Geology student wins contest, then inks mining deal that might pay millions

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, about 65 kilometres south of Whitehorse. That includes two types of remote sensing — hyperspectral imaging and light detection and ranging — that document mineral formations from above.Article content

That world of risk and reward is in Burke’s blood. His father is a geologist who worked for the Yukon Geological Survey, acting as a sort of liaison between government and industry. Accessing a grant from the Yukon government and using his own funds, he and university pal Charlie Pike hired a helicopter to take them to a spot 15 kilometres from the nearest road. They set up camp, then hiked 130 kilometres over nine days.

Remarkably, that was not the young geologist’s only discovery. He made another find — gold and copper mineralization — elsewhere in the Yukon and signed a similar option deal with Cascadia Minerals Ltd.

 

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