Lahontan Gold Corp. announced that it has commenced metallurgical testing in support of its planned Preliminary Economic Assessment (?PEA?) of its Santa Fe Mine project (?Santa Fe?) located in Nevada's prolific Walker Lane gold and silver mineral belt. Previous test work and mining at Santa Fe established excellent heap leach recoveries for gold and silver.

This test work, being conducted by Kappes, Cassiday and Associates (?KCA?) of Reno, Nevada, is focused on developing precise economic parameters for processing gold and silver mineralized rock at Santa Fe: Comminution test work - for assessing crushing and abrasion characteristics of mineralization at the Santa Fe, Slab and Calvada deposits in order to determine crushing costs, electrical consumption, etc., Compacted permeability - for determining cement requirement for agglomeration for Santa Fe, Slab and Calvada deposits. Pregnant solution robbing (?preg robbing?) analysis - on selected mineralization types/areas of the Santa Fe deposit to identify/eliminate any potential problem areas for preg robbing in the deposit. The Company is focused on developing the best cost/metallurgical data set available to support the PEA of returning the Santa Fe Mine project back into production.