Western Exploration Inc

Western Exploration, Inc. provides exploration services. The company is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. The company went IPO on 2011-06-21. The firm is engaged in the business of exploration, acquisition, development, and mining of precious metals and other mineral deposits in the State of Nevada. The firm's principal asset is the 100% owned Aura gold-silver project, located approximately 120 kilometers/75 miles north of the city of Elko, Nevada, and including three gold and silver deposits: Doby George, Gravel Creek, and Wood Gulch. The Aura project consists of 709 unpatented lode mining claims, totaling 12,848 acres, and mineral leases on 2,296 acres of fee land in nine different parcels. Doby George is a near-surface oxide deposit. The deposit is located approximately 130 kilometers north of Elko, a top mining jurisdiction in the world. Gravel Creek is a high-grade underground sulfide deposit. Wood Gulch is a past-producing, near-surface, oxide deposit.