
In detail, Sranan Gold reports, among other things, several mineralized zones for drill hole 25RADD-018: from 0.0 to 12.0 m with 0.74 g/t gold, including 1.5 m with 2.52 g/t; also 30.0 to 40.0 m with 1.36 g/t gold, including 4.0 m with 3.19 g/t and finally the high-grade core of 1.0 m with 10.88 g/t (37.0 to 38.0 m). Drill hole 25RADD-019 yielded, among other things, 2.0 m with 4.36 g/t (19.0 to 21.0 m), including 1.0 m with 6.77 g/t. Drill hole 25RADD-017 also showed near-surface mineralization (0.0 to 7.5 m with 0.55 g/t) as well as further zones at depth.
This confirms that the company has confirmed the continuity of the gold zones on the Randy’s Pit target over a total of around 900 meters. In addition, according to Sranan Gold, the target area remains open both along the strike in both directions and at depth.
2026 program: Drill meters increase, Poeketi target planned for Q2
Looking ahead, Sranan Gold emphasizes the operative consequence of the results: The ongoing 2026 drilling program at Randys Pit has been expanded by 2,500 meters and is now expected to comprise at least 7,500 meters. This expansion is a direct response to the repeated confirmation of high-grade sections and the open expansion of the system. At the same time, plans are underway to begin drilling in the Poeketi target area in the second quarter of 2026.
CEO Oscar Louzada summarizes the development since mid-2025 as a rapid chain of progress: from early surface samples with high-grade “grab samples” to a total of 4,198 meters of diamond drilling on Randy’s Pit to a now “solid foundation” for further discoveries in 2026. From the company’s perspective, it is crucial that an early exploration approach has become a clearly defined drilling program – with a growing stock of “drill-ready targets”, i.e. targets that can be drilled immediately.
In addition to the drilling, the overall potential of the Tapanahony project is to be systematically developed further in 2026. Sranan’s VP Exploration and Business Development Dennis LaPoint names classic exploration building blocks for this: sampling, mapping and trenching on the Poeketi target as well as on additional shear zones. This makes it clear that Sranan Gold is not exclusively focused on Randy’s Pit, but wants to develop further target areas along the structural trend.
Geological model: Shear zone as carrier of an orogenic gold system
Geologically, Sranan Gold classifies the PSZ as a significant structural corridor that hosts shear zone-controlled gold mineralization in basaltic rocks. Mentioned are intensive deformation, quartz-carbonate veins, disseminated sulfide mineralization and strong hydrothermal alteration – characteristics that are typical of orogenic gold systems, which in turn are often known for high-grade deposits!
Important here is an aspect that the company derives from the drilling pattern: Gold occurs both in saprolite and in unweathered bedrock. This suggests that gold grades have been preserved across the weathering profile. In addition, Sranan Gold refers to a structural characteristic of such systems: The geometry of a shear zone can form several high-grade “shoots” (ore-bearing zones) within the corridor. For the drilling design, this typically means searching along the strike and into the depth for recurring, locally concentrated high-grade areas.
Sranan Gold interprets the 4.5-kilometer-long Randy’s Pit-Poeketi trend zone within the PSZ as part of a gold system of district size. The company sees further untested targets along the trend and speaks of “blue-sky” exploration potential within the 29,000-hectare Tapanahony project, which lies in an artisanal gold mining area in Suriname described as particularly productive.
With the final assays from 2025, Sranan Gold provides additional arguments for the continuity and expandability of the mineralization in the Randy’s Pit target – and links these directly with a significantly larger drilling program in 2026 as well as the planned expansion of work to Poeketi and other shear zones in the Tapanahony project.
