Viva Gold Corp. announced that it plans to commence reverse circulation drilling operations at its Tonopah Gold Project (Tonopah) by mid-February 2024. All drilling contracts are signed, and the Company has been granted approval by the US Bureau of Land Management for its Work Plan #42, allowing up to 23 new drill locations.

The company anticipated drilling approximately 12 to 15 holes to an average planned depth of 150 meters in this program. Archaeologic clearance and construction of drill pads is planned to commence February 5. Tonopah is located on the prolific Walker Lane mineral trend in western Nevada, about 20 minutes' drive from the town of Tonopah. The focus of this program is to further delineate the new, near-surface, high-grade (>1.0 gram per tonne) gold zones discovered in 2022/23 drill programs. These discoveries were typically related to approximate north-south splay fractures.

A majority of the drillholes planned for the 2024 program are designed to offset the splay zones defined in the 2022/23 program to better determine the width extents and continuity of those zones. Other holes are designed to test undrilled gaps between known mineralized zones.