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Legacy Gold Announces Drilling Start Up Next Week on Historic Baner Gold Mine Property in Central Idaho
Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - August 5, 2025) - Legacy Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: LEGY) (the ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Legacy Gold Announces Drilling Start Up Next Week on Historic Baner Gold Mine Property in Central IdahoCalgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - August 5, 2025) - Legacy Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: LEGY) (the \"Company\" or \"Legacy Gold\") announces that drilling will commence next week on the Baner gold property located in Idaho County, Idaho, USA (the \"Baner Gold Mine Property\"). Permits and approvals were received in July from the US Forest Service, and the Company assembled the required contractors to target the mid-August start up date. The Baner Gold Mine Property sits within the Orogrande Mining District that includes numerous gold deposits and gold mines along geologic structures that have hosted gold production since Idaho's first gold rush in the late 1800's.\"We are excited to test the potential for gold mineralization our team believes there is on the Orogrande structure, which has hosted gold production from many mines in the past,\" said Brian Hinchcliffe, Legacy Gold CEO. \"Once drill approvals were in hand, the Legacy Gold team finalized plans with all contractors such that drilling will be completed in September, unless we extend the drill plan.\" \"Since acquiring our option on the Baner Gold Mine Property, a great deal of prospecting and surface sampling has been carried out and we are very pleased with these results, which found 20 historic mine shafts and adits and returned some high-grade assays at these historic mining sites,\" said Mike Sutton, VP, Exploration of the Company. \"We are concentrating now on finalizing the drill plans for next week's start up.\" As previously announced (see the Company's July 24, 2025, press release), following the acquisition of an option to acquire the Baner Gold Mine Property from Champion Electric Metals Inc. last year, Legacy Gold submitted applications for the various permits required to drill the 3,818 acre (1,545 hectare) Baner Gold Mine Property with the US Forest Service. The Company's applications were amongst the first to be reviewed and approved under the new Land Management Plan the US Forest Service has adopted for the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests. Champion Electric Metals had previously carried out two drilling programs on the Baner Gold Mine Property and since submitting its permitting applications, Legacy Gold has: Delineated and organized the pads and sit...