The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 15 announced additional assay results from the 2022 drill program at Boundary West on the company's Macmillan Pass project, including several significant step-outs that demonstrate the target zone carries good grade and continuity. A road-accessible project in eastern Yukon near the border with Northwest Territories, the 544-square-kilometer (210 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer- (34 miles) long trend of zinc,...
Snowline Gold Corp. Feb. 24 announced its latest preliminary assay results from the 2022 drilling program at Rogue, reporting one hole that exceeded expectations and resulted in the longest continuously mineralized interval drilled at the Valley target to date. Found within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with Northwest Territories, Rogue is an 11,227-hectare (27,743 acres) property that comprises 442 mineral claims with a main block that covers a roughly nine-kil...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 27 announced the analytical results from the final 57 diamond drill holes from the company's 2022 drill program at AurMac, a massive influx that further establishes the viability and prospectivity of this northern Canadian gold project. Located approximately 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of the village of Mayo, Banyan Gold's flagship property lies within the similarly named Mayo Mining District. Consisting of the Aurex and McQuesten projects optione...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 27 announced the latest drill results from its 2022 drill program from Boundary Zone, which includes a noteworthy intercept that cut 105 meters averaging 8.4% zinc and 12.1 grams per metric ton silver from surface, with subsections that show spectacular high-grade zinc mineralization. "Boundary Main Zone continues to impress with not only the wide tenor of mineralization but also with high-grade intervals," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon...
Minto Metals Corp. Feb. 28 announced with the results from its 2022 exploration program at the Minto Mine a new lens discovery at Minto East that returned multiple holes of high-grade copper and could add new resources for this northern Yukon miner. According to the most recent calculation, Minto hosts 11.09 million metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 1.46% (356 million lb) copper, 0.53 grams per metric ton (189,000 oz) gold, and 4.75 g/t (1.86 million...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Jan. 23 announced the results from its second phase of exploration at the company's Catch copper-gold property in central Yukon, which identified a high-grade copper and gold mineralized zone across a 500-meter extent. Located in an underexplored part of southcentral Yukon, about 56 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Carmacks, this 15.7-square-kilometer (3,880 acres) property is a previously undrilled discovery property prospective for significant copper...
White Gold Corp. Feb. 23 announced the latest batch of assays shows that the 2022 diamond drilling program on the Ryan's Surprise and Ulli's Ridge targets intersected multiple zones of gold mineralization between the untested region of both, suggesting a larger footprint within the 6.5-kilometer- (4 miles) long trend on the company's namesake White Gold District, Yukon. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City and practically next door to Western Copper...
Klondike Gold Corp. Feb. 21 announced that receipt of the latest assays included the exciting news of a surface outcrop discovery of high-grade gold-silver in quartz veining at the Gay Gulch showing on 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 the...
Snowline Gold Corp. Dec. 29 highlighted a truly transformative year of discoveries and successes for this swiftly growing Yukon junior. A recent addition to the Yukon's vast collection of exploration companies, Snowline began its exploration of this northern Canadian territory in 2017 and has since grown to nearly C$390 million in market capitalization. Going into 2022, Snowline's portfolio was split between Rogue, Einarson, Ursa, Cynthia, and Rainbow in the Selwyn Basin near...
Klondike Gold Corp. Feb. 16 announced its plans to acquire the Quartz and Sulphur properties from C2C Gold Corp., located in the Dawson Mining District in Yukon, Canada, which would increase its land holdings by 27%. "We welcome the opportunity to consolidate our land position covering the prospective southeast side of the Klondike District into one contiguous district-spanning claim group," said Klondike Gold CEO Peter Tallman. "The claim package will allow systematic explora...
Cantex Mine Development Corp. Feb. 9 announced an update from the Main zone on its North Rackla property that, after core analyses, mineralization shows levels of very high germanium content. Generated from a 30,000-square-kilometer (11,583 square miles) regional heavy mineral sampling program, North Rackla was discovered in an area favorable for Carlin-style mineralization similar to ATAC Resources Ltd.’s Osiris deposit in 2010. Staked in 2012, the ensuing work has i...
Snowline Gold Corp. Feb. 3 announced further assay results from its 2022 drilling program at Valley, which continues to impress the company with its continuity and most recently added significant tonnage with strong gold grades. Located within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with NWT, Rogue is an 11,227-hectare (27,743 acres) property that comprises 442 mineral claims with a main block that covers a roughly nine-kilometer (5.6 miles) trend of metamorphic rock...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Jan. 30 reported an outline of the drilling and exploration activities it has planned for the Haldane silver project in the historic Keno District in the Yukon. Located about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill silver mine, the 8,579-hectare (21,200 acres) Haldane property hosts a small historical mine that was first recognized for its high-grade silver mineralization more than 100 years ago. Underground mining that began in...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Jan. 30 announced additional assay results from the 2022 exploration program at Klaza, including one 1.2-meter intercept averaging 43.2 grams per metric ton gold and 137 g/t silver. The 2022 program utilized two diamond drill rigs that completed a total of 12,042 meters of drilling in 69 holes. Focusing on advancing Klaza toward an updated mineral resource estimate and prefeasibility study through definition and expansion drilling, the first batch of...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 31 reported additional high-grade intercepts from the 2022 drill program on its flagship Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in the Yukon, and the well-financed company is ready to take on another banner year in 2023. "The list of accomplishments in 2022 is exceptional and includes the biggest drill program in the history of the company, the best hole ever drilled on the [Macmillan Pass] property, acquisition of one of the largest and...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 24 announced the next batch of assays from the 2022 Raven exploration program at the company's Dublin Gulch property in Yukon, Canada, showcasing the incredible potential of this high-grade gold deposit. Just a week since its last announcement regarding Raven, results are coming in hot from the program that saw more holes drilled into this emerging gold deposit than all previous seasons combined. Which is no surprise as the company announced in...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 19 announced that assay results from its 2022 drill program at Raven show the growth potential of this higher-grade gold deposit on Victoria's Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. In September, the company announced a maiden inferred resource for Raven of 19.96 million metric tons of pit-constrained inferred resource averaging 1.67 g/t (1.07 million oz) gold. The 2022 Raven drilling campaign, which saw more holes drilled into this emerging gold deposit... Full story
Snowline Gold Corp. Jan. 18 announced yet another round of assays from the 2022 drilling program from the Valley zone on its Rogue property, including a 481.5-meter intercept averaging 0.69 grams per metric ton gold, the longest mineralized intersection seen at Valley to date. "Each round of Valley drill results has increased not just to the known extent of mineralization at the target, but to our understanding of its geology and the geometry of its highest-grade zones," said...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Jan. 18 announced the first assay results from its 2022 exploration program at Klaza that push the company closer to an updated mineral resource estimate and pre-feasibility study for this gold-silver project in the Yukon. According to the most recent resource calculation, Klaza hosts 4.46 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric ton (686,000 ounces) gold, 98 g/t (14.1 million oz) silver, 0.7% (73.3 million pounds)...
Although small, program confirmed model and sets groundwork for 2023 exploration program. Seabridge Gold Inc. Jan. 17 announced that its drilling has concluded, and assay results from the limited 2022 program have been received from the company's 3 Aces project in Yukon, Canada, which established the target parameters for the major drill program this year. Agreeing to purchase the 3 Aces project in southeastern Yukon from Golden Predator Mining Corp. in 2020, Seabridge has...
BMC Minerals Ltd. Jan. 9 announced that the Yukon Water Board has deemed its application for a Type A Water License for its proposed ABM Mine adequate to enter the public comment period of the licensing process. The water license is of the two major permits ABM will need to develop and operate a mining operation at the silver-dominant polymetallic Kudz Ze Kayah project in southeastern Yukon Under a feasibility study completed in 2019 and updated in 2020, the ABM Mine is...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 10 reported that its Eagle Mine in the Yukon produced 43,741 ounces of gold during the fourth quarter and 150,182 oz gold for the entire year of 2022, both less than the company had originally anticipated. "Fourth quarter and full year 2022 operating results were below expectations," said Victoria Gold CEO John McConnell. "Mechanical availability of the crushing and conveying circuit was lower than anticipated. The primary reason for the lower...
Banyan Gold Corp. Jan. 10 announced the results from the next 37 diamond drill holes received from the company's 2022 exploration program at the Powerline and Aurex Hill deposits at its AurMac property in Yukon, Canada. Located approximately 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of the village of Mayo and 356 kilometers (221 miles) north of Whitehorse, Banyan Gold's flagship property lies within the similarly named Mayo Mining District. Consisting of the Aurex and McQuesten...
White Gold Corp. Jan. 5 announced the first results for the year from its 2022 drilling program at the Ryan's Surprise target on the White Gold property with a significant intercept of 10.85 meters averaging 5.85 grams per metric ton gold that extends mineralization along strike. According to the most recent resource estimate, the flagship deposits on the company's namesake property – Golden Saddle and Arc – together host 15.6 million metric tons of indicated resource ave...
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...
