White Gold Corp. Feb. 26 reported additional assay results from its 2025 diamond drill program at the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits in Yukon, where drilling expanded the flagship deposit’s high-grade core westward and extended Arc gold mineralization to depths not previously tested.
Situated roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City, the flagship White Gold project sits at the heart of a 305,102-hectare (753,900-acre) land package spanning 21 properties and covering roughly 40% of Yukon’s highly prospective White Gold District within the mineral-rich Dawson Range.
According to the most recent resource estimate, the White Gold project hosts 35.2 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.53 grams per metric ton (1.73 million oz) gold, and 32.2 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.22 g/t (1.27 million oz) gold, between the Golden Saddle, Arc, Ryan’s Surprise, and VG deposits.
Designed to expand and refine the project through focused drilling at Golden Saddle and Arc, the 2025 program targeted the high-grade core, hanging wall and footwall zones, and the down-plunge extent of the Arc system – building on a campaign that last November returned one of the best intervals ever reported from the property, 50.2 meters averaging 6.89 g/t gold from a depth of 100 meters in hole WHTGS25D0218A.
Comprising five diamond drill holes split between the two deposits, the program returned results across all three zones at Golden Saddle, with one hole pushing the western boundary of the high-grade core more than 50 meters at a vertical depth of 350 meters.
Cutting 3.23 g/t gold over 56.1 meters, hole WHTGS25D0216 confirmed continuity along the deposit’s interpreted plunge direction.
The hole also cut a fractured, gold-bearing zone beneath the current pit shell – returning 1.02 g/t gold over 8.85 meters with visible gold present – and encountered additional pockets of gold-bearing rock in the shallower material, consistent with recent geological remodeling that has improved how that zone is understood and mapped.
“These results clearly demonstrate that Golden Saddle and Arc deposits remain highly expandable with strong and uniquely high-grade gold continuity,” said White Gold CEO David D’Onofrio. “Expanding the Golden Saddle high-grade core and significantly extending the plunge direction at Arc further confirms the geological modelling and validates our strategy of systematically demonstrating resource growth potential.”
Sitting 400 meters south of Golden Saddle, the Arc deposit had previously been defined along 1,500 meters of strike and to an average vertical depth of approximately 120 meters – a relatively shallow envelope that left the down-plunge extent of the system largely untested.
Results from hole WHTAR25D038 extended that reach by 100 meters down plunge, intersecting 2.73 g/t gold over 4.35 meters and nearly doubling the known vertical extent of mineralization while opening a substantial growth corridor beneath the existing resource.
Several additional parallel panels of gold-bearing rock were also encountered, with the system remaining open across its entire strike length at depth.
“Today’s announcement demonstrates a significant expansion to the width of the high-grade core by 50 meters to the west at depth, further validating the potential for additional growth of the high-grade core,” said White Gold VP of Exploration Dylan Langille. “At Arc, this was the first meaningful down-plunge test beneath the current resource envelope and it successfully intersected strong mineralization as well as several other parallel panels of mineralization.”
With the latest assays in hand and multiple zones at both Golden Saddle and Arc now extended or confirmed, White Gold said additional results from the balance of its 2025 program will be released as they are received.