Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSXV:LG) has received its permit for the 2023 drilling campaign at its flagship Santa Fe Mine located in Nevada’s prolific Walker Lane.
The United States Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved an amendment to the company’s previously approved Notice of Intent to Operate which will allow the company to drill up to 11,000m at the Santa Fe Mine.
The objective of this drilling campaign is to expand known shallow oxide gold and silver resources at Santa Fe, targeting an updated Mineral Resource Estimate by year-end 2023.
“The company appreciates working with the Nevada office of the BLM and the positive permitting environment in the state of Nevada as a whole,” Founder, CEO, President, and Director, Kimberly Ann, said.
“We are excited to begin our 2023 drilling programme at Santa Fe and expect to announce mobilization of drilling crews shortly. Lahontan continues to plan additional exploration at our other projects while simultaneously evaluating acquisition opportunities that can provide accretive to growth for the company.”
About Lahontan Gold Corp.
Lahontan Gold Corp. is a Canadian mineral exploration company that holds, through its US subsidiaries, three top-tier gold and silver exploration properties in the Walker Lane of mining friendly Nevada. Lahontan’s flagship property, the 19sq. km Santa Fe Mine, had past production of 345,000oz of gold and 711,000oz of silver between 1988 and 1995 from open pit mines utilizing heap-leach processing (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1995).
The Santa Fe Mine has an Indicated Mineral Resource of 1,112,000oz Au Eq (grading 1.14g/t Au Eq) and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 544,000oz Au Eq (grading 1.00g/t Au Eq), all pit constrained.
The company will continue to aggressively explore Santa Fe during 2023 and begin the process of evaluating development scenarios to bring the Santa Fe Mine back into production.
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