‘As goes mining, so goes the Yukon’: Government and corporate leaders praise territory’s potential – by Brian Sylvester (Northern Miner – August 15, 2019)

Northern Miner

With 11 of 13 First Nations reaching settlements on land claims and a new gold mine set to ramp up production, Yukon was the focus of discussion during the Territorial Panel at The Northern Miner’s annual Canadian Mining Symposium held at Canada House in London, U.K., earlier this year.

The panel consisted of Yukon Premier Sandy Silver; Graham Downs, president and CEO of ATAC Resources (TSXV: ATC); Brandon Macdonald, president and CEO of Fireweed Zinc (TSXV: FWZ); John McConnell, president and CEO, Victoria Gold (TSXV: VIT); and Paul West-Sells, president and CEO of Western Copper and Gold (TSX: WRN; NYSE-MKT: WRN), with Andrew Cheatle, senior vice-president for Africa with Forbes & Manhattan, as the panel moderator.

The companies on the panel are all part of the Yukon Mining Alliance, a government-industry initiative designed to promote investment in the territory. Premier Silver kicked things off by offering the audience some facts and perspective on the Yukon in Canada’s northwest.

Silver referred to the territory as “British Columbia’s hat,” and said it is the size of the U.K., but with a population of just 41,000. The airport in Whitehorse, the capital, hosts daily flights from Vancouver and Germany (mid-year), and is one of 28 government-maintained airports and aerodomes there. Yukon also has three ice-free, deepwater ports that Silver noted are four days closer by ship to Asian markets than Vancouver.

The premier noted that the Yukon is among the top-10 jurisdictions on the Investment Attractiveness Index in the Fraser Institute’s 2018 Annual Survey of Mining Companies, up three spots from the previous year’s edition.

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