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GT Gold Corp. Sept. 10 announced a major porphyry copper-gold-silver discovery in the first hole drilled this year at the Saddle North target on the company's Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Starting at a depth of 78.87 meters, hole TTD085 cut 822.19 meters averaging 0.42 grams per metric ton gold, 0.26 percent copper and 0.62 g/t silver. This long intercept included 430 meters of 0.67 g/t gold, 0.41 percent copper and 0.89 g/t silver from 493 meters to...
GT Gold Corp. Sept. 4 said this year's planned 18,000-meter drill program is rapidly expanding the Saddle South gold-silver discovery on its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. So far this year, drilling at Saddle south has tapped high-grade gold to the east, west, south and below the mineralized envelope outlined during the company's maiden drill program carried out last year. One hole drilled to the west of Saddle South, TTD079, cut 40.89 meters of 9.55...
White Gold Corp. Aug. 15 said it has begun drilling near-surface high-grade gold mineralization recently discovered at the Vertigo Trend on the company's JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. The Vertigo gold mineralization was encountered using GT Probe, a track mounted sampling machine engineered by Dawson City-based GroundTruth Exploration. Designed to be more cost-effective and less environmentally invasive than traditional trenching, the GT Probe drives a...
White Gold Corp. Aug. 9 said initial results from the resource expansion and exploration program on its White Gold property in the Yukon have returned some of the strongest and most consistent mineralization intercepts drilled to date on the Golden Saddle deposit. A resource calculated earlier this year for the White Gold property outlines 12.32 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.43 grams per metric ton gold (961,000 ounces) gold; plus 5.16 million metric...
GT Gold Corp. Aug. 8 reported that the initial results from the 2018 program at Saddle South have returned high-grade gold to the east and west of this exciting discovery made by the company in 2017. In addition to extending Saddle South along strike, one hole has discovered a deeper high-grade trend to the south. "We are very pleased with the early success of the drill program at Saddle South this season. All holes have hit mineralization as we step out to the east and west,...
GT Gold Corp. June 14 named Steve Burleton, a seasoned mining executive with significant experience in capital raising and corporate development as the gold exploration company's new president and CEO. "I am thrilled to be joining the GT Gold team – a team which has made great strides in advancing the Saddle discovery since going public over a year ago," said Burleton. Burleton replaces Kevin Keough, who stepped down as GT Gold's top executive and board member. "It has been a...
GT Gold Corp. June 4 said crews are on their way to Tatogga to begin a planned 18,000-meter drill program at this exciting new gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. A 16,000-meter discovery drill program carried out last year included 86 holes that were primarily focused on the Saddle South discovery. Highlights from the high-grade gold cut during this drilling include 7 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...
White Gold Corp. May 30 reported it has drills turning at White Gold and Betty, two of the Yukon-focused explorer's highest priority properties. "This is a very exciting time for the company as we begin work on two of our top priorities," said White Gold Corp. CEO David D'Onofrio. A resource calculated earlier this year for the White Gold property outlines 12.32 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.43 grams per metric ton (961,000 ounces) gold; plus 5.16 milli...
White Gold Corp. is eager to expand known gold deposits and make news discoveries across the roughly 1 million acres (390,000 hectares) of prospective lands it holds in the Yukon's White Gold District. About half of this year's C$9 million exploration program is focused on regional targets across the extensive land holding, including more than 100 rotary air blast (RAB) drill holes, airborne geophysical surveys, over 22,000 soil samples and other exploration activates. The...
GT Gold Corp. April 24 said it plans to complete 18,000 meters of drilling this summer at its exciting Saddle gold discovery at the Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. This C$6.8-million program will focus on expanding the gold-silver and copper-gold-silver discoveries at the Saddle discovery area. "We're excited to be ramping up again for another season of work at Saddle. We intend to focus on expanding the precious metal vein zones but also to test the...
GT Gold Corp. March 21 announced it has raised the money to fund a planned C$6.7 million drill program aimed at expanding the high-grade gold at the Saddle South discovery on its Tatogga property and follow-up on several other targets on this exciting gold-silver project in the British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The private placement financing involved the issuance of 9.05 million GT Gold shares at C72 cents per share. The C$6.5 million raised gives GT Gold about C$9.5...
GT Gold Corp. Jan. 15 published results from the final six holes from the 2017 drill program at its Saddle South gold-silver discovery on the company's Tatogga property, including one hole that cut very high-grade silver along with the high-grade gold common at Saddle South. Highlights from these holes include: 4 meters of 23.78 grams per metric ton gold and 65.87 g/t silver from a depth of 150.2 meters in hole TTD056; and 3 meters of 31.79 g/t gold and 1,410.1 g/t silver...
GT Gold Corp. Jan. 9 said assay results from the summer 2017 drill program continue to expand high-grade gold mineralization at the Saddle discovery on the company's Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. Lying alongside Highway 37, just west of the village of Iskut, Tatogga hosts Saddle, a large gold-in-soil anomaly that was previously overlooked due to a lack of outcropping bedrock. In 2017, GT Gold drilled the first holes into Saddle South, one of two targets...
GT Gold Corp. June 27 reported that two drills are turning at the high-grade Saddle gold-silver discovery on the Tatogga property British Columbia's Golden Triangle The company plans to complete at least 18,000 meters of diamond drilling in 56 holes this year, with the potential to expand the program and continue drilling into November. The 2018 drilling is beginning at Saddle South, were a 16,000-meter discovery drill program carried out last year outlined a high-grade,...
With world-class mineral deposits, paved roads and commercial power, northern British Columbia is considered by many as a great place to achieve a mining explorer's ultimate goal – find a mine. "The geology has been great up there for 100 million years, but it has only been the last five that we have had run-of-river (hydro-electric) projects, dams – literally billions of dollars of new infrastructure," said Colorado Resources Ltd. President and CEO Adam Travis. The start of...
From a major investment by Goldcorp Inc. to bonanza-grade gold intercepts at its KSP property in northern British Columbia, 2017 has been a golden year for Colorado Resources Ltd. In August, Goldcorp Inc. made a strategic investment that gave the major a roughly a 14 percent interest in Colorado, a stake that could increase to around 19 percent if the major exercises all of the Colorado warrants it holds. This investment was part of a larger financing completed by Colorado....
GT Gold Corp. is a new junior exploration company that is expanding an exciting high-grade gold discovery at its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Lying alongside Highway 37, just west of the village of Iskut, Tatogga hosts Saddle, a large gold-in-soil anomaly that was previously overlooked due to a lack of outcropping bedrock. As a private company, GT Gold discovered and sampled Saddle in 2013. Because of the downturn in the mining sector, however,...
With financial and technical backing from Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. and Kinross Gold Corp., legendary prospector Shawn Ryan has set out to finish what he started in Yukon's White Gold District. To accomplish this objective, Ryan has put roughly 1 million acres (390,000 hectares) of the White Gold District into White Gold Corp., a newly formed exploration company that owns claims covering roughly 40 percent of this promising gold region. Of the dozens of White Gold prospects...
GT Gold Corp. Dec. 4 reported continued high-grade assays from six additional holes drilled at Saddle South, an exciting gold discovery on the company's Tatogga property in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. Hole TTD045 cut 3.79 meter averaging 12.05 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 144.1 meters, including 1.04 meters of 35.15 g/t gold. The company said four additional holes drilled from the same pad - TTD047, 048, 050 and 052 - all cut...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 20 reported results from five additional holes drilled at the Saddle gold discovery on its Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. The best hole, TTD046, cut 8.25 meters averaging 20.02 grams per metric ton gold and 45.31 g/t silver. This is a 50-meter step-out from hole TTD037, which cut 2.59 meters averaging 42.55 g/t gold; and hole TTD040, which cut 6.6 meters averaging 12.64 g/t gold and 30.7 g/t silver. "The intersection in hole 46 continues the steady expansion of the core zone west, with...
GT Gold Corp. has discovered more high-grade gold plus porphyry copper-gold-silver mineralization at Saddle North, a target about 500 meters north of the high-grade Saddle South gold discovery on the company's Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. High-grade vein-hosted gold was intersected in two holes, TTD057 and TTD063, drilled near the west end of the Saddle North trend. TTD057 cut 2.58 meters averaging 13.55 grams per metric ton gold starting at a depth of 240 meters; TTD063 cut 0.6 meters averaging 7.59...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 8 reported additional high-grade gold results from drilling the Saddle discovery at the company's Tatogga property in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. Highlighted intercepts from the nine holes reported include: 2.59 meters of 42.55 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 103.23 meters in hole TTD037; 6.6 meters of 12.64 g/t gold and 30.7 g/t silver from a depth of 95.4 meters in TDD040; and 6.87 meters of 10.18 g/t gold from a...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 30 won the prestigious Mines and Money "Exploration Discovery Award" for its Saddle gold-silver discovery in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. The award was shared with SolGold plc, an Australian company exploring the Cascabel copper-gold project in Ecuador. GT Gold Chairman accepted the award at a gala dinner that wrapped up the Mines and Money Conference in London, England, on November 30. The Saddle gold-silver discovery is one of the few genuinely...
GT Gold Corp. Oct. 16 said it continues to expand the high-grade gold at Saddle South, a 2017 discovery 10 kilometers (six miles) from Highway 37 on the company's Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. So far, the company has completed 16,180 meters of drill in 64 holes at Saddle South and Saddle North. Highlights from the most recent assay results from 17 holes drilled at Saddle South include: 12.15 meters of 14.75 grams per metric ton gold and 36.23 g/t silver fr...
GT Gold Corp. Sep. 18 reported continued expansion of the Saddle South high-grade gold discovery at its Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. The latest round of results include 20.71 meters (estimated true width 75 percent) of 5.84 grams per metric ton gold in hole TTD014; 23.66 meters of 5.1 g/t gold in TTD010; and 9.09 meters of 7.51 g/t gold in TTD016. These results expand the deposit to 500 meters down-dip from surface, roughly 50 percent deeper than the 330...
