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Seabridge Gold Inc. June 15 reported that a contractor at its recently acquired 3 Aces gold project in Canada's Yukon tested positive for COVID-19 when the company conducted a rapid antigen shortly after the person's arrival to carry out preliminary work at the project. Three other individuals who came into close contact with this individual have all tested negative for COVID-19 following the completion of rapid antigen tests by Seabridge. All four individuals are in...
Victoria Gold Corp. May 25 announced that an expanded 2021 exploration program that includes 15,000 meters of drilling focused on establishing a maiden resource at the Raven gold target is now underway at the company's Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. "Victoria is excited to begin the 2021 exploration program at Raven," said Victoria Gold President and CEO John McConnell. Located about 13 kilometers (eight miles) east of Victoria's Eagle Mine, Raven is a large,...
Pembridge Resources plc May 24 announced it has budgeted C$3.2 million for Minto Exploration Ltd. to investigate high-priority exploration targets at the United Kingdom-based company's Minto copper project in Canada's Yukon. "This new exploration drilling program continues Minto's aim of exploring the Minto copper belt and realizing its potential," said Pembridge Resources Chairman and CEO Gati Al-Jebouri. A preliminary economic assessment recently completed for Pembridge...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. May 17 announced the start of a drill program focused primarily on the West Fault target at its Haldane silver project in the Yukon's historic Keno Hill Mining District. Situated about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Keno City, the 8,579-hectare (21,200 acres) Haldane property hosts a historical mine that produced roughly 24.7 metric tons of hand-sorted ore averaging 3,102 grams per metric ton (99.7 ounces per metric ton) silver and 59% lead on the south...
Pembridge Resources plc May 12 reported that the life of its Minto copper mine in the Yukon has been extended out to 2028, five years beyond the 2023 life of mine previously reported by the London Stock Exchange-listed company. Based on a preliminary economic assessment prepared for Pembridge, Minto is expected to produce 277 million pounds of copper, 129,000 ounces of gold, and 930,000 oz of silver over the eight years considered in the scoping level study. The mine is...
Strategic Metals Ltd. April 22 announced that it has granted Upper Canada Mining Inc. the right to earn up to a 70% interest in the Mount Hinton gold project in the Yukon. Upper Canada Mining is a privately held, Calgary, Alberta-based minerals exploration and mining company primarily focused on gold and silver. Mount Hinton is a good fit for such a company. Found along the southeast side of Alexco Resource Corp.'s Keno Hill Silver Mine property and about 22 miles (35 kilomete...
White Gold Corp. May 19 reported that its 2020 exploration program at the Betty gold project in the Yukon identified several targets for drilling slated for this year. Situated about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northeast of Western Copper and Gold Corp.'s Casino copper-gold deposit and 40 kilometers (25 kilometers) east of Newmont Corp's Coffee Gold deposit, the 17,127-hectare (42,322 acres) Betty property covers the eastern strike extension of the Coffee Creek Fault, which...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. May 3 announced the termination of an agreement to acquire Viva Gold Corp., a junior exploration company advancing the Tonopah gold property in Nevada. Under an agreement announced in early March, Golden Predator would have acquired all Viva shares by issuing 1.6 shares in exchange for each Viva share. This transaction would have brought two near-development gold projects – Tonopah and Golden Predator's Brewery Creek mine project in the Yukon ...
Banyan Gold Corp. May 18 reported assay results from five holes that are continuing to outline consistent zones of gold mineralization in expansion targets at the Powerline deposit on the AurMac project about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Mine in the Yukon. AurMac hosts 52.58 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.54 grams per metric ton (903,945 oz) gold in two deposits – Powerline and Airstrip. Airstrip hosts 46 million metric t...
Klondike Gold Corp. May 19 reported that it has a drill turning near the historical Virgin gold mine, marking the start of a three-phase 2021 drill program at its 586-square-kilometer (226 square miles) Klondike District property near Dawson City, Yukon. The Virgin and Lindow target areas being tested by Klondike's phase-1 2021 drilling are found along Bear Creek, a significant placer gold-producing creek during the Klondike Gold Rush. Visible gold was discovered in quartz...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. May 12 outlined plans for 12,000 meters of resource upgrade and exploration drilling for its road-accessible Klaza gold-silver project in southern Yukon. A preliminary economic assessment completed last year outlines plans for a mine at Klaza 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 resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric...
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation has submitted letters to the Yukon Water Board and the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board in support of the timely renewal of the water and quartz mining licenses needed for mining at Golden Predator Mining Corp.'s Brewery Creek gold mine in the Yukon. A road-accessible project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Brewery Creek is the home to a mine that produced roughly 280,000 ounces of gold over seven y...
Granite Creek Copper Ltd. May 6 announced that two drills have been mobilized to the Carmacks (formerly Carmacks and Stu projects) to begin a roughly 10,000-meter 2021 drill program focused on expanding and upgrading copper-gold-silver resources at the Yukon project. "We continue to aggressively advance the Carmacks project, with its attributes of high-grade, near-surface copper, gold, and silver mineralization in an underexplored district-scale land position, and with the...
Metallic Minerals Corp. April 7 reported that its 2020 drill program at West Keno confirmed the presence of high-grade silver mineralization at advanced targets on this property along extensions of structural corridors being mined on Alexco Resources Corp.'s adjacent Keno Hill project in the Yukon. Metallic Minerals completed 2,674 meters of drilling in 12 holes during its 2020 program at West Keno. This included 11 holes at Formo, a top priority target for near-term resource...
Victoria Gold Corp. April 6 reported that its Eagle Mine in the Yukon produced 26,759 ounces of gold during the first quarter of 2021. While significantly less than the 45,000- to 50,000-oz quarterly average the company hopes to achieve this year, it is a 250% increase over the 10,544 oz produced during the first quarter of 2020 and ahead of the schedule for this year. Gold production at a heap leach operation such as Eagle lags behind mining, crushing, and ore stacking. With...
Banyan Gold Corp. April 21 said the final set of assay results from the 2020 drill program at its AurMac project in the Yukon continue to confirm the expansion potential of the near-surface Powerline gold deposit. "All of these final 2020 step-out diamond drill holes to the east of the Powerline deposit intersected gold mineralization and have demonstrated gold mineralization remains open in all directions – a further validation of the expansion potential of the n...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. April 1 said it has submitted applications to renew the water use and quartz mining licenses for its Brewery Creek gold mine project in the Yukon. A road-accessible project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, 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...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. April 15 reported the final results from a 2020 surface sampling and mapping program that explored the wider potential of its Skukum gold and silver project in southern Yukon. Situated about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Whitehorse, Yukon, the Skukum project hosts 1.33 million metric tons of indicated resource containing 274,544 ounces of gold and 5.36 million oz of silver; plus 1.11 metric tons of inferred resource containing 223,873 oz of gold and...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Feb. 18 announced that its 2020 drilling tapped new bonanza grade gold-silver encountered during a 2020 drill program targeting areas that lie outside the already defined deposit on its road-accessible Klaza project about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Carmacks, Yukon. A preliminary economic assessment completed last year outlines plans for a mine at Klaza that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over a 12-year...
Victoria Gold Corp. March 1 announced that it estimates between 180,000 and 200,000 ounces of gold production at Eagle Mine during 2021, the first full year of commercial production at the newly established Yukon operation. Reaching commercial production on July 1, Eagle Mine produced 116,644 oz gold during 2020, which included 38,896 oz recovered during non-commercial production over the first six months of the year. During the first three months of commercial production,...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Feb. 16 announced results from the final two holes of the late 2020 drill program at its Haldane silver project about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Keno City, Yukon. Located in the western portion of the historic Keno Hill Mining District, the 8,579-hectare (21,200 acres) Haldane project is the site of a historical mine that produced roughly 24.7 metric tons of hand-sorted ore averaging 3,102 grams per metric ton (99.7 ounces per metric ton) silver...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 24 announced the final assay results from a 2020 drill program that significantly expanded the footprint of gold mineralization at AurMac, a road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo, Yukon and roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine. According to a May calculation, two at-surface deposit at AurMac host 52.58 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.54 grams per metric...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. Feb. 17 reported that its maiden drill program at Skukum has succeeded in enhancing the company's geological understanding and confirmed the high-grade tenor of this gold project about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Whitehorse, Yukon. New Pacific Metals Corp., which gained full ownership of Skukum through the 2011 acquisition of Tagish Lake Gold Corp., created Whitehorse as a vehicle to further explore this road accessible gold-silver project in southe...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Feb. 3 reported a long intercept of strong zinc and silver mineralization in the discovery hole at Boundary West, a resource expansion target on the company's Macmillan Pass project in southeastern Yukon. A road accessible project against the Northwest Territories border, the 544-square-kilometer (210 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer- (34 miles) trend of potential zinc-lead-silver mineralization. Two deposits at Macmillan...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 25 reported that all of the first 16 holes reported from the 2020 drill program at its Brewery Creek mine project in the Yukon cut significant thicknesses of gold mineralization. According to a calculation published in August, Brewery Creek hosts 22.2 million metric tons of indicated leachable resource averaging 1.11 grams per metric ton (789,000 ounces) gold, plus 16.8 million metric tons of inferred leachable resource at 0.92 g/t (497,000 oz...
