Approval Received For West Santa Fe Drill Program

TORONTO – Lahontan Gold Corp. has received approval from the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its maiden drill program at the West Santa Fe project, located only 13 km from Lahontan’s flagship Santa Fe Mine project in Walker Lane. The BLM approved Lahontan’s Notice of Intent (NOI) for drill sites on unpatented lode mining claims located on BLM administered Federal lands at West Santa Fe. The drilling program will focus on validating historic drilling and testing significant extensions to the known gold and silver mineralized system at West Santa Fe. The Company currently has a drill rig active at the Santa Fe Mine project and will move the drill rig to West Santa Fe when that drill program is complete.
Kimberly Ann, CEO, Executive Chair, and Founder, said, “The Company is excited to receive approval of the West Santa Fe NOI from the BLM. We appreciate the efficiency of the BLM in processing the permit. We can now focus on confirming the positive results from historic drilling at West Santa Fe which outlined a very shallow, oxidized, gold and silver system. Our geologic work at West Santa Fe shows that the gold and silver mineralization identified by historic drilling extends for several kilometres to the east along strike as well as down-dip to the north. The company expects the drilling program to commence this month.”