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Vol. 3 No. 21 | e Week of November 13, 2025
Shining a light on all of Eureka County. Our Mission: Inform, enlighten, educate and entertain—Enjoy the journey.
i80 Gold Corp. Releases News rough Crux By Trina Machacek
sometime in the upcoming winter of 2025-26. en the mine can begin construction that is estimated to take 1.5 years aer the permitting process. Another factor in the process of the Ruby Hill projects and other i80 Gold projects, is the refurbishing of the Lone Tree Autoclave for processing ore for the mines.
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Following a feed put online led e Eureka County Star to a 37 plus minute video posted on the Crux Investor web site. Paul Chawrun COO of i80 Gold narrated the video that deals with the company’s various mine sites in Nevada which are in expansion mode. e mine that is closest to the townsite of Eureka is the old Ruby Hill mine. i80 Gold is developing the site into two mining developments. Archimedes Underground and Mineral Point Open Pit. Archimedes started its mine life as open pit. But since the highwall of the pit collapsed November 2, 2013, i80 is now developing that strike into an underground mine. e underground system has already started to be developed and the PEA (Preliminary Economic Assessment) information offered by i80 shows the mine life of ten years and the aer-tax cash flow Used as a prospective this slide shows the anticipated future of the Archimedes with gold at a spot price of $2,900 mine in Eureka County, Nevada. per ounce, could be $902 million. In the information produced and offered by As per Google: “e Lone Tree Autoclave refurbishMr. Chawrun and i80 Gold, the drilling of the area of ment project is a major initiative by i80 Gold Corp to the mine indicates findings of 436k ounces of gold is in restart a processing facility in Nevada for its high-grade, pockets that may be mined and recovered within the refractory gold ores. e project's goal is to create a mine claim footprint. Also, there is a possible 988k central, owner-operated facility to process ore from i-80's ounces inferred by drilling results. underground mines, improving processing efficiency and Much of the mine talk is about the permitting process profitability compared to using third-party toll mills. e and what that means in the way of production, costs and project involves modernizing the autoclave to meet of course employment for the area. e i80 Archimedes updated environmental standards and is targeted for mine is currently permitted for mining activities above completion in late 2027, with a revised feasibility study the 5,100-foot elevation. Permitting for mining the lower expected in late 2025.” zone (below the 5,100-foot elevation) is underway, with e Lone Tree Autoclave will require the ore to be completion estimated in the first half of 2027. So mining transported by semi-trucks from the mine at Eureka has already begun underground through the portal that approximately 155 miles north on Highway 278. Highis in the bottom of the original pit. way 278 is a major road, actually the only available fully As the Archimedes mine develops and is further paved road, used by residents and travelers to get from permitted there is an anticipated growth spurt due to Eureka on US Highway 50 to Interstate 80, Pine Valley, happen in the southern part of Eureka County. e Crescent Valley, Carlin, Elko, Battle Mountain etc. e infrastructure and population growth is being looked at indisputable fact of the mine using Highway 278 is of by both i80 Gold and the County. concern especially to the residents of Eureka County Archimedes is one of the drivers of the mine that is and will be something that the Nevada Department of just a short 3.3 miles from downtown Eureka. e other Transportation will have to address. If not now, ongoshoe to drop at the Ruby Hill Project of i80 Gold is the ing throughout the life of the mines. planned open pit that will become the Mineral Point is growth is not only going to be felt in the southOpen Pit. e pit will be to the west and south of the ern part of Eureka County, but the northern areas of Archimedes development. On the same property. Crescent Valley, Beowawe, Dumphy and into neighborDrilling that has been ongoing for more than a few ing Elko and Lander and White Pine Counties as well. years shows an indicated 4.4M ounces of resources and With the price of gold today topping over $4,000 per an additional inferred 2.1M ounces that could be ounce the mining industry is going full bore to reap the produced at Mineral Point. benefits of mining in Nevada. Hang e mine life if all goes according to todays outlines on Northern Nevada—it’s going to be will be somewhere in the 17 year mine life. e permit- quite a ride. ting for Mineral Point is also further along than other To watch the video where more mine sites owned by i80 Gold. ere are still permits information is available from i80 Gold needed before the mine can proceed at a full clip. Corp on their Nevada mine developBLM is on track to issue a Record of Decision ments scan the QR code.
TIDDLES-N-BITTLES Cindy Beutel is our new Museum Director Cindy and her husband Ted, (Eureka County District Attorney) have lived in Eureka for as long as your arm. She is the owner of BFE Screen Printing and Embroidery where you can have her design, print, emborder all types of apparel and fun things for your parties and businesses. Now Cindy is adding to the uniqueness of Eureka by being the time machine of all things in the Eureka Sentinel Museum. Stop in and see our past and what Cindy has in store for the future of our history.
e EZ Stop e EZ Stop is coming alive-again and according to Shawn Bansal, owner of the new and soon to be opened EZ Stop convenience store and gas station, he hopes to open the not yet installed doors sometime before the end of the year. e gas is already flowing from the pumps and coolers are ready to come on line as the electrical work is completed. Shawn hopes to have an expanded inventory.
County Commissioners Meeting Metting are scheduled December 2 in Crescent Valley. Be sure to read the two legal ads in this edition, and mark your calendars to attend in person or by video or phone. Please send in your news from around town to: trina@theeurekacountystar.com
Is this you? What’s in a Number By Trina Machacek Everything has a number put to it. Every item you purchase is assigned a bar code number. A long number with dark bars above each number that somewhere in a computer translates to everything that is known to man about that particular item. According to our lovely Google: “Barcodes started with the patenting of the concept in the 1940s, leading to the first successful commercial scan in 1974. e first item to be scanned was a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio.” Oh swell, now our buying habits are followed every time you use your “savers membership” cards in the stores where you shop. I know this to be a fact because the grocery store I go to sends me coupons of things I buy. I don’t like that they know these things about me. But! Yes, a bar coded and scannable “but.” I use the coupons. How messed up is that?! You would think that at some point we could run out of numbers. But nope. e universe is innumerable. If by some chance the bar code system would run out of numbers, which we are told will NEVER happen. If we do run out of bar code numbers, the next generation of keeping track of things is what is called the new GS1 Digital Link, a modern, web-connected QR code that can hold far more information. In short that means that stores and all other places that sell your, let’s say underwear, will be able to tell not only where those undies were made, but what they are made of, how many are made, bought, sold, returned, and hopefully that those returned were thrown away!! Yes, to follow the life of a pair of underwear is just the tip of the tighty-whitey world. Of course that is not where I wanted to go today. ank goodness. Too much talk of underwear could lead to many under the table jokes. So let’s talk about the number of candles we all put on our various birthday cakes. If you need to have a fire extinguisher, or even two, standing by when ALL of your years are counted with candles on your birthday cake, good for you. You deserve to EAT THE CAKE. A friend of mine, actually two friends, in two different towns have recently gone to birthday parties for people they know that turned 100 years old. I find that as amazing as the possibility of more and more of the people alive today will live to be in the 100 Birthday Club. I am not sure I want to be that old. Happily I don’t have to worry abut making that decision. I have trouble deciding if I want walnuts in my chocolate chip cookies. I can’t imagine having to make a life decision about how long I will be breathing on Mother Earth. I do know that to have the perfect chocolate chip cookie there should be zero chocolate chips in them. I know I am not the only one who thinks that! Oh great, now I need to bake no chipped cookies.
One of the ladies going to her centurion’s birthday party mentioned that she has known him for about 45 years. I told her even though 45 years is a very long time to know someone; did she realize that she hasn’t known him for even half his life? Just think of how long you have known people you know. ink of the one you’ve known for a very long time. Have you known them for at least half their lifetimes? at is a weird thought. My longest friendship is now about 60 years old. Now that’s nearly a lifetime as we are both the same age of that 60 plus a few more. Not very many of us can say that. Once when going through old things in my pantry and refrigerator, I loved when I was told this, “It’s a good thing we don’t have any expiration dates printed on ourselves.” Oh how true. I would never want to look. Of course since I had some really old, like from the last century old, boxes of Jell-O in my pantry, I can rest assured I would not look or even take a peek at an expiration date on the bottom of my foot either. To bring this all back full circle. What if we were bar coded when we’re born? I can tell you from retail experience, I’ve scanned a gallon of rug shampoo and it came up a gas-powered weed eater! So no, I don’t think the system is perfect enough to bar code the human race. I don’t’ want to be scanned as the menu item Number 4 at my favorite Mexican restaurant. Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo.com Really!