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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...
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...
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...
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...
Nickel Creek Platinum Corp. Dec. 16 announced results on the ongoing work toward carbon sequestering at the company's Wellgreen deposit on its flagship Nickel Shaw project in southwestern Yukon, Canada. Under the guidance of University of British Columbia Professor Greg Dipple, Nickel Creek has been conducting experimentation at Wellgreen, a deposit with extensive nickel-copper-platinum group metals mineralization dominantly hosted in ultramafic rocks. Aside from the...
Minto Metals Corp. Dec. 20 announced the results from its 2022 magnetotellurics geophysical survey over its Minto copper mine property in Yukon, Canada. Magnetotellurics is a passive electromagnetic technique that maps resistivity by measuring telluric currents induced in the earth by natural sources such as lightning, solar flares, and ionospheric resonances. In layman, this essentially means sensitive equipment detects the natural electrical currents that flow through the...
Snowline Gold Corp. Dec. 22 announced a significant 207-meter intercept of 1.76 grams per metric ton gold in the latest round of assay results from its 2022 drilling at the Rogue project in Yukon, Canada. "The latest results from Valley continue to demonstrate substantial scale and strong grades for a reduced intrusion-related gold system," said Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl. One of several highly prospective properties in Snowline's Yukon portfolio, Rogue is an 11,227-hecta...
White Gold Corp. Dec. 8 reported additional assays from the company's 2022 drilling program at the Betty property, with an intercept cutting the highest grades ever at 18.29 meters averaging 8.94 grams per metric ton gold and ultimately extending mineralization along strike at the Betty Ford target. Following up on results announced last week, White Gold wasted no time in reporting its latest assays. You can read about the first results at Betty and Mascot reveal exciting...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Dec. 14 announced the completion of its 2022 exploration program at the Haldane silver project in the Yukon's historic Keno Hill Mining District, which culminated in the successful extension of Bighorn by roughly 525 meters. 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 produced roughly 24.7 metric tons of hand-sorted ore...
White Gold Corp. Nov. 28 announced positive results from the 2022 drill program at the Betty Ford and Mascot targets on the company's Betty property in Yukon's White Gold District, reporting that one hole drilled at Betty Ford cut 55.2 meters averaging 1.5 grams per metric ton gold, and one at Mascot that cut 27.4 meters averaging 1.14 g/t gold. "We are pleased to have encountered additional broad zones of near-surface gold mineralization on the Betty property," said White...
Sitka Gold Corp. Nov. 18 announced the latest batch of assays from the summer drilling program at the RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. While sixteen diamond drill holes were completed overall, these results come from an additional five Sitka could not wait to report. "The results from this second set of drill holes from our summer drilling program continue to intersect broad zones of anomalous gold as we drill test areas proximal to the core of the intrusion-hosted...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Nov. 22 announced that the second hole drilled this year at Macmillan Pass cut an impressive 124 meters averaging 12.3% zinc, 1.3% lead, and 45.9 grams per metric ton silver in the Boundary West zone, the best intercept ever on the company's flagship property in Canada's Yukon. "The first results from the 2022 program include the best intersection we have ever had at Boundary zone, or anywhere on the property including our Tom and Jason deposits," said...
Banyan Gold Corp. Nov. 7 reported that its systematic drilling at AurMac continues to extend the gold mineralized footprint of the Powerline and Aurex Hills deposits, including an 84.4-meter intercept averaging 1.13 grams per metric ton gold in the most northeasterly hole drilled so far at Powerline. 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, AurMac hosts 3.99 million...
Klondike Gold Corp. Nov. 10 announced its first resource estimate for deposits on its namesake gold project in the hills above the famed Eldorado and Bonanza placer gold streams near Dawson City, Yukon. The Lone Star and Stander deposit on the Klondike District Gold Project host 21.59 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 0.68 grams per metric ton (468,901 ounces) gold and 6.46 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.54 g/t (111,959 oz) gold. "The...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Nov. 1 reported strong gold intercepts from this year's drilling Osiris deposit, the first drilling to be carried out at the Nadaleen project on the broader Rackla Gold property in the Yukon, since 2018. The 2022 program at Nadaleen included 1,551 meters of drilling in five holes – three at Osiris and one each in the Sunrise and Conrad targets. "While we only conducted a small-scale program this year, these results are a great reminder of the high-grade n...
Snowline Gold Corp. Nov. 15 announced that drills cut an incredible 128.2-meter intercept averaging 2.48 grams per metric ton gold from surface, within a wider 285.2-meter section averaging 1.45 g/t gold at its Rogue project in the Yukon. Much like its V-22-010 hole that cut 318.8 meters of 2.55 g/t gold, which Snowline says changed its perception of the Valley zone, this latest step-out adds "significantly to the prospective scale and grade of our unfolding gold discovery at...
Palladium One Mining Inc. Nov. 17 announced that one grab sample from the initial exploration of its newly acquired Canalask project in the Yukon contained 0.15% nickel, 6.07% copper, 0.01% cobalt, 28.1 grams per metric ton silver, and 1.55 g/t gold. Lying alongside the Alaska Highway, this 3,400-hectare (8,402 acres) property is roughly 300 (186 miles) kilometers from Whitehorse and near the Alaska border. Optioned from Victoria Gold Corp. Palladium One Mining saw potential...
Teslin Tlingit Council and Strategic Metals Ltd. Oct. 24 announced the signing of an access and exploration agreement that aims to deepen relations and create the foundation for future cooperation between the Yukon First Nation and mineral exploration company. Typically staying under the radar, Strategic Metals' portfolio is spread over 110 wholly-owned properties, five joint ventures, nine under options, and 11 with royalty interests. All of these cover a broad suite of metal...
