Relevant Gold Gets Approval for Lewiston Drilling
Federal and state regulators have cleared expanded gold drilling at the Lewiston Project in Fremont County, Wyoming.
Updated on Nov. 9, 2026 in Environmental
The Bureau of Land Management approved Relevant Gold's Plan of Operations for the Lewiston Project, and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality cleared an associated Drill Notice permitting activity at 29 new drill-pad locations. The approvals cover the southern Burr and Sweetwater trends.
Why it matters
The permits allow the operator to expand exploration at targets where earlier drilling and sampling reported gold mineralization. The approvals move the project from earlier sampling toward further drilling, the next step in assessing the deposits.
Drilling in 2024 at Burr covered 1,026m to 175m depth, with hole 24HH-4 returning 2.2g/t gold over 1.5m. Of 446 samples from the 2025 southern Lewiston campaign, 84 returned at least 0.1g/t gold, with selected Burr samples reaching 13.1g/t gold.
The players
Relevant Gold
Relevant Gold is the company that wholly owns and operates the Lewiston Project in Fremont County, Wyoming, and is seeking to expand its drilling there.
Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management is the federal agency that approved Relevant Gold's Plan of Operations for the Lewiston Project.
Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality is the state agency that cleared the Drill Notice permitting activity at the Lewiston Project.
The details
The approved drilling covers 29 new drill-pad locations on the southern Burr and Sweetwater trends, including an additional 2.5km of the Burr trend. All six completed holes in the 2024 Burr campaign intersected shear-hosted gold mineralisation, and a Sweetwater sample returned 8.04g/t gold and 603g/t silver.
Timeline
2024: Burr drilling campaign intersected gold mineralization in six holes.
2025: Southern Lewiston rock-chip and grab sampling campaign conducted.
November 9, 2026: Approvals announced for expanded Lewiston drilling.
Before the end of 2026: Relevant Gold plans further Sweetwater and Burr drilling.
2027: Follow-up work planned based on drilling outcomes.
Permitting Pipeline
The approvals follow the Bureau of Land Management's Plan of Operations process for exploration on public land, which the Lewiston Project must clear before drilling begins. The new permits extend that process to additional drill sites on the Burr and Sweetwater trends.
Residents near the Lewiston Project in Fremont County may see drilling activity at the 29 newly permitted drill-pad locations. The approvals determine where that work can take place on public land, which affects the local area directly.
The takeaway
Approval to drill is a permitting step, not a finding of economic gold deposits, so the sampling and drilling results still need to be confirmed. Readers tracking Wyoming mining should watch the Sweetwater and Burr drilling results expected before 2027.
What happens next
Relevant Gold plans further drilling at the Sweetwater and Burr targets before the end of 2026, with follow-up work scheduled for 2027.
Further reading
For more on the rules governing projects like this, see Environmental coverage across Wyoming.
Source note: This article includes information reported by Mining Technology.
