Relevant Gold Commences 5,000-Metre Drill Program at Lewiston Project

By Mining Hub News Desk
12 August 2026, 10:56 a.m. EDT 2 min read

Relevant Gold Corp. has commenced a 5,000-metre oriented diamond drill program at the Burr target zone within its 100%-owned Lewiston Project in west-central Wyoming, USA.

The fully funded and permitted program is designed to test whether the gold-bearing system extends beyond the 300-metre-long zone drilled in 2024, while also targeting newly defined parallel structures. The current campaign scales up significantly from previous work. In late 2024, Relevant Gold completed a six-hole, 1,026-metre drill program at Burr with a maximum vertical depth of approximately 175 metres. The new program will evaluate an additional 500 metres of strike extent, with select holes targeted to approximately 400 metres vertical depth—roughly 225 metres deeper than prior drilling.

Subsequent 2025 VTEM and magnetic geophysical surveys identified 15 high-priority targets at Lewiston out of 44 anomalies across the South Pass Gold Camp.

“Our 2024 drilling confirmed that the Burr target at Lewiston hosts a gold-bearing structural system. Over the past two years, we've built a much deeper understanding of that system through drilling, mapping, surface geochemistry and geophysics, with each new dataset strengthening our geological model. We're returning to Burr with a clear strategy and a drill program designed to test whether this mineralized system extends well beyond the area drilled to date”

— Rob Bergmann, Chief Executive Officer

Alongside drilling, the company awaits a regulatory decision on expanded Federal and State permit applications covering an additional 2.5 kilometres of strike along the Burr and parallel Sweetwater trends. Gold traded at $4,434.50 per ounce, representing a 10.48% increase over the 30-day period.

The exploration program also incorporates follow-up analytical work from the 2025 surface sampling program. Overlimit assays from four surface samples confirmed high-grade base and precious metals, including up to 506 g/t Ag and 5.38% Cu. Additionally, metallic screen fire-assay analysis on 25 selected samples showed general agreement with original PhotonAssay results. Ten of those samples contained coarse gold exceeding 10% of the calculated metallic screen grade, confirming that coarse gold locally contributes to sample variability without compromising overall analytical repeatability.

Concurrent work at Lewiston includes geological mapping, rock sampling, ground verification of VTEM responses, selective overburden stripping across the Burr shear zone, and integration of new datasets into the company's three-dimensional model.

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