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Raging wildfires and record hot temperatures challenged the well-laid plans of a score and more of mineral explorers in Canada's Yukon this year as the 2023 field season shifted into high summer. Most of the companies, however, managed to carry out their exploration for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals across the territory. The fierce and sometimes out-of-control blazes marked one of the worst wildfire seasons seen in Canada in nearly 30 years, consuming more than... Full story
Beginning the year with a nearly 55% increase in gold production at its Eagle Gold mine, Victoria Gold Corp. could never have predicted nearly half a month of downtime due to ongoing wildfires that approached as close as four kilometers (2.5 miles) to its facilities. Despite this close call, gold production remained higher than in 2022 by third-quarter calculations, and exploration of its growing Raven deposit has the company prepped and ready for an updated resource... Full story
Sitka Gold Corp. April 12 reported an update on its recently initiated 10,000-meter diamond drill program at the company's RC Gold project, which has already begun returning impressive results that is "far beyond anything" the company has seen to date. Located within the central region of Canada's Yukon Territory, the RC Gold project is roughly midway between Sabre Gold Mines Corp.'s Brewery Creek mine project and Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold mine. At approximately 37,700...
In a sudden and surprising announcement, Victoria Gold Corp. Sept. 14 announced the acquisition of Sabre Gold Mines Corp.'s Yukon assets, which include the past producing Brewery Creek gold mine property held by subsidiary Golden Predator Mining Corp., as well as the Golden Dome and Grew Creek exploration properties. "With the acquisition of Sabre's Yukon assets, we are pleased to be expanding our footprint and asset base in our own backyard," said McConnell. "With our track...
Sitka Gold Corp. Jan. 11 announced the assay results for the final drill holes of its 2022 drill program at the company's RC Gold project in Yukon's Tombstone Belt, including one hole that Sitka says is one of the best drilled to date. "The 2022 step-out drilling at RC Gold was extremely rewarding for Sitka with the results of these latest drill holes highlighting the tremendous potential of the Blackjack zone, which was just discovered in December 2021," said Sitka Gold CEO...
Sabre Gold Mines Corp. Jan. 18 published the results from a preliminary economic assessment that outlines a 60,000-ounce-per-year gold mining operation at its road-accessible Brewery Creek project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Yukon. Brewery Creek is the home to a mine that produced roughly 280,000 ounces of gold over seven years of mining that began in 1996. This operation used seasonal heap leaching – a method of gold recovery that involves stacking o...
Sabre Gold Mines Corp. Dec. 14 reported that its Brewery Creek mine project in Canada's Yukon now hosts more than 1 million ounces of gold in the measured and indicated resource categories. Sabre Gold was created as the result of a merger between Golden Predator Mining Corp. and Arizona Gold Corp. that was finalized in September. At the time of the merger, Golden Predator's Brewery Creek property hosted 22.2 million metric tons of indicated leachable resource averaging 1.11...
With overwhelming shareholder approval, Golden Predator Mining Corp. and Arizona Gold Corp. have merged to form Sabre Gold Mines Corp., a North American junior mining company with two projects in the development pipeline that have a combined 1.1 million ounces of gold in the measured and indicated resource categories, 1.5 million oz in the inferred category, and exploration upside. Golden Predator's primary contribution to Sabre is Brewery Creek, a former Yukon gold mine that...
Less than two months after ending its plans to merge with Viva Gold Corp., Golden Predator Mining Corp. has cut a deal to join forces with another junior advancing a gold mine in America's Southwest. In a deal announced on June 28, Golden Predator plans to merge with Arizona Gold Corp. to create Sabre Gold Corp., an emerging North American gold producer with the fully permitted Copperstone gold mine in Arizona and the past-producing Brewery Creek gold mine in Canada's Yukon....
No, no .stop, stop, stop" muttered Ken Yockey from the front seat of the land cruiser as we zoomed past a lumbering fully loaded end dump truck on the inside shoulder of the narrow road; while trying to keep up with our companion land cruiser,which was zooming past the same truck on the outside! Visions of Mad Max and the Blues Brothers flashed through my mind. Charles Howard, wedged inside the front seat of that land cruiser, was thinking he had finally found drivers like those in Johannesburg, South Africa, while Sabre... Full story
