Gold Standard Ventures Corp. on Jan. 19 said drilling at the Railroad-Pinion gold project in Nevada expanded the Main Dark Star deposit.

The 15-hole drilling also confirmed that the North Dark Star and Main Dark Star deposits form one larger occurrence with a strike length of about 1,300 meters.

Results included 33.1 meters grading 0.62 g/t of gold from 164.3 meters, with a larger lower-grade interval.

The company plans to release a maiden resource estimate for the North Dark Star deposit this year and explore a possible connection between the Dark Star and Pinion systems.

"We now view the Dark Star occurrence as a much larger system with the size and continuity that favor large scale, efficient exploitation," said CEO Jonathan Awde.