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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... Full story
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...
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,... Full story
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...
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...
Members of the Kaminak Gold Corp. executive team have reunited to form Tectonic Metals Corp., a private exploration company that has acquired three overlooked gold exploration properties in Alaska's Eastern Interior. While with Kaminak, this team advanced the Coffee project in the Yukon from a grassroots discovery to a roughly 5-million-ounce gold mine project that Goldcorp Inc. acquired in 2017 for C$520 million. Cashing in on Coffee, several of the Kaminak executives moved...
It's clear by now that famed prospector Shawn Ryan has the Midas Touch when it comes to making significant mineral discoveries in the White Gold District of west-central Yukon Territory. During the past few weeks, junior mining company White Gold Corp. – which Ryan guides as chief technical advisor – reported not one, not two, but at least three significant gold discoveries in the region. White Gold's C$9 million, 14,500-meter exploration program for 2018 targeted expansion of...
White Gold Corp. Sept. 17 announced that it has tapped high-grade gold in the discovery hole at the Vertigo target on the company's JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. Near surface gold mineralization was encountered at Vertigo earlier this year with a 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...
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...
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...
With continued financial and technical support from Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. and Kinross Gold Corp., White Gold Corp. carried out a budgeted C$9 million program in 2018 to expand known deposits and explore the larger potential across the roughly 1 million acres (390,000 hectares) of prospective lands it holds in the Yukon's White Gold District. The explorer's massive portfolio of gold properties is a re-assemblage of White Gold prospects legendary Yukon gold prospector Shawn Ry... Full story
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...
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...
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...
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...
