A pivotal day for Alaska's mining sector
DENA'INA CENTER, ANCHORAGE: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 likely marks a crucial turning point for Alaska's mining industry. As the state's mining community gathered for the Alaska Miners... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story
Majors quietly move into eastern Alaska
While claim staking and mineral exploration has rocketed in Yukon's famed White Gold and Klondike districts, this prolific action nearly comes to a halt at the territory's western border... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
White Gold fever grips explorer in 2018
It's clear by now that famed prospector Shawn Ryan has the Midas Touch when it comes to making significant mineral discoveries in the White Gold District of west-central Yukon Territory.... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Zackly SE porphyry target comes into focus
PolarX Ltd. Nov. 5 said a high‐resolution aeromagnetic geophysical survey flown this fall over most of the Stellar property, part of the Australian explorer's Alaska Range project, clearly... — Updated 11/12/2018
Ucore plans to acquire MRT developer
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. Nov. 7 said it plans to exercise its option to purchase IBC Advanced Technologies Inc., the Utah-based company that developed the molecular recognition technology used... — Updated 11/9/2018
Pit slide, rain limit Fort Knox gold output
Kinross Gold Corp. Nov. 7 reported lower gold production and higher costs at its Fort Knox Mine due to lower ore grades and the minor pit wall slide that occurred at this Interior Alaska... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story
Decade nabs claims in Golden Triangle AK
Decade Resources Ltd. Nov. 6 announced it has staked 19 claims covering the Crest high-grade gold prospect near the town of Hyder in Southeast Alaska. Situated just across the border from... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story
Drills tap copper outside of Kutcho Main
Kutcho Copper Corp. Nov. 6 reported that initial results from this year's resource expansion drilling at Kutcho Main has expanded this high-grade copper-zinc-silver deposit at the company's... — Updated 11/9/2018
More Unicorn gold at Big Missouri Ridge
Ascot Resources Ltd. Nov. 1 reported that drilling has encountered additional high-grade gold in the Unicorn area of Big Missouri ridge has intercepted high-grade gold mineralization. The... — Updated 11/9/2018
Sojourn takes a first look at BC portfolio
Sojourn Exploration Inc. Nov. 2 provided preliminary results of reconnaissance mapping, sampling and geophysical surveys on four of its porphyry copper-gold projects in British Columbia,... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story
Ascot grows Premier with Silver Coin buy
Ascot Resources Ltd. Oct. 29 announced it has completed the acquisition of Silver Coin, an advanced stage, gold-silver property immediately adjacent to Ascot's Big Missouri project and five... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Critical Minerals Alaska – Rhenium
With a melting point of 5,756 degrees Fahrenheit and a heat-stable crystalline structure, rhenium is extremely resistant to both heat and wear. This durability makes it a vital element in... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Mining risks change often, dramatically
As Alaska's mining industry nears the end of another hectic year during which metals prices and investor sentiments rose and fell as precipitously as the world's major stock exchanges, the... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story
Due process sometimes just isn't fair
I have always been bemused by an apparently historic inconsistency between the Declaration of Independence and the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The first speaks of "life, liberty and... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Alaska exploration trends north ... slowly
Thanks largely to increased investments from Aussie mining explorers, mineral exploration spending across Alaska topped US$100 million in 2018. This is well above the roughly US$95 million... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Aussie miners look north to land of giants
Thanks to its own rich mineral endowment, Australia is a juggernaut in the world of mining, especially across the Southern Hemisphere. Over the past couple of years, however, a growing... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Territory hits exploration slump
Canada is the world's top destination for mining exploration spending, attracting more than 14 percent of global budgeted expenditures from explorers seeking to tap the country's vast... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
Mining Explorers 2018: 10 years of telling the North's mineral exploration story
Welcome to the 10th anniversary of Mining Explorers! While there have been tectonic shifts in the mineral exploration markets over the past decade, two things have remained rock solid ... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story
- A century of Premier northern BC mining
- ME2018: International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.
- ME2018: Dominion Diamond Mines
- ME2018: Millrock Resources Inc.
- Explorers seek big finds in north country
- Electrum Group funds strategic exploration
- GT Gold explores its own Golden Triangle
- PolarX finds Alaska's great mineral wealth
- Explorers guard 2018 spending
- ME2018: Trilogy Metals Inc.
- ME2018: Kinross Gold Corp.
- ME2018: Golden Predator Mining Corp.
- ME2018: Peak Gold LLC
- ME2018: Alexco Resource Corp.
- ME2018: ZincX Resources Corp.
- ME2018: Teck Resources Ltd.
- ME2018: White Gold Corp.
- ME2018: Nickel Creek Platinum Corp.
- ME2018: Kutcho Copper Corp.
- ME2018: Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.
- ME2018: Coeur Mining Inc.
- ME2018: Dunnedin Ventures Inc.
- ME2018: Nova Minerals Ltd.
- ME2018: IDM Mining Ltd.
- Explorer drills historic Pine Point
- ME2018: Seabridge Gold Corp.
- Goldstrike tries luck at Lucky Strike
- ME2018: Hecla Mining Co.
- ME2018: Northern Star Resources Ltd.
- ME2018: Ascot Resources Ltd.
- ME2018: Skeena Resources Ltd.
- ME 2018: Auryn Resources Inc.
- ME2018: Novagold Resources Inc.
- ME2018: Dolly Varden Silver Corp.
- ME2018: TerraX Minerals Inc.
- ME2018: ATAC Resources Ltd.
- ME2018: Pretium Resources Inc.
- Exploration poised to pay off
- ME2018: Constantine Metal Resources Ltd.
- ME2018: Nighthawk Gold Corp.
- ME2018: Aston Bay Holdings Ltd.
- ME2018: Klondike Gold Corp.
- ME2018: TMAC Resources Inc.
- ME2018: White Rock Minerals Ltd.
- ME2018: Aben Resources Ltd.
- ME2018: Solstice Gold Corp.
- ME2018: North Arrow Minerals Inc.
- ME2018: South32 Ltd.
- ME2018: Riversgold Ltd.
- ME2018: Victoria Gold Corp.
- ME2018: Fireweed Zinc Ltd.
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