Mother Nature doesn't hand over her best secrets from the surface. You have to go in and get them. $CNL @CollectiveCNL is going underground. In November, we begin construction of a ~3 km exploration adit at Guayabales, a roughly two-year build. The video below shows the tunnel's path and the portal area taking shape this week. I've spent much of my career in the mountains of Colombia, and one lesson stands above the rest: the best discoveries are made from underground. From surface, the mountain dictates where we drill. Long holes just to reach depth. Angles chosen by where we can build a pad, not by where the geology is. Underground, we flip that. We get close to the targets and drill-test them over more than a vertical kilometer, from orientations that are simply not available from surface. The road underground: 
Q1-2027: Trap East, a newly generated greenfield target
H2-2027: the Trap Main System, via a dedicated cross-cut
2028: Plutus and Apollo's Ramp Zone Trap has only been sparsely drilled along a 1.4-kilometer corridor. It extends up to 900 meters below surface and remains open along strike and at depth. The adit is positioned to intersect its currently known southeastern end. And between Trap and Plutus lies unexplored ground. What might we find there? I'm not discounting the possibility that we cut yet another mineralized system on the road to Apollo. Two years of tunneling. Four targets. One adit. We're going underground. Stay tuned.

Today's results from $CNL @CollectiveCNL mark a meaningful step in growing the footprint of the Apollo system. We stepped out ~340 meters into a previously untested portion of the Ramp Zone's northwest breccia margin and intersected high-grade gold: APC164-D4: 12.10 m @ 11.33 g/t AuEq APC164-D3: 54.00 m @ 2.84 g/t AuEq, including 23.65 m @ 4.54 g/t AuEq The Ramp Zone is a reduced intrusion-related gold system. Late-stage gold-rich veins fill the crackle breccia matrix. Because the crackle breccia phase is porous, gold-bearing fluids have more space to release their metal content, resulting in the high grades at Ramp. Importantly, today's intercepts indicate that the same mineralizing process responsible for the high-grade southeast Ramp Zone extends to the west and northwest margins of the breccia. The key point of the news today: our geologists interpret these holes as having intersected only the upper portion of the system. Approximately 80 meters deeper, APC180-D4 logged 19 occurrences of visible gold over 62 metres of core. Assays are pending, and visual observations are not a substitute for assay results. We also encountered new high-grade veins in untested ground that are not captured in any existing geological or block model, including 1.30 m @ 74.58 g/t AuEq in APC164-D4. To date, approximately 590 meters of the 1.5 km breccia circumference has been tested, and only about 315 meters is included in the maiden resource. With 13 rigs turning and assays pending for 95 holes (19 holes from the Ramp Zone), Apollo continues to flex its muscles as a rapidly expanding AuEq deposit. We will keep drilling until the geology shows us where the system ends, and every round of drilling so far has pushed that boundary further out.

Honored to host @ANMColombia, its President Juan Camilo Valencia González, and @MinAmbienteCo at @CollectiveCNL's Guayabales project. Sharp questions, thoughtful feedback. Working hand in hand with government is how a discovery moves from licensing to production. No surprises. That is how Colombia attracts world-class capital. License application on track for mid-2027.

Some thoughts on today's press release from $CNL @CollectiveCNL Silver and tungsten. Near surface. In rock we modeled as waste. APC-186, northern Apollo: 5.50m @ 1,283 g/t Ag + 0.83% WO₃ (1,999 g/t AgEq) from 89.15m within 87.60m @ 158 g/t AgEq from 17.70m Inside the pit shell. 600m north of where tungsten exists in the Mineral Resource. A new high-grade WO₃/Ag zone forming? Tungsten is a metal of national security: armor, aerospace, the machines that make machines. And the West has precious little of it. 22 of 23 Shallow Halo holes since our maiden resource hit mineralization in so-called waste rock. Only 29% of the zone is drill tested. Open north and east. 13 rigs turning. 99 holes awaiting assays. Great mineral systems don't announce themselves. You drill them, and they reveal themselves. We are still in the early innings at Guayabales. 🇨🇴 Full release 👇 newswire.ca/news-releases/co…

Colombia's Interior Minister calls this one of the most important economic announcements in years… he may be understating it. Under a draft decree, prior consultation and environmental licensing would advance in parallel instead of in sequence. Same technical standards, same respect for communities, but years taken out of the critical path. Sequential approvals are the quiet reason new mines in Canada and the United States so often take a decade or more to permit. Each step waits for the last to finish, and the clock runs while the world needs more copper, gold and energy than ever. In resources, time is the hidden cost of capital. Countries that run approvals in parallel, without lowering the bar, will win the next decade of investment… and Colombia is signalling it intends to be one of them. @jrestrp @fabio_arjona @ANMColombia @CollectiveCNL @Collective_Col

Since we announced Apollo’s maiden Mineral Resource on September 8, shareholders have been asking me: where does Apollo grow from here? This cross section shows why we’re excited about the potential. The highlighted spaces between the model blocks reflect limited or no drilling—areas where further drilling could unlock growth. Also, as everyone knows, we are growing at depth in the Ramp Zone. Check out the cross section image 👇 $CNL Today’s results include a new high-grade tungsten-gold discovery outside the Apollo breccia: 8.15m @ 0.40% WO₃ and 8.47 g/t gold. With the U.S. and Colombia recently signing a framework to strengthen critical-mineral supply chains, finding more tungsten in Colombia is especially timely. Plus 13 new high-grade veins, 7 of which are outside the block model including: • 1.15m @ 57.98 g/t AuEq • 1.25m @ 28.73 g/t AuEq The next chapter is in the drilling: 13 rigs turning across Guayabales and 96 drill holes awaiting assays. Full release: collectivemining.com/collect…

Thank you to ANM President Juan Camilo Valencia @valenciajc and @ANMColombia for highlighting $CNL's maiden Mineral Resource. Colombia has the minerals the world increasingly needs, and the opportunity to turn that potential into projects, jobs, and regional development. 🇨🇴 Let's move swiftly in partnership to capitalize on the opportunity! @CollectiveCNL instagram.com/reel/DdHvxEMNa…

$CNL has just announced Apollo’s maiden mineral resource… a proud day for our team, but certainly not a moment to stand still. What excites me is not simply the scale of this first estimate… it is the combination of scale, grade, a surprising large, high-grade open pit with a low strip ratio, the high-grade at the Ramp Zone, and the opportunity to keep growing. We see a favorable backdrop in Colombia… and we are positioning Collective to seize that opportunity. We deliberately accelerated this maiden Mineral Resource so we could, in turn, accelerate the project’s path toward licensing—with submission of our environmental licence application now targeted for H2 2027. We are not waiting to finish discovering before doing the work needed to advance responsibly toward development. And there is plenty more discovery work ahead… approximately 40,000 metres of additional drilling have already been completed since the March 31, 2026 database cut-off. None are included in today’s estimate. With 13 rigs operating across Guayabales, we are pursuing that opportunity aggressively. Exploration, engineering and environmental work are advancing together… growing the resource while building the foundation for the project’s next chapter. For our shareholders, our team and our partners in Colombia, today is a milestone worth celebrating. For me, it is also a powerful incentive to push harder. newswire.ca/news-releases/co…

This is what an open Colombia looks like in practice. National press covering real exploration progress in Caldas, including critical minerals. Collective Mining ($CNL) @co made the first tungsten discovery in Colombia's history, sitting right at the top of the Apollo system. The policy shift is starting to meet the geology.

The good news from Colombia continues unabated. I'll say it again: Colombia is going to be the hottest mining destination in LatAm, with incredible untapped geology begging for exploration and development. We at Collective Mining ($CNL) will be one of the key torchbearers in bringing Colombia to the forefront of critical mineral production. Yesterday: xitter.cf/Ariski73/status/209548…

Many have asked me what Colombia's mining sector will look like under the new government. It's go time. Colombia is about to become LatAm's latest hot mining destination. Vice President Restrepo just put mining back where it belongs: a strategic sector for development, employment, and investment, done responsibly. Collective Mining ($CNL) is going to be one of the key pillars of Colombia's economic growth engine and the first hard rock producer of tungsten, a key critical mineral.

What a nice surprise while visiting $CNL in Caldas, Colombia — the assay results for Apollo’s new northern breccia extension arrived while I was there. Watch the video for the full story, but a few quick highlights from today’s release: • 100-metre northern extension to the Apollo breccia body at ~1,000 MASL • 141.40m @ 4.88 g/t AuEq, including 38.00m @ 15.46 g/t AuEq • A 170-metre vertical extension to the Apollo system • Follow-up hole APC180-D1 has already cut up to 100m of prospective visual mineralization ~100m to the west — assays pending And the best part? We weren’t even targeting this new breccia extension. The holes were on their way to test the Ramp Zone (assay results pending). Apollo continues to surprise us. Full release 👇 collectivemining.com/collect…