Completion Of New Tailings Circuit At The New Jersey Mill

COEUR D’ALENE, ID – Idaho Strategic Resources, Inc. (IDR) reported that during the second quarter, IDR completed 5,819 meters of drilling in total. This included 2,176 meters completed at the Golden Chest targeting the Paymaster, Red Star, and the H-Vein; 1,687 meters of drilling at two prospects in the Murray Gold Belt, Buckskin and King Mine; and 1,956 meters of drilling at Eastern Star – the Company’s first ever drill program on the project.
Significant progress was made at the New Jersey Mill with the completion of the new tailings filtration circuit, which was 80% complete at the end of the first quarter. Commissioning of the tailings filtration circuit was also completed during the second quarter and haulage of tailings back to the Golden Chest mine has commenced as well.
IDR executed a long-term lease agreement for the mineral claims comprising approximately 1,500 acres of various in-holdings within the Company’s Mineral Hill and Lemhi Pass rare earth elements projects. The leased land included the mineral claims covering the Cardinal prospect at the Company’s Mineral Hill project, which recently returned greater than 17% total rare earth oxides in a sample taken from a carbonatite outcrop. The Company announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Clean Core Thorium Energy, Inc.
President and CEO, John Swallow, said, “At IDR, record quarterly revenue and cash flow brings with it record activity and record investment back into the production side of the business and in gold and rare earth elements exploration. There shouldn’t be any theorists left surmising what it will be like at $2k or $3k gold – we are now living the times for which we have all been training. And for the ‘China dumping commodities’ handwringers, the MP/DoD REE announcement of early July was a welcome long-trend reversal and, in my opinion, marked the birth of a new domestic industry and approach in the US. The results are impressive by any measure, and the rare earth side of our business advanced nicely during the quarter, from a macro level as well as from boots on the ground. Adding a supportive domestic demand profile to an industry with only a few established players and where a lot of energy has been expended by outsiders over the last five years looking for new deposits (with little success), is also good for our company and our shareholders. Our balance sheet is strong and this years’ re-investment back into the asset base is on track. I am looking forward to the next quarter and a strong finish to 2025.”
In the second quarter of 2025, at the Golden Chest Mine, ore tonnes processed at the New Jersey Mill increased by approximately 10.58% to 10,240 dry metric tonnes resulting in gold production of 3,010 ounces at an average flotation feed grade of 9.97 grams per tonne (gpt). All-in sustaining cost (AISC) per ounce of gold in the second quarter of 2025 was $1,980.41, which is an increase of approximately 42.75% over the second quarter of 2024. Cash costs per ounce was $1,064.68 in 2025, compared to $904.67 in 2024. The increase in AISC is largely a result of 5,819 meters of drilling completed during the second quarter of 2025 in alignment with the Company’s production-backed exploration business plan. Adjusted AISC per ounce without exploration expenses were $1,313.31 in the second quarter of 2025 and $1,197.99 in the second quarter of 2024.