In the wake of what has been described as “obscene” intersects at Gold Standard Ventures’ newly consolidated Railroad-Pinion project and a corresponding jump in the share price, CEO Jon Awde shares with The Gold Report readers his plans for moving the project forward in 2016.
The Gold Report: When we chatted last year, Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV:TSX.V; GSV:NYSE) had just consolidated the Railroad-Pinion District in the Carlin Trend in Nevada and you were doing controlled radio source audiofrequency and gravity surveys on the project. What did you discover?
Jon Awde: We discovered there was a lot more going on than we thought, and it led to additional consolidation just east of Pinion to a deposit called Dark Star. The property was cut up and fractionally owned so we consolidated it. We quickly realized that a lot of the previous work that had been carried out on this part of the project was incomplete and that opened up a lot of possibilities.
Gold Standard Ventures Property Ownership in Carlin Trend, Nevada.
Photo courtesy of Gold Standard Ventures.
TGR: You have released test results on Dark Star that Bob Moriarty called “obscene” in a good way. What’s your strategy for moving that discovery forward?
JA: The Dark Star project is something that we’re very excited about. To hit 150-plus meters of 1.5 grams per ton oxide in the Carlin Trend has historically meant you were in a large, robust system. This is our second blind discovery on the project. This just goes to show that our exploration team is very good. This was a systematic, methodical model-driven exploration process. Our strategy is to hit this whole corridor, which from north to south is about 10 miles long. On the southern end is …read more