# International Tower Hill Mines Announces Appointment of Feasibility Study Team and Launch of Feasibility Study Drilling Program

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/international-tower-hill-mines-announces-appointment-of-feasibility-study-team-a--0b1aedae-14b8-453f-b1d1-b423de76e96c

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/ITH/news/5432996944378014/international-tower-hill-mines-announces-appointment-of-feasibility-study-team-a

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-05-13T13:15:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.

- Ticker: ITH

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Alaska

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Antimony

- Document categories: Other, Metallurgy

- Extracted: 2026-08-24 05:34:42 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

International Tower Hill Mines has appointed a technical consortium to conduct a Phase 1 Feasibility Study for the Livengood Gold Project and has commenced core drilling. The program aims to evaluate advanced metallurgical processing options, specifically pressure oxidation \(POX\), to potentially enhance recoveries given current gold prices.

Reasoning: The company is advancing the Livengood project into a feasibility study phase, mobilizing drilling and a technical team to evaluate metallurgical optimizations \(POX\) driven by higher gold prices.

- Positive factor: Commencement of feasibility study drilling

- Positive factor: Appointment of experienced technical consortium

- Positive factor: Potential for recovery improvements via POX

- Negative factor: Metallurgical uncertainty regarding POX vs gravity/CIL

Facts used in scoring: 0

## Classification and evidence

**Resource Update**

Polarity: neutral

Story-specific tag

Definition: Revised estimate for an existing resource — compare to prior to assess progress.

Why it applies: The document references the existing 13.6 million ounce M&I resource and 9.0 million ounce reserve as the basis for the new drilling program.

Evidence · text

> within the 13.6 million ounce measured and indicated resource, which includes the 9.0 million ounce proven and probably gold reserve

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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