Relevant Gold Goes Big on Airborne Scans at South Pass, Wyoming

Relevant Gold Corp. is turning up the dial on exploration at its sprawling South Pass gold camp in west-central Wyoming, rolling out a fresh round of airborne geophysics across more than 35,000 acres of ground, Resource World Magazine reports.

The Vancouver-listed explorer (TSXV: RGC; OTCQB: RGCCF) says it’s kicked off a combined high-resolution VTEM (versatile time-domain electromagnetic) and magnetics survey over most of the district. Translation: they’re flying a sensor-packed aircraft over the project to “see” what’s going on under the surface — hunting for conductive and magnetic anomalies, secondary structures, and anything else that could point to hidden gold zones. The goal is to sharpen up drilling plans and rank targets ahead of a bigger 2026 program.

The airborne work is a serious sweep: about 2,807 line-kilometres flown on tight 75-metre spacing, enough to blanket most of South Pass with detailed conductivity and magnetic maps. If the subsurface has cracks, faults, or sulfide-rich structures that could host gold, this is the kind of survey designed to light them up.

Relevant Gold expects the VTEM flying to wrap up by Q4 2025, not only at South Pass but also at its nearby Bradley Peak program. Geotech Ltd. is handling the flights, and the Bradley Peak portion is getting a boost from the state — US$226,533 in matching grant funding through Wyoming’s Energy Matching Funds (EMF) program.

CEO Rob Bergmann says the company is basically trying to unlock an underexplored district that’s already showing hints of real muscle.

“These initiatives are designed to unlock the full potential of the high-grade and grossly underexplored South Pass gold district,” Bergmann said. “Results from our sampling and drilling programs to date have confirmed high-grade, gold-bearing structures surrounded by broad, shallow zones of lower-grade mineralization. We expect the upcoming surface sampling to highlight additional gold zones, and the planned geophysical work will help us see deeper into known structures and define new targets for our 2026 drilling program.”

Geologically, South Pass is one of those old-school Wyoming gold districts where the metal tracks strongly with sulfide-bearing shear structures — specifically arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pyrite — plus quartz veins tucked into the Miners Delight formation. In plain terms: gold shows up where ancient rocks were fractured, heated, and filled with mineral-rich fluids.

This year’s exploration program is using a three-pronged approach:

1. Airborne VTEM + magnetics to map structures and anomalies at depth;
2. Geologic mapping to understand what’s exposed at surface;
3. Geochemistry sampling (rocks + soils) to trace mineral signatures on the ground.

While the aircraft does its thing overhead, crews have also been busy on the dirt. Relevant Gold says it completed systematic mapping and both rock-chip and soil-sampling campaigns across the camp.

• Lewiston subproject (southern area):
  Teams mapped and sampled zones that haven’t had much modern data, and followed up on surface features tied to last year’s drilling at Burr. They collected 446 rock-chip samples, shipped off to MSA Labs in Elko, Nevada, for gold and “pathfinder” element analysis. Assays are still pending.
• Windy Flats soil program:
  Another 1,400 soil samples came out of eight survey lines covering roughly 32 line-km. This grid was laid out to sniff out subtle anomalies that might mark buried mineralized shears. Samples were spaced every 25 metres along north-south lines, with lines set 300 metres apart. They’re being scanned using a portable Niton XL5 XRF unit for pathfinder elements like arsenic (As), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) — the kind of chemical breadcrumbs that often hang around gold systems.

The timeline is pretty clear:

• Q4 2025: Finish airborne VTEM survey flights; receive geochemical assays and mapping results;
• Q1 2026: Get first VTEM interpretations back; integrate surface and airborne data into a refined drill-target list;
• 2026: Use all of that to drive the next drilling push.

Relevant Gold is pitching South Pass as a district-scale play in a state that loves mining — and not shy about supporting exploration. Wyoming’s combination of historic gold production, wide open land, and regulatory friendliness makes it a rare kind of US jurisdiction where big exploration ideas can still move fast.

For Relevant Gold, the bet is simple: if the high-grade structures already found are the tip of the iceberg, a high-resolution geophysical look under the hood might show exactly where to drill next.