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Victoria Gold Corp. June 23 announced it has kicked off a C$6 million exploration at Dublin Gulch, the 555-square-kilometer property that hosts the company's new Eagle Gold Mine in Canada's Yukon. "With Eagle now in production, 2020 will see a robust exploration campaign within the broader Dublin Gulch camp," said Victoria Gold President and CEO John McConnell. This program will focus primarily on further drilling and trenching near-surface high-grade gold occurrences at...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. June 9 announced that it has added two professionals involved with the previous iteration of the Brewery Creek Mine to help the company restart production at this gold operation about 55 kilometers (35 miles) east of Dawson City Yukon. "To fast track the past-producing Brewery Creek Mine we have made a concerted effort to assemble a team with strong knowledge of the project," said Golden Predator Mining CEO Janet Lee-Sheriff. Former Yukon Deputy Mi...
Klondike Gold Corp. June 1 announced that the 2020 exploration program is underway on its Klondike District property, a 586-square-kilometer (226 square miles) land package that blankets much of the legendary 20-million-ounce placer gold district near Dawson City, Yukon. This year's program includes three phases of drilling targeting the Lone Star and Stander (formerly known as Nugget) zones, which lie between the Eldorado and Bonanza Creeks of Klondike Gold Rush fame. The...
Western Copper and Gold Corp. June 4 said it plans to drill at least 43 holes this summer at its Casino copper-gold project in the Yukon. Slated to get underway by mid-June, this drill program will test three targets identified last year – High Gold, Northern Porphyry and Canadian Creek. Western's primary 2020 drill target is High Gold, a zone of higher grade gold mineralization with the potential to significantly bolster the economics of a mine at Casino. One particularly h...
Strategic Metals Ltd. June 3 announced plans for continued exploration of Mount Hinton, a high-grade gold and silver project in Yukon's Keno Hill Mining District. During its 2019 program, Strategic geologists collected rock samples from the Mount Hinton property with up to 2,340 grams per metric ton (75.23 ounces per metric ton) gold and 597 g/t (19.2 oz/t) silver on the eastern side of Granite Creek. The company followed up on this bonanza gold discovery with a second phase o...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. May 20 closed a financing that provides C$2.8 million towards the company's goal of re-establishing a gold mine at its Brewery Creek project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Yukon. Over a roughly seven-year span that began in 1996, Viceroy Resource Corp. produced 280,000 ounces of gold from near surface oxidized ore at Brewery Creek. This operation used heap leaching – a method of gold recovery that involves stacking ore in a l...
Victoria Gold Corp. May 11 reported strong performance at its newly developed Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon, thanks in part to the company's COVID-19 action plan. Mining, crushing and stacking ore on the leach pad at Eagle increased significantly during April. As a result, the company reported a significant increase in gold production last month, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming months. Eagle produced 6,768 ounces of gold during April, compared to a total of... Full story
Alexco Resource Corp. March 30 reported a slowing of mine development and exploration activities at its Keno Hill Silver District due to the uncertainty and unpredictable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. To protect the health and safety of its employees, contractors and Yukon communities near the Keno Hill project, Alexco has implemented a COVID-19 response and management plan that follows territorial and federal guidelines, as well as industry-wide best practices. This... Full story
Seabridge Gold Inc. March 30 announced an agreement to acquire full ownership of Golden Predator Mining Corp.'s 3 Aces gold project in the Yukon. Lying alongside the Nahanni Range Road, 3 Aces is an easily accessible project that covers 357 square kilometers (138 square miles) of high-grade gold discoveries and targets in southeastern Yukon. The target concept for 3 Aces is consistent with some of the largest and richest gold districts in the world, including the California...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. March 11 said drilling continues to merge what was previously interpreted to be a series of smaller pods of gold mineralization along the Reserve trend at Brewery Creek into a continuous zone that has now been traced for roughly 3,100 meters across this mine project about a 45-minute drive from Dawson City, Yukon. Viceroy Resource Corp. established a mine at Brewery Creek in 1996 and recovered around 280,000 ounces of gold from the open-pit,...
Nickel Creek Platinum Corp. March 11 said it plans to carry out exploration drilling, geophysics and sampling at its Nickel Shäw (formerly Wellgreen) nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals project in southwestern Yukon. To fund this work, as well as permitting and other expenses, the company plans to raise C$4.4 million through a proposed non-brokered private placement being supported by a C$2.2 million commitment from Electrum Strategic Opportunities Fund L.P., Nickel Cre...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. has been testing EnviroLeach Technologies Inc.'s non-cyanide and environmentally friendly way to recover gold from concentrates produced from gravity separation at its 3 Aces project in eastern Yukon. The EnviroLeach process, which uses five ingredients that are FDA approved for human consumption to dissolve and a diamond-based electrochemical process to ultimately recover gold and other metals, has recovered 93.2% of the gold in a two-metric-ton...
Triumph Gold Corp. March 2 reported impressive gold and silver grades from sampling along the 3,700-meter-long Irene-Goldstar corridor on its road accessible Freegold Mountain project in the Yukon. Situated about 4,500 meters southeast of the Revenue porphyry deposit, the Irene-Goldstar epithermal gold-silver corridor extends from the historical Goldstar vein and skarn system near the summit of Mount Freegold and continues through the Vindicator zone to the Irene zone at the...
Government of Yukon and the Ross River Dena Council First Nation March 3 announced an agreement in principle has been reached for roughly C$71 million in upgrades to the North Canol Road and the Robert Campbell Highway under the Yukon Resource Gateway Project, a C$247.8 million federal program that is upgrading more than 650 kilometers (400 miles) of roads in the Yukon. Yukon is also contributing C$112.8 million to this road improvement project that will provide better access...
White Gold Corp. Feb. 20 said drilling has extended VG, the main deposit on its recently acquired QV gold property in Yukon's White Gold District. Acquired by White Gold early last year, QV is located just across the Yukon River and north of the White Gold property. The previous owner, Comstock Metals Ltd., had outlined 4.4 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.65 g/t (230,000 ounces) gold in the VG deposit. White Gold said the property has geologic...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 20 said its 2019 drilling has confirmed a 2,800-meter continuous trend of gold mineralization at its Brewery Creek Mine project about a 45-minute drive from Dawson City, Yukon. Previous modelling had suggested that the Fosters, Kokanee and Golden resource areas were discrete deposits within the larger Reserve trend at Brewery Creek. Results from Golden Predator's 2019 drill program and recent remodeling suggest that these previously separate...
Triumph Gold Corp. Feb. 11 announced the first updated mineral resource estimates for the Freegold Mountain gold-copper-silver project in the Yukon since the end of 2014. Over the years, Triumph has identified numerous near-surface porphyry gold-copper targets and deposits over a six-kilometer (3.7 miles) stretch of Freegold Mountain. The two most advanced deposits along this trend are Nucleus and Revenue. Nearly 15 kilometers (nine miles) southwest of Revenue lies Tinta, a...
The Government of Yukon and Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 4 announced the establishment of a project coordination committee that will allow for more efficient communications and permitting of the Brewery Creek gold mine project about 55 kilometers (34 miles) east of Dawson City. "The Government of Yukon supports and encourages responsible development," said Yukon Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources Ranj Pillai. "Establishing this committee is aimed at ensuring an...
Pembridge Resources plc Jan. 28 announced that trucks are now delivering copper concentrates from its Minto Mine in the Yukon to the Skagway Ore Terminal in Southeast Alaska. Access to the Minto mine requires crossing the Yukon river at Minto Landing, which is between the communities of Carmacks and Pelly Crossing. During summer months, a barge is used to transport concentrates and supplies across the Yukon. During the winter, an ice bridge provides access over the river.... Full story
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Jan. 27 announced that Coeur Explorations Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coeur Mining Inc., has signed an option agreement to explore the road-accessible Tim silver property in southern Yukon. Situated just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) north of Coeur Mining's Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia, Tim is an early staged exploration property with similar high-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralization. Following up on a letter of intent signed last June C...
Pembridge Resources plc Jan. 22 announced the launch of a 14,000-meter drill program aimed at expanding four deposits at its Minto copper mine in the Yukon. United Kingdom-based Pembridge finalized a deal in June to acquire Minto from Capstone Mining Corp. and resumed operations at the mine in October. At the time of the acquisition, Minto hosted 15 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 1.4 percent copper, 0.5 grams per metric ton gold and 4.8 g/t...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 15 announced a more that 50 percent increase in the oxide gold resources at its Brewery Creek Mine project in the Yukon. Located about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Brewery Creek is the site of an open-pit, heap-leach mine that produced 277,170 ounces of gold over a seven-year span beginning in 1996. According to the 2020 calculation, which incorporates a higher gold price (US$1,325/oz) but not the 200 holes drilled since...
White Gold Corp. Jan. 9 announced that rotary air blast (RAB) has confirmed robust bedrock gold mineralization at several targets beyond the high-grade Vertigo discovery on the road accessible JP Ross property about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of Dawson City, Yukon. The company completed 1,644 meters of RAB drilling in 27 shallow holes that tested outlying prospective areas at Vertigo and several other nearby targets. The targets were generated from the company's...
White Gold Corp. Dec. 19 said its 2019 drilling at Vertigo has confirmed continuity of the high-grade, near surface, gold mineralization discovered at this target on the road-accessible JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. The 2018 discovery hole at Vertigo cut 3.1 meters of 56.25 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 3.1 meters, part of a 10.67-meter intercept averaging 17.34 g/t gold. Follow-up RAB and reverse circulation drilling during the 2018 season...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Dec. 12 reported that initial assay results from its 2019 drill program at Klaza show the potential to add high-grade gold and silver to the resource already outlined at this road accessible project 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 4.5 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric ton (686,000...
