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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On July 14, 2023, Augusta Gold Corp. (the “Company”) released a technical report titled “S-K 1300 Technical Report, Mineral Resource Estimate, Bullfrog Project, Nye County, Nevada” with an effective date of December 31, 2021 (the “Technical Report”).
The Technical Report was released solely to update the “qualified persons” (as defined under Item 1300 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) named as having prepared the Technical Report, which previously, the Company had filed in materially the same form (the “Original Technical Report”) as Exhibit 96.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Under the Original Technical Report certain employees of Forte Dynamics, Inc. were named as the “qualified persons” that prepared the Original Technical Report. Under the Technical Report as issued on July 14, 2023, Forte Dynamics, Inc. itself is named as the “qualified person” firm in place of its previously named employees.
Outside of changing the issue date of the report, minor typographical edits, removing the previously named “qualified persons” and adding Forte Dynamics, Inc. as the sole “qualified person” technical firm that prepared the report, there are no amendments, revisions or updates between the contents of the Original Technical Report and the Technical Report, including no amendment, revisions or updates to the mineral resource estimates contained therein. Both the Original Technical Report and the Technical Report have an effective date of December 31, 2021.
A copy of the Technical Report is attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1. In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information set forth herein and in the Technical Report is deemed to be “furnished” and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of the Exchange Act and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing. The information set forth in Item 7.01 of this report shall not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of any information in this report on Form 8-K that is required to be disclosed solely to satisfy the requirements of Regulation FD.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
| (d) | Exhibits |
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| 99.1 | Technical Report of Augusta Gold Corp. – Bullfrog Gold Project | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| AUGUSTA GOLD CORP. | ||
| Date: July 14, 2023 | By: | /s/ Tom Ladner |
| Name: | Tom Ladner | |
| Title: | VP Legal | |
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