When you read about Victoria Gold beginning to build a mine or Alexo getting ready to put an old mine into production, the part of the story which is not obvious is where the workers for those mines are going to come from. Yukon’s population is roughly 36,000 people. Not very many.
The arc of the Tintina fault, running from northern British Columbia through the Yukon and into Alaska contains both the gold rich creeks of the Klondike and the silver hills surrounding Keno City. Within this prolific gold and silver belt you can see the history of the Yukon gold rush and the legacy of the vast underground silver mining operations at Keno Hill. You can also visit camps at every stage of development from raw exploration to fully constructed mines with milling facilities.