Rackla Metals is probing the Tombstone gold belt in Canada’s Yukon

After discovering several precious metals deposits in Central America and Mexico, four of which became mines, veteran mining financer Simon Ridgway has returned to his prospector roots in Canada. The CEO of Rackla Metals is now hunting for large-scale, reduced-intrusion related gold systems (RIRGS) in the Tombstone Gold Belt – part of the Tintina gold province that extends from the Northwest Territories to the Yukon and into Alaska.

Following Snowline Gold’s discovery of the Valley deposit in the Yukon portion of the Tombstone Gold Belt, I did some research on all of the Tombstone intrusive bodies to the east of Snowline, and it was clear none of them had been prospected historically for gold. He then sifted through hundreds of government regional geochemical surveys and mineral assessment reports related to the Northwest Territories’ portion of the Tombstone Gold Belt and found anomalous bismuth readings from stream sediment samples. Bismuth is part of a geochemical signature typical of RIRGS, along with gold, tellurium and tungsten.