The Yukon Prospectors Association (YPA) and the Canada-Yukon Geoscience Office hope to spur exploration in the southern part of the territory with an airborne electromagnetic survey.
Craig Hart, project geologist with the Geoscience Office, said the area to be surveyed is “probably the most favorable unexplored belt in the southern Yukon.”
The survey will consist of 2,250 line km and cover 320 sq. km in the vicinity of Skagway, Alaska, and Whitehorse. It is expected to uncover deposits similar to those found in the Cache Creek belt, near Atlin, B.C., said Hart. Large faults in that belt host listwaenite gold deposits and there is evidence the belt extends farther north into the Yukon. Prospectors have found listwaenites in the area being surveyed, Hart told The Northern Miner, pulling down two samples from his office shelf as proof.
Michael Power, vice-president of the YPA, shares Hart’s optimism. “This is a really good area. The geology is favorable and there are some good showings.” The survey is believed to be the first of its kind performed for public use in the Yukon, although individual companies have performed similar surveys. Dunvegan Exploration, a private company, took a bulk sample from its property in the region this winter. Also, the TOG claims near Squanga Lake have provided chip samples grading up to 72.6 grams gold per tonne in quartz carbonate (listwaenite) veins in shear zones hosting gold associated with galena and sphalerite.
The Canada-Yukon Economic Development Agreement is contributing $160,000 for the survey, which will be managed by the YPA and operated by Dighem Surveys and Processing.
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