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Jim Hesketh

Jim Hesketh

Mining industry veteran and President, CEO & Director of Viva Gold Corp (TSX-V: VAU), developer of the Tonopah Gold Project in Nevada.

Oct 11, 2026

170:03
I'm just curious, how did this discovery come about, and what are the plans for the target? And how much more drilling do you think you need to do before you could include it in maybe if not the, the, uh, pre-fe-feasibility study, maybe the definitive feasibility study or a later, later date? Just help us understand what this means to Viva.
170:22
Yeah.
170:22
Well, over the last few years, uh, you know, we've told investors that we believe the project has a lot more size potential.
170:31
And, uh, you know, been-- they've been telling us to prove it, prove the point.
170:37
So we did.
170:38
Um, [chuckles] simple as that.
170:40
The, uh, uh-- we drilled a three-hole fence in Midway Hills area of the project.
173:12
What, what are the other moving pieces and, like, the permit milestones we should be following to say, "Okay, this thing's moving towards that construction decision and production"?
4:07
enough.
4:07
Yeah, we had taken a look at the historic drilling in this area, and it was primarily conducted by Rio Algam and Kennecott Minerals back in the 80s and 90s.
4:20
And they had been pursuing the Round Mountain model.
4:25
And Round Mountain...
4:28
The mineralization at Round Mountain stops when they hit the older underlying argillites.
4:37
Same as our deposit.
4:40
But at Round Mountain, they call that stop drill rock.
8:07
But kind of following up on this, what needs to happen to really kind of understand the dimensions of this anymore? Well,

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