USA

NEVADA SILVER & GOLD

Altitude Minerals has identified Nevada as an area of significant interest for Gold and Silver exploration.

Nevada is ranked #1 jurisdiction in the World by the Fraser Institute for Mining and is the USA’s top gold-producing region, contributing more than 70% of the U.S. total gold production.

This high level of output makes it a significant player globally, accounting for roughly 3-5% of the world’s total gold, and makes Nevada the fifth-largest gold producer behind countries like China, Australia, Russia, and Canada.

During a recent Investor Presentation, Altitude’s Managing Director, Duncan Chessell, talked about “Why Nevada?” as an exploration focus for the company and why he thinks that, after watching this 2-minute excerpt, you’ll be asking, “Why not Nevada?” 

Our Projects in the Region

Overview

The Firenze project is a high-grade Silver & Gold opportunity comprising 90 claims in Nevada, that despite its strong potential was classified as a Wilderness Study Area (WSA), and as a result has never been drilled.  However, in 2022, the project area was reclassified by the BLM and is now open for exploration. It has outcropping low-sulphidation epithermal Ag-Au veins ~1,000m in strike that remain open to the east with potential extensions under shallow cover. The mineralisation has been confirmed at surface, with exceptional recent rock chip assays including:

  • 1,825 g/t Ag with 22.5 g/t Au
  • 1,250 g/t Ag with 9.3 g/t Au
  • 534 g/t Ag with 43.9 g/t Au
  • 600 g/t Ag with 2 g/t Au

The Firenze Project is only 10km from the Interstate-50 highway, and has tracks to significant outcrops allowing for year-round access and accelerated exploration activities.

Geology

The Firenze Project is prospective for high-grade vein-hosted silver and gold epithermal mineralisation (low-sulphidation) immediately below outcropping mineralised veins. Analogous to the Silicon Deposit is a larger-scale opportunity for a gold-silver deposit under cover, where mineralised veins plunge under cover and intersect basin-bounding fault lines disrupted by cross-basin structures. This creates a permissive structural setting for mineralised fluids to potentially form a large-scale disseminated gold-silver deposit at the Firenze Project.

During a recent Investor Presentation, Altitude’s Managing Director, Duncan Chessell, discussed the geological model behind Altitude’s Drill targeting. 

Latest news from The Firenze Project

Altitude Minerals Annual Report (2026)

Altitude Minerals is pleased to advise that it has successfully received firm commitments from sophisticated and professional investors to fund drilling at the gold-silver Firenze & Winnemucca Projects in Nevada, USA, business development and working capital.

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Altitude Completes Successful $1.2m Placement 

Altitude Minerals is pleased to advise that it has successfully received firm commitments from sophisticated and professional investors to fund drilling at the gold-silver Firenze & Winnemucca Projects in Nevada, USA, business development and working capital.

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Exploration Update: Altitude Minerals’ Managing Director, Duncan Chessell, provides an update from a recent trip to the W-Project to review the newly acquired ground and the progress in validating the silver and gold targets ahead of drilling.

Overview

The W Project is on the North-Eastern flank of Winnemucca Mountain in Humboldt County, geologically on the western margins of the Northern Nevada Rift (NNR), approximately 8km north of Winnemucca and 2 hours northeast of Reno. The NNR is sub-parallel and adjacent to the Battle Mountain – Eureka Trend. Northern Nevada is known for its significant low-sulphidation epithermal gold deposits, and the project has up to 30m wide outcropping low-sulphidation epithermal Ag-Au quartz/calcite veins ~1,800m in strike, untested at depth, with untested interpreted structural intersections. The limited historical drilling done on the project also did not test for potential high-grade boiling & feeder zones.

Despite this, 40 of 43 historical drill holes intersected gold mineralisation, highlighting the project’s prospectivity.

Significant Historical Intersections include:  
  • 37m @ 1.30 g/t Au, 9.8g/t Ag from 31m (W87-1);
  • 3m @ 3.75 g/t Au, 4.2 g/t Ag from 73m (W87-6);
  • 3m @ 1.6 g/t Au, 22 g/t Ag from 81m (DWP92-2);
  • 37m @ 0.77 g/t Au, 3.96 g/t Ag from 47m (W90-29);
  • 20m @ 0.68 g/t Au, 1.34 g/t Ag from 26m (W87-24);


Nearby deposits include:  
  • Sleeper Deposit with current Measured and Indicated mineral resource of 163.2 Mt @ 0.36 g/t Au for 1.897 Moz Au, owned by Paramount Gold.
  • Sandman Project owned by Borealis Mining. Current Indicated and Inferred resources are 18.55 Mt @ 0.73 g/t Au for 433 koz Au.
  • Midas Mine historical production of 2.2M ounces of gold and 27M ounces of silver at an average grade of @ 0.5 oz/ton or ~15.5g/t AuEQ

Location of the W-Project, Firenze Project and selected nearby deposits

Latest news from The W-Project

Altitude Minerals Annual Report (2026)

Altitude Minerals is pleased to advise that it has successfully received firm commitments from sophisticated and professional investors to fund drilling at the gold-silver Firenze & Winnemucca Projects in Nevada, USA, business development and working capital.

Read More »

Altitude Completes Successful $1.2m Placement 

Altitude Minerals is pleased to advise that it has successfully received firm commitments from sophisticated and professional investors to fund drilling at the gold-silver Firenze & Winnemucca Projects in Nevada, USA, business development and working capital.

Read More »