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• World Gold Council research notes that the addition of gold can materially improve a portfolio’s risk-adjusted returns.
• Lahontan’s potential appeal is its ability to offer investors exposure not just to the gold price but to an advancing Nevada development story in one of the world’s most established mining belts.
• Recent company activity suggests Lahontan is continuing to advance its development strategy at Santa Fe.

Gold’s latest pullback has done little to weaken the deeper investment case for the yellow metal. As recent commentary observes, gold’s importance lies not only in price momentum but in its unusual utility as a store of value, a reserve asset and a portfolio stabilizer during periods of geopolitical and macroeconomic stress. That context helps frame the story for Lahontan Gold (TSX.V: LG) (OTCQB: LGCXF), a Canadian mine development and mineral exploration company advancing four gold and silver properties in Nevada’s Walker Lane, led by its Santa Fe Mine project.

A recent GoldSeek report observes that gold does not behave like most commodities because it is rarely consumed. “Almost all the gold ever mined still exists somewhere in the world,” the article states, which makes gold fundamentally different from oil, copper or agricultural commodities that are used up in the ordinary course of economic activity.

The World Gold Council makes the same point in its own March 2026 analysis, stating that total above-ground gold amounts to about 219,891 tonnes and that, because gold is virtually indestructible, almost all of it remains available to return to the market under the right conditions. For investors, that distinction matters because gold’s value proposition is tied less to immediate industrial depletion and more to confidence, reserve management and capital preservation.

GoldSeek also makes the case that gold’s real utility is financial rather than productive, noting that gold is “not someone else’s liability.” This point helps explain why central banks keep holding and buying precious metal, even though it generates no yield. The article goes on to describe gold as a “stabilizing” asset in reserve portfolios.

That view is broadly consistent with current World Gold Council research, which says the addition of gold can materially improve a portfolio’s risk-adjusted returns, and with World Gold Council data showing that central banks continued to add gold in 2025, including 230 tonnes in the fourth quarter alone. The message for investors is that gold’s role in the global system is not disappearing; it is being reaffirmed by official-sector demand and by its continuing function as diversification against monetary, fiscal and geopolitical risk.

A March 2026 Kitco analysis adds an important near-term market dimension. Kitco described gold as being caught in a “short-term tug-of-war,” with prices testing support near $5,000 an ounce as markets weighed slowing growth and persistent inflation. That framing is valuable because it separates short-term sentiment from longer-term structure.

In other words, a setback in gold does not necessarily invalidate the bull case; it can instead reflect shifting expectations around yields, growth and inflation before the broader strategic case reasserts itself. For investors, this distinction is critical, because gold equities often become most interesting when the commodity’s long-run setup remains intact even as short-run price action creates hesitation.

With this in mind, Lahontan’s potential appeal is its ability to offer investors exposure not just to the gold price, but to an advancing Nevada development story in one of the world’s most established mining belts. Lahontan holds four top-tier gold and silver exploration properties in Nevada’s Walker Lane. Its flagship Santa Fe Mine project covers 28.3 square kilometers and historically produced 356,000 ounces of gold and 784,000 ounces of silver from open-pit, heap-leach operations between 1988 and 1995.

The company also reports a Canadian National Instrument 43-101 compliant indicated mineral resource of 1.539 million ounces of gold equivalent and an inferred resource of 411,000 ounces of gold equivalent at Santa Fe. Those figures place Lahontan in a category that many investors watch closely: a junior developer with an existing resource base, past-producing ground and a path toward further expansion.

The project economics disclosed by Lahontan strengthens that position. The company reports that the December 2024 preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Santa Fe outlined a pre-tax net present value at a 5% discount rate of $265.1 million and a 41% internal rate of return, with an after-tax net present value of $200 million and a 34.2% internal rate of return using a $2,705 per ounce gold price.

Even allowing for the preliminary nature of a PEA, those numbers offer investors a concrete framework for understanding how a higher gold-price environment could amplify project value. This is one reason recent commentary observes that Santa Fe “could resume production toward the end of the decade,” highlighting the project’s existing infrastructure and development profile.

Recent company activity suggests Lahontan is continuing to advance its development strategy at Santa Fe. In March 2026, the company announced that it had mobilized a second drill rig to the project as part of an expanded exploration and development program, while also outlining plans to update the Santa Fe mineral resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment. Earlier this year, Lahontan also reported encouraging drill results from the West Santa Fe area, including 37 meters grading 3.11 g/t gold equivalent from surface, with higher-grade intervals such as 11 meters grading 5.75 g/t gold equivalent.

As recent analysis suggests, gold’s investment case is broader than any single price swing. Gold remains unusual because it is durable, widely held, central-bank relevant and capable of reasserting itself when macro conditions deteriorate. With four Nevada properties and an advancing Santa Fe project, Lahontan Gold Corp may give investors a way to participate in that thesis through a company that is working to convert gold’s strategic appeal into project-level value creation.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.LahontanGoldCorp.com.

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