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Snowline Gold Corp. May 2 outlined plans for a 15,000-meter drill program on its Rogue gold property in the Yukon, as well as the successful listing on the TSX Venture Exchange. With an extensive portfolio that includes roughly 280,000 hectares (602,000 acres) of gold exploration properties within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with Northwest Territories and nearly 6,500 hectares (16,062 acres) of gold projects closer to Yukon's western border with Alaska, this...
Onyx Gold Corp. Aug. 2 announced the start of a 2,500-meter drill program at King Tut, which the new Canada-focused junior explorer believes to host the best undrilled intrusive-related gold-in-soil anomalies within eastern Yukon's emerging Tombstone Gold Belt not already controlled by Snowline Gold Corp. King Tut is the most advanced of four Yukon properties held by Onyx, a junior exploration company spun out of HighGold Mining Inc. to explore a portfolio of gold properties i...
Snowline Gold Corp. Sept. 11 announced the next batch of assays from its ongoing drill program at the company's Valley target on its Rogue property in eastern Yukon. As part of a targeted 10,000-meter program, the company has blown past that with more than 13,000 meters drilled at Valley. So far, completing 29 holes with an additional two in progress, this year's program represents more drilling at Valley than the sum of all previous drilling on the target to date. "This...
Snowline Gold Corp. Aug. 3 announced the next set of analytical results from the ongoing drill program at Valley on the company's Rogue project in Yukon, Canada, with its latest holes including its newest best-ever, cutting 553.8 meters averaging 2.48 grams per metric ton gold from surface, and ranking as one of Yukon's highest graded holes ever. Aiming for 10,000 or more meters of drilling at Valley, Snowline has already cranked out at least 9,500 meters with two drill rigs,...
Onyx Gold Corp. July 24 announced the introduction of the company's executive team and exploration plans for its properties within the highly prospective and overlapping Tintina and Tombstone gold belts in Yukon's Selwyn Basin, and within Ontario's portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada's most prolific gold region. Early this year, HighGold Mining Inc. spun out its (ON)tario (Y)ukon e(X)ploration properties into Onyx Gold and transferred all its outstanding shares...
Fireweed Metals Corp. July 5 announced that in conjunction with the largest-ever planned drill program at Macmillan Pass, the company will conduct reconnaissance prospecting, mapping, and sampling across a series of gold anomalies on this Yukon property best known for its zinc-lead deposits. A road-accessible project adjacent to Yukon's border with Northwest Territories, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer (34...
Snowline Gold Corp. July 18 announced the latest analytical results from the second and third holes drilled at the Rogue property in Canada's Yukon for its 2023 exploration season, causing the company to begin supporting the idea of its Valley target being a single, large, recoverable body of gold-rich rock. Found within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with Northwest Territories, Snowline's flagship property, Rogue, is an 11,227-hectare (27,743 acres) land...
Snowline Gold Corp. July 5 reported a fantastic start to its 2023 program at Rogue with a wide interval of strong gold mineralization in a hole testing the boundaries of the Valley target on this exciting project in Canada's Yukon. "Our first drill hole of 2023 was drilled to test what we thought was the edge of a relatively high-grade gold corridor within the Rogue project's Valley intrusion," said Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl. "It ended up as Snowline's second-best drill...
Snowline Gold Corp. May 31 announced that visible gold has been observed in 10 of the first 14 holes drilled this year at the Valley Zone of the company's Rogue gold project in the Yukon. Drill crews and staff were recently mobilized to Snowline's 50-man Forks Camp to complete up to 18,000 meters of drilling this year. "Following a transformative year in 2022, we are excited to be back in the field with a larger and more advanced 2023 exploration campaign," said Snowline Gold...
Snowline Gold Corp. June 9 announced the staking of an additional 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres) of nearly all the remaining open ground over the Rogue Plutonic Complex, the broad geological feature responsible for gold mineralization at the company's flagship Rogue project's Valley discovery, expanding the property by roughly 80%. "We know from our 2022 drill results at Valley that the Rogue Plutonic Complex has the necessary geological ingredients to produce a significant...
Snowline Gold Corp. March 28 announced the closing of C$19.16 million (US$14.1 million) financing that involved B2Gold Corp. buying a 5% interest in the Yukon-focused gold explorer through the purchase of 3.94 million flow-through shares at C$4.86 per share. "B2Gold is a major global gold producer with a strong track record of growth built on a demonstrated commitment to communities, sustainable mining and employee safety," Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl said earlier this...
Snowline Gold Corp. March 14 announced that B2Gold Corp. is making a strategic investment of just over C$19 million in the Yukon-focused exploration company by purchasing nearly four million Snowline shares. "We are excited to welcome B2Gold as a growth-focused, long-term, value-driven investor," said Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl. "B2Gold is a major global gold producer with a strong track record of growth built on a demonstrated commitment to communities, sustainable...
Snowline Gold Corp. Feb. 24 announced its latest preliminary assay results from the 2022 drilling program at Rogue, reporting one hole that exceeded expectations and resulted in the longest continuously mineralized interval drilled at the Valley target to date. Found within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with Northwest Territories, Rogue is an 11,227-hectare (27,743 acres) property that comprises 442 mineral claims with a main block that covers a roughly nine-kil...
Snowline Gold Corp. March 7 reported yet more results from the 2022 drill program that elevated the Valley zone on the company's Rogue project from an intriguing exploration target to what is shaping up to be a globally significant gold deposit in Canada's Yukon. "Today's results continue to highlight and build on the prospectivity of our Rogue project," said Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl. "A single season has transformed our Valley zone from an interesting exploration...
Snowline Gold Corp. Dec. 29 highlighted a truly transformative year of discoveries and successes for this swiftly growing Yukon junior. A recent addition to the Yukon's vast collection of exploration companies, Snowline began its exploration of this northern Canadian territory in 2017 and has since grown to nearly C$390 million in market capitalization. Going into 2022, Snowline's portfolio was split between Rogue, Einarson, Ursa, Cynthia, and Rainbow in the Selwyn Basin near...
Snowline Gold Corp. Feb. 3 announced further assay results from its 2022 drilling program at Valley, which continues to impress the company with its continuity and most recently added significant tonnage with strong gold grades. Located within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border with NWT, Rogue is an 11,227-hectare (27,743 acres) property that comprises 442 mineral claims with a main block that covers a roughly nine-kilometer (5.6 miles) trend of metamorphic rock...
Though effects of the COVID-19 pandemic lingered, mineral explorers rushed to the Yukon like moths to a flame during 2022. Mining's most daring sector rallied to generate the busiest field season seen in Canada's westernmost territory in years. In June, Natural Resources Canada projected mineral exploration and deposit appraisal spending in Yukon during 2022 to total C$157.9 million, up 14.5% from C$135.1 million estimated for 2021 and nearly double C$83.6 million in 2020.... Full story
After elevating the resource in the JT deposit to above 1 million ounces of gold-equivalent, HighGold Mining Inc. focused its 2022 drilling at its Johnson Tract property in Alaska largely on expanding the high-grade mineralization at the Difficult Creek target area about 2.5 miles (four kilometers) to the northeast. Located on the west side of Cook Inlet, about 125 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, Johnson Tract is a 20,942-acre property owned by Cook Inlet Regional Inc.,... Full story
Snowline Gold Corp. Jan. 18 announced yet another round of assays from the 2022 drilling program from the Valley zone on its Rogue property, including a 481.5-meter intercept averaging 0.69 grams per metric ton gold, the longest mineralized intersection seen at Valley to date. "Each round of Valley drill results has increased not just to the known extent of mineralization at the target, but to our understanding of its geology and the geometry of its highest-grade zones," said...
With a little bit of downsizing from the sale of its Yukon gold properties, StrikePoint Gold Inc. is well positioned financially to continue exploration work at its Willoughby and Porter properties near Stewart, British Columbia, in the territory's prolific Golden Triangle. Strikepoint's 2022 exploration program included roughly 3,000 meters of drilling split about evenly between its two Northern BC properties. "At Porter, our work will continue to test the limits and source...
Just shy of two years after its inception, Snowline Gold Corp., a junior mining company with deep prospecting roots in the Yukon and backed by savvy investment partners, is quickly emerging as one of northern Canada's most active and enticing gold explorers. As a more recent addition to the North of 60 Mining News coverage area, Snowline has rapidly positioned itself into some of Yukon's most exciting new gold. "We've really gone out to new parts of the Yukon that haven't...
Snowline Gold Corp. Dec. 22 announced a significant 207-meter intercept of 1.76 grams per metric ton gold in the latest round of assay results from its 2022 drilling at the Rogue project in Yukon, Canada. "The latest results from Valley continue to demonstrate substantial scale and strong grades for a reduced intrusion-related gold system," said Snowline Gold CEO Scott Berdahl. One of several highly prospective properties in Snowline's Yukon portfolio, Rogue is an 11,227-hecta...
With mineral exploration expenditures nearly doubling over the past year, Nunavut has dethroned Yukon as the most popular Canadian territory to discover and expand deposits of industrial, precious, and critical minerals. According to preliminary estimates published by Natural Resources Canada, roughly C$232.4 million (US$173.7 million) will be spent on exploration and deposit evaluation in Nunavut this year, a 95% leap from over the C$119.2 million (US$89.1 million) invested... Full story
Snowline Gold Corp. Nov. 15 announced that drills cut an incredible 128.2-meter intercept averaging 2.48 grams per metric ton gold from surface, within a wider 285.2-meter section averaging 1.45 g/t gold at its Rogue project in the Yukon. Much like its V-22-010 hole that cut 318.8 meters of 2.55 g/t gold, which Snowline says changed its perception of the Valley zone, this latest step-out adds "significantly to the prospective scale and grade of our unfolding gold discovery at...
Snowline Gold Corp. Oct. 12 said the 318.8 meters of 2.55 grams per metric ton gold cut in hole V-22-010 is changing the company's perception of the Valley zone on its Rogue project in the Yukon and intrusion-related gold systems at large. As a relatively new junior to the various rich projects in the Yukon, Snowline has shown it is quickly emerging as one of northern Canada's most active and enticing gold explorers. You can read about the company, and its plans for the Yukon...
