This second instalment of our Quebec Spotlight looks at Opus One Gold, Renforth Resources, TomaGold and Vior Gold, whose projects range from early exploration targets to deposits with defined resources.
The profiles appeared in The Northern Miner’s October print edition, which features a special focus on Quebec.
Opus One Gold
Opus One Gold (TSXV: OOR) is focused on the pre-resource 45-sq.-km Noyell property, part of its Casa-Berardi-Douay-Cameron project area in northwestern Quebec’s Abitibi Greenstone Belt, about 20 km south of Matagami.
The company completed its program in September, tracing Zone 1 mineralization from surface to about 750 metres vertical depth, where it remains open.
In June, Opus One released results from its deepest significant Zone 1 intersection to date. Drill hole NO-26-21a returned 11.37 metres grading 4.92 grams gold per tonne starting from 807.4 metres downhole. The intersection had a true width of 9.08 metres.
Other highlights from the winter drill program in Zone 1 included 8.5 metres grading 8.22 grams gold from 535.38 metres downhole in NO-26-07; and 3.3 metres of 2.29 grams gold from 545.56 metres in drill hole NO-26-11.
Last year the company drilled 9,000 metres at Zone 1. Highlight assays included 7.3 metres grading 4.12 grams gold from 135 metres in drill hole NO-25-01; 6.7 metres grading 3.79 grams gold from 5.2 metres in NO-25-03; 8.4 metres averaging 5.57 grams gold from 232.2 metres in NO-25-06; and about 19 metres of 4.22 grams gold from 95.7 metres in NO-25-07.
In addition to Noyell, the company has early-stage gold and lithium assets. Its 15-sq.-km La Grande lithium property in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region contains at least 18 pegmatites discovered by previous owners. Its Courville gold property, 18 km west of Val-d’Or and about 500 km northwest of Montreal, has had at least 250 historical drill holes that led to the discovery of four main zones.
Opus One Gold has a market cap of about $14 million.
Renforth Resources
Renforth Resources (CSE: RFR; US-OTC: RFHRF) is focused on its Parbec gold deposit, an open-pit project adjacent to Agnico Eagle’s Canadian Malartic operation, one of the largest open-pit gold mines in Canada.
Renforth considers Parbec, about 25 km west of Val-d’Or and 80 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, to be a small-scale replica of Malartic, with mineralization starting at surface and almost entirely enclosed within a pit shell. It’s open along strike in both directions and at depth.
Parbec contains measured and indicated open-pit resources of 9.61 million tonnes grading 0.86 gram gold per tonne for 265,800 oz. contained gold, according to a resource update from 2025. Additional inferred open-pit and underground resources total 2.5 million tonnes averaging 1.18 grams gold for 97,000 oz. contained gold.
About 87% of the gold ounces are contained within the open-pit resource, whose pit shell doesn’t extend below a depth of 300 metres.
The company was working to obtain a dewatering permit for an underground decline dating from the 1980s and preparing for a bulk sample when the print edition was prepared.
It received a three-year drill permit in July authorizing up to 60,000 metres of drilling from 17 stations at Parbec. Preparatory surface work and a smaller two-hole undercut drill program were completed in August to test geological models.
Renforth’s other key asset is the nearby polymetallic Victoria project, 19 km south of Agnico Eagle’s La Ronde mine. The property hosts a copper discovery, a historical gold showing, as well as the 20-km-long Victoria structure and its sister structure, Lalonde.
Victoria hosts a near-surface resource estimate based on 10,317 metres of drilling in 44 drill holes over just 2.5 km of the 20-km strike length. Inferred open-pit resources stand at 125 million tonnes grading 0.12% nickel, 0.02% copper, 0.01% cobalt, 0.08% zinc and 0.38 gram silver per tonne, according to an estimate effective Sept. 26, 2025.
Renforth launched follow-up drilling at Victoria in July. Highlights from previous drilling include 74.5 metres at 0.14% nickel and 95.45 parts per million cobalt from 126.5 metres in drill hole SUR21-04, including 10.5 metres of 0.52% copper, 0.09% nickel, 79.66 parts per million cobalt and 0.44% zinc starting from 183 metres downhole.
Renforth Resources has a market cap of about $12 million.
TomaGold
TomaGold (TSXV: LOT; US-OTC: TOGOF) is exploring its Berrigan zinc-copper-gold-silver project in northern Quebec, about 4 km northwest of Chibougamau.
In January, the company reported a new semi-massive sulphide zone at depth, opening up an extension zone named Berrigan Deep. A highlight intercept returned 98.5 metres grading 0.82 gram gold per tonne, 3.21 grams silver, 0.039% copper and 1.98% zinc starting from 451.2 metres in drill hole TOM-25-015. The mineralization remains open at depth.
TomaGold believes the deep zone could be linked to historical intersections up to 1 km east of the main Berrigan zone, near more felsic rock types, such as tuffs and porphyries.
In February, a borehole electromagnetic survey confirmed the deep zone. In March, the company initiated a 1,500-metre drill program with five extension drill holes to test it, along with a 4-km by 2-km deep geophysical survey. Additional drilling was planned to test new targets generated by geological and geophysical modelling.
Assays from the first of the five extension drill holes intersected a wide mineralized envelope. Drill hole TOM-25-011EXT returned 204.2 metres grading 0.35 gram gold, 2.43 grams silver, 0.04% copper and 0.58% zinc starting from 553.9 metres downhole. The second extension drill hole, TOM-25-009EXT, cut 29.9 metres grading 0.27 gram gold, 5.64 grams silver, 0.1% copper and 0.74% zinc from a depth of 469.25 metres.
TomaGold has an option to acquire 100% of the 5-sq.-km project from Chibougamau Independent Mines. The project has a historical resource of 1.39 million tonnes grading 3.17% zinc and 1.77 grams gold in the main Berrigan zone. No resource classification was provided.
In addition to Berrigan, TomaGold owns the Obalski gold-copper-silver project and holds options on several other properties in the Chibougamau camp. It also has lithium and rare earth element projects across the James Bay region.
The 27-sq.-km Obalski project is a former gold-silver-copper producer about 2 km south of Chibougamau. Some of TomaGold’s best drill intercepts at Obalski include 28.5 metres of 1.41 grams gold and 0.81 gram silver from 200 metres in OBS-21-009; and 3.2 metres of 23.78 grams gold, 16.55 grams silver and 1% copper from 330 metres in OBS-21-015.
TomaGold has a market cap of about $9.4 million.
Vior Gold
Vior Gold (TSXV: VIO; US-OTC: VIORF) has been releasing drill results this year from its pre-resource 530-sq.-km Ligneris project in the Abitibi, about 55 km northwest of Amos.
The 30,000-metre drill program began in January and has focused on the lateral and vertical extension of historical drill hole 275-073, which returned 8 metres grading 16.84 grams gold per tonne, including 3 metres grading 39.15 grams gold in the South Zone. It also targeted historical drill holes L-84-4 and LS-05, which respectively intersected 5.4 metres of 4.92 grams gold and 5.9 metres of 5.15 grams gold in the North Zone.
The first batch of assays released in March from the South Zone included 4 metres averaging 5.64 grams gold from 724 metres depth in LI-26-005; and 8 metres of 2.05 grams gold from 187 metres depth within a larger interval of 24.2 metres grading 1.1 grams gold from 185 metres in LI-26-006.
In May, drill hole LI-26-010EXT, drilled 50 metres southeast of LI-26-005EXT, returned 3 metres of 5.45 grams gold from 765 metres, confirming that high-grade mineralization continues below a vertical depth of 650 metres.
In September, the company reported its deepest gold intersection yet, with an intercept of 4.9 metres grading 6.43 grams gold in LI-26-038 at 845 metres vertical depth. The drill hole extended the mineralized trend 400 metres laterally.
Vior believes the South Zone shows similarities with gold-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits such as Agnico Eagle’s La Ronde.
Vior is also advancing Belleterre, a 680-sq.-km project that includes the former Belleterre mine, which produced more than 750,000 oz. gold at a grade of 10.7 grams gold between 1939 and 1957.
The company added to its portfolio in March with the acquisition from Agnico Eagle of the Kinebik, Peacock and Launay properties. Upon completion of the acquisition, Agnico was expected to hold an equity stake of about 10% in Vior.
The 226-sq.-km Peacock project is adjacent to Ligneris, and the 182-sq.-km Launay project lies about 43 km west-northwest of Amos. The 738-sq.-km Kinebik project, about 40 km northeast of Lebel-sur-Quévillon, covers 55 km of the Cameron Break. Vior began its planned 15,000-metre drill program at Kinebik in July and had completed about 6,500 metres by early September.
Vior Gold has a market cap of about $35 million.
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