Victoria Gold Corp T.VGCX

Mining activity since the late 1800's at Haggart Creek

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Up to now no one has paid any attention to the pollution that pre-existed in Haggart Creek.  Why, well here's an inconvenient truth.

"There he found his best prospect to date. Henderson was not the only prospector exploring new country: in 1895 miners working their way up the Stewart and McQuesten Rivers discovered Haggart Creek. They reported some gold in most of the creeks entering the McQuesten from the north; the river bars themselves yielded only fine gold for ten miles above the Stewart. It may have been then the Pelly miners decided there were no paying prospects on that river although most of the streams entering the Pelly from the south between the Lapie and Campbell Creek were later found to contain gold. The best prospects were between the mouth of the Hoole and Hoole Canyon as well as some tributaries of the Hoole."

Spending 150m$ to 200M$+ to remediate all the ills in the past 100+ years to remediate back to "virgin" creek condition, whatever that was, at the cost of the ruination of company that could have made it whole and contributed to the economy just doesn't make sense.

Even large corporations that have operated in The Yukon in the past couldn't clean up things in six weeks, in fact in recent memory 40 years wasn't enough.

Jane Gaffin once said something along the lines of "The biggest ruination in The Yukon, were the massive tectonic fault upheavals and the massive massive Ice ages that scraped and scarified the land into it's present state of rubble and exposing people to all sorts of harsh elements to the land and water"

An inconvenient truth, if you've ever has boots on the ground in The Yukon you would understand.

Obviously no one wants pollution anywhere but if anyone thinks that spending 250m$+/- is going to make a virgin state of Dublin Gulch and Haggart Creek (whatever that was) is in for a pipe dream. 

I'm going to mention that mining for copper was carried on long before the present activities in various areas of The Yukon.

YTG, EMR and First Nations instead of going after the real reason of the disaster has focused on the C-Suite and BoD much to the amazement of many I am sure...

It is apparent that the "clean up" for some was not being done fast enough and not enough hard cash was being tossed around...  Well lets see how fast it is all cleaned up now.  Maybe another six weeks under YTG should do it....


https://yukonyouminegold.com/yukon-gold-mining-history-the-untold-story/

The Yukon is a great place and I'll always be a Yukoner (ex) but what is happening in the Territory in real time today is like a blight on the face of Canada.

in my opinion only