# Lahontan Drills Thick, Shallow Gold at York: 90m grading 0.23 g/t Au Plus a Second High Grade Zone: 18m grading 0.73 g/t Au, All Oxide *2025-09-02T07:00:00-04:00* Lahontan Drills Thick, Shallow Gold at York: 90m grading 0.23 g/t Au Plus a Second High Grade Zone: 18m grading 0.73 g/t Au, All Oxide **TORONTO, ON / [ACCESS Newswire](https://www.accessnewswire.com/)/ September 2, 2025 / ****Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSXV:LG)(OTCQB:LGCXF)(FSE:Y2F) **(the **"Company"**or **"Lahontan"**) is pleased to announce the results from our 2025 Phase One drilling program at the Company's flagship Santa Fe Mine Project located in Nevada's prolific Walker Lane. Lahontan completed seven reverse-circulation rotary ("**RC**") drill holes totaling 1,210 metres (please see table below). Significant results include: - York: 89.9 metres (45.7 - 135.6m) grading 0.23 g/t Au (YOR25-001R): **A very shallow, thick, intercept of oxide gold mineralization**that greatly expands the footprint of the York gold zone and confirms the potential to expand the York gold resource along strike and down-dip, leveraging the upside value of the recently announced York claim acquisition (please see cross section below). - York: A **secondhigher grade zone at York**: 18.3 metres (141.7 - 160.0m) grading 0.73 g/t Au including 12.2m grading 1.00 g/t Au (YOR25-002R). This drill hole bottomed in oxidized gold mineralized rock and is open up and down-dip, and along strike, defining a second gold trend at York. - Slab: 39.6 metres (67.1 - 106.7m) grading 0.30 g/t Au **immediately below the south end of the Slab open pit**(CAL25-004R). This drill hole defines a second, strataform, oxide gold horizon that mimics the geometry of the Slab mineral resource defined by prior drilling* and confirms a new target for gold resource expansion.  Cross section through drill hole YOR25-001R. The thick oxide gold intercept correlates with adjacent drill holes demonstrating excellent continuity to gold mineralization and the potential to greatly expand the conceptual pit shell used to constrain the gold mineral resource estimate at York. Note that the true thickness of the gold intercept is approximately equal to the drilled interval. The 2025 Phase One RC drilling program was intended to confirm multiple target concepts in the York and Slab gold resource areas at the Santa Fe Mine Project. Based on the very positive results described in more detail below, the Company is in the process of planning additional drilling at both York and Slab for later this year. York Drilling: Both RC drill holes completed at York successfully defined new extensions to known oxide gold mineral resources*. As shown above, YOR25-001R confirmed the down-dip continuity of shallow oxide gold mineralization east of the York open pit along the Columbia Fault. Gold mineralization in the drill hole shows excellent correlation with previous drilling, in both thickness and gold grade. As noted above, oxide gold mineralization is open to the north where the gold zone appears to become shallower, and to the south, where mineralization is unconstrained by drilling. Importantly, the newly acquired York claims (please see Lahontan press release dated August 19, 2025) provide ample room for further oxide gold resource expansion, without the constraint of a claim boundary. YOR25-002R is particularly interesting as it validates the geologic model for the York Fault, an important north-south striking fault that is a key control for gold mineralization in the York area (please see map and section below). YOR25-002R bottomed in good grade oxide gold mineralization (1.0 g/t Au) that may be corelate to the gold zone defined in YOR25-001R, and is likely the upper portion of a much thicker gold zone: another target for resource expansion drilling in the Fall (please see section below). The York Fault gold system remains open up-dip, down-dip, and along strike. These two drill holes at York underscore the potential to greatly expand the York gold resource and demonstrate the considerable upside of the York area at Santa Fe, amplified by the recently acquired new claims at York.  York area drill hole location map. Line(s) of the York cross sections are shown in red, the western boundary of the newly acquired York claims is shown by the dashed line. North is up.  Cross section through drill hole YOR25-002R (see location map for line of section). Combined with the results from YOR25-001R, the drilling confirms the potential to expand the York conceptual pit shell as shown in red. YOR25-002R bottomed in oxide gold mineralization grading 1.0 g/t Au Eq. This intercept may corre