Lode Gold Resources Inc. provided an update on its McIntyre Gold project in the under-explored, world-class "Appalachian Gold Corridor". The AGC contains over 20 M ounces of gold resources stretching along a band that parallels the Iapetus Suture, a geological structure that represents the closure of the Iapetus Ocean in the Silurian epoch (420 Ma). This >4,000-km long structure that stretches from South Carolina, through New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, also continues across the Atlantic through Ireland, Scotland, and Norway.

some of the more notable deposits along this trend. Common to these deposits is the relative age, Ordovician-Silurian, and that they are structurally controlled, "Mostly Orogenic type" deposits. The MPM identifies specific zones that exhibit a higher potential for gold mineralization and is designed to target exploration.

Critical factors controlling gold mineralization include geological structures, favorable host rock types, geochemical anomalies indicative of gold, and geophysical anomalies suggesting mineralization and/or lithological contrasts that focus gold mineralization. Lode Gold plans to continue this collaboration. A close-spaced airborne magnetic survey coupled with soil sampling and mapping in the eastern part of the property not covered in the current MPM will be the first step.

Once these results are received, the MPM will be updated, and at that time, AI and machine learning techniques will be brought into play. Lode Gold acknowledges its neighbour, Puma Exploration, has also undertaken this collaboration and are actively using the results in their exploration efforts, where they have met with exploration success.