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Kutcho Copper Corp. Sept. 11 reported high-grade copper and zinc from this year's resource expansion drilling at the Esso deposit on the company's project in northern British Columbia. Located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Dease Lake, the Kutcho property hosts three known Kuroko-type volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits along an east-west trend. The largest, Main, comes to surface at the east end of the trend, with Sumac and Esso each getting deeper to the west....
Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 11 reported that it cut 27.7 meters averaging 29.49 grams per metric ton gold and 973 g/t silver, or 43.39 g/t gold-equivalent, during the initial phase of drilling at its Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Late in 2017, Skeena cut a deal to buy all of Barrick Gold Corp.'s interest in Eskay Creek. Discovered in 1988, the historic Eskay Creek mine produced roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver at...
GT Gold Corp. Sept. 10 announced a major porphyry copper-gold-silver discovery in the first hole drilled this year at the Saddle North target on the company's Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Starting at a depth of 78.87 meters, hole TTD085 cut 822.19 meters averaging 0.42 grams per metric ton gold, 0.26 percent copper and 0.62 g/t silver. This long intercept included 430 meters of 0.67 g/t gold, 0.41 percent copper and 0.89 g/t silver from 493 meters to...
Avidian Gold Corp. Sept. 10 reported the discovery of a new gold showing on its Golden Zone project about 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of Anchorage, Alaska. The Golden Zone property hosts numerous gold targets along a 15,000-meter-long trend. Breccia Pipe, the most advanced of these, is a deposit with 4.19 metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.99 grams per metric ton (267,400 ounces) gold and 10.38 g/t (1.4 million oz) silver. JJ Zone, the new discovery, is about...
Triumph Gold Corp. Sept. 12 reported that drilling has cut long sections of gold-rich porphyry-style mineralization in the Blue Sky zone on at the road accessible, Freegold Mountain project in the Yukon. The best intercept so far from drilling at Blue Sky was 316 meters of 1.1 grams per metric ton gold, 0.27 percent copper, 5 g/t silver and 0.02 percent molybdenum in hole RVD18-19, which includes 79.75 meters of 2.48 g/t gold, 0.38 percent copper, 6.9 g/t silver and 0.02...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Sept. 13 reported one of the highest grade drill intercepts so far at the Sunrise deposit in its latest round of results from Osiris, a Carlin-type gold project at the eastern end of the company's expansive Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. In June, ATAC Resources reported an inaugural resource for Osiris with 12.38 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 4.23 grams per metric ton (1.69 million ounces) gold. Most of the gold outlined so far at...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. has expanded its drill program and land position at its recently acquired Porter Idaho property on Mount Rainey about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) outside of Stewart, British Columbia. On Sept. 12, the Vancouver, B.C.-based exploration company announced the mobilization of a second drill rig to test the potential connection between the historic Silverado and Prosperity-Porter Idaho underground silver mines just above Stewart, British Columbia. Despite only...
Western Alaska Copper & Gold Company Sept. 11 reported that it completed 4,232 meters of drilling at Round Top, which is more than double the drilling completed last year at this porphyry copper-silver-molybdenum project in the Illinois Creek Mining District of western Alaska. With the goal of expanding known mineralization at Round Top, the 2018 program focused on: further testing of the mainstage porphyry mineralization discovered in RT-19, a 2017 hole that cut 166 meters...
