Explorers return to former gold diggings
High prices spark miners' interest in known deposits, old mine sites and previously explored claims with signs of yellow metal
Last updated 7/25/2010 at Noon
Though most of the gold fever sweeping northern Canada these days is focused on Yukon Territory's White Gold district to the west and near Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.'s new Meadowbank Mine to the east in Nunavut, a growing number of explorers are trekking to the territory in between.
Mining companies are returning to the Northwest Territories as gold prices set records, including a recent high of U...
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