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The GSN Elko Chapter invites you to their March meeting!

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Western Folklife Center, 501 Railroad St., Elko, NV

 Food and Drinks @ 6 p.m., Talk @ 7 p.m.

FOOD & BEER SPONSOR:

Skyline Assayers & Laboratories 

Speaker: Luke Schranz

 Title: “The Unfolding Eminent Gold Corp. Hot Springs Range Project: Student Concept to Corporate Discovery”

Abstract:  Eminent Gold Corp’s Hot Springs Range Project is located 18 kilometers southeast of Paradise Valley, NV at the north end of the Hot Springs Range. The concept for the project was conceived and initially staked by a group of University of Nevada-Reno students in the summer of 2019 who recognized links between Eocene-Miocene age tectonic activity and interpreted structural architecture of the northern Hot Springs Range and that of the Twin Creeks and Turquoise Ridge deposits located 21 km to the east. Historic gold and mercury prospects exist to the north and west of the project area, but no documented historical drilling or exploration activities have occurred within claim block boundary of the project. Early rock chip sampling of volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the allochthonous Mississippian aged Home Ranch Terrane (HRT) in 2019 provided results of up to 0.4 ppm demonstrating the validity of the proposed Carlin-type mineral system target. Rock chip sampling, soil sampling, Quaternary fault scarp sampling, CSAMT and gravity yielded mutually supporting evidence of structurally controlled Au mineralization across the property and prompted Eminent Gold’s late 2024 drilling program. The late 2024 through mid-2025 drill program yielded positive results of up to 2.4 ppm Au over 3.9 meters and confirmed the presence of an oxidized Carlin style Au system with high As and Tl and low Ag signatures. Hyperspectral core scanning documented strong illite alteration with higher crystalline illite around Au mineralized intervals. Follow up drilling in late 2025 encountered 9.2m of 3.2 g/t Au along a high angle structure. Mineralization appears to be structurally controlled and is hosted in andesitic lavas of the HRT which is covered by a veneer of Miocene tuffs and basalts. Additional exploration in 2026 continues to test blind structural and stratigraphic targets on the project.

Speaker Bio:  Luke Schranz grew up in Clarendon Hills, IL and attended University of Wisconsin – Madison. After graduating in 2017 he moved out to Elko, NV working as an underground ore control geologist at the Fire Creek Mine for Klondex Gold and Silver. Beginning in the fall of 2019, Hecla Mining Company, which recently acquired Klondex, sponsored Luke to pursue a masters degree program under John Muntean at UNR. Luke studied the Fire Creek deposit for his thesis and after another stint working underground in 2020, he graduated from UNR in the spring of 2021. Luke then began his contracting career with Eminent Gold Corp being his first long-term client. From 2021 to the present Luke has worked primarily as a geologic mapper on systems ranging from Carlin type Au to alkaline REE complexes (and many things in between) in the western USA, Alaska, southeast and central Asia, Oceania, and Greenland.

Please contact Elko Chapter President, Sergey Konyshev if you have any questions. Sergey606@gmail.com