HOTSPOT
No Underlying Royalties or Property Payments, 100% owned. Located in the White Gold District.
SUMMARY
- Located in the North Ladue placer mining district of Yukon Territory
- 100 km southwest of Dawson City
- 100 km northwest of the Coffee Deposit (Newmont Goldcorp)
- 12 km southwest of Matson Creek Airstrip (70 km north from Highway 9)
- Hot Spot is brand new, grassroots high-grade gold discovery in an underexplored part of the Yukon Territory
- Staked by Golden Sky Minerals in 2017
- Located 25 km south of the Tanacross Cu, Mo, Au porphyry deposit (360,000 oz Au) currently being explored by Kenorland/Freeport McMoRan joint venture.
- Located 100 km northwest of Newmont Goldcorp’s 5 million oz Coffee Deposit located in the Yukon’s relatively new White Gold District.
- GEOLOGY
- – Surface Mineralization hosted in an altered rhyolitic tuff are consistent with a low sulphidation epithermal environment
- TRENCHING
- – 0.42 g/t Au over 44mincluding 2.44 g/t Au over2m
- – Drill Ready on bedrock
EPITHERMAL GOLD DEPOSITS
- Epithermal Gold Deposits tend to form in shallow environments like “hotsprings” and along structural corridors (cracks) in proximity to large magmatic intrusions and volcanoes
- These magmatic intrusions may also serve as the source of Gold and Silver and develop as Cu+/-Au+/-Mo endowed porphyry deposits below the surficial epithermal gold deposit
- Gold within Low to High sulphidation epithermal tends to form along pyrite grains as fine disseminations throughout the rocks to higher grades associated with quartz veins
- Deposits are typically well endowed with Au+/-Ag (in some cases they can include Cu, Pb and Zn) from 1-10+ Moz of gold
LOW SULPLHIDATION EPITHERMAL GOLD TARGET
- Round Mountain (Historic ownership Barrick-Kinross):
- A large bulk tonnageLow Sulphidation Epithermal Deposit containing 10 Moz of Goldlocated in Southern Nevada
- Is one of the largest open pit operations in the world and contains pockets of some of the highest grade gold mined in the world
- Goldis hosted throughout a permeable rhyolitic tuff and can occur within some of the pockets of “Bonanza” grades in quartz veins
Oxidation along quartz-gold bearing veinlets (Round Mountain)
High Grade “Bonanza” quartz-gold vein (Round Mountain)
- Comparing to Round Mountain
- • Gold hosting rocks on the Hot Spot discovery are analogous with the younger volcanic rocks at the Round Mountain Gold Deposit.
Auriferous limonitic crystal tuff
(0.42 g/t Au over 44m)
Auriferous limonitic crystal tuff
BURIED PORPHYRY TARGET
- Low sulphidation epithermal at surface with potential buried porphyry at depth
- Indicated batholith at depth by a large gravity low, believed to be the same one observed under the Kenorland/Freeport Taurus deposit
- High magnetic anomaly identified on Hot Spot identical to magnetic anomalies observed on Tanacross and the Pebble properties
- Pb, Cu, Zn, Ag, Au geochemistry on the Hotspot property is likely peripheral to a porphyry-related mineralization similar to the Kenorland/Freeport adjoining Tanacross property
Analogues
- Pebble style buried porphyry potential
HOTSPOT OVERVIEW
- Original New Discovery
- Strongly prospective geologic terrane with strong potential to a host Low Sulphidation Gold and buried porphyry deposits
- Geophysical signatures similar to local significant prospects within the region
- Property Geology and Geochemistry consistent with Low Sulphidation and Porphyry Models
- 2020 Phase 1 Reverse circulation drill program complete with a discovery hole (HSRC 20 02) that assayed 1.34 g/t Au over 71.6m including 7.72 g/t Au over 6.09m
EXPLORATION FOR 2021
- Phase 2: Planned program of Reverse Circulation and Diamond Drilling
- A 2,000 3,000m RC and diamond drilling program to test shallow and deep low sulphidation gold mineralization, as well as for potential buried porphyry systems.









