Doug McGibbon views an iron and arsenic-stained, barite-veined jasperoid breccia outcrop in an area planned to be drilled in the second-phase program

This property includes 84 unpatented lode claims owned by Columbus Gold Corporation, via Cordex. It is in White Pine County, Nevada, on the southeastern extension of the Carlin Trend, and is located near the southern end of the Ruby Mountains. The property is just north of the operating Bald Mountain Mine (Barrick). The previously-mined Alligator Ridge Mine, to which Overland Pass has several geological similarities, is about 15 miles to the south, and it and several other nearby deposits are seeing renewed exploration by Barrick.

Overland Pass is a Carlin-type gold target. The Devonian Devil's Gate Limestone, and Missisippian Pilot Shale and Joanna Limestone have been altered to jasperoid breccia, and Au grades of over 0.25 oz Au/ton have been recently encountered by Cordex personnel in surface samples taken along key contacts and newly-identified structures. Local silicification also occurs in the overlying Diamond Peak Formation. Indicator element anomalies have also been identified in grid sampling.

Environmental studies to allow a second phase of drilling designed to offset and extend the earlier results as well as to test other areas with good surface sample assays are underway.

Barrick's Bald Mountain Mine, Nevada's 4th largest gold producer, has produced over 2 million oz. Au with 3 million oz. in reserve. Barrick's property abuts Sniper's Overland Pass Project immediately to the south		View looking south from Sniper's Overland Pass Project during first round drilling.