Good news regarding BLM claims
Railroad Mining District projects gets EA
ELKO — The Bureau of Land Management has released an Environment Assessment for a gold exploration project south of Carlin.
Gold Standard Ventures Corp.’s Railroad Exploration project is 25 miles south of Carlin on public and private lands.
The Railroad District is an old mining district dating back to the 1800s, BLM Project lead Allen Mariluch said. Over the last 40 or 50 years, different companies have done exploration in the area.
GSVC’s proposed exploration operation would include constructing access roads and drilling sites as well as drilling holes with a truck-mounted drill rig. After the project has been completed, the company will plug the holes and reclaim the drill pads.
The Railroad Exploration project began in 2010, Mariluch said.
“We’ve been working on this project for quite some time now,” he said. “The company is trying to find if there’s anything (out) there, anything economical.”
Five acres of the GSVC property in the Railroad Mining District has already been disturbed, but the company can now progress onto exploring 200 acres, he said.
“They’ll either find something by then or they won’t,” Mariluch said.
The Environment Assessment is available on the Elko District website at www.blm.gov/rv5c.
GSVC expects that the exploration project would support current employment for the company’s employees as well as additional contractors used for the operations. The project would also help determine if more exploration or mining could occur on the property, which would provide more jobs in the future.
GSVC have other prospective gold and silver projects within Nevada, including the nearby Crescent Valley North epithermal vein targets, the Safford Claims, the Camp Douglas Project on Walker Lane Trend and the RC and IC claims directly south of Railroad, according to www.goldstandardv.com.