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Stakeholder Gold Corp. has nabbed the expertise of renowned Yukon prospector Shawn Ryan to explore the potential of the Ballarat gold project in the Yukon Territory. Ryan, who discovered Kinross Gold's White Gold project and Goldcorp's Coffee project, typically works only on his own properties. However, he made an exception for Ballarat, which lies across the Yukon River from Coffee and just southeast of White Gold. Planned and executed by GroundTruth Exploration Inc., an innovative exploration company founded by Ryan, an...
Like a gong proclaiming the end of the long and arduous bear market for North of 60 mining explorers, the May 12 news that Goldcorp Inc. would buy Kaminak Gold Corp. for roughly C$500 million reverberated from Yukon Territory throughout the North. While the rich lure of developing a mine at Kaminak's robust Coffee gold project lured Goldcorp to the Yukon, it was the exploration potential and the ability to permit and build a mine that convinced the producer to expand into the...
As exploration across most of the North continues to trend downward, the Yukon Territory is celebrating the second straight year of increased spending. Early estimates put exploration in Yukon at about C$99 million for 2015, up roughly 20 percent over the C$80 million spent last year. With a wide swath of zinc-rich deposits in the Selwyn basin, a number of copper-rich porphyries in the Dawson Range, platinum group metal-nickel deposits in the southwest and gold deposits...
Stakeholder Gold Corp. April 23 reported that renowned Yukon Territory prospector and innovator Shawn Ryan has agreed to join its exploration advisory committee. Ryan will provide guidance for exploration of Stakeholder's Ballarat gold property and other strategic initiatives in the White Gold District, Yukon. "Shawn Ryan is an experienced and proven discoverer of gold deposits in the Yukon, and the company he founded, GroundTruth Exploration Inc., has developed some of the most advanced and cost-effective methods of...
Stakeholder Gold Corp. Aug. 3 reported encouraging results from an initial phase of exploration at it Ballarat gold property in the Yukon Territory. Planned and executed by GroundTruth Exploration Inc., an innovative exploration company founded by Shawn Ryan, the program included soil sampling; GT Probe bedrock interface sampling; ground-based resistivity/induced polarization surveying; and a drone survey to collect detail imagery of the entire property. This work has significantly expanded the Eastern zone target. Before...
While the mineral exploration season in Interior Alaska typically runs from the time the ground dries in the spring, usually mid-May, until snow and cold weather make logistics too cumbersome and expensive in October, an increasing number of explorers are carrying out successful winter programs in this especially frigid region of the Far North State. Without a doubt, mounting a successful exploration program in temperatures cold enough to make metal brittle and with only...
GT Gold Corp. Aug. 31 reported multiple intercepts of high-grade gold in six of the first eight holes ever drilled into the Saddle South gold discovery at its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The best intercept so far is 51.53 grams (1.5 ounces) per metric ton gold and 117.38 g/t silver over 6.95 meters of holeTTD007. TTD001, the Saddle South discovery hole, cut 7 meters averaging 10.26 g/t gold and 46.07 g/t silver. The lowest grade out of the seven hol...
White Gold Corp. Sep. 14 provided an update on its extensive exploration program in the Yukon, including drill results from JP Ross, one of five properties the company acquired from Kinross Gold Corp. Highlights from the 14 rotary air blast holes drilled in the Rebecca zone at JP Ross include 3.05 meters of 21.87 grams per metric ton gold; and 6.1 meters of 3.1 g/t gold. JP Ross is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of White Gold, a property that hosts 9.79 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.7 g/t...
Stakeholder Gold Corp. June 14 reported that exploration is underway at its Ballarat gold project, located about 16 kilometers (10 miles) northeast of Kaminak Gold's Coffee project in the White Gold District of the Yukon Territory. GroundTruth Exploration Inc. is carrying out the roughly four-week exploration program that will investigate the Ballarat's Northwest and the Eastern zones. Planned work for this phase 1 program includes: a drone-generated high resolution...
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark ordered a review of the Canadian province's environmental assessment process in January, saying the current system has become too cumbersome. Clark provided few details when she announced the initiative at the Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver Jan. 27. She said environmental reviews of major projects are crucial, and while the current process is rigorous and transparent, the B.C. environmental assessment office can "do better." "In my view, it is better to do the hard and...
