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Strategic Metals Ltd. Jan. 13 reported strong gold and silver mineralization in the final batch of assay results from the 2020 drill program at the company's road accessible Mount Hinton project in Yukon's Keno Hill District. Located about 35 kilometers (22 kilometers) southeast of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine, Mount Hinton is an early staged gold and silver exploration project where 2019 surface sampling collected rocks with up to 2,340 grams per metric ton (75.23...
Alexco Resource Corp. Jan. 19 reported that its 2020 surface exploration drilling program has confirmed the extremely high-grade nature of silver mineralization with the Bermingham Northeast Deep zone on its Keno Hill project in the Yukon. The company's 2020 surface exploration program included 7,653 meters of core drilling in 14 holes targeting Bermingham Northeast Deep, a high-grade silver zone about 150 meters below the resource at Bermingham, a high-grade deposit that...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. Jan. 18 reported an impressive gold-silver intercept from the second hole of its 2020 drill program at its Skukum project in southern Yukon. New Pacific Metals Corp., which gained full ownership of Skukum through the 2011 acquisition of Tagish Lake Gold Corp., created Whitehorse Gold to continue the exploration of this 170-square-kilometer (65 square miles) gold property about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Yukon's capital. According to a calculation...
White Gold Corp. Jan. 21 reports that its 2020 sampling, trenching, drilling program encountered strong gold mineralization at several targets on its adjacent JP Ross and Hen properties in Yukon's White Gold District. White Gold began its 2020 program with drilling at Titan, an intriguing target on the road accessible Hen property. Rotary air blast (RAB) drilling carried out late during the 2019 program tapped a bedrock source for the strong gold mineralization found on the su...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Jan. 13 announced the discovery of a new vein complex at its Klaza gold-silver property in southern Yukon. Located on placer gold mining roads about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Carmacks, Klaza is an advance staged exploration project that hosts 4.46 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric ton (686,000 oz) gold and 98 g/t (14.1 million oz) silver; plus 5.71 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 2.8 g/t...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 6 reported that its Eagle Gold Mine produced 42,174 ounces of gold during the final quarter of 2020. This strong quarterly output pushed the Yukon operation's second half production to 77,748 oz of gold, which topped the company's COVID-adjusted guidance of 72,000 to 77,000 oz for the final six months of 2020. Including the 38,896 oz of gold recovered during non-commercial production over the first six months of 2020, Eagle produced 116,644 oz gold...
Banyan Gold Corp. Jan. 6 provided a recap of the milestones achieved during its 2020 program on its AurMac and Nitra gold properties in the Yukon. A road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo and roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine, AurMac hosts at-surface deposits – Airstrip and Powerline – along with other drill-ready targets. According to a May calculation, AurMac hosts 52.58 million metric tons of in...
Victoria Gold Corp. Dec. 8 reported high-grade gold results from trenching and drilling carried out this year at Lynx, an early stage exploration target about nine kilometers (5.6 miles) southeast of the Eagle Mine. The 2020 exploration work at Lynx consisted of a focused program that included 720 meters of trenching, 590 meters of diamond drilling in four holes, and the collection of more than 1,600 grid-based soil samples. Highlights from the trenching include: • 46 m...
Western Copper and Gold Corp. Dec. 14 announced the start of a new preliminary economic assessment that will consider mining a much larger resource at its Casino project in Canada's Yukon. A feasibility study completed in 2013 envisioned utilizing both a mill and heap leaching to recover the copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum found at Casino. Western Copper, however, has more than doubled the size of the Casino deposit since that study was completed. According to a...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Nov. 30 announced that the Yukon government has rejected the company's application to build a 65-kilometer (40 miles), private tote road that would have supported advanced exploration and potential mine development at Rau, the westernmost of three projects that make up ATAC's expansive Rackla gold property in the Yukon. The proposed all-season road would have branched off the Hanson Lake Road west of Keno City and extended north to Tiger, the most advanced...
Golden Sky Minerals Corp. (formerly Luckystrike Resources Ltd.) Dec. 10 reported promising results from its 2020 drilling at Hotspot, a 46.4-square-kilometer (17.9 square miles) gold exploration on the Yukon side of the Alaska-Yukon border. Hotspot is situated along the Big Creek fault, a regional-scale fault system that hosts numerous porphyry and orogenic gold deposits in Alaska and the Yukon. The closest such deposit is Taurus, a porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposit on...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Nov. 23 announced that it has nearly doubled its land position in the Macmillan Pass area of eastern Yukon through the acquisition of two claim blocks that cover zinc, lead and silver targets to the west of its already large mineral exploration project. To acquire this western extension of the Macmillan Pass project, Fireweed entered into two separate agreements – one with QuestEx Gold & Copper Ltd. for approximately 74 square kilometers (18,300 acres) of m...
With the acquisition of Copper North Mining Corp., Granite Creek Copper Ltd. now owns the advanced staged Carmacks copper-gold project and a roughly 20-kilometer- (12.5 miles) stretch of the highly prospective Minto Copper Belt in Canada's Yukon. Over the past two years, Granite Creek has been exploring Stu, a 111-square-kilometer (42.9 square miles) early stage gold-copper project. In a deal that closed on Nov. 27, Copper North has expanded its land position within the Minto...
Victoria Gold Corp. Nov. 16 reported long intersection of strong gold mineralization in the final 13 holes drilled at the Raven target on the company's 555-square-kilometer (214 square miles) Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. Discovered in 2018, Raven is a near surface gold target about 13 kilometers (eight miles) east of Victoria's Eagle Gold mine. The 2020 drill program at Raven extended high-grade gold mineralization there to 750 meters along strike, which is triple the...
Banyan Gold Corp. Nov. 16 reports that recent assay results demonstrate the expansion potential of the Powerline zone on the company's AurMac gold property in the Yukon. A road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo and roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine, AurMac hosts at-surface deposits – Airstrip and Powerline – along with other drill-ready targets. According to a May calculation AurMac hosts 52....
BMC Minerals Ltd. Oct. 27 announced that the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board has completed the environmental and socio-economic review of the company's proposal to develop a mine at the ABM silver-zinc deposit on the Kudz Ze Kayah (KZK) project and has recommended that the mine be allowed to proceed to permitting. "We are very pleased to receive the final screening report following a robust and thorough assessment process with input from all affected...
White Gold Corp. Oct. 14 reported that it cut high-grade gold mineralization in five of the six holes drilled this year at Ryan's Surprise, a target about 2,000 meters west of the company's flagship Golden Saddle deposit in the Yukon. The Golden Saddle and Arc deposit on the White Gold property host 15.6 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.28 grams per metric ton (1.14 million oz) gold; and 9 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.39 g/t...
Victoria Gold Corp. Oct. 10 reported that its Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon produced 35,312 ounces of gold during the third quarter, which was lower than expected due to bottlenecks in the production circuit. In July, the company forecast Eagle would produce 85,000 to 100,000 oz of gold during the second half of 2020, or an average of 42,500 to 50,000 oz per quarter. While the gold production is below pace, Victoria is pleased with the performance of the newly commissioned...
White Gold Corp. Oct. 22 reported that this year's trenching, GT probe and soil sampling at JP Ross has identified widespread structurally controlled gold mineralization at multiple targets on the road accessible property in Yukon's White Gold District. "To date, at least 14 gold targets have been identified on the JP Ross property across a 14- by 11-kilometer (8.7 by 6.8 miles) area, many within close proximity to significant current and historical placer gold operations,"...
Victoria Gold Corp. Oct. 19 reported wide sections of strong gold mineralization during the 2020 drill program at Raven, the newest discovery on the company's 555-square-kilometer (214 square miles) Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. Discovered by Victoria geologists in 2018, Raven is a near surface gold target about 13 kilometers (eight miles) east of the company's Eagle Gold mine. Trenching at Raven in recent years has encountered strong gold mineralization. Highlights...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. announced plans for a late-season drill program at its Haldane high-grade silver project in Yukon's historic Keno Hill Mining District. Situated about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Keno City, Haldane is the site of a historical mine that produced roughly 24.7 metric tons of hand-sorted ore averaging 3,102 g/t (99.7 oz/t) silver and 59% lead on the south side of Bighorn Creek veins. From 1926 and 1927, a vein on the north side of Bighorn Creek produced...
Banyan Gold Corp. Sept. 21 reports that step-out drilling has extended the strike of the Airstrip deposit on its AurMac property in the Yukon by roughly 200 meters. Airstrip is the larger of two deposit at AurMac, a road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo and roughly 10 kilometers (six miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine. According to a resource calculated earlier this year, Airstrip hosts 46 million metric tons of inferred...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Sept. 28 announced the start of a more than 3,000-meter drill program focused on expanding the resource at its Brewery Creek gold mine project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Yukon. 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....
ATAC Resources Ltd. Sept. 14 announced that the initial phase of 2020 exploration at its Rau project in the Yukon indicates the presence of a large orogenic gold system at the Airstrip target. Airstrip is roughly 5,000 meters southeast of Tiger, a carbonate replacement deposit that hosts 4.53 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 3.19 grams per metric ton (464,000 oz) of gold. A preliminary economic assessment published earlier this year outlined...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Aug. 31 published an updated resource estimate to support a feasibility study that will provide details of a plan to re-establish gold mining at the company's Brewery Creek project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Yukon. The initial phase of Golden Predator's Brewery Creek mine restart plan involves reprocessing tailings from previous heap leach operations at Brewery Creek and mining of new oxide gold mineralization to process on...
