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This New Gold Stock Comes With a Mill, a Camp, and High Grades | Blue Jay Gold

The Deep Dive Jun 16, 2026

Summary

Blue Jay Gold's Yukon Stellar project pairs high grades with a 270-tonne-per-day mill — infrastructure a new junior rarely has.

The spin-out history explains the listing: Riverside Resources distributed Blue Jay shares to its shareholders, then management acquired the project.

Management is directing 70% of 2026 spending to growing a resource base of roughly 849,000 indicated and inferred gold-equivalent ounces.

A $14.7 million April raise fully funds a maiden 16,000-metre drill program set to test three zones plus two historical discoveries.

At about $19 enterprise value per ounce versus a Yukon average near $151, the discount looks wide but one large peer skews the benchmark.

Key points on Skeena Resources

  • Cited only as the outlier that skews the peer comparison: the host says the roughly $151 per ounce Yukon average he uses against Blue Jay's approximately $19 EV per ounce is pulled up by Skeena.

Key points on Capitan Silver

  • Used as the precedent for a good spin-out: the host describes the Capitan Silver transaction as the earlier successful spin-out by Riverside Resources, in silver in Mexico, a few years before the Blue Jay deal, and contrasts it with the gold assets in the later iteration.

Key points on Blue Jay Gold

  • The host frames the listing, which came in the week before the as-of date of 2026-06-16 after a wait of more than a year, as an unusual junior venture debut because Blue Jay acquired a brownfield asset that comes with a mill and what the host calls one of the highest-grade resources in the Yukon.
  • Resource detail given in the video: indicated resources of 400,000 gold-equivalent ounces at 9.06 g/t gold plus inferred resources of 449,000 gold-equivalent ounces at 6.45 g/t; the host also notes the company has hinted at antimony potential, with a historical resource of up to 127,000 tons at 4% antimony at the Becker Cochrane deposit surfaced by a Twitter user that week.
  • Brownfield restart profile: the Steller project, acquired from Tincourt Metals as Skookum Gold and then renamed, produced roughly 80,000 oz of gold from 1986 to 1988 at an average grade of 13 g/t, and a 270-ton-per-day mill, a 50-person camp, a workshop, offices, access roads and 7.5 km of underground workings remain on site.
  • The 2026 plan is exploration-led: a maiden drill program of up to 16,000 m this field season to expand the resource at three zones and follow up on two historical discoveries, fully funded after an April financing that raised $14.7M; the guest says roughly 70% of this year's spend targets finding more resource and 121,000 m of historical drill core is still to be worked through.
  • The host values the shares at around $19 EV per ounce versus a Yukon peer average near $151, while cautioning that the average is skewed by Skeena, and reads the environmental baseline work planned this year as an early sign that management is already contemplating a return to production.

Steve Hyland's takeaways

  • Top takeaway The host's core argument is that this is not a typical junior go-public: he says Blue Jay bought a brownfield asset that starts with a mill and one of the highest-grade resources in the Yukon, and adds that the company brought in Scott Hicks as chairman, citing his record of successful mining-sector exits as a member of the Lumina Group.
  • On valuation he puts Blue Jay at roughly $19 EV per ounce against a Yukon average of about $151, but immediately qualifies that the average is skewed by Skeena, presenting the discount as real while flagging the peer benchmark as imperfect.
  • He highlights logistics as the underappreciated angle: Steller is an hour's drive from Whitehorse and the railhead connects to the US port of Skagway, so he argues resource growth and new discovery can be drilled without needing helicopters.
  • He reads the environmental baseline work Blue Jay has planned this year as an early signal that management is already thinking about a potential return to production rather than exploration alone.
  • Conflict-of-interest context carried in the video description: Canacom Group, the parent company of The Deep Dive, discloses it is long the equity of Blue Jay Gold.

Geordie Mark's takeaways

  • Top takeaway The CEO's stated priority is resource growth rather than near-term production: he says the company is oriented toward finding more resource in the very near term because it already has almost a million ounces, and that roughly 70% of this year's expenditure goes into testing expansions to the current resource base.
  • He presents Steller as the highest-grade resource in all of the Yukon, at 400,000 gold-equivalent ounces indicated at 9.06 g/t plus 449,000 gold-equivalent ounces inferred at 6.45 g/t, as the core of the investment case.
  • He stresses that infrastructure from the 1986 to 1988 operating era is still in place, including a 270-ton-per-day mill, a 50-person camp, a workshop, offices, a network of access roads and 7.5 km of underground workings.
  • He frames access as a cost advantage: an hour's drive from Whitehorse and a railhead connecting to Skagway, so he argues Blue Jay can operate as an exploration company looking for resource growth and new discovery that you can just drive to, without helicopters.
  • He describes the maiden drill program for the field season as up to 16,000 m, targeting resource expansion at three zones plus follow-up work on two historical discoveries, with 121,000 m of historical drill core still to be reviewed.