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Wolverine Mine
Owner: Yukon Zinc Corp

Yukon Zinc's Wolverine Mine is a high grade zinc-silver-copper-lead-gold underground mine, with on-site milling capabilities of 1,700 tonnes per day to produce zinc, copper and lead concentrates. The current mine life is ~9.5 years based on a 5.2 Mt deposit and there is potential to expand the reserve through drilling.
 
Yukon Zinc completed major site construction at Wolverine throughout 2009 and 2010. Mill commissioning commenced in late 2010 and operations started in 2011. In March 2012, commercial production was achieved and in Q1 2013, full design capacity was reached. The majority of the concentrate from Wolverine is trucked to the British Columbia port at Stewart.


Geology

The Wolverine deposit, discovered in 1995, is a classic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit hosted in felsic volcanic and argillaceous sedimentary rocks of probable mid-Paleozoic age. The massive sulphides occur in two tabular semi-continuous lenses of moderately dipping massive sulphide mineralization within Devono-Mississippian rhyolite and argillite strata. Each of the lenses has a core zone that ranges from 6 to 25 metres in true thickness, flanked by thinner massive sulphide mineralization. 

 
Permitting
 
Yukon Zinc is fully permitted to operate the Wolverine Mine. Yukon Zinc was issued a Quartz Mining License by the Yukon Government in December 2006 and a Type A Water Licence by the Yukon Water Board in October 2007. Through all phases of permitting, consultation with various Federal and Yukon government agencies, the Kaska First Nation including Ross River Dena Council and Liard First Nation, and other stakeholders was conducted.


Contact Us
 
Yukon Zinc Corporation
Suite 410 - 700 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6C 1G8
Office Telephone: 604.682.5474
Toll Free: 1.877.682.5474
International Toll Free: 800.8.682.5474
Office Fax: 604.682.5404
 
Wolverine Mine Address:
PO Box 57
Whitehorse, YT
Y1A 5X9