Renegade Exploration (ASX:RNX) has staked 32 additional claims at its Caisson Project in Nevada, US, increasing exposure to ‘high-grade’ gold-silver and copper systems.
The strategic expansion builds on previous exploration that outlined a 7km mineralised trend, with surface results including up to 71.85 grams per tonne gold (Au), 65g/t silver (Ag), and more than 1% copper (Cu).
The expanded landholding aims to capture potential extensions of mineralised structures. Caisson lies within Nevada’s Walker Lane gold belt and features no recorded previous exploration drilling, despite hosting more than 70 historical workings such as shafts, adits, trenches, and pits.
Chairman Robert Kirtlan says Caisson is taking shape as “a compelling, undrilled gold-silver and copper-gold opportunity”.
“When Renegade first reviewed the project, the historical data highlighted exceptional surface grades across a mineralised trend extending for approximately 7km,” Kirtlan says.
“Our subsequent field programs validated that opportunity, returning further high-grade gold-silver results and identified a new area of porphyry-style copper-gold mineralisation.
“The additional claims are a strategic expansion of our position. They provide Renegade with greater coverage of the structures and prospective intrusive geology that may control the broader mineralised system.”
Caisson sits within two mineralised terrains: the western Nevada Jurassic intrusive terrain, which hosts deposits like the Ann Mason porphyry mine and Pumpkin Hollow skarn mineralisation; and the Miocene Walker Lane gold belt, home to the Round Mountain and North Bullfrog gold deposits.
Fieldwork in 2025 returned rock chip samples of up to 50.8g/t Au and 6.20g/t Ag. Renegade also discovered porphyry-style alteration and quartz stockwork veining at the Big Nick prospect, alongside previously identified porphyry-style mineralisation at the Doormat prospect.
Renegade intends to commence a drill target generation program across the expanded claims, incorporating mapping, rock chip sampling, and geophysical data processing. The program aims to rank targets ahead of a maiden drilling campaign planned for the September or December quarter.
Renegade Exploration is an Australian mineral explorer and developer focused on copper, gold, zinc, and critical minerals.
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