Nevada
Nevada QB Thaddeus Thatcher commits to Oregon State, breaks down his decision
Las Vegas (Nev.) Arbor View quarterback Thaddeus Thatcher announced his commitment to Oregon State and broke down why he chose the Beavers.
After taking official visits to Oregon State, UNLV, UCF and Michigan, the talented signal caller announced for the Beavers moments ago.
“I’m very excited about my decision,” Thatcher said. “Coach Shep (Jamarcus Shephard) has assembled a really great staff and I’m really excited to work with coach (Mitch) Dahlen.
“Coach Dahlen has worked with so many draft picks and it’s really exciting to have the opportunity to be developed by someone like him.”
The potential to compete for early playing time was another big factor for Thatcher.
“They’re going to give me a chance to compete for a spot right away,” Thatcher said. “That’s something I was interested in and so I’m excited about the opportunity.
“My whole family gets along with the entire Oregon State staff and we really believe in Coach Shep. I really think he’s going to be able to get things back on track and I’m excited to be a part of that.”
We originally had a commit prediction in for Michigan with Thatcher and there was strong buzz he was close to committing following his unofficial visit back in early April.
Thatcher decided to take his official visits instead and the Beavers hosted him on May 29. Oregon State started to build momentum with Thatcher following the trip and the Beavs were able to hold off strong competition.
Thatcher is one of the region’s top dual-threat quarterbacks and two-sport athletes. He’s a talented basketball player as well but his fixture is on the grid-iron.
As a junior, Thatcher completed 168-240 passes (70%) for 2,625 yard and 29 touchdowns with just five interceptions. He also rushed for 605 yards and seven more scores and will be a four-year starter for the Aggies, one of the top teams in the state.
SUNRISE RESOURCES PLC
(“Sunrise” or the “Company”)
20 July 2026
New Copper-Silver-Gold Project, Nevada
Drill intersections include 50m grading 0.73% copper, 31g/t silver and 0.2g/t gold from surface
Company surface samples assay up to 198 g/t silver, 0.13% copper
and 0.3g/t gold
The Company is pleased to announce that it has established a new copper-silver-gold project in Nevada, USA, which it has named the Lake Copper-Silver-Gold Project after its location in the Lake Mining District in Churchill County, Nevada, USA.
Highlights:
· Project located at south-west end of the prospective Humboldt Range which is host to numerous large-scale current, planned and past producing gold and silver deposits (see accompanying Location Plan).
· Company has secured a low entry-cost lease &option to purchase agreement over a mining claim covering copper-silver-gold mineralisation originally discovered in 1985 by Utah International (a subsidiary of BHP) and has staked a further ten adjacent mining claims.
· Utah International drill hole MH-4 intersected 50m from surface grading 0.73% copper, 31g/t silver (1oz/t) and 0.2g/t gold in skarn-type mineralisation.
· Copper-silver mineralisation occurs from surface. Company’s recent surface sampling from a due diligence field visit gave results up to 198g/t silver (6.4oz/t) 0.13% copper and 0.3g/t gold in sulphide rich sample.
· Mineralisation occurs with a 450m long arsenic and antimony anomaly coincident with mineralised area within a regional low-level gold-in-rock anomaly that extends 1.5 km through the claim block.
· Targeting intrusion related copper-precious metals deposit.
Commenting today, Executive Chairman, Patrick Cheetham said “This exciting acquisition follows on from our recently announced decision to focus on precious and base metal projects and I am delighted to be announcing our first copper exploration project in Nevada. Copper is a critical metal in the energy transition and has seen its price increase significantly in the past few years. Nevada is host to a number of large copper mining and development projects.
“With historical drill intersections of economically significant grades, the target is well-defined with a number of drill holes intersecting thick zones of skarn mineralisation from surface, a style of mineralisation that can host significant copper, silver and gold deposits and which, importantly, can also provide a vector to porphyry copper deposits.”
“Projects of this calibre are hard to come by and the acquisition results from a long-standing programme of archival research and field reconnaissance. The path forward for this project is clear with the next steps already defined to include geophysical surveying and follow up drilling as resources allow.”
Further information:
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Sunrise Resources plc Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman |
Tel: +44 (0)1625 838 884 |
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Beaumont Cornish Limited Nominated Adviser James Biddle/Roland Cornish |
Tel: +44 (0)207 628 3396 |
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AlbR Capital Limited Broker Lucy Williams/Duncan Vasey |
Tel: +44 (0)207 469 0930 |
Detailed Information, Lake Copper-Silver-Gold Project
Location & Access
The Lake Project is located on the south side of the Mopung Hills which form the southwest end of the Humboldt Mountain Range in Churchill County, Nevada.
It is located 98km east-northeast of Reno and access is excellent from Interstate Highway I-80 and Highway 95 and a series of unsealed roads and tracks to the project area.
Past Exploration
The only record of previous exploration in the target area is from the mid-1980s when Utah International (“Utah”), a US subsidiary of mining giant BHP, held a large claim block.
Originally, Utah targeted the discovery of Carlin-type gold mineralisation. Exploration initially comprised detailed semi-regional mapping and rock chip sampling. Utah subsequently completed extensive claim staking and two separate phases of drilling. Fourteen shallow (mainly
Geology & Mineralisation
The youngest rocks in the area are a series of Tertiary-age volcanics that overlie Jurassic age gabbro and co-magmatic basalts, the gabbro being a part of the regionally extensive Humboldt Lopolith. The gabbro sits above a thrust fault contact with brecciated middle Jurassic age carbonates deposited in a shelf environment (black limestone, quartz arenites and calcarenites) and a lower Jurassic basinal sequence (thin bedded carbonaceous shaley limestone). Elsewhere in the Humboldt Range this thrust fault is referred to as the Wildhorse Thrust.
The south end of the Humboldt Range is a horst-block bounded by major northeast trending major fault zones. In the Company’s claim area a series of east-northeast trending high angle structural features mark a structural corridor parallel to the range bounding faults some several hundred metres wide where the shelf and basin carbonate sequences and Tertiary volcanics are hydrothermally silicified and decarbonatised and rock chip samples are anomalous in gold (0.1-0.55g/t) antimony (32 to 4,300ppm) and arsenic (25 to 750ppm), all classical indicators for Carlin-type gold deposits.
Utah postulated that reactive limestones beneath the Wildhorse Thrust could be host to Carlin-type gold deposits and this was the target for Utah’s first wide-spaced drill testing. This remains an attractive target at depth.
A number of Utah’s first phase of drill holes in the claim area intersected anomalous gold, arsenic and silver with gold values up 0.1g/t gold, as shown in the table below, but most notably hole MH-4 intersected a wide interval of mineralised skarn of economically significant grade:
MH-4: 50m grading 0.73% copper, 31g/t silver (1 oz/t) and 0.3g/t gold from surface.
A second phase of 7 shallow vertical drill holes made a number of further mineralised intersections with Hole MH-18 being of particular significance intersecting high values of silver and with skarn mineralisation continuing at the bottom of the hole.
Company Field Visit & Exploration Plans
As part of its due diligence on the lease-option agreement, a field visit was made by the Company’s consulting geologist, Ivan Johnson. The mineralisation intersected from surface in Utah hole MH-4 was found to be visible in a small prospecting mine shaft where sub-vertical ribs of massive silica in upper plate calc-arenites border quartz-garnet skarn with visible copper stain and up to 20% pyrite.
A surface sample from the wall of this prospecting shaft assayed 198g/t silver, 0.13% copper and 0.3g/t gold.
The geology of the project area is complex with multiple phases of faulting and mineralisation having taken place over a long period of geological time. The Company is primarily targeting an intrusive related copper-precious metals deposit although Carlin-type and epithermal mineralisation are also valid targets. Drilling to date has been shallow but has nevertheless made drill intersections of economic significance. The copper-silver silicified skarn mineralisation is sulphide-rich from surface and so potentially amenable to geophysical targeting prior to drilling.
Lease/Option Terms
The Company has entered into an agreement with Mr. Rolf Thiele (“Lessor) that grants to the Company a mining lease over, and an option to purchase, the key Lake Project mining claim (the “Claim”) where Utah’s Phase 2 drilling was carried out (see accompanying Figure 2). The following are the principal terms of the agreement:
· 7-year lease/option term which can be extended at Company’s option for two successive 7-year terms (21 years in total).
· Nominal payment on signing Agreement – US$100.
· Annual payments to the Lessor starting at US$5,000 at the end of Year 1 rising by US$2,500 per year up to a maximum of $20,000 per year by the end of year 7 and in subsequent years. Payments can be offset against future royalty payment obligations.
· Royalty payable to the Lessor of 2% of the Net Smelter Return (“NSR”). The NSR Royalty may be bought back for the sum of US$500,000 at any time.
· Company has the option to purchase the Lake Project Claim at any time during the lease period or extended lease period on payment of $150,000.
· Company can proceed to mining under the 21-year lease agreement without purchasing the underlying mining claim.
· Company can withdraw from the agreement at any time.
· No fixed expenditure commitments.
The Lessor has not incurred significant expenditure on the Claim other than to maintain the Claim in good standing.
Table of significant drill intersections, Utah International 1985
Glossary
Carlin-type: a type of disseminate gold deposit hosted in silicified and decarbonatised silty carbonaceous limestones where gold is intimately associated with pyrite (iron sulphide, arsenopyrite (an arsenic sulphide) and stibnite (an antimony sulphide) and barite. Named after the Carlin deposit in Nevada. Carlin-type deposits are particularly found in Nevada and include some of the largest gold deposits in the World.
Horst: a raised fault block bounded by normal faults.
Lopolith: igneous intrusion associated with a structural basin, with contacts that are parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rocks. In an ideal example, the enclosing sediments above and below the lopolith dip inward from all sides towards the centre, so that the lopolith is concave upwards. Lopoliths, which can be several miles to several hundred miles in diameter, with thicknesses up to several thousand feet, are some of the largest igneous intrusions known.
Mullock: broken rock discarded in mining operations.
Skarn: rock formed through the replacement of carbonate-bearing rocks during regional or contact metamorphism and metasomatism. This process involves the interaction of hydrothermal fluids with the precursor rock which can be of either igneous or sedimentary origin. Skarns are typically rich in calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, and aluminum silicate minerals, also known as calc-silicate minerals. Skarns can be host to commercial deposits of copper, lead, zinc, tungsten +/- precious metals.
Thrust: a flat to shallow angled fault structure where compressive lateral movement occurs, often over long distances, juxtaposing plates of rock of different ages and origins.
Units:
g/t: grammes per tonne or parts per million. oz/t: troy ounces per short ton. 1oz/t = 31.1g/t.
Figure 1. Location plan, Lake Cu-Ag-Au Project
Figure 2. Lake Project Geochemistry & Drilling
Prospecting shaft in silicified limestone and skarn
Rib of silicified limestone in contact with skarn
Secondary copper minerals (green) in shaft mullock
Qualified Person Information:
The information in this release has been compiled and reviewed by Mr. Patrick Cheetham (MIMMM, MAusIMM) who is a qualified person for the purposes of the AIM Note for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies. Mr. Cheetham is a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining and also a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014 which forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (‘MAR’). Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service (‘RIS’), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.
Nominated Adviser
Beaumont Cornish Limited (“Beaumont Cornish”) is the Company’s Nominated Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA. Beaumont Cornish’s responsibilities as the Company’s Nominated Adviser, including a responsibility to advise and guide the Company on its responsibilities under the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed solely to the London Stock Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and will not be responsible to any other persons for providing protections afforded to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation to the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any matter referred to in it.
Shares in the Company trade on AIM. EPIC: “SRES”.
Website: www.sunriseresourcesplc.com
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Nevada
Nevada’s Off-The-Beaten-Path Living Ghost Town Has A Museum, Historic Cemetery, And Mountain Views – Islands
When many people think of Wild West ghost towns, what likely comes to mind are some famous examples like Calico in California or Oatman in Arizona. But did you know that Nevada has more than 600 ghost towns? One great thing about living in Las Vegas is that if you drive in any direction long enough, you’re bound to stumble upon a weathered relic of the Silver State’s mining past. These gems can range from abandoned one-room schoolhouses to the remnants of an old saloon.
One under-the-radar example of this is Cherry Creek, Nevada. Though most of what’s left here consists of crumbling stone buildings and windswept cemeteries, under 100 people still call the area home, making this tiny slice of White Pine County a living ghost town. Wandering through Cherry Creek today, it can be hard to imagine that it was once a bustling mining hub. However, about 150 years ago, thousands of miners and their families lived and worked in this high desert hamlet.
Cherry Creek is located in northeastern Nevada, in a remote stretch of desert near Highway 50 (also known as the “Loneliest Road in America” for its isolation and the miles of vast, empty desert between towns). To say this destination is off the beaten path would be an understatement, as one of the closest populated areas is Ely, which sits about an hour’s drive away. But if you’re the type who enjoys exploring abandoned places (or you’re making the drive between Ely and West Wendover), Cherry Creek may be worth the detour. Between the town’s museum, cemetery, historical ruins, and mountain views, Cherry Creek makes for a fascinating stop in one of Nevada’s more unique regions.
Visit a museum and cemetery in the Cherry Creek Ghost Town
Although it may be a ghost town now, back in 1882, Cherry Creek had around 7,800 residents and a developed downtown featuring a Wells Fargo bank, a post office, restaurants, boarding houses, over 20 saloons, a luxury hotel, and a school. Today, the school remains one of its top attractions. Built in 1872, the one-room schoolhouse once welcomed 56 students before permanently closing in 1941. The school is now one of Cherry Creek’s two oldest buildings and currently operates as a local history museum. Its exhibits showcase artifacts from the school as well as the town’s earliest residents, which included Indigenous communities, miners, and Pony Express Station workers. The museum is open only by appointment, and you can contact Ely Visitors Center for further information.
While Cherry Creek continued producing gold and silver ore until the 1940s, many residents relocated well before then, due in part to the closure of several local mines and an 1888 fire in the town’s business district. Another fire (caused by a gas lantern explosion) in 1901 burned several structures, including the schoolhouse. Today, crumbling wood and stone buildings (including an old saloon) remain. Cherry Creek’s original railroad depot was relocated to the White Pine Public Museum in the Wild West town of Ely. Restored to resemble its look during the town’s heyday, the depot is complete with period furniture and ticket counters.
Cherry Creek also has several graveyards. On the town’s southwest edge are two large historic cemeteries with grave markers dating back to the 1800s. While some of the weathered graves have become overgrown with brush and are missing markers, many of the surviving tombstones retain information that provides insight into the tragic reality of pioneer life.
Hike to caves and along old railroad tracks in Cherry Creek
This ghost town is nestled against the central portion of the Cherry Creek Range, whose hillsides are decorated with pinyon pine and juniper trees that look especially pretty when dusted with a layer of snow. Cherry Creek is also located near the southern boundary of the Goshute Canyon Wilderness, where you can hike half a mile to see the massive Goshute Cave system’s bats and limestone tunnels. Or, you can continue your Wild West explorations with a 0.7-mile walk along the Historic Cherry Creek Railroad and against a backdrop of open range and dusty blue mountains. This route, which has long been overgrown by sagebrush, can feel eerie — especially as you pass the rusted abandoned railroad cars that one hiker on AllTrails claims are still filled with ore. For more hiking, you can also take a detour about two hours south of town to see some of the world’s oldest trees at Great Basin, America’s most underrated national park.
When planning your visit to the area, keep in mind that Elko’s regional airport is roughly two hours away. The nearest international airport, however, is in Salt Lake City, Utah, a little less than three hours from Cherry Creek. Additionally, unless you’re up for pitching a tent on BLM land, your closest options for lodging are in Ely or in West Wendover, a dazzling desert border town that blends Vegas-style glamour with natural Wild West beauty. Both cities offer a variety of lodging, including options under $100 per night and spots such as the historic Hotel Nevada & Gambling Hall (located in the heart of Ely’s walkable downtown). The best time to visit is during late spring, when the temperatures linger in the 70s.
Nevada City, Calif. — On July 30, 2026, Nevada City will be holding the first workshop for the 2027-2035 Housing Element Update. The meeting will be held in City Council Chambers at 317 Broad Street, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. Please join us to give your input on housing needs in the city.
The purpose of a housing element is to identify and analyze existing and projected housing needs in order to support housing preservation, improvement, and development that meet the needs of all community members. The State of California requires each city and county to plan for its fair share of the regional housing need. This fair share is determined through a process called the Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA). Once a local government has received its RHNA, it must revise its housing element to show that the jurisdiction has provided sufficient residential zoning to accommodate the number of new units identified in the RHNA.
The workshop will include an introductory presentation providing a common understanding of the purpose of the Housing Element Update and the steps in the process. Following the presentation, participants can complete interactive exercises that encourage input on housing issues and distinct economic, social, and geographic housing needs in Nevada City. Visit HousingNevadaCity.com for more information.
For those unable to attend the in-person workshop, the City has posted a Housing Needs Survey to the Project website. This survey can be completed online by August 15, 2026, at HousingNevadaCity.com/survey.
About Nevada City, California
Nevada City’s mission is to foster a healthy and engaged community, support local businesses, preserve its unique historic and natural environment, and enhance the quality of life for residents and visitors alike. Guided by principles of environmental stewardship, inclusivity, and innovation, Nevada City works to create a welcoming, resilient city that honors its history and looks to the future.
Visit Nevada City’s official website for more information.
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