Q-4 2012 - Second Consecutive Year of Exploration Profit. Up 147%
Q-4 2012 - 2012 Gold sales from exploration up 100% over previous year.
Q-3 2012 - Net gold sales from exploration program hit $3.2 million.
Q-3 2012 - LKA reaches agreement with all Company note holders to convert $1.5 million in debt to equity. All long-term financial obligations extinguished.
Q-2 2012 - Gold ore sales increase 337% over year-ago period as LKA records its second profitable quarter since exploration program began. Only profitable gold exploration company in mining sector.
Q-1 2012 - First quarter ore deliveries (bulk samples from exploration) up 183% over year-ago period. Grade continues to rise (2.48 oz. per ton) as ore sales continue to cover expense of Golden Wonder exploration program.
Q-4 2011 - Gold values from exploration exceed $1.27 million for the year and produce a profit at the "project level" for 2011.
Q-4 2011 - LKA and Premier Gold Mines (PG:TSX) sign agreement to expand Golden Wonder exploration across a much wider area beyond the current workings.
Q-3 2011 - Gold ore sales from exploration result in the Company's first profitable quarter.
Q-1 2010 - A bulk sample of 128.6 tons was shipped to the Echo Bay-Kinross milling facility in Republic, WA. The average ore grade was 2.04 ounces ( 57.83 grams) gold per ton.
Q-3 2009 - LKA establishes the existence of high-grade gold bearing structures 100' beyond previous production zone. Over forty vein samples in this area yielded average assays of 16.92 ounces gold per ton.
Q-2 2009 - LKA's first bulk ore sample of 88 dry weight tons shipped to Teck-Cominco's smelter in Trail, B.C.
This first bulk sample averaged 3.85 ounces (109 grams) per ton.