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Juniors pour millions into Yukon projects

Drilling, deep-imaging surveys top strategies as juniors join one major and sole producer in seeking new pockets of mineralization

DAWSON, Yukon Territory - Hardrock mining explorers are capitalizing on unprecedented investor interest and going after paying gold, silver, copper-rich porphyry, lead-zinc and other metal deposits here with uncommon gusto this summer.

A few years ago, a multimillion-dollar, single-season exploration program would have been a rare commodity in the Yukon. But this year, at least a half-dozen junior...

 

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