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Yukon Territory, a mineral exploration frontrunner in Canada's North, is witnessing a significant slowdown in 2019. As a result, growth in Yukon's economy is expected to slow this year but rebound... — Updated 9/26/2020

The mining sector has lost one of its rising geology superstars to a tragic plane crash in the Yukon. While flying from ATAC Resources Inc.'s Rackla Gold property, a Cessna 208 Caravan operated by... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

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... — Updated 9/26/2020

Cantex Mine Development Corp. April 15 announced the start of a 2019 exploration program at North Rackla that is slated to include sampling, geophysics and 18,000 meters of drilling at this... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Jan. 28 reported that its initial phase of 2019 exploration will focus on Rau, a 660-square kilometer (255 square miles) property at the western end of the company's Rackla Gold... — Updated 9/25/2020

Metallic Minerals Corp. Jan. 28 reported additional high-grade silver results from the 2018 exploration programs at its 100% owned McKay Hill Project, located 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the h... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Jan. 16 said the final results from the 2018 exploration of the highly prospective Bobcat, Condor and Spotlight targets have advanced the company's understanding of the broad... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Dec. 12 reported that Barrick Gold Corp. has terminated its option to acquire an interest in the Orion project, one of three project that makes up ATAC's expansive Rackla Gold... — Updated 9/25/2020

Cantex Mine Development Corp. Nov. 20 provided updated assay results for samples from this summer's drilling at the aptly named Massive Sulphide zone on its North Rackla property that topped 30 perc... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Sept. 13 reported one of the highest grade drill intercepts so far at the Sunrise deposit in its latest round of results from Osiris, a Carlin-type gold project at the eastern... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Aug. 28 said 2017 exploration results has outlined a rich silver-lead geochemical anomaly with multi-gram silver on its Connaught property, at the head of the Sixty Mile placer... — Updated 9/25/2020

A dearth of infrastructure in Canada's northern territories is proving to be a severe hindrance to mine development in mineral provinces ranked by many among the most attractive and stable in the... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Aug. 21 said it has identified significant gold and copper skarn mineralization at the Bobcat, a target about 4,500 meters southeast of the advanced-stage Tiger Gold deposit at... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. July 17 said results of the first three holes drilled at Osiris, the easternmost of three properties that make up the Rackla Gold property in the Yukon, show the expansion... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. June 18 reported a 1.69-million-ounce maiden gold resource for Osiris, one of three projects that make up the 1,700-square-kilometer (656 square miles) Rackla Gold property in... — Updated 9/25/2020

Blind Creek Resources Ltd. June 1 completed an arrangement to spin its Engineer gold mine project into Engineer Gold Mines Ltd., a Toronto Venture Exchange listed subsidiary that will advance... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. May 29 announced that it has raised C$4.5 million for a roughly 10,000-meter drill program at Osiris, one of three projects that make up the 1,700-square-kilometer (656 square... — Updated 9/25/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. April 4 outlined plans for roughly 20,000 meters of drilling at the Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. At roughly C$13 million, this program included a C$6 million investment by... — Updated 9/24/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. March 5 reported that the Yukon government and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun have filed a joint document that allows the company to move forward with its plans to build a... — Updated 9/24/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Jan. 6 reported high-grade gold, silver, zinc and copper from sampling of the Rau project at the western end of the company's expansive Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. The Rau... — Updated 9/24/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Jan. 17 said Barrick Gold Corp.'s 2017 exploration program on the Orion project show that Carlin-style gold mineralization this property is known for extends well beyond the... — Updated 9/24/2020

More than three dozen explorers chased lucrative mineral deposits in Yukon Territory in 2017 and most of these junior and senior companies returned to the northern jurisdiction this year to take... — Updated 3/1/2019 Full story

ATAC Resources Ltd.'s Rackla Gold project saw roughly C$13 million of exploration in 2018. Barrick Gold Corp. invested about C$6 million at Orion, a gold project that lies in the middle of the... — Updated 10/26/2018 Full story

Goldcorp Inc.’s half-a-billion-dollar purchase of Kaminak Gold Corp. and the Coffee Gold project in Yukon Territory in 2016 marked a major shift for North of 60 mining explorers. Junior mining e... — Updated 1/24/2018 Full story

Following up on the discoveries made during a C$1 billion exploration explosion in the Yukon from 2007 until 2013, five of the world's largest gold producers are leading a second wave of the 21st... — Updated 1/24/2018 Full story