Tajiri accelerates Yono exploration

Tajiri Resources has moved the Yono gold project in Guyana into a faster exploration phase, with field crews preparing a high-resolution geophysical survey intended to sharpen drill targeting ahead of first-pass drilling. The Vancouver-based junior said on July 20 that it had hired Frontier Geosciences to run the program across Yono, a property in the Oko district that sits beside deposits controlled by G Mining Ventures and G2 Goldfields. The company said the work follows trenching and auger programs that returned multiple gold intercepts and is aimed at converting surface indications into drill-ready targets. Tajiri has said its maiden drilling campaign is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026. ### Why is Tajiri speeding up work at Yono now? July 20 marked the formal start of the next step, when Tajiri said it had engaged Frontier Geosciences for an approximately three-week ground survey using induced polarization, resistivity, ground magnetometer and EM31 conductivity methods. The company said site preparation, including survey and access lines, had already been completed over the prior two months. (tajirigold.com) Mining.com.au, in a sponsored feature published on Aug. 31, said Tajiri was entering the next phase of exploration with C$5.7 million in fresh funding and an IP survey under way to define drill targets. That report linked the faster pace to funding already raised rather than to a new financing announced this week. ### What exactly is the company trying to find with the IP survey? (tajirigold.com) Tajiri said the survey is designed to map geology and structural controls below duricrust cover that obscures about two-thirds of the Yono property. The company said it wants to extend interpretations from trenching and auger work, trace mineralized contacts in both the central-western and eastern parts of the property, and test for possible down-dip extensions of G Mining Ventures’ High Road target along Yono’s western boundary. (mining.com.au) The same July 20 release said the geophysics program is also intended to identify concealed mineralization at depth. Tajiri said the results should provide a more detailed structural and geological framework before drilling starts. ### How close is Yono to the better-known Oko deposits? Tajiri’s project page says Yono is in Guyana’s Cuyuni-Mazaruni Mining District and lies about 170 metres from deposits at G2 Goldfields’ Oko Main Zone and Ghanie and G Mining Ventures’ Oko West deposit. (tajirigold.com) The company says those neighboring properties together host about 8.9 million ounces of indicated and inferred gold resources. Kaieteur News, citing Tajiri, reported on Aug. 5 that Yono sits within Guyana’s Oko gold district and that three known deposits with mineral resource estimates lie within a two-kilometre radius. (tajirigold.com) Tajiri said at the time that drilling plans for Yono were advancing as it evaluated other acquisition opportunities in Guyana. ### What has Tajiri already found on the ground? (tajirigold.com) Tajiri said in earlier releases that trenching at Yono returned 32 metres grading 1.1 grams of gold per tonne and 19 metres grading 4.6 g/t gold in one area, while other trenches intersected 18 metres grading 0.8 g/t gold and 2 metres grading 30.2 g/t gold. The company has described those results as the basis for the current geophysical follow-up. (kaieteurnewsonline.com) February and March releases listed additional trench intervals including 12 metres at 2.4 g/t gold and 20 metres at 1.4 g/t gold. Those results remain exploration data, not a mineral resource estimate. ### What does the faster pace mean for permitting and environmental work? Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency says projects involving resource extraction require environmental authorization, and the Environmental Protection Act gives the agency power over environmental permits and impact assessments. (tajirigold.com) EPA and GGMC materials also show that mining projects are governed through environmental rules that include water quality and mine-effects monitoring. (tajirigold.com) Guyana’s mining EIA guidelines say baseline studies and project-specific assessment are part of the review framework for mining developments, while the EPA says it uses real-time water-quality monitoring in key water bodies. Tajiri has not publicly detailed any new environmental filing tied to the accelerated Yono exploration program in the materials reviewed for this story. (eservices.epa.gov.gy) Fourth-quarter 2026 is the next named milestone. Tajiri said the IP survey results will be used to refine targets ahead of its fully funded maiden drilling program at Yono, with Frontier Geosciences running the current field campaign. (tajirigold.com) (epaguyana.org)