Idaho Strategic Resources Releases Soil Sampling Results for Rare Earth Project
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Dec 12 2025
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The company stated yesterday: "Idaho Strategic Resources is pleased to release the results from its widespread soil sampling and radiometrics surveys covering key prospects within the Idaho portion of its Lemhi Pass rare earth elements project. With respect to Idaho Strategic's Lemhi Pass project, the Company's goal during the 2025 geology field season was to build on our high-potential rare earth prospects by collecting both soil geochemistry and radiometric data to aid in advancing exploration, permitting, and drill targeting efforts. The soils geochemistry and radiometrics have defined wide elongated zones of neodymium (Nd) enrichment and radiometric highs. The next step will be boots on the ground geological mapping to refine this broad data into targets for economic evaluation, including permitting for drill targets both at Lemhi Pass and Mineral Hill. The Company plans to expand the soils groundwork and radiometrics footprint in 2026 to evaluate additional areas of its large Lemhi Pass land package on both sides of the Idaho-Montana border. The two images included in this release are two different scales of LiDAR maps covering a portion of the Idaho side of the Company's Lemhi Pass project. The first figure shows several "bullseye" targets of Nd in soils; and the second figure shows the total thorium levels enriched along structural corridors of the Lemhi Pass and Dan Patch faults. Prospects identified by the Company warranting follow-up exploration and potential drilling in 2026 are those where high neodymium-in-soil anomalies occur along with high ground-based radiometric signatures. The neodymium-in-soil anomalies are shown by the warm colors and range between 45 ppm to an uncapped maximum sample grade of 1,740 ppm neodymium. While Idaho Strategic has identified several promising prospects by name in the images above, the Company also plans to conduct a drone-based magnetics survey in the spring of 2026. Recent field work has shown disseminated magnetite haloing portions of REE/Th mineralization, leading the Company's geologists to believe that the planned magnetics survey will add another valuable layer of data to further prioritize 2026 permitting and drill targeting efforts."
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Idaho Strategic Resources, Inc. is a gold producer and critical minerals/rare earth element (REE) exploration company focused on a diversified asset base and cash flows from operations. Its portfolio of mineral properties is located in the historic producing silver and gold districts of the Coeur d'Alene Mining region of north Idaho and the Elk City region of north-central Idaho, as well as the historic REE-Thorium Belt located near the city of Salmon in central Idaho. Its gold properties include the Golden Chest Mine, and the New Jersey Mill, as well as the Eastern Star exploration property and other less advanced properties. In addition to its gold properties, it has three REE exploration properties in Idaho known as Lemhi Pass, Diamond Creek, and Mineral Hill. The Golden Chest Gold Mine is located in northern Idaho. It lies within the Murray Gold Belt. It also operates Toboggan project, located in the Murray Gold Belt in northern Idaho, three miles north of its Golden Chest Mine.
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Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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