Teck, Kivalina lawsuit unsettled  08/07/2008
Teck Cominco Ltd. August 1 filed court papers requesting U.S. District Judge John Sedwick enforce the proposed settlement between the operator of the Red Dog Mine and six residents of Kivalina, a Nort...Comments

Millrock and Alix begin drilling Divide  08/07/2008
Millrock Resources Inc. and Alix Resources Corp. August 5 announced drilling has been initiated at the Divide Project, north of Nome, Alaska. Additionally, the companies report that they have executed... Comments

Nuggets  08/07/2008
COPPER - YOW Capital Corp. August 6 said it has entered into a letter of intent with 1618254 Ontario Ltd. to acquire all of its issued and outstanding shares on a one-for-one share exchange basis with... Comments

AtlaGas to pay $40 million for NovaGreenPower  07/31/2008
NovaGold Resources Inc. July 31 said that it has reached an agreement to sell 100 percent of its NovaGreenPower subsidiary to AltaGas Ltd., a Calgary-based energy infrastructure company. NovaGreenPowe... Comments

Ucore receives first assays from Bokan  07/31/2008
Ucore Uranium Inc. July 30 reported the first assay results from the 2008 drilling program at the Bokan Mountain project, located about 60 km southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. The results are from two h...Comments

Teck Cominco buys Fording Canadian assets  07/31/2008
COAL - Usibelli Coal Mine in Healy, Alaska, July 24 reported it achieved a one-year safety record of no lost-time injuries. The record extends from May 30 2007 to the present. UCM’s 95 employees co... Comments

Nuggets  07/31/2008
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Strong copper, coal prices offset by weak zinc prices, strong Canadian dollar  07/24/2008
Teck Cominco Ltd. July 23 reported a slight increase in profits to C$504 million or C$1.14 per share in the second quarter of 2008 compared to C$480 million or C$1.13 for the same period last year. On... Comments

Parties weigh in on cleaning up Giant hazard  07/24/2008
How do you clean up 237,000 metric tons of arsenic trioxide? You don¡¯t. That¡¯s the conclusion reached by government scientists and contractors who have taken on the challenge of removing the environ...Comments

Sherwood boasts increased production, reduced costs for 2Q 2008  07/24/2008
Sherwood Copper Corporation July 22 said it significantly improved operating results for the three months ending June 30 from its high-grade Minto copper-gold mine located in the Yukon, and also made... Comments

News Nuggets  07/24/2008
POLYMETALLIC - Northern Tiger Resources Inc. said the spin-out transaction with Firestone Ventures is complete and drilling has commenced at its wholly owned Sonora gold-silver-copper-molybdenum proje... Comments

NovaGold reports rule violations at Rock Creek, second-quarter loss  07/17/2008
NovaGold Resources Inc. July 11 reported its second-quarter performance results and admitted that the company has encountered significant problems getting Rock Creek, its most advance gold mining proj... Comments

Full Metal discovers high-tech metal at Fortymile  07/17/2008
Full Metal Minerals July 16 said assay results show indium among the metals present in the LWM deposit at its Fortymile property in East-Interior Alaska. The company also released results from nine ad...Comments

EPA accepts public comment on NPDES  07/17/2008
The Environmental Protection Agency’s public comment period deadline addressing the approval of the application made by the State of Alaska to assume primacy from the EPA to regulate National Pollutan... Comments

News Nuggets  07/17/2008
FORESTRY BOARD - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin July 11 appointed Jeffrey Y. Foley as the mining representative to Board of Forestry. The nine-member board advises the state on forest practices and issu... Comments

Ballot Measure 4 headed to Alaska primary  07/10/2008
In a July 3 decision, the Alaska Supreme Court confirmed Superior Court Judge Douglas Blankenship’s decision concluding that the ballot initiative 07WTR3 is not an appropriation and can be placed on t... Comments

Exploration will earn junior ownership of Whistler  07/10/2008
Geoinformatics Exploration Inc. July 8 said it has begun its 2008 exploration program on the Whistler gold project approximately 160 kilometers northwest of Anchorage, Alaska and has completed the fir...Comments

Pebble hydrology report shows extensive study of area groundwater  07/10/2008
Pebble Limited Partnership July 10 released Report Series D: Groundwater Hydrology, the fourth of 14 reports that owners of the controversial Pebble Mine Project have pledged to make public as part of... Comments

News Nuggets  07/10/2008
POLYMETALLIC - Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. July 10 reported partial analytical results for the first 2008 drill hole (CMR08-11) at the Glacier Creek prospect, South Wall Zone target, on its polym... Comments

Supreme Court will review Ninth Circuit ruling on Kensington tailings permit  07/02/2008
In response to petitions for a writ of certiorari filed by Coeur Alaska and the state of Alaska, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review a Ninth Circuit court ruling that invalidates tail... Comments

Redfern responds to request for info  07/02/2008
Alaska Department of Natural Resources received a response from Redfern Resources Ltd. June 26 to the state’s Feb. 12 request for additional information concerning the Canadian junior’s proposal to us...Comments

Junior eyes Pebble-like project in Yukon  07/02/2008
Western Copper Corporation June 24 said its Casino copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in central Yukon Territory has the potential to be developed economically as a sizable open-pit mine. An independent p... Comments

News Nuggets  07/02/2008
SILVER - Hecla Mining Company June 27 said it extended the deadline to close on the sale of its subsidiaries engaged in Venezuelan activities to Rusoro Mining Ltd. The date, originally set for June 27... Comments

Democrats declare emergency to ban uranium mining and exploration near Grand Canyon  06/29/2008
U.S. House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee on June 25 used an emergency power to ban uranium mining and exploration around the Grand Canyon National Park. After Republicans left in prote... Comments

Pebble Partnership releases surficial geology report  06/29/2008
Pebble Limited Partnership June 24 released Report Series C: Surficial Geology, the third of 14 reports that the owners have pledged to release as part of their Pre-Permitting Environmental & Socio-Ec...Comments

Yukon anticipates C$115 million spent on exploration and development in 2008  06/29/2008
The Yukon Chamber of Mines has completed its 2008 Yukon Exploration and Development Survey. The annual survey forecasts the level of exploration and development expenditures anticipated for the 2008 s... Comments

News Nuggets - Alaska  06/29/2008
NIBLACK MINING CORP. JUNE 26 SAID THE UNDERGROUND drill program on the company's gold-silver-copper-zinc rich Niblack VMS property in southeast Alaska has resumed. The drilling will be situated at the... Comments

New Nuggets - Canada  06/29/2008
STRONGBOW EXPLORATION INC. JUNE 25 PROVIDED AN UPDATE of exploration activities at the Nickel King and Snowbird nickel projects in southern Northwest Territories and northern Saskatchewan. The company... Comments

Redcorp sells $90 million of future Tulsequah gold  06/19/2008
Redcorp Ventures Ltd. has entered a $90 million sale agreement with Gold Wheaton Corp. for the purchase of all gold produced at Redcorp’s Tulsequah Chief Mine in western British Columbia about 45 mile... Comments

Red Chris gets green light from appeals court  06/19/2008
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has set aside a lower court ruling and confirmed a federal environmental assessment of the Red Chris copper-gold project east of the Alaska Panhandle in Northwest Brit...Comments

Sherwood pursues smaller project for Kutcho  06/19/2008
Sherwood Copper Corp. June 12 unveiled the results of an independent preliminary economic assessment of the high-grade Kutcho polymetallic project in Northwest British Columbia, which outlined a signi... Comments

News Nuggets - Alaska  06/19/2008
THE UNITED STATED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY June 18 announced it is accepting public comments on the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation request for approval of an Alaska version of... Comments

New Nuggets - Canada  06/19/2008
FIRESTONE VENTURES INC. SAID JUNE 13 IT HAS REQUESTED a temporary trading halt of its shares, effective as of the close of trading on June 16, 2008, noting that June 16, 2008 is the last day for proce... Comments