Arizona Metals highlights La Paz County gold project in Arizona update

Arizona Metals’ latest Arizona filing is aimed at its Kay Mine project in Yavapai County, but La Paz County still has a place in the company’s story. Sugarloaf Peak remains one of Arizona Metals’ two 100%-owned Arizona projects, and the company continues to describe the La Paz County property as a gold target worth watching even though the June 12 filing did not bring a new local drill result or resource update.

The company said the June 12 technical report is an NI 43-101 report for the Kay Mine Project preliminary economic assessment, with an effective date of April 30, 2026. It was prepared by G Mining Services Inc. with contributions from SGS Canada Inc., and Arizona Metals said there were no material differences between the report and the April 30 PEA disclosure. For La Paz County, that matters mostly as a signal of corporate momentum: the company is still advancing technical work in Arizona, even if the filing itself centers on a different part of the state.

Sugarloaf Peak, in La Paz County, covers 4,400 acres of BLM claims and is still being framed by Arizona Metals as a heap-leach, open-pit gold target with significant exploration upside. The company cites a historic Westworld Resources estimate of 100 million tons averaging 0.5 grams per ton gold, or about 1.5 million ounces, but it also stresses that the estimate has not been verified by a Qualified Person and is not being treated as a current mineral resource. That distinction is the key one for local watchers: the property remains prospective, but it is not yet at the stage where the company is publicly relying on a formal, current resource for development decisions.

There are also reasons Sugarloaf Peak has not slipped from the company’s promotional map. Arizona Metals says preliminary metallurgical testing showed oxide gold recoveries of up to 95%, a figure that can materially improve the economics of a heap-leach concept if it holds up in further work. The company also reported 2025 reverse-circulation drilling that returned 91.4 meters grading 0.69 grams per ton gold, including 1.5 meters at 25.5 grams per ton gold, which it described as the highest gold grade on the property to date, including surface samples.

Earlier drilling has pointed in the same direction. In 2020, Arizona Metals reported hole SP-20-02 intersected 119.8 meters grading 0.34 grams per ton gold from surface. Put together, the June filing is not a local development decision for Sugarloaf Peak, but it is more than background noise: Arizona Metals is still putting capital and technical attention into Arizona, and Sugarloaf Peak remains part of that pipeline along La Paz County’s western edge.