Pup Copper-Gold Project
— Yukon, Canada
Project Summary
Investment Highlights
Exploration Status
Project Summary
- Strategic Location: The project consists of 26 claims totaling approximately 530 hectares located roughly 10 kilometers west of Dawson City, Yukon.
- Accessibility: The site is readily road-accessible via a network of rough roads leading to local placer mines.
- Geological Setting: The geology and mineralization are analogous to targets in the Minto Copper Belt. The area bedrock is strongly oxidized, suggesting significant discovery potential at depth.
- Acquisition: Northern Lights optioned the property from veteran prospector Bernie Kreft in September 2025.
- Mineralization Style: Mineralization consists of malachite and azurite hosted within quartz-chlorite-epidote schist, likely derived from a mafic to intermediate igneous protolith.
Investment Highlights
- The Petal target is a new discovery (2024) that has never been drilled. It features a 400m x 1,000m northwest-trending copper anomaly that remains open to the southeast and potentially to the northwest.
- Rock grab samples at the Petal target have returned grades as high as 3.799% Cu, while soil samples range from 221 to 2,963 ppm Cu.
- In addition to Petal, the project hosts the Gismo and Finn targets, which feature copper-in-soil anomalies up to 388.5 ppm and 535 ppm, respectively.
- On October 29, 2025, the project received a Class 3 exploration permit valid for 10 years, authorizing drilling, trenching, and road/trail construction.
Exploration Status
- Priority Targets:
- Petal: Drill-ready and defined by widespread soil values up to 2,963 ppm Cu and rock samples up to 3.799% Cu.
- Gismo: Shows soil values up to 388.5 ppm Cu and rock samples grading up to 1,382 ppm Cu with anomalous Cu-Mo-Au-Ag.
- Finn: Features soil values up to 535 ppm Cu and rock samples grading up to 3,082 ppm Cu.
- 2025 Work Program: The 2025 exploration campaign was designed to assess these priority targets through ground magnetic surveys (specifically at Petal), extensive soil geochemical sampling, prospecting, hand trenching, and thin section analysis.
- Exploration Goal: The recent work programs have advanced Petal to the drill-decision stage while Finn and Gismo continue to yield strong results.