Episode Details

Jack Henris, President and COO, and Shawn Campbell, CFO of Dakota Gold (NYSE American: DC), both join me for a visual exploration and development update on their Richmond Hill Oxide Heap Leach Gold Project; located in the historic Homestake District of South Dakota, near existing mining infrastructure. We review all the drill results from 2025 and 2026 that will be incorporated into the upcoming resource estimate and Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) in Q4, and the timeline of key development studies that will feed into updated Feasibility Study economics in 2027. We also highlight the upcoming drill program at their Maitland Gold Project, which will lead into a maiden resource estimate.

We start off with Shawn reviewing the existing site and regional infrastructure advantages along with the resources at Richmond Hill that were defined in prior years drilling, while Jack outlined the key economic metrics as outlined in the existing SK-1300 Internal Assessment of Cash Flow (IACF).  Richmond Hill is one of the largest undeveloped oxide gold resources in the United States being advanced by a junior mining company, with over 6 million ounces of gold and over 60 million ounces of silver moving along the pathway of development into heap leach production as soon as 2029.

The 2026 Drill Campaign is now complete, and it totaled 17,273 meters of infill, expansion, and geotechnical drilling across 112 holes. Results from the 2025 and 2026 drill campaigns at Richmond Hill are being incorporated into a Pre-Feasibility Study (“PFS”) in the fourth quarter of 2026.

• The exploration team has been encouraged by the series of solid results from the northeast expansion drilling, which continues to identify higher-grade zones that complement the large heap-leachable resource at Richmond Hill.
• This data will support an updated mineral resource estimate, refine the geo-metallurgical model, and deliver a single optimized mine plan with sequencing.
• Jack highlighted that the results being intercepted in the Northeast Project area contain much higher grades than the average overall resource grade. These results have encouraged their team to consider trade-off studies for the upcoming Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS), to potentially access these higher-grade areas in the first several years of mining.
• These trade-off studies that will factor into the upcoming PFS will be analyzing the fine-tuning of the project economics around the grade optimization, mine optimization, amount of material processed, and run-of-mine streamlining.

Supported by their $107 million cash position as of March 31, 2026, Shawn pointed out that this strong capital position has allowed the Company to announce that they’ve secured the electrical substation build slot and are advancing engineering, site layout, and operational readiness along the project’s critical path. These workstreams will go above and beyond reporting reserves in 2026 PFS, and metallurgical test results and engineering studies will then inform the Feasibility Study to be completed in the first half of 2027.

Shawn reviews the maps of where the key site build-out will go on the private land, but also highlighted the potential to expand the Richmond Hill Project out beyond into the forest service lands in the fullness of time.  There was information shared that there is also opportunities in the future for the sulphide material underneath the oxide material at Richmond Hill.

Wrapping up, Jack shares that the drill program for this year just got underway at the Maitland Gold Project, with 5,578 meters (18,300 feet) planned over 44 holes.

• The goal of this infill drilling, when combined with historic drill results, will be to define a maiden resource for the Tertiary-aged Unionville gold Zone.
• There may be some additional work into the JB Gold Zone which has iron formation mineral