Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “Yukon Metals Options Copper-Gold Project from Re”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
Yukon Metals Corp. (CSE: YMC, FSE: E770, OTCQB: YMMCF) ("Yukon Metals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has entered into an option agreement (the "Agreement") with Yukon geologist and prospector Ryan Burke ("Burke") to acquire a 100% interest in the Sumo Copper-Gold property (the "Sumo Property" or the "Property"), located approximately 10 kilometres ("km") east of the Company's Birch Project in southwestern Yukon. The Property comprises 75 quartz claims totalling approximately 1,875 hectares, expanding the Company's land position within a district-scale copper-gold belt prospective for porphyry- and skarn-style mineralization (Figure 1).
Highlights
Option to acquire the Sumo Property, located approximately 10 kilometres east of the Company's Birch Project in southwestern Yukon 75 quartz claims (~1,875 hectares) covering multiple kilometre-scale copper-gold-molybdenum targets Figure 1- Location of the Sumo Property and other Yukon Metals projects in the region.
The Sumo Property is strategically located in southwestern Yukon approximately 10 km east of the Company's Birch Project, with direct access to regional infrastructure including a road within 15 km and the 37 MW Aishihik Hydroelectric Generating Station approximately 80km away along the same road corridor. Figure 2- Sumo Property location relative to other Company Projects and Aishihik Lake Road (in black). Exploration completed by Burke in 2024 included a 397-sample soil grid covering approximately 3 × 2 km that defined coherent multi-element copper-gold-molybdenum anomalies, including peak values of 587 ppm copper, 409 ppb gold, and 4.1 ppm molybdenum. These anomalies define priority targets that remain largely untested by drilling. Surface sampling completed by Burke in 2025 identified a new copper-gold skarn target located approximately 1.2 km from previous drill sites and measuring approximately 1.1 km by 600 m in extent. Sampling across multiple target areas on the Property has also returned elevated copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum values. Rock samples are selective in nature and may not be representative of mineralization on the Property.
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Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects The Yukon Territory is an underexplored and minerally endowed district with a mining history dating back to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. With a progressive permitting regime, geopolitical stability and supportive government, it is well positioned to foster the next generation of mines. The Yukon is host to a highly experienced and conscientious local workforce, fostered by a long culture of exploration coupled with deep respect for the land. Recent major discoveries with local roots such as Snowline Gold Corp.'s Rogue Project – Valley Discovery, demonstrate the Yukon's potential to generate fresh district-scale mining opportunities. This news release contains certain forward-looking information, including statements regarding the Company's ability to acquire the Option by completing the required work expenditures, issuing the Shares and making cash payment, in the amounts and on the timelines required by the Agreement, the geology and prospectivity of the Sumo Property, the interpretation of historical exploration results including geochemical, geophysical, and diamond drilling programs, the presence and potential extent of copper-gold-silver mineralization and the potential for porphyry- and skarn-style mineral systems at the Sumo Property, the Company's planned exploration activities at the Sumo Property, including geological mapping, geochemical sampling, and geophysical surveys to refine priority targets across the Sumo Property, the advancement of exploration targets in the Birch Project area and surrounding district, the potential for future mineral discoveries, and the Company's future plans and objectives. Wherever possible, words such as "may", "will", "should", "could", "expect", "plan", "intend", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", or "potential", or the negative or other variations of these words or similar expressions, have been used to identify forward-looking information. These statements reflect management's current beliefs and expectations and are based on information currently available to management as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking information involves significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many factors could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking information. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's ability or decision to acquire the Option; the Sumo Property not being a porphyry- and skarn-style mineral systems or a prospective copper-rich, gold-rich or silver-rich geological system; rock samples and drill results analysed not being representative of overall mineralization; the required assumptions of completed induced polarization geophysics and helicopter-supported mapping and sampling programs; any assumed similarity between the Birch Project and the Sumo Project based on their proximity; not having significant scale and a lack of economic grade minerals; the Yukon not having the potential to generate fresh district-scale mining opportunities; and other risks and uncertainties. See the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's listing statement dated May 30, 2024, available under the Company's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
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