Yukon Metals identifies priority drill targets at Birch copper-gold project
The 7,000-hectare Birch project is one of the company’s 17 properties across 42,500 hectares in Canada's Yukon Territory.
Copper futures fell abruptly after the Chinese government ordered 19 producers to cut back copper output, triggering concerns about lower demand from the world’s top consumer of the red metal.
Despite the drop, the industrial metal is still on track for its third weekly increase in four, after hitting a one-month high of $7,119 on Wednesday on European data.