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• Lahontan’s Santa Fe project hosts nearly 2 million ounces of gold-equivalent resources and a Preliminary Economic Assessment showing a US$200 million after-tax NPV and a 34.2% IRR
• Those economics assume US$2,705 gold, well below the US$4,100-plus price of mid-2026, leaving the project’s current margins materially understated on paper
• With federal drilling approvals secured, two rigs turning, and permitting advancing, the company is targeting a production restart in 2027

For decades, gold investors prized resource size and grade above all else. In 2026, a different variable sits atop the checklist: jurisdiction. In June 2025, Mali’s military government seized Barrick’s Loulo-Gounkoto complex, one of West Africa’s largest gold operations, holding roughly three metric tons of bullion and forcing a US$1.04 billion write down before a settlement was reached that November. Niger nationalized its only industrial gold mine and stripped France’s Orano of its uranium rights. With gold trading above US$4,100 an ounce, more than 25% higher than early 2025, the spread between an ounce in the ground and an ounce an investor can monetize has never mattered more. That backdrop frames the case for Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSX.V: LG) (OTCQB: LGCXF), a Nevada-focused developer advancing the Santa Fe Mine project in the Walker Lane.

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