Grant: Alliance Grants

The Keno-Dublin Gulch region includes one of the largest silver mines in Canada and the youngest gold mine in Yukon. In this context, exploration companies in the district have recently discovered significant resources and are working towards developing those projects into a feasibility stage. These claims include the AurMac and Raven projects by the Eagle Mine and the Mt. Hinton project by the Keno mine. Abundant resources have been identified in geologic settings that are different from the traditional intrusive-related gold in the district. Therefore, this project aims to determine if deeper or displaced intrusive-related mineralization occurs associated with these resources, or if alternatively these significant resources are a distinct mineralization style with distinct geologic indicators. This project will (1) describe the geology associated with new gold discoveries (Aurmac, Mt. Hinton and Raven), (2) define which geologic features the gold is related with in each of them, and (3) determine if there are implications for where and how gold occurs regionally. Mining is one of the major sources of income in northern Canada, with gold being the main source of mining revenue in northern regions.The large gold resources in the area, existing infrastructure, ability to work year round, and location, make the Keno-Dublin Gulch district region prospective for additional resources that would expand the lifetime of mining largely benefiting the local communities as well as contributing to the Canadian economy.