White Gold Corp. May 19 reported new high-priority copper, gold, and multi-element drill targets at Guilder and Mt. Hart in west-central Yukon, where induced polarization geophysical surveys strengthened the company’s growing pipeline of porphyry and epithermal prospects across its district-scale land package.
Spanning approximately 305,102 hectares (753,900 acres) across 21 properties, White Gold’s land package covers roughly 40% of Yukon’s prospective White Gold District, including its flagship White Gold project roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City.
While the company has continued advancing its namesake gold project toward a maiden preliminary economic assessment, White Gold has also recently been building a separate pipeline of copper, molybdenum, tungsten, and other critical mineral targets across the same district-scale land package.
That pipeline includes Guilder on the Loonie property and Mt. Hart on the Nolan property, two early-stage targets where previous soil sampling, mapping, geophysics, and structural work outlined broad multi-element anomalies and corridors prospective for porphyry and epithermal mineralization.
Using induced polarization (IP) geophysics to test beneath those previously outlined surface anomalies, White Gold said its latest surveys identified multiple chargeability and resistivity anomalies that coincide with interpreted structures, alteration zones, and metal zonation patterns associated with porphyry and epithermal systems.
“The integration of our IP geophysics with our robust geochemical and structural datasets has fundamentally advanced our understanding of both the Guilder and Mt. Hart targets,” said White Gold Vice President of Exploration Dylan Langille.
Focused on the Loonie property, the Guilder survey refined a 2.2-kilometer-long (1.4 miles) zoned polymetallic soil anomaly controlled by the Guilder Fault, outlining two high-priority targets where stronger subsurface responses overlap the same corridor carrying copper, molybdenum, gold, lead, and zinc at surface.
Those targets include IPDG-2, where White Gold identified a strong chargeability response beside a resistivity low interpreted as a possible altered feeder structure, and IPDG-5, where a deeper chargeability anomaly sits beneath the transition from copper-dominant to gold-dominant soil geochemistry.
Covering a larger five-by-3.5-kilometer (3.1-by-2.2-mile) gold and multi-element soil anomaly on the Nolan property, the Mt. Hart survey outlined 26 chargeability axes across five geophysical domains and sharpened two priority areas tied to structures and alteration patterns mapped at surface.
White Gold said the strongest follow-up areas at Mt. Hart include North Mt. Hart, where deeper chargeability anomalies coincide with potassic alteration and brecciation, and Enchantment Ridge, where shallower geophysical responses align with silica flooding and gold-arsenic soil geochemistry.
White Gold said Guilder will be included in W2 Critical Minerals Corp., a new Yukon-focused company being formed by White Gold through the planned spin-out of several non-gold properties, while Mt. Hart will remain under the company’s ownership as part of its broader Yukon exploration portfolio.
“These results further underscore the significant discovery potential across our truly district-scale land package in this prolific district,” said White Gold CEO David D’Onofrio. “Discovering and advancing early-stage exploration targets remains a core pillar of our exploration pipeline strategy, enabling White Gold to continuously generate new discoveries and drill targets while simultaneously advancing our advanced flagship White Gold Project, which ranks among Canada’s highest-grade undeveloped open-pit gold deposits.”
White Gold said the new Guilder and Mt. Hart results warrant follow-up programs, including ground truthing, structural mapping, trenching, and drilling, while additional targets across both properties could benefit from future geophysical work.
The company said its fully funded 2026 exploration program will be the largest in its history, aimed at increasing high-grade gold resources, advancing the maiden preliminary economic assessment at its flagship White Gold project, continuing environmental baseline studies, and completing the W2 Critical Minerals spin-out.