The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Metallic Minerals Corp. Jan. 10 announced the results from its 2023 exploration campaign at the company's Keno Silver project in Yukon, Canada, with all its holes encountering high-grade silver, lead, zinc, and significant gold mineralization. Consisting of 171 square kilometers (66 square miles) within the historic Keno Hill Silver District, Metallic Minerals holds 100% of this promising target that lies adjacent to Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill silver mine. Covering the...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Dec. 28 gave a year-end review of its accomplishments from 2023 and ushered in the new year with expectations to continue advancing its flagship Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver-copper project in southeast Yukon, the adjacent world-class Mactung tungsten project spanning the Northwest Territories-Yukon border, and its Gayna River zinc-lead-silver project about 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of MacPass in NWT, Canada. "2023 has been another extraordinary...
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. Jan. 4 announced an update on the company's Catch property in Canada's Yukon as well as the final diamond drilling results from its 2023 exploration program, culminating in a brief end-of-year review and its plans moving forward into 2024. Last year, Cascadia Minerals (formerly ATAC Resources Ltd.) cut a deal with Hecla Mining Company to sell several of its core properties in an effort to branch into the energy metal sector. With Hecla taking over the...
After waiting for nearly half a year on the U.S. Supreme Court's response to Alaska's petition to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency's veto of the Pebble project, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. was disappointed to report the state was denied its request to take its case directly to the highest judicial body. At the beginning of 2023, the EPA issued a final determination regarding the waters surrounding the lands of the Pebble project, ultimately barring the project...
Precious stone mines saw some shuffling in Canada's North with Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd.'s acquisition of the Ekati diamond mine. Already a 40% partner with North Arrow Minerals Inc. at the Naujaat diamond project in Nunavut, Burgundy closed its buyout of Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd. on July 4, which gave the Australian diamond company full ownership of the world-class Ekati Mine and significantly elevating its efforts to deliver high-end cut and polished diamonds...
Snowline Gold Corp. Jan. 3 announced the next set of assays from its 2023 exploration program at Valley target on the company's Rogue project in Yukon, Canada, keeping consistent with the incredible hundreds-of-meters-long intervals that have made this prospect one to keep an eye on. Following the release of a year-end review for 2023, the first report for 2024 is the expected results from the remaining holes drilled in last year's 22,000-meter drill program. "The latest...
White Gold Corp. kicked off 2023 with an updated mineral resource estimate for its namesake project in the Yukon and with an exploration program aimed to continue outlining exactly what its massive land holdings in Yukon's White Gold District contain. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City, White Gold's namesake property is part of a roughly 350,000-hectare (864,869 acres) land package that covers approximately 40% of the White Gold District, which also...
With its Casino project hosting billions of pounds of copper needed by a global economy transitioning to clean energy, Western Copper and Gold Corp. attracted a C$21.3 million (US$15.6 million) investment from Mitsubishi Materials Corp. to help advance the large porphyry project about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon. Historically, two prefeasibility studies and a feasibility study on developing a mine at Casino have been completed. Western Copper and...
Following the acquisition of Alexco Resource Corp. at the end of 2022, Hecla Mining Company has continued to expand its portfolio of gold and silver properties in Canada's Yukon. With the Keno Hill Silver District mine project that came with the buyout of Alexco, Hecla's silver reserves soared to above 240 million ounces of silver, the highest in the company's 132-year history. "Hecla's silver reserves are at an all-time high," said Hecla Mining CEO Phillips Baker, Jr. This...
Doubling its market capitalization in less than a year, Snowline Gold Corp. has swept into the big leagues of Yukon gold exploration like an avalanche. With its massive landholdings strewn across the Yukon, gold intercepts running as deep as the CN Tower is tall, some of the highest-graded holes ever drilled in the territory, and the sheer volume of discovered mineralization sparking a modern-day mini gold frenzy, Snowline is making its mark on Canada's North. Snowline began...
Calculating a new resource for Niblack, growing its management, organizing talks of a centralized mill in Northern British Columbia, and drilling bonanza-grade gold at its first Golden Triangle project on the British Columbia side of the border, last year's hunt was plentiful for Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. Early last year, Blackwolf announced an agreement with Dolly Varden Silver Corp. and New Moly LLC to explore the possibility of building a centralized mill on New...
Rebounding from setbacks during 2022, Grande Portage Resources Ltd. enlisted the help from a heavyweight to aid in its drilling and recoup lost time that would position the company back on track toward expanding the high-grade resources at its Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Located 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Juneau, the Herbert Gold project is an exploration stage, high-grade, gold-mineralized mesothermal quartz vein system in the historic Juneau Gold Belt....
Launching a multi-year initiative to unlock the potential of its Johnson Tract gold project in Southcentral Alaska, HighGold Mining Inc. began with an exploration and development program in 2023 that truly showcases the methodical efficiency with which the company aims to push the property to feasibility. Getting drills turning at the end of June, HighGold targeted an 8,000-meter program that is part of its larger multi-year plan designed to de-risk the project and support...
Launching into 2023 with an initial inferred mineral resource estimate, the excitement has grown for Sitka Gold Corp. as much as its 2022 Blackjack discovery on the company's highly prospective RC Gold project in Canada's Yukon. Consisting of a 376-square-kilometer (145 square miles) RC Gold project is located near the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. One of the largest consolidated land pack...
Reaching the next milestone in mineral exploration, Nighthawk Gold Corp. ushered in 2023 with a preliminary economic assessment for its Colomac gold project in Northwest Territories. With the study indicating strong economics for the proposed mine, 2023 exploration was just the cherry on top for this great success. "The results of our PEA demonstrate that the Colomac gold project has the potential to be a phenomenal asset, and the PEA is a monumental milestone for our company,...
While the year may have started out riding the success of its massive 2022 bulk sample at a diamond project in Nunavut, North Arrow Minerals Inc. transition in 2023 into the field of lithium exploration, and the gambit paid off. Right away, the company began its lithium discovery with the purchase of the DeStaffany lithium-tantalum-niobium project from Panarc Resources Ltd., located on the north shores of Great Slave Lake and about 115 kilometers (70 miles) east of Northwest...
Reorganizing under a new joint venture with a London-based private equity group, Osisko Metals Inc. now has the funds to advance the historic Pine Point zinc-lead mine project in Northwest Territories to "shovel-ready" status. Located just south of the Great Slave Lake, Pine Point is home to a former mine operated by Teck Resources Ltd. that produced roughly 14 billion pounds of zinc and 4 billion lb of lead from around 64 million metric tons of ore during a 24-year span...
Instead of resting on its laurels, Fireweed Metals Corp. aimed for 2023 to be a year that outshined its previous exploration success. With its largest drill program ever at the Macmillan Pass zinc project in the Yukon, the company outdid itself at each turn of the drill and with each intercept received. Add on a mineral resource estimate for the newly dubbed largest known high-grade tungsten deposit in the world, and Fireweed had its most exceptional year ever. Fireweed's...
Once home to a powerhouse of a copper mine, Gladiator Metals Corp. has rekindled a legacy of exploration in the Whitehorse Copper Belt, testing its mettle in an area that formerly produced roughly 267.5 million pounds of copper, 225,000 ounces of gold and 2.84 million oz of silver between 1967 and 1982. Simply named Whitehorse Copper, this 5,380-hectare (13,294 acres) copper-molybdenum-silver-gold skarn project covers a significant portion of the region from which it derives...
Exploring the legendary region from which it takes its name, Klondike Gold Corp. has persevered much like the stampeders of yore to unlock the secrets of a historic district that produced more than 20 million ounces of gold. With another year of exploration under its belt and with the help of a little modern science, the company has made leaps and bounds in understanding the ingredients that led to one of history's greatest gold rushes. Situated roughly 20 kilometers (12...
As a vehicle for Ontario and gold exploration properties spun out of HighGold Mining Inc., the cleverly named Onyx (ONtario Yukon eXploration) Gold Inc. hit the ground running with an experienced team and the capital to begin exploring as one of Canada's newest mining juniors. HighGold felt its land holdings within the highly prospective and overlapping Tintina and Tombstone gold belts in Yukon's Selwyn Basin and within Ontario's portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada'...
In a win-win deal for both parties, Hecla Mining Company bought out ATAC Resources Corp., keeping two precious metals enriched Yukon exploration properties in its own portfolio and spinning a portfolio of more copper forward assets previously held by ATAC into Cascadia Minerals Ltd. ATAC's extensive portfolio of mineral exploration projects in the Yukon and Northern British Columbia were anchored by Rackla Gold, a massive 170,000-hectare (420,000 acres) land package divided...
Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 9 announced its newest best intercept to date from drilling at Boundary on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada. "I am excited to start the year able to say that we have intersected our best-ever Boundary zone drill intersection," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald. Out of the 52 holes drilled at Macmillan Pass last year, 40 were completed at Boundary, including 36 step-outs that tested vein mineralization,...
Li-FT Power Ltd. Jan. 9 announced the results from the first holes from the Nite pegmatite, the furthest western target from its Road Access Group of properties that include its Fi, BIG, KI, and Shorty prospects on the company's Yellowknife Lithium project in Northwest Territories, Canada. Going into 2024, Li-FT continues its regularly scheduled programming, reporting assays as they roll in from its 34,238-meter drill program that resulted in 198 holes. The latest comes from...
Snowline Gold Corp. Dec. 29 provided an end-of-the-year summary of its 2023 season, highlighting key activities and achievements that truly elevate the status of this junior and impress the significant prospect the company has outlined in the rich and underexplored region of the Selwyn Basin in Yukon, Canada. With an extensive portfolio that includes roughly 280,000 hectares (602,000 acres) of gold exploration properties within the Selwyn Basin near Yukon's eastern border...
