US Permitting pandemic plagues Alaska
Alaska's unparalleled potential to be a major domestic supplier of the minerals and metals critical to the clean energy transition attracted some of North America's top commodities investors and... — Updated 6/2/2023
Revised plan for mining Mary River iron
Six months after the Canadian government rejected a plan to double approved output from the Mary River iron mine on Nunavut's Baffin Island, the mine's operator, Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., is... — Updated 6/1/2023
WOTUS ruling hailed as a win for Alaska
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and trade groups representing a broad spectrum of businesses across the state hailed the unanimous Supreme Court decision against the Biden administration's broad... — Updated 6/1/2023
BLM drags feet on Ambler Road decision
Despite the growing calls by Alaska Native tribal and municipal leaders for an expedited review of the Ambler Access Project, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced that it will take six... — Updated 6/1/2023
Felix Gold begins NW Array infill drilling
Felix Gold Ltd. May 30 announced the start of an infill drill program aimed at establishing a maiden resource for the NW Array target on the company's Treasure Creek gold-antimony project about 20... — Updated 6/1/2023
U.S. GoldMining begins Whistler program
U.S. GoldMining Inc. May 30 announced that it has mobilized crews for an up to 10,000-meter phase-one drill program at the Whistler gold-copper project about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage,... — Updated 6/1/2023
Golden Summit resource growth continues
Freegold Ventures Ltd. June 1 announced that the first holes of its 2023 drill program at Golden Summit have cut gold mineralization about 400 meters north of the 12-million-ounce Dolphin-Cleary... — Updated 6/1/2023
Contango ORE makes Russell 3000 Index
Contango ORE Inc. May 30 announced that the Alaska-based mineral exploration and mine development company is set to join the broad-market Russell 3000 and Russell Microcap. Founded in 2010 to... — Updated 6/1/2023
Canadian North completes on-ice drilling
Canadian North Resources Inc. May 29 reported encouraging results from its recently completed 21-hole spring diamond drill program at its Ferguson Lake nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals... — Updated 6/1/2023
Snowline kicks off 2023 drill season
Snowline Gold Corp. May 31 announced that visible gold has been observed in 10 of the first 14 holes drilled this year at the Valley Zone of the company's Rogue gold project in the Yukon. Drill... — Updated 6/1/2023
Seabridge targets Iskut copper discovery
Seabridge Gold Inc. May 30 announced the start of a more than 12,000-meter drill program to test high-level porphyry copper-gold targets on the company's Iskut property in Northern British... — Updated 6/1/2023
First 2023 Sitka Gold hole hits paydirt
Sitka Gold Corp. May 24 announced the preliminary assay results from its first hole drilled for the 2023 program at the Blackjack deposit on the RC Gold project in the Yukon. And after the initial... — Updated 5/25/2023
- Assays confirm strong copper at Storm
- Seabridge ramps up exploration at 3 Aces
- Banyan expands AurMac to 6.2 million oz
- Goliath to drill a Surebet gold discovery
- Skeena raises C$73.5M for Eskay Creek
- Canadian North receives Nunavut DIG grant
- Funding for North Arrow lithium projects
- Brixton begins BHP-backed Thorn drilling
Alaska sustainable energy independence
Coming together to recognize the potential Alaska can bring to the table for the global transition to renewable energy, the 2023 Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference invited leaders in government,... — Updated 6/1/2023
The nuts are in charge of the nut house
Mark your calendar. June 30, 2023, will be just one more Day in Infamy when catastrophic changes at the hands of the Bureau of Land Management will reach their nadir. (These days, it seems,... — Updated 6/1/2023