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Raging wildfires and record hot temperatures challenged the well-laid plans of a score and more of mineral explorers in Canada's Yukon this year as the 2023 field season shifted into high summer. Most of the companies, however, managed to carry out their exploration for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals across the territory. The fierce and sometimes out-of-control blazes marked one of the worst wildfire seasons seen in Canada in nearly 30 years, consuming more than... Full story
White Gold Corp. kicked off 2023 with an updated mineral resource estimate for its namesake project in the Yukon and with an exploration program aimed to continue outlining exactly what its massive land holdings in Yukon's White Gold District contain. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City, White Gold's namesake property is part of a roughly 350,000-hectare (864,869 acres) land package that covers approximately 40% of the White Gold District, which also...
With its Casino project hosting billions of pounds of copper needed by a global economy transitioning to clean energy, Western Copper and Gold Corp. attracted a C$21.3 million (US$15.6 million) investment from Mitsubishi Materials Corp. to help advance the large porphyry project about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon. Historically, two prefeasibility studies and a feasibility study on developing a mine at Casino have been completed. Western Copper and...
Beginning the year with a nearly 55% increase in gold production at its Eagle Gold mine, Victoria Gold Corp. could never have predicted nearly half a month of downtime due to ongoing wildfires that approached as close as four kilometers (2.5 miles) to its facilities. Despite this close call, gold production remained higher than in 2022 by third-quarter calculations, and exploration of its growing Raven deposit has the company prepped and ready for an updated resource... Full story
Doubling its market capitalization in less than a year, Snowline Gold Corp. has swept into the big leagues of Yukon gold exploration like an avalanche. With its massive landholdings strewn across the Yukon, gold intercepts running as deep as the CN Tower is tall, some of the highest-graded holes ever drilled in the territory, and the sheer volume of discovered mineralization sparking a modern-day mini gold frenzy, Snowline is making its mark on Canada's North. Snowline began... Full story
Launching into 2023 with an initial inferred mineral resource estimate, the excitement has grown for Sitka Gold Corp. as much as its 2022 Blackjack discovery on the company's highly prospective RC Gold project in Canada's Yukon. Consisting of a 376-square-kilometer (145 square miles) RC Gold project is located near the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. One of the largest consolidated land pack...
With another fruitful year of systematic drilling, a stressful wildfire, the successful expansion of its resources swelling to more than six million ounces, and the accomplishment of a several-year-long goal of connecting two of its more advanced-exploration deposits, Banyan Gold Corp. has shown that persistence is a key ingredient to a successful exploration project. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine and adjacent to Hecla...
Instead of resting on its laurels, Fireweed Metals Corp. aimed for 2023 to be a year that outshined its previous exploration success. With its largest drill program ever at the Macmillan Pass zinc project in the Yukon, the company outdid itself at each turn of the drill and with each intercept received. Add on a mineral resource estimate for the newly dubbed largest known high-grade tungsten deposit in the world, and Fireweed had its most exceptional year ever. Fireweed's...
Once home to a powerhouse of a copper mine, Gladiator Metals Corp. has rekindled a legacy of exploration in the Whitehorse Copper Belt, testing its mettle in an area that formerly produced roughly 267.5 million pounds of copper, 225,000 ounces of gold and 2.84 million oz of silver between 1967 and 1982. Simply named Whitehorse Copper, this 5,380-hectare (13,294 acres) copper-molybdenum-silver-gold skarn project covers a significant portion of the region from which it derives...
Exploring the legendary region from which it takes its name, Klondike Gold Corp. has persevered much like the stampeders of yore to unlock the secrets of a historic district that produced more than 20 million ounces of gold. With another year of exploration under its belt and with the help of a little modern science, the company has made leaps and bounds in understanding the ingredients that led to one of history's greatest gold rushes. Situated roughly 20 kilometers (12...
As a vehicle for Ontario and gold exploration properties spun out of HighGold Mining Inc., the cleverly named Onyx (ONtario Yukon eXploration) Gold Inc. hit the ground running with an experienced team and the capital to begin exploring as one of Canada's newest mining juniors. HighGold felt its land holdings 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'...
In a win-win deal for both parties, Hecla Mining Company bought out ATAC Resources Corp., keeping two precious metals enriched Yukon exploration properties in its own portfolio and spinning a portfolio of more copper forward assets previously held by ATAC into Cascadia Minerals Ltd. ATAC's extensive portfolio of mineral exploration projects in the Yukon and Northern British Columbia were anchored by Rackla Gold, a massive 170,000-hectare (420,000 acres) land package divided...
