A year after the Eagle mine failure, questions remain about Yukon’s mining future – CBC
Jun 24, 2025
‘It goes beyond the Yukon in terms of how we judge whether it’s right to mine or not,’ minister says
To Frank Patterson, a First Nations elder in Mayo, Yukon, last year’s catastrophic failure at the nearby Eagle gold mine was not a total surprise.
“It was devastating,” he said. “And you know, anybody that went in there could see something would happen someday.”
It was one year ago, on the morning of June 24, 2024, that the Eagle mine went in a matter of moments from being a celebrated centrepiece of the territory’s resource industry to an expensive environmental disaster that is still not fully understood.
