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Granite Creek Copper Ltd. March 15 announced an updated NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate, showing a major increase in tonnage and contained metal at its wholly-owned Carmacks copper-gold-silver and now added molybdenum project in the highly prospective Minto Copper Belt of central Yukon, Canada. After acquiring Copper North Mining Corp. in late 2020, Granite Creek expanded its land position within Yukon's Minto Copper Belt to 176 square kilometers (68 square miles). This...
Alexco Resource Corp. March 21 announced an update on the scale-up of mining operations at its Keno Hill project in the Yukon, as well as the anticipated mining and exploration activities for 2022. According to the most recent calculation, the Keno Hill Silver District hosts 1.44 billion metric tons of probable reserves averaging 804 grams per metric ton (37.19 million ounces) silver, 3.84% (122 million pounds) zinc, and 2.64% (84 million lb) lead in four deposits – B...
Victoria Gold Corp. Feb. 28 announced assay results from its 2021 Dublin Gulch exploration program at the Raven gold target about 13 kilometers (eight miles) east of the Eagle Mine, with news quickly following on results from the Lynx target returning results as well. Discovered with soil sampling and trenching in 2018, Raven is a large, near-surface gold target associated with Nugget, the second-largest known intrusive body on the Dublin Gulch property. Trenching in 2018 and...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. March 16 announced the final assay results from the 2021 exploration program at its road-accessible Klaza property, located in the Dawson Range Gold Belt in southern Yukon, Canada. A 2020 preliminary economic assessment for Klaza outlines plans for a mine that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over 12 years. After drilling a total of 14,256 meters in 72 holes during the summer and fall of 2021, the last batch...
President and CEO of ATAC Resources Ltd. Graham Downs recently issued a letter to shareholders that reviews the company's portfolio of mineral exploration projects and outlines plans for 2022, including its goals for its flagship property, the Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. "The last two years have provided obvious challenges. However, during this time we have been very active advancing our copper-gold projects and conducting numerous comprehensive property evaluations,...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Mar. 7 announced additional assay results from the 2021 exploration program at its road-accessible Klaza property, located in the Dawson Range Gold Belt of southern Yukon. Based on a 2020 preliminary economic assessment for Klaza, the project outlines plans for a mine that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over 12 years. During the summer and fall of 2021, Rockhaven drilled a total of 14,256 meters in 72 holes....
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Mar. 10 announced the results from the last two holes at the Boundary West target – a recent discovery at the company's MacMillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Canada's Yukon. "The 2021 work was highlighted by new discoveries and excellent results especially at Boundary West," said Fireweed Zinc CEO Brandon Macdonald. "The 2021 drill program continued to grow Boundary and Boundary West. We continued to intersect wide high-grade zones over a large area a...
Victoria Gold Corp. Feb. 24 reported that 6,103 meters of drilling completed in nine holes testing Eagle Deep indicates the potential to add millions of ounces of gold below the reserves at the company's Eagle Mine in the Yukon. Exploring the potential of extending the Eagle deposit from the 350-meter depth considered in the current mine plan to depths of at least 650 meters is part of Victoria's plan to delineate enough mineralization to keep the Eagle Mine in operation out t...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 21 announced the results from 21 diamond holes drilled during the company's 2021 exploration program at the Powerline deposit located on its AurMac gold property in the Yukon. "This latest batch of assay results from our 2021 drill program continues to showcase the extensive nature of gold mineralization around the Powerline deposit on the AurMac property," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. Highlights from the latest batch include: • 5...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 2 announced the start of a 30,000-meter drill program at AurMac in the Yukon that is focused on the continued expansion of the Powerline deposit and Aurex Hill zone on this gold exploration project about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine. "Exploration at the AurMac property has now resumed with three diamond drill rigs..." said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. "The initial focus is the expansion of the Po...
White Gold Corp. Feb. 10 announced that the maiden diamond drill program at Ulli's Ridge has cut high-grade gold at this discovery target about 3,000 meters southwest of the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits on the company's White Gold property in the Yukon. The Golden Saddle and Arc deposits host 15.6 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.28 grams per metric ton (1.14 million ounces) gold; and 9 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.39 g/t...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Feb. 7 said the latest batch of assay results from the 2021 drill program at Klaza show the potential to expand and upgrade the resource within Western BRX Zone on the gold-silver property in southern Yukon. A 2020 preliminary economic assessment for Klaza outlines plans for a mine that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over 12-years. This scoping level study is based on 4.46 million metric tons of indicated res...
Alexco Resource Corp. Jan. 18 reported that the Bermingham deposit at its Keno Hill Silver District project in Canada's Yukon now hosts 1.56 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 939 grams per metric ton (47.2 million ounces) silver, a 43% increase over the 33 million oz calculated for the deposit in 2019. In addition, Bermingham hosts 843,400 metric tons of inferred resource averaging 735 g/t (19.9 million oz) silver, a 66% increase over the 509,400 oz in the...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Jan. 25 announced its optioning of the 15.7-square-kilometer (3,880 acres) Catch property from Yukon-based geologist Ryan Burke. "The addition of the Catch property to our growing copper and gold portfolio presents a rare opportunity to advance a brand new copper-gold discovery located at the underexplored northern end of a very fertile geological terrane," said ATAC President and CEO Graham Downs. Catch is located in an underexplored part of southcentral...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Jan. 12 makes its first announcement of the year with assay results from a hole that cut 6.92% zinc, 5.03% lead, and 48.7 grams per metric ton silver at Tom East, the highest-grade deposit on the company's Macmillan Pass property in Canada's Yukon. Tom and the nearby Jason deposit currently host 11.2 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 6.59% (1.63 billion pounds) zinc, 2.48% (620 million lb) lead, and 21.33 g/t (7.7 million ounces) silver;...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Jan. 18 released its first 2022 announcement with the overall results of 2021 and the outlines for this year's program at many of its properties including the 100% owned Haldane silver project in the Yukon's Keno Hill District. "We had an extremely productive year in 2021, marked by advancement of the exciting new West Fault high-grade silver target at our Haldane project in Yukon's historic Keno Hill Mining District," said Jason Weber, president and CEO...
Sabre Gold Mines Corp. Jan. 18 published the results from a preliminary economic assessment that outlines a 60,000-ounce-per-year gold mining operation at its road-accessible Brewery Creek project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Yukon. 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...
Kicking off the new year, Banyan Gold Corp. Jan. 11 released the analytical results from the next five diamond drill holes drilled during the 2021 exploration campaign at the rapidly developing Powerline deposit on the company's AurMac gold property in the Yukon. In light of the massive delays that has developed for assays, for Banyan to receive these results so early in the year certainly spells a good start to 2022. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria...
Victoria Gold Corp. Dec. 16 reported that the global supply chain disruptions have slowed supplies in and gold out of its Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon. "Like many companies, we are experiencing pressure on our supply chain," said Victoria Gold President and CEO John McConnell. "We continue to work with all of our suppliers very closely to avoid such disruptions as COVID related challenges persist." For Victoria, the gnarled supply chain resulted in a five-week delay for the...
Banyan Gold Corp. Dec. 14 announced the latest round of assay results from eight diamond drill holes of the phase 2 exploration campaign at the company's rapidly developing Powerline deposit on its AurMac project in the Yukon. "These latest assay results continue to expand the interpreted gold mineralization footprint at Powerline with 100-meter step out drill holes," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. "The continuity of mineralization across the two kilometers...
Sabre Gold Mines Corp. Dec. 14 reported that its Brewery Creek mine project in Canada's Yukon now hosts more than 1 million ounces of gold in the measured and indicated resource categories. Sabre Gold was created as the result of a merger between Golden Predator Mining Corp. and Arizona Gold Corp. that was finalized in September. At the time of the merger, Golden Predator's Brewery Creek property hosted 22.2 million metric tons of indicated leachable resource averaging 1.11...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Dec. 15 reported an update on the grassroots exploration it carried out this year at Rosy, a gold-silver project 77 kilometers (48 miles) east of Whitehorse, Yukon. "Grassroots work at Rosy this year has significantly expanded the previously known gold-in-soil anomaly," said ATAC Resources President and CEO Graham Downs. "While Rosy has seen only sporadic historical exploration, with a limited portion of the property covered by geochemical surveys, this wor...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Dec. 15 reported results from the first 29 of 72 holes drilled this year at Klaza, a road-accessible gold-silver project in southern Yukon. The 14,256-meter 2021 drill program at Klaza included resource expansion and upgrade drilling that will provide information to support a mine prefeasibility study, as well as exploration drilling to test targets outside of the known mineral resource areas. A 2020 preliminary economic assessment for Klaza outlines...
Banyan Gold Corp. Dec. 7 announced results from this year's exploration drilling at the Aurex Hill zone on the company's AurMac property in the Yukon. "Results from 17 holes of the 2021 Aurex Hill campaign, combined with historic intercepts, significantly increases the mineralization footprint of Aurex Hill," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. "The zone represents a large untested target area with the potential to define additional near-surface, potentially...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Nov. 23 announced an update from the 2021 drilling program at Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada, with a substantial intersect cutting 16.1 meters of 10.4% zinc and 15.7 grams per metric ton silver in a step-out hole at Boundary West target. Accessible by road next to the Northwest Territories border, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass property that covers a 55-kilometer (34 miles) trend of potential zinc, lead and silver...
