Large Copper-Bearing System At The AZ Project

VANCOUVER – Yukon Metals Corp. announced the inaugural 2025 drill program at its 13,110 hectare AZ Project, located approximately 6 kilometres west of the Alaska Highway and 36 kilometres south of Beaver Creek, Yukon. The program comprised five drill holes totaling 1,500 metres, targeting two new areas: Chair Mountain and the Southeast Prospect.
The first-pass drilling program successfully intersected copper and gold mineralization at both targets, supporting the Company’s geological models and suggesting they may form part of a larger mineralized system.
Inaugural drilling intersected multiple copper-bearing veins across four holes. Porphyry-style system at Southeast Prospect: Hole AZ25-004 cut increasing potassic alteration at depth, interpreted as a vector toward a porphyry centre. Best intercept: 14.4m at 0.44% Cu, incl. 1.5m at 0.37 g/t Au (AZ25-001). Vein orientations at Chair Mountain align with regional stress regimes and provide vectors for follow-up drilling.
“This is a big system and the right kind of copper system for a large tonnage porphyry,” said Rory Quinn, President & CEO. “At Chair Mountain, we’ve confirmed copper mineralization within a structural corridor, and at the Southeast Prospect we have intersected classic porphyry-style alteration at depth. These initial results validate our proof-of-concept program and confirm that the system is copper-bearing, fertile, and gold-bearing across two distinct areas. With clear geological vectors now in hand, our next phase of drilling will focus on stepping out toward the core of the porphyry system and we will conclude the season with follow-up soil sampling and induced polarization geophysics.”