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Yellow Giant

Prospect in British Columbia, Canada with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Reserves and resources
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181570
MAS/MILS ID 1220100126
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Giant
Alternate or previous names Bob Deposit, Banks Island, Discovery Deposit, Kim Deposit, Tel Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -130.12664, 53.36364 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada British Columbia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -130.12664, 53.36364
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Trader Resources Corp.
    Interest 90
    Home office Canada
    Year 1992
  • Type Owner
    Owner Falconbridge Ltd.
    Interest 10
    Home office Canada
    Year 1992

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1985
    Inferred 1134000mt ore
    Total resources 1134000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 5 g/mt Gold Major 1985
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1985
    Inferred 43000mt ore
    Total resources 43000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 40.1 g/mt Gold Major 1985
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1985
    Inferred 91000mt ore
    Total resources 91000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 15.8 g/mt Gold Major 1985
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1985
    Inferred 1000000mt ore
    Total resources 1000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 2.47 g/mt Gold Major 1985
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1986
    Demonstrated 187200mt ore
    Total resources 187200mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 21.9 g/mt Gold Major 1986
    Silver Ag 43.9 g/mt Silver Minor 1986
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1988
    Demonstrated 201000mt ore
    Total resources 201000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 12.18 g/mt Gold Major 1988
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1988
    Demonstrated 58000mt ore
    Total resources 58000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 15.61 g/mt Gold Major 1988
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1988
    Demonstrated 72000mt ore
    Total resources 72000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 7.17 g/mt Gold Major 1988
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1988
    Demonstrated 71000mt ore
    Total resources 71000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 14.47 g/mt Gold Major 1988

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    NORTH AMERCAN GOLD MINING INDUSTRY NEWS, 11/15/85, P.10

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINING JOURNAL, 8/22/86, P.132

  • Deposit

    MR 223 (GOV'T. OF CANADA), 1989

  • Deposit

    CANADIAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1991-92, P.374

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-FEB-1995 Porter, Kenneth E. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Falconbridge Ltd. — now part of Subsidiary of Glencore (2013)
    Acquired by Xstrata in 2006; Xstrata merged into Glencore in 2013.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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