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White Gold Corp. Feb. 20 said drilling has extended VG, the main deposit on its recently acquired QV gold property in Yukon's White Gold District. Acquired by White Gold early last year, QV is located just across the Yukon River and north of the White Gold property. The previous owner, Comstock Metals Ltd., had outlined 4.4 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.65 g/t (230,000 ounces) gold in the VG deposit. White Gold said the property has geologic...
Triumph Gold Corp. Feb. 11 announced the first updated mineral resource estimates for the Freegold Mountain gold-copper-silver project in the Yukon since the end of 2014. Over the years, Triumph has identified numerous near-surface porphyry gold-copper targets and deposits over a six-kilometer (3.7 miles) stretch of Freegold Mountain. The two most advanced deposits along this trend are Nucleus and Revenue. Nearly 15 kilometers (nine miles) southwest of Revenue lies Tinta, a...
The Government of Yukon and Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 4 announced the establishment of a project coordination committee that will allow for more efficient communications and permitting of the Brewery Creek gold mine project about 55 kilometers (34 miles) east of Dawson City. "The Government of Yukon supports and encourages responsible development," said Yukon Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources Ranj Pillai. "Establishing this committee is aimed at ensuring an...
Pembridge Resources plc Jan. 28 announced that trucks are now delivering copper concentrates from its Minto Mine in the Yukon to the Skagway Ore Terminal in Southeast Alaska. Access to the Minto mine requires crossing the Yukon river at Minto Landing, which is between the communities of Carmacks and Pelly Crossing. During summer months, a barge is used to transport concentrates and supplies across the Yukon. During the winter, an ice bridge provides access over the river....
Alianza Minerals Ltd. Jan. 27 announced that Coeur Explorations Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coeur Mining Inc., has signed an option agreement to explore the road-accessible Tim silver property in southern Yukon. Situated just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) north of Coeur Mining's Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia, Tim is an early staged exploration property with similar high-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralization. Following up on a letter of intent signed last June C...
Pembridge Resources plc Jan. 22 announced the launch of a 14,000-meter drill program aimed at expanding four deposits at its Minto copper mine in the Yukon. United Kingdom-based Pembridge finalized a deal in June to acquire Minto from Capstone Mining Corp. and resumed operations at the mine in October. At the time of the acquisition, Minto hosted 15 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 1.4 percent copper, 0.5 grams per metric ton gold and 4.8 g/t...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Jan. 15 announced a more that 50 percent increase in the oxide gold resources at its Brewery Creek Mine project in the Yukon. Located about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Brewery Creek is the site of an open-pit, heap-leach mine that produced 277,170 ounces of gold over a seven-year span beginning in 1996. According to the 2020 calculation, which incorporates a higher gold price (US$1,325/oz) but not the 200 holes drilled since...
White Gold Corp. Jan. 9 announced that rotary air blast (RAB) has confirmed robust bedrock gold mineralization at several targets beyond the high-grade Vertigo discovery on the road accessible JP Ross property about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of Dawson City, Yukon. The company completed 1,644 meters of RAB drilling in 27 shallow holes that tested outlying prospective areas at Vertigo and several other nearby targets. The targets were generated from the company's...
White Gold Corp. Dec. 19 said its 2019 drilling at Vertigo has confirmed continuity of the high-grade, near surface, gold mineralization discovered at this target on the road-accessible JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. The 2018 discovery hole at Vertigo cut 3.1 meters of 56.25 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 3.1 meters, part of a 10.67-meter intercept averaging 17.34 g/t gold. Follow-up RAB and reverse circulation drilling during the 2018 season...
Victoria Gold Corp. Dec. 9 reported that its summer exploration program has expanded the near surface high-grade gold discovered at the Raven target on the company's Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. Situated about 13 kilometers (eight miles) northeast of Victoria's newly established Eagle Gold Mine, Raven is a 2018 discovery target that has the exploration company turned gold producer excited. Raven is a target within the Nugget zone, which hosts the second largest known in...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Dec. 12 reported that initial assay results from its 2019 drill program at Klaza show the potential to add high-grade gold and silver to the resource already outlined at this road accessible project 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 4.5 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric ton (686,000...
Banyan Gold Corp. Dec. 11 reported that the second phase of 2019 drilling at its Aurex-McQuesten project in the Yukon continues to expand gold mineralization at the Airstrip zone. Previous drilling at Airstrip has outlined a roughly 90-meter-thick package of near surface gold mineralization along about 500 meters of strike. The 2019 phase-2 program is designed to extend this zone to 1,000 meters along strike. The latest batch of four holes – MQ-19-54, MQ-19-55, MQ-19-56 and M...
Triumph Gold Corp. Dec. 11 said the results from the final three holes of its 2019 drill program at Freegold Mountain continue to provide compelling evidence for a large porphyry related gold-copper system underlying near surface gold-copper deposits already outlined on the roughly 200-square-kilometer (77 square miles) property in the Yukon. The two most advanced deposits along a six-kilometer (3.7 miles) trend that spans the Freegold Mountain property are Nucleus and...
Victoria Gold Corp. Dec. 4 announced a 22 percent increase in gold reserves at Eagle, which is expected to translate into increased annual production at the company's newly developed mine in the Yukon. The Eagle Mine went into production earlier this year with 2.66 million ounces of gold in 123 million metric tons of reserves averaging 0.67 grams per metric ton gold, enough ore for Yukon's newest large mine to produce roughly 200,000 oz of gold annually over an initial...
Pembridge Resources plc Dec. 4 announced that its revenue from the restart of operations at the Minto copper mine in the Yukon now exceeds US$7 million. United Kingdom-based Pembridge, which finalized a deal in June to acquire Minto from Capstone Mining Corp., resumed operations at the mine in October. To ensure steady revenue from Minto, the new mine owner entered into an offtake agreement with Sumitomo Corp. for the copper concentrates produced there. Under this agreement,...
Victoria Gold Corp. Nov. 25 announced that its Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon has surpassed 10,000 ounces of gold production. Construction at Eagle Gold was completed in July and on Sept. 17 Yukon's newest large-scale gold mine poured its first bar. At the time, Eagle Gold crews had worked 1,720,843 hours without a lost time incident. This would be a stellar achievement for any workforce but is especially noteworthy when you consider this is a newly formed crew and the work it...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Nov. 21 reports that it continues encounter strong gold-silver mineralization with drilling at the Amethyst Gold Breccia (AGB) Zone at its Lawyers project in northern British Columbia. Amethyst Gold Breccia is one of four mineralized areas – AGB, Cliff Creek, Dukes Ridge and Phoenix – that have been identified within a 3,000-meter radius in the central portion of the greater than 20-kilometer- (12.4 miles) long Lawyers trend. Three of these zones – Cliff...
White Gold Corp. Nov. 26 announced high-grade gold intercepts from discovery drilling of the Titan target at the company's Hen property in Yukon's White Gold District. Situated less than 15 kilometers west of the Vertigo discovery on the JP property and 25 kilometers north of the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits on the White Gold property, Titan is a new discovery identified with soil sampling by White Gold. One sample from Titan returned 113 grams per metric ton gold, the...
Banyan Gold Corp. Nov. 18 reported that the first four holes of its second phase of 2019 drilling at the Aurex-McQuesten project in the Yukon has tapped gold mineralization in an expansion area of the Airstrip target. The initial phase of 2019 drilling at Aurex-McQuesten included 494 meters of infill drilling at the Airstrip (formerly referred to as McQuesten) zone and 504 meters of discovery drilling at Powerline, a gold zone about 1,000 meters south of Airstrip. Previous...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Nov. 14 announced that it plans to have a feasibility study completed for the initial phase of its plan to restart gold production at the Brewery Creek gold mine by the first quarter of next year. Located about a 45-minute drive east of Dawson City, Yukon, Brewery Creek is the site of an open-pit, heap-leach mine that produced 277,170 ounces of gold over a seven-year span beginning in 1996. Viceroy Resource Corp., which established the mine, opted...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Nov. 14 announced it is working on an updated resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its high-grade Tiger gold deposit at Rau, the westernmost of three projects that make up the company's 185-kilometer- (115 miles) long Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. A previous PEA, completed in 2016, in May, investigated the use of an agitated tank carbon-in-pulp leaching process to recover gold from the highly oxidized carbonate replacement...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Nov. 12 announced that tests have confirmed that EnviroLeach Technologies Inc.'s formula effectively extracts and recovers more than 95 percent of the gold from sulfide concentrates produced at the company's 3 Aces project in eastern Yukon. EnviroLeach Technologies has developed a proprietary non-cyanide, water-based, neutral pH treatment solution for recovering precious metals from ores, concentrates and recycled electronics. The solution can...
Pembridge Resources plc Nov. 6 reported the first revenue from Minto since the restart of operations at its recently acquired copper mine in the Yukon. Since finalizing a deal in June to acquire Minto from Capstone Mining Corp., the United Kingdom-based company has been working toward the restart of operations at this copper mine. During 10 months of production in 2018, the Minto Mine produced 23 million lb of copper, 9,251 ounces of gold and 98,000 oz of silver from 907,000...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Nov. 5 reported that drills cut 230 meters averaging 4.14 percent zinc from a depth of eight meters at Boundary, a zone currently not included in the resource for the company's Macmillan Pass project in eastern Yukon. Two deposits at Macmillan Pass – Tom and Jason – host 11.21 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 6.59 percent (1.63 billion pounds) zinc, 2.48 percent (610 million lb) lead and 21.33 grams per metric ton (7.7 million ounces) sil...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Oct. 29 said it is making significant headway toward the resumption of operations at its Brewery Creek Mine project about 55 kilometers east of Dawson City, Yukon. Viceroy Resource Corp. established a mine at Brewery Creek in 1996 and recovered around 280,000 ounces of gold from the open-pit, heap-leach operation over seven years. With gold prices averaging around US$310/oz in 2002, Viceroy opted to wind down operations at Brewery Creek and put the...
