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The Klondike Gold Corp. [KG-TSXV]
CEO was asked the question while taking
a group of investment writers on a tour
of the Klondike District gold fields near
Dawson City, Yukon.
The tour of the company's Klondike
District property covering (557 km
2
)
takes us close to the spot where George
Carmack picked up the nuggets that later
sparked the Klondike Gold Rush, attract-
ing roughly 30,000+ prospectors into the
region between 1896 and 1899. The area
has produced 20 million ounces of gold,
virtually all of it from the placer gold
mines that continue to operate.
As CEO of a company searching for the
hard rock source of all that gold, Tallman
knows better than most the kind of men-
tality that is required to withstand the
isolation, cold temperatures and lack of
winter daylight that is part and parcel of
life not only in the Yukon, but also the
Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
The approach to exploration has
changed a lot since the Klondike gold rush.
Rather than crawl around in tunnels as
prospectors did a century ago, geologists
now sit in front of computers, use remotely
controlled drilling technology and live in
comfortable bunkhouses. Journeys to proj-
ect sites that used to take days can be done
in minutes by pickup truck or helicopter.
But, even now, running mining operations
in this type of environment requires a
high degree of mental and physical
strength, especially in winter when the
sun disappears and temperatures plunge
below -50 C.
The Canadian Far North:
Yukon, Northwest Territories
and Nunavut
Winters are brutal but the mineral potential
of the Far North is outstanding.
by Peter Kennedy
"We are up here because we are not all there," replied
Peter Tallman, when asked why he chose to work as a
geologist in Canada's Far North.
Read: Alaska – The Frontier of the Future at
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