{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Company Interviews","title":"Au Gold (TSXV:AUGC) - Maiden Victorian Gold-Antimony Drilling Set for Late 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1390,"description":"Interview with Marc Blythe, Founder, President & CEO of Au Gold Corp.\nRecording date: 6th October 2026\nAu Gold Corp (TSXV:AUGC) is a Vancouver-based junior explorer focused on the Havelock Gold-Antimony Project near Maryborough in Victoria, Australia. The company acquired the 11,663-hectare project in early 2026 after Founder and CEO Marc Blythe, a mining engineer and due diligence consultant, identified it while searching digitised historical records for overlooked Victorian prospects.\nThe investment case is built on geology that has already created significant value elsewhere in the state. Fosterville, Costerfield and Sunday Creek are epizonal gold-antimony systems characterised by very high grades and mineralisation extending more than a kilometre below surface. Havelock's Shaw-McFarlane Trend hosts a line of historic mines worked in the 1880s and 1890s, none of which reached much beyond 150 metres depth. Blythe argues these mines stopped because of pumping limitations and metallurgical problems, not because the veins ended.\nAu Gold commissioned a research geologist to reconstruct the mines from public company reports and newspapers of the period. The resulting long sections show where miners recorded the widest veins and the most visible gold. There are no historic assays, so grade is unknown. Blythe estimates that miners of the era needed around half an ounce per ton to make a profit, which suggests that veins they chose to follow were likely high grade.\nFour priority targets have emerged: McFarlane's, the original gold-antimony target; Shaw's No. 1; Shaw's Main, the deepest workings on the trend; and Rob Roy, which reported 293 ounces at an average of 52 g/t gold. Grab samples from the Shaw's Main waste dump returned up to 54.20 g/t gold. The planned programme has grown from 2,000 to 5,000 metres of diamond drilling as the target list expanded.\nFunding comes from a non-brokered placement announced at $2 million on September 29, 2026. Blythe said demand...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1wv-MFlQAgnm-ca64e5kK4984dZB0os8-HJdRVsI74M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEzNTcyLzE2MjM5/NTQyMDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}