The new Yukon gold rush

摘要

What a difference a few years can make. I first visited the Yukon in 2007. We saw five sites on that tour, the highlight being the newly commissioned Minto copper-gold mine, and left feeling that the Yukon was vast, beautiful and probably underexplored, but not particularly exciting. In August I returned, for the same gracious government trip, and the place is barely recognizable. In 2007, it was hard to list five really good Yukon projects. In 2010,1 saw 12 solid properties and could have visited more. The Yukon is hopping and many believe these are the early days of a new Yukon gold rush.