Receivership ending at Yukon’s abandoned Wolverine mine, gov’t now looks to closure, remediation

The firm managing the affairs of the company that abandoned the Wolverine mine in southeastern Yukon will soon be stepping away. PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has been the receiver for the now-defunct Yukon Zinc Corporation since 2019, successfully applied to be discharged from the receivership in Yukon Supreme Court this week. The move marks the end of a major chapter in the saga of the Wolverine mine, located on Kaska territory roughly halfway between Ross River and Watson Lake, Yukon. A judge