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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...
GT Gold Corp. Oct. 16 reported that results from the latest five holes drilled at its Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia has extended the Saddle North porphyry copper-gold system to a depth of 1,550 meters, or nearly a mile below the surface. Since first tapping Saddle North during 2018, GT Gold has outlined a porphyry body that measures roughly 1,500 meters down-plunge, 700 meters along strike and is 200 to 560 meters thick. Within this broader zone of...
GT Gold Corp. Sept. 4 reported the longest gold-copper drill intercept so far at Saddle North, tracing porphyry mineralization from near-surface to a depth of three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometers) at this discovery on its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. GT Gold drilled its first holes into Saddle North during 2018, tapping long sections of robust porphyry copper mineralization. Highlights from this 10-hole discovery program include: • 822.2 m...
GT Gold Corp. Aug. 12 announced that Paul Harbidge, former senior vice president of exploration for Goldcorp Inc., will be taking over as the president and CEO of GT Gold on Sept. 3. Harbidge's former company merged with Newmont in April and in May Newmont Goldcorp invested C$17.6 million to acquire a 9.9 percent stake in GT Gold shares. Funds from this investment are being used to expand Saddle North, a large porphyry gold-copper target on the Tatogga property in British...
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...
GT Gold Corp. July 17 reported that the first holes of its 10,000-meter initial phase of drilling on its Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia have successfully expand the porphyry copper-gold mineralization at the Saddle North discovery area. "Our phase one program continues to bring into clearer focus the potentially significant economics of our Saddle North discovery," said GT Gold Vice President of Exploration Charles Greig Last year's discovery program at...
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...
White Gold Corp. June 19 announced the start of a 17,000-meter core drill program on three of its properties in the Yukon – JP Ross, White Gold and QV. "The goal of this diamond drill program is threefold: to continue to expand Golden Saddle-Arc's established resources, to follow up on JP Ross's exciting high-grade Vertigo discovery last season and to grow the recently acquired and underexplored VG deposit," said White Gold Corp. CEO David D'Onofrio. The diamond core d...
GT Gold Corp. May 20 announced plans for a 10,000-meter initial phase of 2019 drilling primarily focused on the Saddle North gold-copper target on its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Last year's discovery program at Saddle North involved roughly 8,200 meters of drilling in 10 holes. Highlights from the 2018 drilling include: • 822.2 meters of 0.42 grams per metric ton gold, 0.26 percent copper and 0.62 g/t silver in TTD085; • 904.1 meters of 0.51 g/t...
Klondike Gold Corp. May 16 announced the start of a C$2 million exploration program on its Klondike District property, 563-square-kilometer (217 square miles) land package that covers the hills above the legendary Yukon creeks that have produced more than 20 million ounces of placer gold since 1898. Klondike's 2019 is slated to include approximately 6,000 meters of drilling at the Lone Star, Gay Gulch and Nugget zones; collection of 2,000 soil samples in the area of the...
Tectonic Metals Inc. plans to leverage Alaska's underexplored gold potential to create "the number one mineral exploration company in the world." While this is a lofty goal, Tectonic Metals is led by an executive team that is renowned for the mineral exploration, mining and business skills required to achieve the company's vision. Tony Reda, former vice president of corporate development of Kaminak Gold Corp., is the president and CEO of Tectonic Metals. He is joined by Eira T...
GT Gold Corp. May 9 announced that Newmont Goldcorp Corporation has agreed to invest C$17.6 million into an upcoming financing, a strategic investment that will accelerate the exploration and development of the Saddle North and Saddle South targets on GT Gold's Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. "Newmont Goldcorp's investment is a significant milestone for GT Gold and represents a strong endorsement of our Tatogga property and recognizes the area's appeal as a...
With 12.5 million acres of land spanning Alaska's Interior, Doyon Ltd. is the largest private landholder in the state and one of the largest in the nation. For mining and mineral exploration companies, the rich mineral potential of these lands may be more impressive than the sheer size of the estate. This is because the Doyon region is a nearly Texas-sized swath of Interior Alaska that is renowned for its gold and a host of other metals, providing the regional corporation,...
White Gold Corp. April 17 is testing expansion targets at its Vertigo gold discovery, marking the launch of a C$13 million exploration program this year on the company's 439,000-hectare (1.08 million acres) land package in Yukon's White Gold District. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based explorer is testing expansion targets at the road-accessible Vertigo discovery with a GT Probe, a track-mounted rig that drives a cased hole through the soil to collect a sample from the...
White Gold Corp. plans to invest C$13 million this year on exploration across its 439,000 hectares (1.1 million acres) of lands that blanket some 40 percent of Yukon's famed White Gold District. This program includes follow-up drilling at the exciting Vertigo gold discovery on the JP Ross property; resource expansion drilling on the White Gold and newly acquired QV properties; and regional exploration on priority targets across the company's expansive land package. White Gold...
GT Gold Corp. Feb. 12 reported the final batch of results from a drill program that extended the high-grade gold-silver system at Saddle South, one of two deposits the company is delineating on its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. This drilling has encountered high-grade gold intercepts within wider mineralized intervals both to the west and east of the Saddle South discovery made in 2017. Highlights from holes drilled west of Saddle South include: • H...
GT Gold Corp. Jan. 9 reported the best hole drilled so far at the Saddle North porphyry gold-copper discovery on the company's Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. TTD109, the deepest hole drilled so far at Saddle North, cut 1,149.7 meters averaging 0.62 grams per metric ton gold, 0.36 percent copper and 1.17 g/t silver starting from a depth of 11.33 meters. This includes 342.5 meters of 1.28 g/t gold, 0.57 percent copper and 2.3 g/t silver from a depth of...
White Gold Corp. Dec. 10 reported results from additional drilling and sampling at Vertigo that continues to expand the footprint of this intriguing gold exploration target on the JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. On Dec. 6, White Gold Corp. published results from JPRVERRC18-013, a reverse circulation hole that cut 6.1 meters averaging 18.59 grams per metric ton gold and 188.8 g/t silver from a depth of 24.38 meters; and 4.57 meters of 6.82 g/t gold from 44.2 me...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 20 said assay results for the latest two holes drilled at Saddle North is beginning to show a very large porphyry system at the copper-gold-silver discovery on the company's Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Hole TTD098, a southeast step-out, cut 685 meters averaging 0.4 grams per metric ton gold, 0.26 percent copper and 1.03 g/t silver from a depth of 473 meters. This long intercept included 280.84 meters of 0.65 g/t gold, 0.38...
Great American Minerals Exploration Inc. is investing roughly US$10 million on exploration this year at its 55,465-acre SAM gold project about 45 miles west of the Pogo Mine. Having staked its first claims in at the SAM project area in 1999, GAME, as the privately held exploration company is commonly known, is no stranger to this emerging gold-rich stretch of the Tintina Gold Belt between the Pogo and Fort Knox mines. GAME's previous land position, however, covered only a...
A C$17.6 million strategic investment by Newmont Goldcorp has provided GT Gold Corp. the capital to accelerate exploration on its Tatogga gold property in northwestern British Columbia. GT Gold said this investment is a strong endorsement of the potential of the Saddle South and Saddle North discoveries it has made on this property toward the north end of the Golden Triangle. Highlights from drilling at Saddle South during 2017 and 2018 include: seven meters of 51.53 grams...
With diamond drills turning at three different properties in west-central Yukon this field season, along with rotary air blast drilling, soil sampling and other activities, White Gold Corp. is one of the busiest mineral explorers in the region, if not the entire territory. The Toronto-based junior, backed by partners Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. and Kinross Gold Corp. – each owning 20 percent of the company – said it would spend C$13 million in 2019 exploring a huge land pac...
Klondike Gold Corp. continues to tap veins of high-grade gold on its Klondike District property, a 576-square-kilometer (222 square miles) land package that covers the hills above the legendary Yukon creeks that produced more than 20 million ounces of placer gold since 1896. This year's C$2 million program included roughly 6,000 meters of drilling at the Lone Star, Gay Gulch and Nugget zones; soil sampling in areas above the legendary Eldorado and Bonanza creeks; GT Probe...
Emerging on Alaska's exploration scene in 2018, Tectonic Metals Inc. is a new junior mining company that applies a business-first strategy to managing the risks inherent to advancing grassroots gold discoveries to a multi-million-ounce gold reserve that global mining companies want to buy and the local people want to see developed into a mine. "Junior mining is 99 percent risk, the failure rate is huge, yet nobody has any protocols in place for managing the risks," Tectonic...
Long sections of high-grade gold and silver at the Saddle South discovery on GT Gold Corp.'s Tatogga property at the northern tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle catapulted this newly formed exploration company into the spotlight in 2017. With intercepts such as seven meters of 51.53 g/t gold and 117.38 g/t silver; 12.2 meters of 14.75 g/t gold; 3.4 meters of 48.85 g/t gold; 8.3 meters of 20.02 g/t gold; and three meters averaging 31.79 g/t gold and 1,141 g/t silver, it...
