Conservation

The employees, managers, directors, technical advisors, and consultants of Lightning Creek Gold Corp. live here in the United States, most of us in either Idaho or Montana. We camp, hunt, fish, and spend time outdoors here. We raise our children here. We love it here and we are deeply committed to conserving this great land that we call home. 

Drilling is the foundation of mineral exploration. Without it we have very little certainty about what is in front of us, and we cannot confidently build mines.

Drilling has been the backbone of our company since the beginning, and we purchased a backpack drill in 2020, and a larger drill in 2021. We can proudly say that we literally wrote the Notice of Intent to drill on United States Forest Service Land that we used at Auxer in 2021 and 2022, and has been used by various companies since in the state of Idaho. 

We believe that drilling can be done efficiently and with little environmental impact, and that is the philosophy we have employed since the beginning, and plan to continue to employ moving forward. 

We are not yet a mining company, BUT WE INTEND TO BECOME ONE
We are interested in underground mineable metal projects that do not require the use of cyanide to process. We do not intend to construct tailings impoundments at our projects. We believe that we will be able to dry-stack any tails that we generate.

OUR GOAL IS TO BUILD MINES THAT DO NOT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR CATASTROPHIC ENVIRONMENTAL FAILURE
With no tailings impoundment and no cyanide on site, there is a dramatically reduced potential for catastrophic environmental failure at one of our projects. Further, the dry stacking of tails, likely with a cement component, will further mitigate potential environmental contamination at our sites. Finally, we are targeting deposit types that are best processed with froth flotation. This process uses generally non-toxic products (e.g. Pine Oil) to float the sulfides and metals out of the ore and leave the inert gangue (e.g. quartz, feldspar) behind. In this way, the tails have largely been stripped on their acid generating potential by the time they are dry stacked, if the project has an acid generating potenatial. Our flagship project, Auxer, is a quartz carbonate vein system that has a very limited natural acid potential. The water flowing directly from the historic ore body out of the Auxer tunnel was measured by the Idaho Geologic Survey to have a pH of 8 (slightly basic).