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KIV: TSX-V President and CEO: John Robins Chairman: Rob Carpenter Vice President, Exploration: Jeff Ward Kivalliq Energy Corp. is a uranium exploration and development company created in early 2008 when Kaminak Gold Corp. spun off its uranium assets. Kivalliq is the first company in Canada to sign a comprehensive agreement with the Inuit of Nunavut to explore for uranium on Inuit-owned lands in Nunavut. This landmark partnership gives Kivalliq the opportunity to explore and develop the historical Lac Cinquante uranium...
Underworld Resources Inc. hit the ground running in 2009, reporting impressive assay results in the first three holes of its drilling program at its White Gold Project in late May. For two field seasons, the Vancouver, B.C.-based company has explored sediment and vein-hosted gold targets on 845 claims covering 169 square kilometers, or 65.3 square miles, on the White Gold and Black Fox gold Properties in west-central Yukon Territory, 95 kilometers, or about 60 miles, south of Dawson City. So far, the junior has identified...
DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory - Modern-day prospector Shawn Ryan is hot on the trail of what he believes could be the monster lode source of the 6 million ounces of placer gold recovered from historic Bonanza Creek of Klondike Gold Rush fame. For more than a century, geologists and prospectors have searched for the source rock that dumped a golden treasure into the creek and lured tens of thousands of men into the Yukon at the turn of the 19th century. The lack of an obvious...
Producing mines Early in 2008, Tahera Diamond Corp., owner and operator of Jericho Diamond Mine - Canada's third, and Nunavut's first diamond mine - filed bankruptcy and sought creditor protection. Tahera opened the Jericho in 2006 and recovered and processed 155,000 metric tons (average grade of 0.79 carats per metric ton) during the fourth quarter of 2007, resulting in production of 122,500 carats valued at US$11.6 million, compared with US$8.4 million in the third quarter of 2007. However, financial losses were reported...
BCGold Corp., a Vancouver-based startup launched in February 2006, has grabbed nearly 4 million acres of mineral claims adjacent to and near the Minto and Carmacks (Williams Creek) copper-gold deposits in west-central Yukon. BCGold said Nov. 27 that it entered into a letter of agreement with Shawn Ryan, a Dawson City, Yukon-based prospector and project generator, to acquire 100 percent ownership in 557 mineral claims comprising more than 11,640 hectares, or 3.84 million acres. Ryan staked the properties based on their...
