Nortec Minerals starts bedrock trenching at Barker Bay gold project in Ontario

• Nortec Minerals began bedrock trenching and sampling at its 100%-owned Barker Bay Gold Project in northwestern Ontario.
• Work follows completion of a drone magnetic and LiDAR survey over the Barker North and Petrie target areas.
• New data aligns with a more than 700-meter northwest-trending gold-in-soil anomaly, including several results above 0.2 g/t Au.
• Trenching aims to confirm structures, alteration, and surface mineralization to rank targets ahead of a maiden drill program.
• Barker Bay spans 4,650 hectares, about 55 kilometers south of Dryden, Ontario; historical grab samples reported up to 24.5 g/t Au.

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