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Enters into definitive agreement for initial 70% toward highly prospective Tombstone gold projects. Strategic Metals Ltd. March 4 announced it has approved Trifecta Gold Ltd. the right to earn up to 100% interest in 11 highly prospective, reduced intrusion-related gold projects located within the prolific Tombstone Gold Belt in Yukon, Canada. Often maintaining a low-key approach to its business operations, Strategic Metals is less a project miner and more a project generator...
Rebrands to reflect its new focus on silver through its highly prospective Haldane and Tim properties in Yukon. Silver North Resources Ltd. Feb. 29 announced a summary of its accomplishments during 2023 and plans for the upcoming year as rebranding from Alianza Minerals Ltd. best reflects the company's focus on silver as it continues to advance its Haldane and Tim silver properties in Canada's Yukon. "Rebranding as Silver North Resources Ltd. is a strategic move to focus on...
Kicks off 15,000-meter campaign in the hopes to expand Blackjack gold footprint. Sitka Gold Corp. March 5 announced the start of its 15,000-meter diamond drilling program at its flagship RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada, which will start by targeting the southern extent of its jackpot 1.34-million-ounce Blackjack deposit. "We are very excited to have the drill turning again at our flagship RC Gold project," said Sitka Gold CEO Cor Coe. "This winter drilling program will be...
Regional silt survey identifies highest anomalous sites within Klondike District Gold property. Klondike Gold Corp. Feb. 22 announced that with the help of Newmont Canada, the company was able to identify the highest anomalous sites within its Klondike District Gold property in Yukon, Canada. "We have pursued the idea of conducting a regional geochemical survey for years to characterize where Klondike might fit in the major tectonic gold belt picture, and we would like to than...
Sampling discovers more than 1,000-meter-long gold-in-soil anomaly that shares characteristics with nearby VG and Golden Saddle deposits. White Gold Corp. Feb. 22 announced that its 2023 soil sampling program identified a 1,000-meter-long gold-in-soil anomaly about nine kilometers (5.6 miles) northwest of the VG deposit on the QV property that has all the hallmarks similar to the Golden Saddle deposit on the company's nearby White Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "We are very...
7 surface sampling returns substantial anomalous gold values, reveals 2,000- by 500-meter reduced-intrusion-related gold system. Snowline Gold Corp. Feb. 20 reported the discovery of a new 2,000- by 500-meter reduced-intrusion-related gold system just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) northwest of Valley on the company's flagship Rogue property in Yukon, Canada. "We are excited to see such strong and consistent gold numbers from the field team's discovery at Aurelius," said...
Combined inferred resource between underground and in-pit total 18.2 Moz silver-equivalent. Metallic Minerals Corp. Feb. 26 announced an inaugural mineral resource estimate for its Keno Silver project in the iconic Keno Silver District in Canada's Yukon, culminating in 18.16 million ounces of contained silver-equivalent. Consisting of 171 square kilometers (66 square miles) within the historic Keno Hill Silver District, Metallic Minerals holds 100% of this promising target...
Crews and equipment get ready to begin planned 15,000-meter drilling program. Sitka Gold Corp. Feb. 27 announced the mobilization of equipment at crew in preparation for its planned 15,000-meter winter drilling campaign at the company's flagship RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "After the success of 2023, we are very excited to be back at RC Gold to kick-start 2024 exploration activities," said Sitka Gold CEO Cor Coe. Located within the central region of Canada's Yukon...
Modern drone survey with historical records to reveal possible district continuity and system. Gladiator Metals Corp. Feb. 27 announced it has mobilized an additional drill rig to Cub Trend at the company's Whitehorse Copper project to explore large-scale magnetic anomalies recently identified from an ongoing drone magnetic survey. "Gladiator has mobilized a second rig at the Whitehorse Copper project and commenced the first diamond drilling campaign at the Cub Trend prospect...
Long hidden geological controls solved, shapes plans for future drilling of high-grade gold target. Seabridge Gold Inc. Feb. 14 announced the results from the 2023 drill program established a new model for the mineralization associated with the main high-grade gold target at its 3 Aces project in Yukon, Canada, giving the company a clear path forward for follow-up evaluation and resource delineation in the coming season. With the added data from 7,759 meters of core and...
Victoria Gold Corp. Jan. 15 reported that despite the various ups and downs of 2023, it produced a total of 166,730 ounces of gold for the year, an 11% increase from 2022 and testimony to the feasibility of year-round ore stacking. The company's decision to stack ore on the heap leach pad during the first three months of 2023, a departure from previous years at Eagle, resulted in 37,619 oz gold produced during the first quarter-a 55% increase over 24,358 oz produced during...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 7 announced an updated mineral resource estimate for its AurMac gold project in Yukon, Canada, climbing its total to 7 million ounces of gold. "With the AurMac resource now at 7 million ounces; 6.2 million ounces in the Powerline deposit alone, we can focus on delineating higher-grade zones, increase the confidence in the resource and further de-risk the project," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. This marks an increase of 1 million oz...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 1 announced that the final results from the 2023 drilling at the Tom and Jason deposits on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada, returned possibly one of the most significant discoveries at the Tom deposit in decades. Accumulating more data for an updated resource estimate, the 2023 program utilized five rigs to complete more than 22,500 meters of diamond drilling at the Boundary, Tom, and Jason deposits at...
Banyan Gold Corp. Jan. 15 reported the remaining assays from a robust 2023 drill program that significantly expanded the gold mineralized footprint on the company's AurMac project in Yukon. Roughly 80% of the 24,700 meters of drilling carried out at AurMac last year was focused on the Powerline and Aurex Hill deposits, with the balance on new targets. "With three drill seasons since our initial resource in 2020, Banyan has taken the resource at AurMac to 6.2 million ounces...
Snowline Gold Corp. Jan 15 announced the results from three of its latest assays for the 2023 exploration program at Valley, which the company was eager to report as it added more several-hundred-meter intercepts, with one containing one of the highest-graded sustained intervals seen to date. "Today's results highlight the strength and scale of mineralization near the open, eastern edge of the well-mineralized, near surface corridor at our Valley target," said Snowline Gold...
Klondike Gold Corp. Jan. 15 announced results from the 2023 drilling at Stander on the company's Klondike Gold District property, noting that high-grade gold has been discovered there, which extends mineralization to the east. "The discovery of gold associated with historically unrecognized shear veins, distinguishable from sheeted extension veins, validates our view of the potential for the Klondike to host multiple and substantial gold deposits," said Klondike Gold...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 22 announced the final results from a pivotal 2023 drilling campaign that successfully defined a high-grade feeder zone that joins the Boundary Main and Boundary West targets into the singular Boundary Zone on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada. Accumulating more data for an inevitable updated resource estimate, the 2023 program utilized five rigs to complete more than 22,500 meters of diamond drilling at the...
Metallic Minerals Corp. Jan. 10 announced the results from its 2023 exploration campaign at the company's Keno Silver project in Yukon, Canada, with all its holes encountering high-grade silver, lead, zinc, and significant gold mineralization. Consisting of 171 square kilometers (66 square miles) within the historic Keno Hill Silver District, Metallic Minerals holds 100% of this promising target that lies adjacent to Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill silver mine. Covering the...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Dec. 28 gave a year-end review of its accomplishments from 2023 and ushered in the new year with expectations to continue advancing its flagship Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver-copper project in southeast Yukon, the adjacent world-class Mactung tungsten project spanning the Northwest Territories-Yukon border, and its Gayna River zinc-lead-silver project about 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of MacPass in NWT, Canada. "2023 has been another extraordinary...
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. Jan. 4 announced an update on the company's Catch property in Canada's Yukon as well as the final diamond drilling results from its 2023 exploration program, culminating in a brief end-of-year review and its plans moving forward into 2024. Last year, Cascadia Minerals (formerly ATAC Resources Ltd.) cut a deal with Hecla Mining Company to sell several of its core properties in an effort to branch into the energy metal sector. With Hecla taking over the...
Snowline Gold Corp. Jan. 3 announced the next set of assays from its 2023 exploration program at Valley target on the company's Rogue project in Yukon, Canada, keeping consistent with the incredible hundreds-of-meters-long intervals that have made this prospect one to keep an eye on. Following the release of a year-end review for 2023, the first report for 2024 is the expected results from the remaining holes drilled in last year's 22,000-meter drill program. "The latest...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 9 announced its newest best intercept to date from drilling at Boundary on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada. "I am excited to start the year able to say that we have intersected our best-ever Boundary zone drill intersection," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald. Out of the 52 holes drilled at Macmillan Pass last year, 40 were completed at Boundary, including 36 step-outs that tested vein mineralization,...
Snowline Gold Corp. Dec. 29 provided an end-of-the-year summary of its 2023 season, highlighting key activities and achievements that truly elevate the status of this junior and impress the significant prospect the company has outlined in the rich and underexplored region of the Selwyn Basin in Yukon, Canada. 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...
Sitka Gold Corp. Dec. 19 announced that it has acquired full ownership of Clear Creek, a property that hosts the company's Blackjack and Eiger gold deposits, followed by a year-end summary of its 2023 exploration program for its overall RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "Completing our requirements to obtain 100% ownership of the Clear Creek property, which hosts the Blackjack and Eiger deposits, is an important milestone in Sitka's advancement of the RC Gold project," said...
Banyan Gold Corp. Dec. 13 announced a significant milestone in its exploration journey on the company's Yukon-based holdings, with the successful acquisition of 75% earn-in of the McQuesten half of its AurMac property. Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Gold Mine and adjacent to Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill Silver District, the Aurex and McQuesten properties, or AurMac, cover three gold deposits – with McQuesten holding the A...
