Western Copper and Gold Corp. Sept. 24 reported a high-grade gold intercept from a hole drilled during the company's roughly 13,500-meter drill program at the Casino copper-gold project in the Yukon.

Hole DH19-21, drilled near the southern edge of the enormous Casino copper-gold deposit cut 2.97 meters averaging 55.1 grams per metric ton gold. A re-assay of this sample returned 65.9 g/t gold, c...