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White Gold Corp. Oct. 24 reported that its regional exploration has encountered very high-grade gold in rock samples collected at Titan, a discovery on the Hen property and less than 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the Vertigo discovery on the neighboring JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. Titan was first identified with soil sampling by White Gold, including one sample that returned 113 grams per metric ton gold, the highest-grade of more than 400,000 so...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Oct. 16 reported that drills cut 250 meters averaging 3.44 percent zinc from the surface 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) silver; plu...
Triumph Gold Corp. Oct. 2 announced the retirement of Paul Reynolds, who served as president and CEO of the Yukon-based mineral exploration company for the past five years. Former Triumph Gold Vice President of Exploration Tony Barresi now serves as president and John Anderson, the executive chairman of the company, will fill in as interim CEO. Barresi is an economic geologist with fifteen years of base and precious metal exploration experience. During his three-year tenure...
Banyan Gold Corp. Oct. 2 announced a second phase of 2019 drilling at Aurex-McQuesten, a Yukon gold project about 10 kilometers (six miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Dublin Gulch property. The 997-meter initial phase of 2019 drilling at Aurex-McQuesten focused on infill drilling at the Airstrip (formerly referred to as McQuesten) gold zone and discovery drilling at Powerline, a gold discovery zone about 1,000 meters south of Airstrip. The Powerline discovery holes cut...
Western Copper and Gold Corp. Sept. 24 reported a high-grade gold intercept from a hole drilled during the company's roughly 13,500-meter drill program at the Casino copper-gold project in the Yukon. Hole DH19-21, drilled near the southern edge of the enormous Casino copper-gold deposit cut 2.97 meters averaging 55.1 grams per metric ton gold. A re-assay of this sample returned 65.9 g/t gold, confirming the robust gold grade. This is the third high-grade intercept encountered...
Strategic Metals Ltd. Sept. 9 reported that it continues to find high-grade gold and silver veins at its Mount Hinton property in Yukon's Keno Hill District. During its initial phase of 2019 exploration at Mount Hinton, which focused on a 3,500- by up to 1,500-meter gold-in-soil anomaly on the eastern side of Granite Creek, Strategic geologists collected a rock sample that averaged 2,340 grams per metric ton (75.23 ounces per metric ton) gold and 597 g/t (19.2 oz/t) silver....
Triumph Gold Corp. Sept. 12 reported that this year's deep drilling program has encountered the buried porphyry gold-copper mineralization being targeted at the first of three areas being tested on the company's Freegold Mountain Property in the Yukon Territory. Over the years, Triumph has identified several near-surface, 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 a...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Sept. 13 reported high-grade gold and copper from drilling and additional rock samples collected from the Bobcat skarn target at Rau, a 660-square kilometer (255 square miles) project at the western end of the company's 185-kilometer- (115 miles) long Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. While prospecting Bobcat this year, crews collected grab samples with 41.9 grams per metric ton gold and 10.55 percent copper; and 16.15 g/t gold and 7.24 percent copper....
Banyan Gold Corp. Sept. 3 reported that the first four holes from drilling the Powerline zone on the Aurex-McQuesten property tapped gold mineralization similar to that being encountered on Victoria Gold Corp.'s Dublin Gulch property, which is about 10 kilometers (six miles) to the north. Banyan had two objectives for its 2019 exploration program at Aurex-McQuesten – continue to define and increase confidence within the McQuesten gold zone mineralization with infill d...
Victoria Gold Corp. Sept. 3 reported high-grade gold sections within long intercepts of bulk tonnage mineralization from the 2019 drilling at the Raven target within the Nugget zone on the Dublin Gulch property, Yukon. Situated about 6.5 kilometers (four miles) east of Victoria's Eagle Gold deposit, the Nugget zone hosts the second largest known intrusive body on the Dublin Gulch property – the area currently being mined hosts the largest. Raven, a particularly intriguing t...
Klondike Gold Corp. Sept. 3 reported that following the success so far of drilling at its Klondike District property, the company has raised C$770,000 to extend the program into October. In early August, the company reported that drilling had tapped bonanza grade gold and silver at Nugget, one of the zones identified on the 576-square-kilometer (217 square miles) Klondike District property near Dawson City, Yukon. Nugget Zone is associated with a prominent, 8,000-meter-long...
Cantex Mine Development Corp. Sept. 5 reported that this year's drilling at its North Rackla project in the Yukon continues to cut massive sulfide zones rich in zinc, lead, manganese and silver. Prospecting, sampling and trenching carried out by Cantex during the 2014-16 seasons showed the potential of the Discovery zone at North Rackla but the real excitement began with the spectacular mineralization tapped during the 2018 drilling into a new zone known as Extension....
Luckystrike Resources Ltd. Aug. 19 announced the completion of a 1,106-meter drill program targeting the expansion of the Monte Carlo zone on the Lucky Strike property in Yukon's White Gold District. Goldstrike Resources Ltd., which spun out Lucky Strike and other Yukon gold properties into Luckystrike Resource in 2018, first encountered gold at Monte Carlo while trenching an 1,800-meter-long induced polarization geophysical anomaly in 2016. That company followed up with a sma...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Aug. 20 reported results from the first five holes drilled at the company's Macmillan Pass zinc 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) silver; plus 39.47 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 5.84 percent (5.08 bil...
Strategic Metals Ltd. Aug. 21 reported a rock sample averaging 2,340 grams per metric ton (75.23 ounces per metric ton) gold and 597 g/t (19.2 oz/t) silver that was collected during this year's exploration at Mount Hinton, a property that covers an extensive system of high-grade gold- and silver-rich quartz veins and breccias in the southern portion of the Keno Hill District of central Yukon. A three-phase program being carried out this year at Mount Hinton is following up on...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. has mobilized a drill for the second phase of its 2019 exploration program at Haldane, a high-grade silver property in Yukon's historic Keno Hill Mining District. "New targets generated during the 2018 field program remain as priority targets for drilling in our phase II program," said Alianza Minerals President and CEO Jason Weber. Located about 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of Keno City, Haldane was first recognized for its high-grade silver...
Klondike Gold Corp. Aug. 6 reported a bonanza grade gold and silver intercept from this summer's drilling at Nugget Zone on the company's 576-square-kilometer (217 square miles) Klondike District property near Dawson City, Yukon. Lying west of Lone Star and north of Gay Gulch – two other exciting zones on the Klondike property –Nugget Zone is associated with a prominent, 8,000-meter-long magnetic low known as the Nugget fault. A 2,500-meter stretch of this fault hosts gol...
White Gold Corp. Aug. 8 reported that initial results from its 2019 drilling have identified at least six high-grade structures at Vertigo and encountered some of the best gold mineralization so far at the Golden Saddle deposit. This first phase of the company's 2019 diamond drill program in Yukon's White Gold District was designed to test the geometry of the Vertigo target and previously underexplored portions of the Golden Saddle deposit and surrounding area. So far, White...
Go Metals Mining Corp. (formerly Go Cobalt Mining Corp.) July 29 announced the completion of an initial phase of 2019 exploration at its Monster copper-cobalt project about 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of Dawson City, Yukon. The Monster property covers a large iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) occurrence that extends for about 18 kilometers (11 miles). Surface sampling has identified copper, cobalt, gold, and silver showings across the entire property. The primary alteration...
Pembridge Resources PLC July 22 announced that it has cut a deal with Sumitomo Corp. for copper concentrates from its newly acquired Minto Mine in the Yukon. Under this offtake agreement, Pembridge is to receive an advanced payment for at least 55,000 metric tons of copper concentrate produced by the Minto mine between now and the end of 2020. Sumitomo will make this advanced payment in monthly installments based on 90 percent of the estimated value of concentrate produced...
Banyan Gold Corp. July 16 announced the completion of a 1,000-meter drill program at its Aurex-McQuesten gold project near the community of Mayo, Yukon. Banyan had two objectives for its 2019 exploration program at Aurex-McQuesten; to continue to define and increase confidence within the McQuesten gold zone mineralization with infill drilling; and test a largely undrilled target area 1,000 meters south of the McQuesten zone, on the Aurex claim block, that is interpreted to...
ATAC Resources Ltd. July 16 said initial results from this year's exploration at Rau continues to expand the mineral potential across the 660-square kilometer (255 square miles) project at the western end of the company's expansive Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. Currently, Rau is anchored by Tiger, a carbonate replacement body with 5.68 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 2.66 g/t (485,700 oz) gold. However, the project hosts numerous styles...
White Gold Corp. July 10 said GT Probe sampling has confirmed gold mineralization trends previously identified at the Stage Fright, Sabotage, Topaz, and Vertigo targets on the company's JP Ross property in the Yukon. Located about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of Dawson City, the road-accessible JP Ross property is home to Vertigo, a high-grade gold discovery made last year. The Vertigo discovery hole, JPRVERRAB18-001, cut 3.05 meters of 56.25 grams per metric ton gold...
Luckystrike Resources Ltd. July 9 announced the start of drilling on its Lucky Strike property in the heart of Yukon's White Gold District. The program will focus on expanding on discovery hole DDLS-18-06, a 2018 hole that cut 7.6 meters averaging 4.55 grams per metric ton gold within a newly discovered lower zone of sulfide mineralization at Monte Carlo. DDLS-18-06 is the only hole drilled so far to test an 1,800-meter-long induced polarization (IP) chargeability anomaly....
Triumph Gold Corp. June 18 announced the start of a drill program targeting a buried copper-gold porphyry target that has not been previously tested by drilling at the Freegold Mountain project in the Yukon. 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. The Nucleus deposit hosts 74.74 million metric...
