# Kinross Gold Commences 2025 Drill Program at Riley Gold's PWC Gold Project \(Cortez District - Nevada\)

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/kinross-gold-commences-2025-drill-program-at-riley-gold-s-pwc-gold-project-corte--343e3a2f-199c-4925-975b-89a4e9471719

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/RLYG/news/7274978060779707/kinross-gold-commences-2025-drill-program-at-riley-gold-s-pwc-gold-project-corte

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2025-05-29T12:30:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Riley Gold Corp.

- Ticker: RLYG

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Nevada

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: None reported

- Document categories: Drill results, Agreement transaction

- Extracted: 2026-08-26 06:56:07 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Riley Gold has announced that Kinross Gold has commenced its 2025 drilling campaign at the PWC Gold Project in Nevada. The program targets high-priority, previously untested areas near significant gold-in-soil anomalies. Separately, the company has terminated its agreements and relinquished the Tokop Gold Project to preserve cash.

Reasoning: The commencement of a Kinross-funded drill program targeting new, high-priority areas in a prolific district is a positive exploration signal, though offset by the abandonment of the Tokop project.

- Positive factor: Strategic partner Kinross is ahead of schedule

- Positive factor: Drilling targeting high-grade geochemical anomalies

- Positive factor: Step-out drilling into previously untested areas

- Positive factor: Proximity to major producers \(NGM/Barrick/Newmont\)

- Negative factor: Termination of Tokop Gold Project

Facts used in scoring: 0

## Classification and evidence

**Step-Out Extension**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Mineralization extended beyond the previously known limit.

Why it applies: The 2025 program includes step-out holes in areas that have never been drill tested within the land package.

Evidence · text

> new step-out wide spaced framework drill holes... in areas that have never been drill tested

**QA/QC Disclosed**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods \(blanks, standards, duplicates\).

Why it applies: The release is reviewed and approved by a Qualified Person \(P.Geo\).

Evidence · text

> reviewed and approved by Richard DeLong, P.Geo., Director of Riley Gold and a 'qualified person'

## 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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