Dakota Territory Resource Corp. announced results from the company's first metallurgical test work from samples taken from its Homestake Paleoplacer Project in the northern Black Hills of South Dakota. The objective of the test work is to determine gold recovery for Homestake Paleoplacer gold mineralization using conventional cyanidation processes.

Gold mineralization is hosted in a quartz-pebble conglomerate that was derived from the erosion of the famous Homestake Gold Mine located 1 mile to the south which produced 40 million ounces of gold. Initial metallurgical tests have been carried out by McClelland Laboratories Inc. of Sparks, Nevada on five surface outcrop samples (composited into one sample) collected from the Gustin Mine Portal Area on the Homestake Paleoplacer Property. The composite sample had an average grade of 2.05 grams per tonne gold.

Gold recovery of 94.7% was obtained from a Bottle Roll Test P80 6.3 mm Feed with reagent consumption of 0.141 kg/tonne NaCN and 1.678 kg/tonne Lime.