Lode Metals Corp. provided an update confirming high grade mineralization at the Cracker Creek Project, near Baker City, Oregon. Dimensions of Mineralization: The mineralized Cracker Creek structure was mined selectively over 3.5 km along strike and to a depth of 1 km down dip.

Historic production for the mines that Lode Metals controls, Columbia, E & E and North Pole focused on the main Cracker Creek vein. Reportedly secondary splays from the main Cracker Creek vein were recognized but never mined. Historic records indicate +400,000 ounces of gold was produced from the combined three mine mills (Columbia, E & E, and North Pole).

The North Pole records indicate that the average mill grade was 0.482 opt (15.0 g/t) gold that included some direct ship to smelter ore that averaged 26.316 opt (818.5 g/t) gold, and combined, the overall grade was 0.630 opt (19.6 g/t) gold. The Cracker Creek project historic resource of +400,000 ounces of gold has an average grade of 0.316 opt (9.8 g/t) gold. Lode Metals believes targeting structural splays and intersections will encounter higher grades in drilling.

Previous miners and explorationists noted that the higher-grade mineralization had a rake of 18 degrees to the southwest and an even steeper rake to the southeast. Therefore, it is critical to drill-oriented core to unravel these very important, geological, and structurally controlled questions. Lode Metals has State of Oregon issued drill permits to begin drilling in hand.

Models; New geology surface mapping data will be incorporated into an updated geological and structural model for the entire, consolidated project. Lode Metals has already invested time and resources into integrating more than US$6M in legacy data generated by previous explorers from the late 1800's through the 1990's. This includes digitizing the underground mine workings, underground channel samples and extensive, and localized core drilling. These maps and sampling have instructed the vein and structural model and have led to the spatial recognition of previously known vein intersections that were never explored.

Target Generation; System Characterization: The Cracker Creek property is a structurally controlled, narrow, high-grade, orogenic gold deposit with the Mother Lode District, California as an analog. Gold bearing orogenic systems have been known to persist for several kilometers down dip. To date, the Cracker Creek system has only been historically mined to a depth of 1km and remains unexplored at depth and along strike.

The focus for the geological mapping and exploration is to refine and improve the lithological and structural model to better characterize favorable mineralized areas, associated structural intersections and identify trends for additional outcropping quartz veins. Recognized targets already include down-dip from historically mined mineralization along the Cracker Creek lode, on-strike, structural intersections, and subparallel veins that were either historically mined or simply unexplored. The soil surveys will focus on gold and silver as well as pathfinder elements known to be associated with orogenic-related, high-grade gold mineralization hosted in Elkhorn Argillite, a metasedimentary suite of rocks.

Initially, a portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometer (pXRF) is being used in the field to measure elemental concentrations from prepared samples. Following this field test, these samples have been sent to the lab for full multi-element, low-detection geochemical analyses. Comparisons of field measurements to lab analyses are progressing, helping to build confidence in the exploration team that the pXRF can and will be a more cost-effective and timely solution to soil geochemical analyses.