Relevant Gold has secured approval from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to expand exploration drilling at its wholly owned Lewiston Project in Fremont County, Wyoming.
The BLM has approved Relevant Gold’s Plan of Operations for the project.
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The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has also cleared the associated Drill Notice, permitting activity at 29 new drill-pad locations on the southern Burr and Sweetwater trends.
With these approvals in place, Relevant Gold plans to complete further drilling at the Sweetwater and Burr targets before 2026 ends.
The programme includes a step-out drill hole at the Burr target, positioned roughly 2km from the 2024 drilling area, aiming at a mapped extension beneath gold-bearing surface occurrences sampled in 2025.
Outcomes from this drilling are expected to inform follow-up work planned for 2027.
The company’s 2024 drilling campaign at Burr intersected shear-hosted gold mineralisation in all six completed holes, covering 1,026m over about 300m of strike length and to a depth of 175m.
Notable results included 2.2g/t gold over a 1.5m core interval in hole 24HH-4, within a broader zone of 1.4g/t gold over 2.4 m.
Subsequent mapping and sampling programmes extended the interpreted Burr trend for over 2.5km southwest of the 2024 drill area and identified additional mineralised shear corridors.
Of 446 rock-chip and grab samples collected across the 2025 southern Lewiston campaign, 84 returned at least 0.1g/t gold, with 34 samples at or above 1g/t gold.
Selected samples from Burr returned up to 13.1g/t gold, while individual Sweetwater samples featured values including 8.04g/t gold and 603g/t silver.
The new permit covers an additional 2.5km of the Burr trend and parallel Sweetwater trend but does not oblige Relevant Gold to drill every approved site, with ongoing work subject to operational, access, and reclamation requirements.
Relevant Gold CEO Rob Bergmann said: “We’re excited by the opportunity to test whether the mineralisation we’ve identified so far is part of a much more extensive gold system, and these approvals let us put that bigger geological picture to the test right.
“Gold in all six of our 2024 holes at Burr gave us a starting point, but now we have the opportunity to test targets across an approximately 3km interpreted Burr trend, as well as the first crack at the parallel Sweetwater trend.”
