Athena Gold Corporation (CSE: ATHA | OTCQB: AHNRF) is a junior exploration company hunting for high-grade gold in some of North America’s most productive gold camps. Its flagship Laird Lake project covers more than 7,000 hectares along over 10 km of the Balmer-Confederation contact in Ontario’s Red Lake Gold District, about 10 km west of West Red Lake Gold’s Madsen mine. In 2026, Athena’s maiden drill program made a near-surface, high-grade grassroots discovery at the new Scooby Zone, including 23.85 g/t gold over 5 metres, and a follow-up program of about 10,000 metres is planned. Athena also holds the 14,930-hectare Forester project near Equinox Gold’s Musselwhite mine in northwestern Ontario, and the Excelsior Springs project in Nevada’s Walker Lane Trend, which is currently under an earn-in option with Mammoth Minerals. Athena carries out its work in partnership with Wabauskang First Nation through an exploration agreement covering Laird Lake.