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Crews and equipment get ready to begin planned 15,000-meter drilling program. Sitka Gold Corp. Feb. 27 announced the mobilization of equipment at crew in preparation for its planned 15,000-meter winter drilling campaign at the company's flagship RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "After the success of 2023, we are very excited to be back at RC Gold to kick-start 2024 exploration activities," said Sitka Gold CEO Cor Coe. Located within the central region of Canada's Yukon...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 15 reported that despite the various ups and downs of 2023, it produced a total of 166,730 ounces of gold for the year, an 11% increase from 2022 and testimony to the feasibility of year-round ore stacking. The company's decision to stack ore on the heap leach pad during the first three months of 2023, a departure from previous years at Eagle, resulted in 37,619 oz gold produced during the first quarter-a 55% increase over 24,358 oz produced during...
Is it time for BC, Yukon, Alaska to forge an alliance to unlock critical mineral wealth, usher in new era of prosperity in the 21st century? The extremely mineral-rich geology that sweeps in a roughly 1,500-mile (2,600 kilometers) arc from the southern tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle, through the Yukon, and onward to Alaska's west coast does not recognize the borders it spans. Likewise, the opportunities and challenges related to unlocking the precious, industrial, a...
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...
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...
Launching into 2023 with an initial inferred mineral resource estimate, the excitement has grown for Sitka Gold Corp. as much as its 2022 Blackjack discovery on the company's highly prospective RC Gold project in Canada's Yukon. Consisting of a 376-square-kilometer (145 square miles) RC Gold project is located near the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. One of the largest consolidated land pack...
With another fruitful year of systematic drilling, a stressful wildfire, the successful expansion of its resources swelling to more than six million ounces, and the accomplishment of a several-year-long goal of connecting two of its more advanced-exploration deposits, Banyan Gold Corp. has shown that persistence is a key ingredient to a successful exploration project. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine and adjacent to Hecla...
Sitka Gold Corp. Dec. 19 announced that it has acquired full ownership of Clear Creek, a property that hosts the company's Blackjack and Eiger gold deposits, followed by a year-end summary of its 2023 exploration program for its overall RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "Completing our requirements to obtain 100% ownership of the Clear Creek property, which hosts the Blackjack and Eiger deposits, is an important milestone in Sitka's advancement of the RC Gold project," said...
Banyan Gold Corp. Dec. 13 announced a significant milestone in its exploration journey on the company's Yukon-based holdings, with the successful acquisition of 75% earn-in of the McQuesten half of its AurMac property. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine and adjacent to Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill Silver District, the Aurex and McQuesten properties, or AurMac, cover three gold deposits – with McQuesten holding the A...
After establishing its position as a leading zinc-lead-silver explorer in northern Canada, Fireweed Metals Corp. set out in late 2022 to broaden its focus in both geography and commodities. Partly defying the age-old adage to stick to what you know, the longtime explorer of the district-scale Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project ventured across the border into Northwest Territories to acquire two projects. While the Gayna River zinc-lead-silver-gallium-germanium project is...
Sitka Gold Corp. Oct. 30 announced the next batch of assays from its ongoing drill program at the company's RC Gold project in Canada's Yukon, which the company says has significantly expanded known mineralization with a possibility to add considerable ounces at its Blackjack deposit. Located within the central region of Canada's Yukon Territory, in the prolific Tombstone Gold Belt, the RC Gold project is roughly midway between Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold mine and...
Victoria Gold Corp. Oct. 25 reported that drills tapped grades as high as 5.83 grams per metric ton gold over 31.4 meters at its more than one-million-ounce Raven deposit on the Dublin Gulch property in Yukon, Canada. "The 2023 Raven exploration season is now completed and, as these latest results demonstrate, has continued to identify high-grade gold mineralization both internally and externally to the current Raven deposit bounds," said Victoria Gold President and CEO John...
Victoria Gold Corp. Oct. 4 reported that its Eagle Mine in the Yukon produced 124,749 ounces of gold during the first nine months of this year, including 41,561 oz during the third quarter. The gold recovered at Eagle during the first three quarters of 2023 is 17% higher than the 106,441 oz produced during the same period of 2022. This year's third-quarter gold production at Eagle, however, is down 17% from the 50,028 oz recovered during the same three-month period last year....
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...
Victoria Gold Corp. Sept. 14 announced the first analytical results from the 2023 exploration campaign at Raven, a deposit within its already gold-producing Dublin Gulch project in central Yukon. Discovered with soil sampling and trenching in 2018, Raven is a large, near-surface gold target associated with Nugget, the second-largest known intrusive body on Victoria Gold's Dublin Gulch property. Located roughly 15 kilometers (nine miles) east of the Eagle Gold Mine, trenching...
Banyan Gold Corp. Sept. 6 announced the latest results from 13 holes that confirm consistency of gold mineralization within the southern portion of the Powerline deposit on the company's AurMac property in Yukon, Canada. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine and adjacent to Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill Silver District, the Aurex and McQuesten properties, or AurMac, is comprised of three deposits – Powerline, Airstrip, and A...
Sitka Gold Corp. Sept. 5 announced the results from the first three holes drilled during the 2023 exploration program at the RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada, which continues to highlight the consistency and magnitude of mineralization at its ever-expanding targets. "The results from the first three drill holes completed during our summer drill program at RC Gold continue to illustrate just how consistent and well-endowed the gold mineralization is at our expanding Blackjack...
Victoria Gold Corp. Aug. 21 announced that after nearly two weeks of halted operations due to wildfires, operations at the Eagle Gold Mine in central Yukon have returned to normalcy, and production has resumed once more. At the end of July, Victoria initiated a partial evacuation of its Eagle Gold Mine operations due to the proximity of the East McQuesten wildfire. With the fires getting as close as 4,000 meters to the mine, the company commenced a second evacuation of Eagle...
To ensure the safety of its Eagle Gold Mine employees, Victoria Gold Corp. July 30 announced that operations would be partially evacuated due to the recent wildfire activity near the operation. At the same time, neighboring Banyan Gold Corp. is paring down its gold exploration activities due to its proximity to the fire. "The safety of our employees is our highest priority," said Victoria Gold President and CEO John McConnell. "As a result of wildfire activity proximal to...
Sitka Gold Corp. Aug. 17 announced that drilling has encountered widespread mineralization, including visible gold, in large step-out drilling at Blackjack during the ongoing drill program at the company's RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. Consisting of a 376-square-kilometer (145 square miles) contiguous district-scale land package located in the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt, RC Gold is o...
Victoria Gold Corp. July 5 announced that its Eagle Gold Mine in Canada's Yukon produced 45,568 ounces of gold during its second quarter of 2023 and a cumulative of 83,188 oz gold during its first half – a nearly 50% increase from 2022 production. Kicking off the year with a strong start, Victoria announced its first quarter produced 37,619 oz of gold, compared to the 24,358 oz of gold produced during Q1 2022. The company says the 55% increase in gold production was a...
Banyan Gold Corp. July 19 announced the results from the latest 25 drill holes from its ongoing 2023 exploration program at the company's AurMac property in Yukon, Canada, establishing that gold mineralization is continuous between Powerline and Aurex Hill – a goal Banyan has been pursuing for the past couple of years. "Confirmation that AurMac gold mineralization is continuous between Powerline and Aurex Hill was an important goal of our Phase 1 drill program," said Banyan G...
Palladium One Mining Inc. July 10 announced that crews are carrying out fieldwork in preparation for a high-resolution, ground-based electromagnetic survey at its Canalask nickel-copper project in western Yukon. Accessible from the Alaska Highway about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Whitehorse, the 3,400-hectare (8,402 acres) Canalask property shows strong potential for massive nickel sulfide mineralization. Nickel mineralization was discovered on the property during...
Sitka Gold Corp. June 6 announced the assay results for the second hole drilled during the company's planned 10,000-meter drill program expanding on its RC Gold project in the prolific Tombstone Gold Belt in Canada's Yukon. Consisting of a 376-square-kilometer contiguous district-scale land package, RC Gold is located near the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. Approximately 100 kilometers (60...
Banyan Gold Corp. May 24 announced that it has added more than 2 million additional ounces to its AurMac project in the Yukon over the past year, elevating the current resource to 6.2 million oz of gold. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine and adjacent to Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill Silver District, the Aurex and McQuesten properties, or AurMac, is comprised of three deposits – Powerline, Airstrip, and Aurex Hill. A...
