Golden Dawn Minerals Inc. announced that it has received its multi-year exploration permit for the Lexington property in Greenwood, B.C after payment of the required reclamation bond. The new five-year area-based exploration permit is for ground geophysics and surface drilling on the Lexington group of claims held by 1086359 BC Ltd., a subsidiary of Golden Dawn Minerals Inc. The Lexington group covers 2,020 ha. The permit will allow exploration along a 4 km trend of favorable host rocks that stretches northwest from the border with Washington State. This favorable corridor includes the current Lexington-Grenoble mine project as well as other historic mines and prospects, with several historic drill holes that intersected copper-gold mineralization like that exposed within the Lexington mine (See map). The company is now permitted to conduct brownfields exploration drilling to expand the Lexington deposit and search for additional resources nearby within the mineralized corridor. In the meantime, Golden Dawn's Lexington mine and Greenwood processing facility remain on care and maintenance.