Peloton Flies Drone Magnetics at North Elko Before Fall Drilling

Peloton Minerals Corporation (CSE: PMC; OTCQB: PMCCF) said on September 15, 2026 that it is flying a drone-borne airborne magnetic survey over the southern 26 square kilometers of its 53-square-kilometer North Elko lithium and critical minerals project in northeastern Nevada, on 200-meter line spacings totaling 372 kilometers of flight, as a precursor to drilling planned this fall.

Peloton Minerals Corporation (OTCQB: PMCCF), which also trades in Canada on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol PMC, said on September 15, 2026 that it has a drone in the air over northeastern Nevada. The aircraft is collecting airborne magnetic data across the southern half of the company's North Elko Lithium and critical minerals project, known as NELP, and the results are meant to feed directly into a drill program the company says it is planning for this fall.

The survey area is about 26 square kilometers, or 10 square miles. Flight lines are spaced 200 meters apart, and the total flight distance is 372 kilometers. That works out to roughly 14 line-kilometers of flying for every square kilometer covered, an illustrative ratio derived from the two disclosed figures rather than a company statistic, and it is consistent with a survey designed to map structure at property scale rather than to chase a single target.

Stitching two halves of a 53-square-kilometer map together

The northern half of NELP was already flown with airborne magnetics in 2024-25. Peloton said the new southern dataset will later be merged with that earlier work to produce a complete magnetic picture of the full 53-square-kilometer, 20-square-mile property. On the disclosed areas, the current survey covers just under half of the ground — an arithmetic point worth noting because it means the company is about to hold, for the first time, a single continuous geophysical image of the entire land package rather than two disconnected surveys.

That matters more than it sounds. Magnetic surveys do not detect lithium. What they map is variation in the magnetic properties of rock, which in practice traces faults, contacts between rock units, intrusive bodies and buried structure. In a basin setting, that structural framework is often what controls where mineralized horizons sit, how deep they are, and which way they dip. A survey flown at 200-meter spacing over a contiguous 53 square kilometers gives a geologist a chance to follow a fault from one side of the property to the other instead of guessing whether two features seen on separate maps are the same feature.

The third dataset in a stacked summer program

The drone magnetics are not a standalone exercise. Peloton describes the program as a precursor to fall drilling and as the last of three complementary surveys run over the same ground this year. A surface transient electromagnetic survey — a ground-based method that pushes a current into the earth and reads the decaying secondary field to infer how conductive the subsurface is at depth — was completed earlier this summer. A soil geochemistry survey on a 200-meter grid, also covering the southern half of the property, has likewise been completed.

The logic of stacking those three is straightforward. Soil geochemistry says where anomalous metal is at surface. Electromagnetics respond to conductive material at depth, which in lithium-brine and clay settings can point to saline or clay-rich horizons. Magnetics supply the structural skeleton. Peloton said the surveys were designed to improve its understanding of the orientation of lithium and critical minerals mineralization on the property — which is, in effect, the question a drill collar has to answer. Angled holes into a dipping target hit very differently than vertical holes into the same target, and cheap geophysics ahead of expensive drilling is how juniors try to avoid paying to learn that lesson.

The details of the campaign were disclosed through INN Precious Metals on September 15, 2026, dated from London, Ontario.

Drones have quietly changed the economics of early-stage geophysics

The choice of platform is part of the story. Airborne magnetics have traditionally meant a fixed-wing aircraft or a helicopter, which brings mobilization costs, crew, fuel and a survey window dictated by aircraft availability. Drone-borne magnetometers have pushed that work down-market. For a survey of this size — tens of square kilometers, a few hundred line-kilometers — a drone can often fly tighter to the terrain, hold line spacing over broken ground, and be scheduled around weather rather than around an aircraft charter.

For an exploration company whose shares trade in pennies, that difference is not a technical footnote. It determines how much of a limited treasury goes to data collection and how much survives to fund a drill rig. Peloton's stock reflects that scale of company: PMCCF last traded at 0.06 on September 15, 2026, down 7.58% on the day as of 13:31 GMT, with the prior close and the full day's range all sitting at the same 0.06 level. At that price, a single cent of movement is a large percentage swing, and the day's decline says more about the thinness of the book than about the survey.

The tape is calm, the funding market for juniors is not

The wider market gave no direction on the day. The S&P 500 tracker (SPY) was at $760.20, off 0.09%; the Nasdaq 100 tracker (QQQ) sat at $708.63, down 0.08%; and the Dow tracker (DIA) was at $523.30, down 0.23%. Broad equities were flat, which leaves microcap explorers to be judged on their own news flow.

That is the harder environment. Nevada remains the center of gravity for United States lithium exploration — it is where the country's domestic supply ambitions keep pointing, and it is where a large share of North American lithium claim staking has concentrated. But interest in the jurisdiction has not translated evenly into capital for every explorer holding ground there. Companies at Peloton's end of the market typically fund drilling through equity, and at a six-cent share price the arithmetic of raising money is unforgiving: every dollar raised is more dilutive than it would have been in a stronger lithium tape.

That is precisely why the sequencing described here is the operationally important part of the release. Geophysics and soil sampling are the cheap steps. Drilling is the expensive one. By closing out three surveys over the same southern block before mobilizing a rig, Peloton is trying to buy target confidence with survey dollars rather than with drill meters.

What to watch from here

Three checkpoints follow. First, the merged north-south magnetic product for the full 53 square kilometers, and whether it resolves continuous structures across the property boundary between the two survey vintages. Second, whether the magnetic, electromagnetic and soil geochemistry anomalies actually coincide — coincident anomalies from independent methods are what usually promote a target to drill-ready. Third, the drill program itself: how many holes, where they are collared, how deep they go, and critically, whether the company has the funding in place to complete what it announces.

Until assays exist, none of this is a resource. It is the mapping work that determines whether the holes are pointed in the right direction, and this fall will show whether the summer's data collection changed where the rig goes.

Key facts

• Share price: PMCCF at 0.06, -7.58% on the day, as of 13:31 GMT Sept 15, 2026
• Survey area: 26 sq km (10 sq miles), southern half of NELP
• Survey design: 200-meter flight line spacing; 372 km total flight distance
• Next step: Drilling planned for fall 2026 at North Elko, northeastern Nevada

Frequently asked questions

What is Peloton Minerals doing at North Elko?

Peloton Minerals Corporation is flying an airborne magnetic geophysical survey using drone technology over the southern half of its North Elko Lithium and critical minerals project in northeastern Nevada. The survey covers about 26 square kilometers on 200-meter line spacings, with a total flight distance of 372 kilometers, and precedes drilling the company says is planned for this fall.

How big is the North Elko property?

The NELP property covers 53 square kilometers, or 20 square miles. The northern half was surveyed with airborne magnetics in 2024-25, and the current drone survey covers the southern half at about 26 square kilometers. Peloton said the two datasets will later be combined to give a complete magnetic picture of the whole property.

Can a magnetic survey find lithium directly?

No. Magnetic surveys measure variations in the magnetic properties of rock, which map faults, rock contacts and buried structure rather than lithium itself. Explorers use that structural framework to work out the likely orientation and depth of mineralized horizons, then combine it with other datasets such as electromagnetics and soil geochemistry to site drill holes.

What other surveys has Peloton completed this year?

Two others over the same ground. A surface transient electromagnetic survey, which measures how conductive the subsurface is at depth, was completed earlier this summer. A soil geochemistry survey on a 200-meter grid, also covering the southern half of the property, has been completed. Peloton said the programs were designed to clarify the orientation of mineralization.

Where does Peloton Minerals trade?

Peloton Minerals Corporation trades on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol PMC and on the OTCQB market in the United States under the symbol PMCCF. As of 13:31 GMT on September 15, 2026, PMCCF last traded at 0.06, down 7.58% on the day, with the previous close and the full intraday range at the same level.

Why use a drone instead of an aircraft for the survey?

Airborne magnetics have traditionally required a fixed-wing plane or helicopter, which adds mobilization, crew and charter costs. Drone-borne magnetometers can cover survey areas of tens of square kilometers at lower cost, fly closer to the terrain and be scheduled more flexibly. For a small explorer, that preserves treasury for the far more expensive step of drilling.

Sources

• Peloton Conducts Airborne Geophysics Using Drone Technology at the North Elko Lithium Project, Nevada — INN Precious Metals

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