Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSXV: LG | OTCQB: LGCXF) has announced a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for its flagship Santa Fe Mine, a past-producing open pit, heap leach gold and silver mine located in Mineral County, Nevada.
Kimberly Ann, founder, CEO, and president of Lahontan Gold Corp commented: “Lahontan is thrilled with the results of this MRE for the Santa Fe Mine, validating our business concept focusing on brownfield exploration and development opportunities. The MRE demonstrates the presence of a large, readily exploitable, oxide gold resource and importantly, higher-grade non-oxide gold resources.”
The MRE for Santa Fe is based upon 1,275 drill holes totalling 125,435m, including 50 drill holes totalling 13,118m drilled by Lahontan since 2021.
The project-wide pit constrained Indicated Mineral Resources of 1,112,000 contained gold equivalent ounces and Inferred Mineral Resources of 544,000 contained Au Eq ounces. Project-wide average grade for the Indicated Mineral Resource is 1.14g/t Au Eq; the average grade of the Project-wide Inferred Mineral Resource is 1.00g/t Au Eq.
Indicated Oxide Resources totalled 21.6 Mt grading 1.03g/t Au Eq for 712,000 Au Eq ounces and Inferred Oxide Resources totalled 11.1Mt grading 0.73g/t Au Eq for 262,000 Au Eq ounces.
The conceptual pit shells returned preliminary strip ratios (waste: ore) of 3.6:1 at the Santa Fe deposit and 2.3:1 at the Slab-Calvada-York Complex. Within both conceptual pits, gold and silver deposits crop out at the surface providing opportunities for rapid, low-cost mining operations.
The MRE block model shows that gold and silver mineralization extends well beyond the conceptual pit shells, generating high-quality targets for additional drilling and resource growth.
“Shallow, good grade oxide gold mineralization in the high-wall of the Santa Fe pit and outcropping oxide resources in Slab-Calvada-York complex, give the Company a clear option for rapid mine development at a significant production rate. We intend to take advantage of the technical and metallurgical data generated over six years of historical mining and heap-leach processing to quickly evaluate the economic potential of the oxide portion of the mineral resource. All deposits comprising the Santa Fe Mine remain open for resource expansion and we look forward to continued drilling at Santa Fe as we grow and expand the size and scale of the project”. Kimberly added.
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