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British Columbia has quietly become one of the most active mineral exploration addresses in Canada. The province accounts for roughly half of the country’s copper output and hosts potential production in at least 22 of the 34 minerals on Canada’s critical minerals list as of early 2026. The provincial government has backed that momentum with a $3 million budget commitment to speed up permitting timelines for exploration projects, and earlier this year it selected three projects, covering copper, molybdenum, and rare earths, for fast-tracked coordination through its Critical Minerals Office. Against that backdrop, active drill programs across north-central and northwestern B.C. continue to attract attention from investors looking for early-stage exposure to gold and copper before major feasibility milestones arrive.
One of those programs just delivered results worth taking a closer look at.
Doubleview Gold Corp. (OTCQB: DBLVF, TSXV: DBG), a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company, released assay results from seven drill holes (H102 through H108) completed during its 2025 drill program at the 100%-owned Hat Project in northwestern British Columbia. The headline finding is that gold-copper mineralization now extends approximately 150 metres beyond the boundary used to build the company’s existing resource model, opening what Doubleview calls the Far East Zone.
That distinction matters. Earlier in 2026, Doubleview completed a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for the Hat Project, published in March, which outlined after-tax net present value economics of $4.83 billion (C$6.73 billion) at consensus metal prices. The drill holes announced today were not included in the February 2026 Mineral Resource Estimate or the March 2026 PEA. They represent new ground, literally and economically.
The seven holes were drilled from two separate platforms roughly 233 metres apart, targeting the eastern side of the Hat system. Holes H102 through H105 added density and continuity data inside and below the eastern edge of the PEA pit shell, providing geological support for future resource modelling. Holes H106 through H108, drilled from the second platform, are the ones that defined the Far East Zone. Those three holes hit mineralization approximately 150 metres east of the current resource envelope.
The standout numbers from the Far East Zone come from hole H106, which returned 8.0 metres grading 4.04 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au), sitting inside a broader interval of 48.0 metres at 0.98 g/t Au. Hole H108 returned 112.0 metres at 0.40 g/t Au. For context, the Hat deposit is primarily a copper-gold-cobalt-scandium system where gold typically plays a supporting role to copper equivalent grades. These gold-enriched intervals in the Far East Zone suggest a different character to the mineralization in that area, and the company says they provide geological vectors for follow-up drilling.
President and CEO Farshad Shirvani noted that none of these holes were part of the resource estimate or PEA, and that the Far East Zone sits materially beyond the mineralized footprint used in those studies. The company has not updated its resource estimate based on these results, and additional drilling will be needed to determine the geometry, continuity, and full extent of the zone.
The broader context is relevant. The Hat deposit, as measured to the February 2026 resource estimate, hosts 609 million tonnes of Measured and Indicated resources at 0.43% copper equivalent, containing approximately 5.82 billion pounds of copper equivalent.
The stock has gained more than 290% over the past 12 months, driven in large part by the advancing scale of the project. These new results sit on top of a project that already carries multi-billion-dollar economics in an independent assessment, which is an unusual combination at the junior exploration stage.
British Columbia’s north-central corridor, where the Hat Project sits near Telegraph Creek, is not the Golden Triangle, but it operates under the same geological logic: large, deeply mineralized porphyry-style systems with the potential to carry significant tonnage at economic grades. The province’s push to accelerate critical mineral permitting, combined with sustained institutional and retail interest in copper and gold, makes the timing of resource expansion news at Hat particularly relevant for anyone watching the sector.
The company will need to follow up with additional drilling to define the Far East Zone more precisely, and any update to the resource estimate or economic studies would represent a separate formal process. For now, the results confirm that the Hat deposit has room to grow beyond what the current economics are built on.
