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Confirms copper and gold mineralization over a 1,400-meter anomaly on property acquired from the Berdahl family. Yukon Metals Corp. Sept. 3 announced promising results from its initial exploration of the Birch gold-copper project in Yukon, identifying a large copper and gold mineralized system that spans over 1,400 meters and shows potential for economic grades. "We are excited about these first pass results that have clearly identified a copper and gold mineralized system...
Exploration turns up surprise diamonds below mine plan depth. Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd. Sept. 9 announced promising results from its ongoing drilling program at the Misery underground mine at its Ekati diamond project in Northwest Territories, Canada, with indications the mine's life could extend well beyond the initial 2026 end date. With the mid-2023 Ekati acquisition, Burgundy expanded its footprint in Canada's diamond sector, building on its existing 40% stake in North...
Early exploration discovers strong silver and gold mineralization across multiple zones at Star River. Yukon Metals Corp. Sept. 10 announced the discovery of high-grade silver and gold mineralization from its ongoing fieldwork at the Star River project in southern Yukon, with assays revealing silver grades exceeding 10,000 grams per metric ton and gold assays as high as 6.9 g/t. Following on the heels of positive results from its Birch project, where Yukon Metals uncovered a...
High-grade gold intercepts and new discoveries reinforce exploration success. Snowline Gold Corp. Sept. 10 announced that its latest drilling at the Valley deposit in the Yukon has returned some of the strongest gold intercepts to date while also confirming two promising new gold targets through its regional exploration efforts. Kicking off its 2024 exploration season in late May, Snowline outlined an ambitious 25,000-meter drill program across multiple targets within its...
Latest hole reveals multiple instances of visible gold over 600 meters; still open at depth. Sitka Gold Corp. Sept. 11 reported yet another intercept from the 2024 exploration season that contains multiple instances of visible gold (VG), this time from surface to 680 meters in the deepest hole ever drilled at its RC Gold project in the Yukon, further building on the continuous high-grade mineralization observed throughout this year's exploration program. In August, Sitka...
Updated estimate adds Boundary and End Zone deposits, increasing zinc equivalent in indicated resources by 300%. Fireweed Metals Corp. Sept. 5 announced a significant milestone with an updated mineral resource estimate for the company's Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, marking a 300% increase in zinc equivalent in the indicated resource category for Tom and Jason, and inaugural resource estimates for the Boundary and End Zone deposits. Situated in eastern Yukon,...
Preliminary economic assessment confirms potential for the Northern BC project to host a financially robust gold-silver mine. Thesis Gold Inc. Sept. 5 published a preliminary economic assessment PEA that outlines plans for an economically robust mining operation at its merged Lawyers-Ranch gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia's Toodoggone Mining District. Last year, Thesis Gold merged with Benchmark Metals Inc. to form a stronger mineral exploration company aimed a...
Stakes new spodumene-rich claims surrounding battery metal project in western Northwest Territories. Li-FT Power Ltd. Sept. 3 announced a significant expansion to its Cali project, quadrupling its land position through the staking of an additional 9,681 hectares (23,927 acres) of spodumene-rich claims in Northwest Territories, Canada. Quickly establishing itself as a significant player in the lithium exploration sector, Li-FT began with a diverse portfolio that initially...
American West surpasses 20,000 meters of exploration and resource drilling this year at Nunavut copper project. American West Metals Ltd. Sept. 3 reported that drilling has cut very high-grade copper mineralization at the northern margins of Cyclone, the largest deposit at Storm Copper, and has discovered a new copper deposit on this project on Somerset Island in northern Nunavut. So far this year, the company has drilled 128 reverse circulation (RC) and 14 diamond drill...
First batch of 2024 drill assays highlight continuity of gold mineralization and further resource potential of project. Banyan Gold Corp. Sept. 5 reported encouraging assay results from its ongoing 2024 drill program at the AurMac project in Yukon, Canada, including an intercept of 197 meters averaging 0.72 grams per metric ton gold from surface at the Powerline deposit. Situated in Yukon's prolific Tombstone Gold Belt, the AurMac project covers 173 square kilometers (67...
New assays from Valley and Jupiter reveal expanding gold zones and strong exploration potential. Snowline Gold Corp. Aug. 29 announced the next batch of drill results from its 2024 exploration campaign at the company's Rogue and Einarson projects in Yukon, Canada, which not only expanded the known gold footprint at its Valley deposit but also delivered promising early results from the Jupiter target. Holding seven prospective targets across the Yukon, Snowline's portfolio is...
Plans for 1,000 meters in six holes at silver property in Yukon's famed Keno Hill District. Silver North Resources Ltd. Aug. 27 announced that it will begin drilling at its Haldane property in Yukon in early September, targeting high-grade silver mineralization at the West Fault and Bighorn areas. Located about 22 kilometers (14 miles) west of Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill silver mine, the 8,164-hectare (20,174 acres) road-accessible Haldane property has a history of...
Plans for 13,000 meters between six targets, allocates 5,000 meters for Cowley. Gladiator Metals Corp. Aug. 27 announced the restart of drilling at its high-grade Cowley Park copper project in Yukon as part of a fully funded 13,000-meter summer program aimed at both resource expansion and exploration. Located a stone's throw from the capital of Yukon, the Whitehorse Copper project is a 5,280-hectare (13,294 acres) copper-molybdenum-silver-gold skarn exploration project that...
First-pass channel sample returns 1.27% lithium oxide over 26 meters from Argus. Midas Minerals Ltd. Aug. 27 announced the results of its initial channel sampling at the Argus pegmatite on the company's Reid-Aylmer project in Northwest Territories, Canada, which returned 26 meters averaging 1.27% lithium oxide (Li2O), including a higher-grade zone of 12 meters at 1.75% Li2O. Acquired last October, Reid-Aylmer spans 157 square kilometers (60 square miles) and is located...
Vital hires Corem to establish a process flowsheet for the world-class rare earths deposit at Nechalacho. Vital Metals Ltd. Aug. 15 reported that it has hired Corem to complete a preliminary rare earths process flowsheet for the world-class Tardiff deposit on the Nechalacho project in Canada's Northwest Territories. Lying about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Yellowknife, NWT, the Tardiff deposit at Nechalacho hosts 31.1 million metric tons of measured and indicated...
First samples collected by White Cliff returned grades as high as 42.6% copper and 38.2 g/t gold. White Cliff Minerals Ltd. Aug. 13 announced impressive copper-gold-silver-cobalt grades in the first batch of assays from the Australian company's inaugural exploration program at the Great Bear Lake iron ore-copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U) project in Northwest Territories. Lying about 280 miles (450 kilometers) north of Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories, the...
First batch of drill results underscore potential to upgrade and expand the resources at this Nunavut copper project. American West Metals Ltd. Aug. 15 reported that its first assays from the summer field program at Storm Copper demonstrate the potential to upgrade and expand the resources within Cyclone and Chinook, deposits that were included in a recent direct shipping ore study for this high-grade copper project in northern Nunavut. "The first assays from the summer...
Company delays permitting to mid-2025 for additional environmental reviews and First Nations talks. Western Copper and Gold Corp. Aug. 12 announced that it has delayed the permitting timeline for its flagship Casino copper project in the Yukon, pushing back its application to mid-2025. The company cites the need for more thorough environmental assessments and consultations with First Nations as key factors for the extension. Situated roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles)...
Company compiles historical exploration data, reveals extensive uranium mineralization. Greenridge Exploration Inc. Aug. 15 announced the completion of an updated technical review of Nut Lake reinforces the strong potential for significant uranium mineralization at this project in Nunavut, Canada. Located approximately 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Atha Energy Corp.'s Angilak uranium deposit, with a historical resource of 2.8 million metric tons averaging 0.69% (43 million pou...
Over 500 surface samples reveal high-grade gold, silver, copper, and other anomalous minerals. Prospector Metals Corp. Aug. 15 announced the initial assay results from its 2024 exploration program at the ML gold-silver-copper project in Yukon, which revealed a newly identified mineralized corridor extending at least 15 kilometers (nine miles). Comprising 4,757 hectares (11,747 acres) within the prolific Tintina Gold Belt, Prospector's Mike Lake (ML) property is located...
Encouraged by consistent high-grade silver, company is prioritizing its drilling on Wolf Vein expansion. Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Aug. 12 reported that its resource expansion drilling at Wolf continues to cut high-grade silver mineralization at this northernmost of the Dolly Varden deposits on its Kitsault Valley project in Northern British Columbia. Kitsault Valley is comprised of two adjacent properties – the Dolly Varden Silver on the southern end and the more gold-enriche...
Directional drilling cuts 16.2 meters of 606 g/t silver in deep expansion zone of Kitsault Valley deposit. Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Aug. 22 announced that drills continue to cut high-grade silver mineralization below the Wolf deposit on the company's Kitsault Valley project in Northern British Columbia. Lying about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Stewart, B.C., Kitsault Valley is the amalgamation of the Dolly Varden silver and Homestake Ridge gold-silver properties....
Latest drilling expands high-grade gold potential along the new Blackjack Corridor. Sitka Gold Corp. Aug. 19 announced the latest results from its ongoing 2024 diamond drilling campaign at the RC Gold project in Yukon, including a significant 290.5-meter intercept averaging 1.1 grams per metric ton gold, the company's best result to date. Located in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt, the 431-square-kilometer (166 square miles) RC Gold project lies roughly 100 kilometers...
Exploration reveals new high-grade gold zones and extends key fault structure. Klondike Gold Corp. Aug. 20 announced significant progress in its 2024 exploration campaign, including the mapping of the newly defined Eldorado Fault, a 12-kilometer (seven miles) corridor controlling high-grade gold mineralization at its Klondike District property in Yukon, with visible gold discovered in multiple new showings. "Our 2024 field season so far has been visually rewarding and assay...
Cuts 1,126 meters averaging 0.31% copper-equivalent at the porphyry target on the Thorn property in Northern BC. Brixton Metals Corp. Aug. 6 reported that the second hole of its 2024 drill campaign at the Thorn project in Northern British Columbia encountered 61.5 meters of gold-dominant mineralization before cutting through more than 1.1 kilometers of porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum mineralization. The first two holes of Brixton's 2024 program were drilled at Camp...
