Revival Gold’s (TSXV: RVG; US-OTC: RVLGF) recent deep drilling has expanded the high-grade Joss deposit at the Beartrack-Arnett project in Idaho, CEO Hugh Agro said.

The 63-sq.-km project is located 19 km northwest of Salmon and about 400 km by road northeast of Boise, the state capital. Revival’s 5,500-metre drill program extended Joss 240 metres deeper to 850 metres below surface. Hole BT26-254D intersected 147.2 metres grading 2.37 grams gold per tonne from 808 metres downhole, including 5.9 metres grading 14.9 grams gold per tonne.

The deeper drilling matters because extending known mineralization at Joss adds more data for engineers and geologists to assess how the deposit could fit into a future development plan. Revival’s Utah Mercur project remains the company’s planned first build, with a prefeasibility study targeted for the first quarter of next year and a construction decision in early 2028. Even so, Joss’s 2023 underground resource of 6.75 million inferred tonnes grading 4.05 grams gold per tonne for 877,000 oz. could help move Beartrack-Arnett toward development sooner if the ongoing technical work supports that path.

“It’s in the cards,” Agro told The Northern Miner’s Western Editor, Henry Lazenby, this month at the Rule Symposium on Resource Investing in Boca Raton, Fla. “It’ll really come down to what the geologists and engineers have to say coming out of the drill program.”

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