Drilling Underway at Greenheart Gold's Tosso Creek Project After 13% Market Surge
Greenheart Gold mobilizes core rigs at the Tosso Creek Project in Suriname following standout high-grade trenching hits and a 13% stock rally.
Suriname’s Guiana Shield is proving once again that scraping the surface is merely the prologue.
Greenheart Gold Inc. (TSXV: GHRT | OTCQX: GHRTF) has officially mobilized rigs for an initial 2,000-meter diamond drilling program at its flagship Tosso Creek Project, sparking immediate market interest as shares surged 13.33% on heightened volume.
The campaign marks a critical pivot from surface trenching to testing whether the broad zones of surface gold mineralization extend into deep-seated continuity.
The core rig is currently turning at the central-western Walaba target before swinging east to the newly identified Swalanga target, located roughly one kilometer away. Recent trenching set the stage for this program with standout surface intercepts, including 56.0 meters grading 0.97 grams per tonne (g/t) gold at Swalanga. Over at Walaba, trenching uncovered 7.0 meters at 4.57 g/t gold, including a higher-grade shoot of 4.0 meters at 7.89 g/t gold, alongside a broader interval of 52.0 meters grading 0.77 g/t gold. These high-grade pockets embedded within wider mineralized corridors suggest strong structural preparation underground.
Geologically, Tosso Creek sits along the southern end of the Paramaka Formation, a regionally extensive metavolcanic and metasedimentary sequence renowned for hosting major gold systems, including the nearby Sara Kreek gold fields. The team guiding this campaign is equally familiar with striking gold in the region. Led by President and CEO Justin van der Toorn, Greenheart's executive crew consists of former exploration leaders from Reunion Gold, the team credited with discovering the multi-million-ounce Oko West deposit in neighboring Guyana.
While the rigs punch down into Walaba and Swalanga, exploratory work across the broader property continues to feed the pipeline.
Early-stage trenching at the Maconia target to the north has wrapped up with assay results pending, while mapping continues at the Sevil target along a prospective contact zone between granitoid intrusions and volcano-sedimentary rocks.
For investors eyeing organic discovery stories, Greenheart Gold Inc. (TSXV: GHRT) is providing a textbook display of methodical exploration, turning surface geochemical anomalies into high-priority drill targets.
Source
- Newsfile Corp press release, issued August 20, 2026.
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