The Mount Hinton property lies within the world-famous Keno Hill silver mining camp, a district that hosts more than 35 individual mines and is historically Canada’s second largest primary silver producer. The property covers an 83 sq km area that is located 10 km by road from Keno City in central Yukon within the traditional territory of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun. A hydroelectric power grid extends to Hecla Mining’s Keno Hill mine and mill complex, which is located three kilometres north of the Mount Hinton claim block.
The Mount Hinton property hosts numerous gold- and silver-rich veins that are developed in steeply dipping dilatant zones, which cut the same stratigraphic package as the Keno Hill veins. Although silver mineralization is found in veins on the Mount Hinton property, gold is the main metal in most of the showings and occurrences and there are active placer mines on all the major drainages on the property. Nuggets from Granite Creek, located in the centre of the property, are incredibly coarse, wiry and crystalline: likely in close proximity to the bedrock source.
Over 80 mineralized quartz veins and breccia zones have been discovered to date on the Mount Hinton property. These veins are hosted within the Basal Quartzite unit of the Keno Hill Formation and are mostly found within three main mineralized corridors: the No. 5 Vein, the Southwest Zone, and the Northern Structural Corridor which includes the high-grade showings at McNeil Gulch and the Granite North Zone.
