Geology and mineralization of the Len intrusive-hosted gold prospect, McQuesten area, Yukon

The Len porphyry gold prospect is located 47 km north of Mayo, Yukon, in the Tombstone Suite intrusive belt. The area was explored as a Keno Hill-style silver prospect in the 1960s and 1970s. An arsenic-in-soil anomaly first identified in 1980 was followed up by soil geochemistry and excavator trenching in 1996. Multiple sheeted quartz-sulphide veins hosted in a previously unmapped granodiorite stock were discovered during the trenching program. A six-hole program of diamond drilling in 1997 encountered grades ranging up to 2.22 g/t gold across 18.6 m, and showed that gold mineralization is dominantly within, but not restricted to, the intrusive stock.

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Last Updated April 17, 2026, 17:23 (UTC)
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