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Western Copper and Gold Corp. Aug. 23 outlined plans for the first drill program to be carried out at the Casino copper-gold project in Canada's Yukon under a technical and sustainability committee that includes investors Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Materials Corp. With a recent C$21.3 million (US$15.6 million) investment from Mitsubishi Materials and a total of C$25.6 million (US$18.9 million) from Rio Tinto, Western Copper is flush with capital to execute a plan of action for...
White Gold Corp. Aug. 15 announced the start of the maiden drill program for the Cali target on the company's Nolan property in Yukon, Canada. Located approximately 77 kilometers (48 miles) west of Dawson City via the Top of the World Highway, connecting Dawson City to Alaska, Nolan is perched in the hills surrounding the Sixty Mile River. Comprised of 2,219 claims across 43,778 hectares (108,177 acres), Nolan covers a large area measuring approximately 30 kilometers (19...
Onyx Gold Corp. Aug. 2 announced the start of a 2,500-meter drill program at King Tut, which the new Canada-focused junior explorer believes to host the best undrilled intrusive-related gold-in-soil anomalies within eastern Yukon's emerging Tombstone Gold Belt not already controlled by Snowline Gold Corp. King Tut is the most advanced of four Yukon properties held by Onyx, a junior exploration company spun out of HighGold Mining Inc. to explore a portfolio of gold properties i...
Snowline Gold Corp. Aug. 3 announced the next set of analytical results from the ongoing drill program at Valley on the company's Rogue project in Yukon, Canada, with its latest holes including its newest best-ever, cutting 553.8 meters averaging 2.48 grams per metric ton gold from surface, and ranking as one of Yukon's highest graded holes ever. Aiming for 10,000 or more meters of drilling at Valley, Snowline has already cranked out at least 9,500 meters with two drill rigs,...
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...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Aug. 22 announced that drills have tapped wide intercepts of spectacular zinc grades at Boundary Zone on the company's Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada. Fireweed's 2023 program began by testing a gap between two of the best holes ever drilled at Boundary Zone - NB22-002, which cut 124 meters averaging 12.3% zinc, 1.3% lead, 45.9 grams per metric ton silver, and NB22‑023, which cut 298 meters averaging 4.5% zinc, 1.4% lead, and 30.9 g/t silver. Drilling in...
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...
Gladiator Metals Corp. July 31 announced an update to its ongoing data compilation of historic drilling and the largely untested shallow, high-grade Arctic Chief prospect as the once-producing Whitehorse Copper project in Yukon, Canada. Located practically in the backyard of Yukon's capital city, from which it gets its name, the Whitehorse Copper project is a 35-kilometer (22 miles) by five-kilometer (three miles) contiguous high-grade copper belt with 30 known prospective...
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. Aug. 8 announced the optioning of the Sands of Time property in central Yukon from Fireweed Metals' Chief Geologist Jack Milton. Lying immediately adjacent to Western Copper and Gold's world-class Casino gold-silver-copper-molybdenum project, Sands of Time is a 57-square-kilometer (22 square miles) project that could hold significant resources. According to Cascadia, through the work of Milton, the property has been found to possibly host at least two...
Seabridge Gold Inc. July 18 announced the start of its first full drill program at the company's 3 Aces gold project in Yukon, Canada, which aims to complete 7,500 meters of drilling. Lying alongside the Nahanni Range Road, 3 Aces is a road-accessible project that covers 357 square kilometers (138 square miles) of high-grade gold discoveries and targets in southeastern Yukon. After acquiring the project in 2020, Seabridge has been refining its model and geological...
Gladiator Metals Corp. July 24 announced the final results from its maiden drill program at the high-grade Cowley Park target on the company's Whitehorse Copper project in Yukon, Canada. The Whitehorse Copper project is a 5,380-hectare (13,294 acres) copper-molybdenum-silver-gold skarn exploration project that covers a significant portion of what has historically been known as the Whitehorse Copper Belt. Located practically in the backyard of Yukon's capital city, from which...
Onyx Gold Corp. July 24 announced the introduction of the company's executive team and exploration plans for its properties within the highly prospective and overlapping Tintina and Tombstone gold belts in Yukon's Selwyn Basin, and within Ontario's portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada's most prolific gold region. Early this year, HighGold Mining Inc. spun out its (ON)tario (Y)ukon e(X)ploration properties into Onyx Gold and transferred all its outstanding shares...
Fireweed Metals Corp. July 26 announced the first batch of assays from its largest drill program ever at the Macmillan Pass project in Canada's Yukon have already delivered game-changing news that links the Boundary Main and Boundary West targets into one continuous zinc-rich zone. A road-accessible project adjacent to Yukon's border with Northwest Territories, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer (34 miles) trend...
Fireweed Metals Corp. July 5 announced that in conjunction with the largest-ever planned drill program at Macmillan Pass, the company will conduct reconnaissance prospecting, mapping, and sampling across a series of gold anomalies on this Yukon property best known for its zinc-lead deposits. A road-accessible project adjacent to Yukon's border with Northwest Territories, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer (34...
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...
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. July 19 announced the results from prospecting and various surveys from the first phase of its 2023 Phase 1 exploration program at the Catch property in Yukon, Canada, signaling a promising start for the newly reforged company. Formerly ATAC Resources, reformed as Cascadia Minerals after selling off its Rackla and Connaught properties to Hecla Mining Company, the previous gold, now multi-metals explorer held onto several of its past properties, which...
Snowline Gold Corp. July 18 announced the latest analytical results from the second and third holes drilled at the Rogue property in Canada's Yukon for its 2023 exploration season, causing the company to begin supporting the idea of its Valley target being a single, large, recoverable body of gold-rich rock. Found within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with Northwest Territories, Snowline's flagship property, Rogue, is an 11,227-hectare (27,743 acres) land...
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...
Fireweed Metals Corp. June 20 announced its upcoming roadmap for 2023 at its Mactung tungsten project in Northwest Territories, which includes assessments, validations, and studies to bolster the data toward its planned preliminary economic assessment for the world's largest, high-grade tungsten deposit. Following the recent mineral resource estimate for Mactung, Fireweed has accelerated exploration of this world-class deposit in what appears to be aimed at developing a mine...
Snowline Gold Corp. July 5 reported a fantastic start to its 2023 program at Rogue with a wide interval of strong gold mineralization in a hole testing the boundaries of the Valley target on this exciting project in Canada's Yukon. "Our first drill hole of 2023 was drilled to test what we thought was the edge of a relatively high-grade gold corridor within the Rogue project's Valley intrusion," said Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl. "It ended up as Snowline's second-best drill...
White Gold Corp. June 15 outlined its 2023 exploration programs at properties within the company's namesake gold exploration district in Canada's Yukon. "We are excited to kick off our 2023 exploration programs in the White Gold District," said White Gold Vice President of Exploration Terry Brace. The company holds roughly 350,000 hectares (865,000 acres) of highly prospective land or roughly 40% of the White Gold District. Located approximately 95 kilometers (59 miles) south...
Klondike Gold Corp. June 19 announced that new academic research is providing insights into exploring for the lode source of the nearly 20 million ounces of placer gold recovered from the streams draining the company's Klondike District property in Yukon, Canada. Located roughly 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Dawson City, the Klondike District Gold Project is comprised of 3,913 quartz claims in one contiguous land package covering 727 square kilometers (452 miles) of...
White Gold Corp. June 21 announced the start of diamond drilling at Vertigo, an intriguing gold target in the White Gold District that has virtually seen no drilling since 2019. Located approximately 30 kilometers (19 miles) northeast of the company's flagship White Gold project, Vertigo is a road-accessible target found within the JP Ross property roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Dawson City, Yukon. After acquiring all of Kinross Gold Corp.'s projects in the White...
Snowline Gold Corp. June 9 announced the staking of an additional 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres) of nearly all the remaining open ground over the Rogue Plutonic Complex, the broad geological feature responsible for gold mineralization at the company's flagship Rogue project's Valley discovery, expanding the property by roughly 80%. "We know from our 2022 drill results at Valley that the Rogue Plutonic Complex has the necessary geological ingredients to produce a significant...
