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Usibelli Coal Mine has secured a sales contract for a second shipment of coal to Chile with Glencore Ltd. The ship was scheduled to begin loading approximately 45,000 metric tons on Dec. 21. This load, Usibelli said in a Dec. 20 press release coal... — Updated 2/26/2018

Anglo American Exploration (USA) Inc. completed phase 2 program of its exploration on Area 1 (Fish Lake-Dunite Hill Area) of the MAN Alaska property June 20, according to owner Nevada Star Resource Corp. A total of 7,330 feet of drilling was... — Updated 7/24/2005

Coeur Alaska is just one permit away from receiving final approval for the underground Kensington gold mine about 46 miles northwest of downtown Juneau in Southeast Alaska. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit under the Clean Water Act... — Updated 6/26/2005

Vancouver-based Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp. said May 17 that it has signed a letter of intent with Teck Cominco Ltd. for the purchase of Afton Operating Corp.'s milling and processing facilities, tailings storage areas, associated permits,... — Updated 5/22/2005

On May 18 a methane gas explosion ripped through a Siberian coal mine where 132 miners were working, leaving one dead and 10 with burns and other injuries, the mine's director, Yuri Kurtabashev, told Itar-Tass. All 10 injured were hospitalized.... — Updated 5/22/2005

Freegold Ventures is planning a 2005 summer program on its Grew Creek epithermal gold deposit 22 miles west of the town of Ross River. The Yukon project is just over half a mile from the Robert Campbell Highway and the Whitehorse power grid.... — Updated 5/22/2005

B.C. based Metalex Ventures Ltd. said in mid-March that it has two samples, collected 430 meters apart, that contain "exceptional concentrations" of fresh diamond indicator minerals in glacial till at its West Greenland project. The company said... — Updated 3/27/2005

Linux Gold Corp. and Teryl Resources Corp. said March 22 that they had agreed to extend the term of their original Fish Creek claims agreement until March 5, 2007, giving Teryl a 50 percent interest in 30 Fish Creek claims, which are within six mil... — Updated 3/27/2005

Calgary-based Golconda Resources Ltd., operator of the Shulin Lake diamond exploration joint venture, says it found micro-diamonds during its spring drilling program at the Southcentral Alaska property. The holes at the Shulin Lake project, which... — Updated 10/31/2004

Coeur d'Alene Mines said it has received final approval on its allowable use permit from the Juneau Planning Commission for the Kensington gold project 45 miles north of Juneau, inside the city and borough boundaries. Coeur called the decision "a... — Updated 10/31/2004

Expatriate Resources says it has struck a deal with Atna Resources to purchase Atna's 39.4 percent interest in the Wolverine joint venture in the Yukon Territory. The deal, if approved by regulators, gives Vancouver-based Expatriate 100 percent own... — Updated 6/20/2004

British Columbia's mining sector continued its five-year recovery trend last year and is on the brink of an Asia-fueled boom, according to an annual British Columbia mining study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. An increase in coal, copper,... — Updated 6/20/2004

Alaska miners who file their paperwork late will not immediately lose a mining claim, but would pay a penalty for the late filing under a bill that passed the Alaska Senate April 6 and was headed back to the House for concurrence on technical chang... — Updated 4/18/2004