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Strategic Metals Ltd. April 22 announced that it has granted Upper Canada Mining Inc. the right to earn up to a 70% interest in the Mount Hinton gold project in the Yukon. Upper Canada Mining is a privately held, Calgary, Alberta-based minerals exploration and mining company primarily focused on gold and silver. Mount Hinton is a good fit for such a company. Found along the southeast side of Alexco Resource Corp.'s Keno Hill Silver Mine property and about 22 miles (35 kilomete...
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation has submitted letters to the Yukon Water Board and the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board in support of the timely renewal of the water and quartz mining licenses needed for mining at Golden Predator Mining Corp.'s Brewery Creek gold mine in the Yukon. A road-accessible project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Brewery Creek is the home to a mine that produced roughly 280,000 ounces of gold over seven y...
Granite Creek Copper Ltd. May 6 announced that two drills have been mobilized to the Carmacks (formerly Carmacks and Stu projects) to begin a roughly 10,000-meter 2021 drill program focused on expanding and upgrading copper-gold-silver resources at the Yukon project. "We continue to aggressively advance the Carmacks project, with its attributes of high-grade, near-surface copper, gold, and silver mineralization in an underexplored district-scale land position, and with the...
Metallic Minerals Corp. April 7 reported that its 2020 drill program at West Keno confirmed the presence of high-grade silver mineralization at advanced targets on this property along extensions of structural corridors being mined on Alexco Resources Corp.'s adjacent Keno Hill project in the Yukon. Metallic Minerals completed 2,674 meters of drilling in 12 holes during its 2020 program at West Keno. This included 11 holes at Formo, a top priority target for near-term resource...
Victoria Gold Corp. April 6 reported that its Eagle Mine in the Yukon produced 26,759 ounces of gold during the first quarter of 2021. While significantly less than the 45,000- to 50,000-oz quarterly average the company hopes to achieve this year, it is a 250% increase over the 10,544 oz produced during the first quarter of 2020 and ahead of the schedule for this year. Gold production at a heap leach operation such as Eagle lags behind mining, crushing, and ore stacking. With...
Banyan Gold Corp. April 21 said the final set of assay results from the 2020 drill program at its AurMac project in the Yukon continue to confirm the expansion potential of the near-surface Powerline gold deposit. "All of these final 2020 step-out diamond drill holes to the east of the Powerline deposit intersected gold mineralization and have demonstrated gold mineralization remains open in all directions – a further validation of the expansion potential of the n...
Strategic Metals Ltd. Jan. 13 reported strong gold and silver mineralization in the final batch of assay results from the 2020 drill program at the company's road accessible Mount Hinton project in Yukon's Keno Hill District. Located about 35 kilometers (22 kilometers) southeast of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine, Mount Hinton is an early staged gold and silver exploration project where 2019 surface sampling collected rocks with up to 2,340 grams per metric ton (75.23...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. April 1 said it has submitted applications to renew the water use and quartz mining licenses for its Brewery Creek gold mine project in the Yukon. A road-accessible project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, 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...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. April 15 reported the final results from a 2020 surface sampling and mapping program that explored the wider potential of its Skukum gold and silver project in southern Yukon. Situated about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Whitehorse, Yukon, the Skukum project hosts 1.33 million metric tons of indicated resource containing 274,544 ounces of gold and 5.36 million oz of silver; plus 1.11 metric tons of inferred resource containing 223,873 oz of gold and...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Feb. 18 announced that its 2020 drilling tapped new bonanza grade gold-silver encountered during a 2020 drill program targeting areas that lie outside the already defined deposit on its road-accessible Klaza project about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Carmacks, Yukon. A preliminary economic assessment completed last year outlines plans for a mine at Klaza that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over a 12-year...
Victoria Gold Corp. March 1 announced that it estimates between 180,000 and 200,000 ounces of gold production at Eagle Mine during 2021, the first full year of commercial production at the newly established Yukon operation. Reaching commercial production on July 1, Eagle Mine produced 116,644 oz gold during 2020, which included 38,896 oz recovered during non-commercial production over the first six months of the year. During the first three months of commercial production,...
Alexco Resource Corp. Jan. 19 reported that its 2020 surface exploration drilling program has confirmed the extremely high-grade nature of silver mineralization with the Bermingham Northeast Deep zone on its Keno Hill project in the Yukon. The company's 2020 surface exploration program included 7,653 meters of core drilling in 14 holes targeting Bermingham Northeast Deep, a high-grade silver zone about 150 meters below the resource at Bermingham, a high-grade deposit that...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. Jan. 18 reported an impressive gold-silver intercept from the second hole of its 2020 drill program at its Skukum project in southern Yukon. New Pacific Metals Corp., which gained full ownership of Skukum through the 2011 acquisition of Tagish Lake Gold Corp., created Whitehorse Gold to continue the exploration of this 170-square-kilometer (65 square miles) gold property about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Yukon's capital. According to a calculation...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Feb. 16 announced results from the final two holes of the late 2020 drill program at its Haldane silver project about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Keno City, Yukon. Located in the western portion of the historic Keno Hill Mining District, the 8,579-hectare (21,200 acres) Haldane project is the site of a historical mine that produced roughly 24.7 metric tons of hand-sorted ore averaging 3,102 grams per metric ton (99.7 ounces per metric ton) silver...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 24 announced the final assay results from a 2020 drill program that significantly expanded the footprint of gold mineralization at AurMac, a road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo, Yukon and roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine. According to a May calculation, two at-surface deposit at AurMac host 52.58 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.54 grams per metric...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. Feb. 17 reported that its maiden drill program at Skukum has succeeded in enhancing the company's geological understanding and confirmed the high-grade tenor of this gold project about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Whitehorse, Yukon. New Pacific Metals Corp., which gained full ownership of Skukum through the 2011 acquisition of Tagish Lake Gold Corp., created Whitehorse as a vehicle to further explore this road accessible gold-silver project in southe...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Feb. 3 reported a long intercept of strong zinc and silver mineralization in the discovery hole at Boundary West, a resource expansion target on the company's Macmillan Pass project in southeastern Yukon. A road accessible project against the Northwest Territories border, the 544-square-kilometer (210 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer- (34 miles) trend of potential zinc-lead-silver mineralization. Two deposits at Macmillan...
White Gold Corp. Jan. 21 reports that its 2020 sampling, trenching, drilling program encountered strong gold mineralization at several targets on its adjacent JP Ross and Hen properties in Yukon's White Gold District. White Gold began its 2020 program with drilling at Titan, an intriguing target on the road accessible Hen property. Rotary air blast (RAB) drilling carried out late during the 2019 program tapped a bedrock source for the strong gold mineralization found on the su...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 25 reported that all of the first 16 holes reported from the 2020 drill program at its Brewery Creek mine project in the Yukon cut significant thicknesses of gold mineralization. According to a calculation published in August, Brewery Creek hosts 22.2 million metric tons of indicated leachable resource averaging 1.11 grams per metric ton (789,000 ounces) gold, plus 16.8 million metric tons of inferred leachable resource at 0.92 g/t (497,000 oz...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Jan. 13 announced the discovery of a new vein complex at its Klaza gold-silver property in southern Yukon. Located on placer gold mining roads about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Carmacks, Klaza is an advance staged exploration project that hosts 4.46 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric ton (686,000 oz) gold and 98 g/t (14.1 million oz) silver; plus 5.71 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 2.8 g/t...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 6 reported that its Eagle Gold Mine produced 42,174 ounces of gold during the final quarter of 2020. This strong quarterly output pushed the Yukon operation's second half production to 77,748 oz of gold, which topped the company's COVID-adjusted guidance of 72,000 to 77,000 oz for the final six months of 2020. Including the 38,896 oz of gold recovered during non-commercial production over the first six months of 2020, Eagle produced 116,644 oz gold...
Banyan Gold Corp. Jan. 6 provided a recap of the milestones achieved during its 2020 program on its AurMac and Nitra gold properties in the Yukon. A road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo and roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine, AurMac hosts at-surface deposits – Airstrip and Powerline – along with other drill-ready targets. According to a May calculation, AurMac hosts 52.58 million metric tons of in...
Victoria Gold Corp. Dec. 8 reported high-grade gold results from trenching and drilling carried out this year at Lynx, an early stage exploration target about nine kilometers (5.6 miles) southeast of the Eagle Mine. The 2020 exploration work at Lynx consisted of a focused program that included 720 meters of trenching, 590 meters of diamond drilling in four holes, and the collection of more than 1,600 grid-based soil samples. Highlights from the trenching include: • 46 m...
Western Copper and Gold Corp. Dec. 14 announced the start of a new preliminary economic assessment that will consider mining a much larger resource at its Casino project in Canada's Yukon. A feasibility study completed in 2013 envisioned utilizing both a mill and heap leaching to recover the copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum found at Casino. Western Copper, however, has more than doubled the size of the Casino deposit since that study was completed. According to a...
Golden Sky Minerals Corp. (formerly Luckystrike Resources Ltd.) Dec. 10 reported promising results from its 2020 drilling at Hotspot, a 46.4-square-kilometer (17.9 square miles) gold exploration on the Yukon side of the Alaska-Yukon border. Hotspot is situated along the Big Creek fault, a regional-scale fault system that hosts numerous porphyry and orogenic gold deposits in Alaska and the Yukon. The closest such deposit is Taurus, a porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposit on...
